Upcoming Courses, and Ongoing Groups and Services
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Please note: Listings on this page are either events organized by The International Focusing Institute (TIFI), or are offered independently by Certified Focusing Professionals. Those organized by TIFI will have one of TIFI’s logos.
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Eastern Time (New York Time)
Learn Gendlin's classic 6 steps of Focusing in this interactive 2-hour workshop. There will be a Focusing demonstration. And you will have the opportunity to experience Focusing for a 20-minute turn, as well as a listening turn in breakout groups.
Next sessions (pick one 2-hour session to attend):
-Tuesday, April 15, 6:30-8:30 pm Eastern
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Next sessions (pick one 2-hour session to attend):
-Tuesday, April 15, 6:30-8:30 pm Eastern
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Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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Pacific
As these uncertain times continue to challenge us in unprecedented ways, our need for connection and emotional support is greater than ever.
This is a 30-minute free webinar (with Ann Weiser Cornell) with warm, positive tips for emotional self-care no matter what you're going through. Each month is different as Ann responds to the present moment and whatever the group is bringing.
Our hope is that you’ll leave the webinar with a greater sense of resilience and some relief from the stressful feelings you might be having. And that you’ll know you are not alone.
This is a 30-minute free webinar (with Ann Weiser Cornell) with warm, positive tips for emotional self-care no matter what you're going through. Each month is different as Ann responds to the present moment and whatever the group is bringing.
Our hope is that you’ll leave the webinar with a greater sense of resilience and some relief from the stressful feelings you might be having. And that you’ll know you are not alone.
Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
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Pacific
Let us show you a compassionate, effective process to help you experience your feelings without shutting down or getting overwhelmed. What happens when you can embrace your whole self? You're kinder to yourself, you're more confident, relaxed, and available for connection, which makes life more meaningful and enjoyable. To put it simply: Life gets better.
Join us and take a powerful first step toward connecting with your true self and creating more unconditional self-acceptance in your life.
Join us and take a powerful first step toward connecting with your true self and creating more unconditional self-acceptance in your life.
Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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Eastern Time
This comprehensive program will help you connect with your body’s Felt-Sense, navigate emotions with greater simplicity, and develop an inner Presence that fosters balance, resilience, and personal growth. By the end of the program, you’ll feel confident and prepared to apply Focusing techniques in your daily life, creating meaningful change and a deeper connection with yourself and others.
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate
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Eastern Time
Join us for a live, virtual 9-week training in Inner Relationship Focusing. This transformative practice equips you with the skills to cultivate deep, lasting change in both your personal and professional life.
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate
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Eastern/New York Time
Join other Focusing professionals as we practice Focusing. Professional work grows from our personal practice, so let’s continue Focusing. This can also be a unique place for folks to Focus about their professional Focusing work with clients or students and work projects in general.
This a place to land to do paired Focusing partnership, no teaching is offered. Breakout rooms are arranged for each pair. This is a drop-in group, no commitment required. Cost: free, no cost.
Private to Focusing Professionals - TIFI Certified Focusing Professionals and trainees, trained by any coordinator, includes all types of Focusing Professionals (FOT, Focusing Trainer, Focusing Professional).
This a place to land to do paired Focusing partnership, no teaching is offered. Breakout rooms are arranged for each pair. This is a drop-in group, no commitment required. Cost: free, no cost.
Private to Focusing Professionals - TIFI Certified Focusing Professionals and trainees, trained by any coordinator, includes all types of Focusing Professionals (FOT, Focusing Trainer, Focusing Professional).
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Eastern/New York Time
This group is open to all Focusing students who have Focusing training from any trainer. This is a space for folks to land to practice Focusing and continue to keep it as part of their life. We practice using the skills we already know; no teaching is offered - just pairs for partnership at a reliable time and place. This is a drop-in group, no commitment required.
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Eastern Time/New York/Canada
In the style of Gene Gendlin's FREE Changes Meetings in the earliest days of Focusing (continuing to this day!), LearnFocusing.org is delighted to offer a Monthly Exploring Interaction Changes Meeting -- Improving Relationships with Self and Others.
These monthly meetings will be held on third Sundays at both 11am ET and 7pm ET New York time, entirely online, using Zoom technology, for 90 minutes each meeting.
Facilitated by Barbara Dickinson, Certified teacher of Interactive Focusing and Certified Focusing Professional (TIFI), participants will have the opportunity to experience Demonstrations of Interactive Focusing (for beginners), as well as partner with more experienced Interactive Focusers (intermediate to advanced).
These monthly meetings will be held on third Sundays at both 11am ET and 7pm ET New York time, entirely online, using Zoom technology, for 90 minutes each meeting.
Facilitated by Barbara Dickinson, Certified teacher of Interactive Focusing and Certified Focusing Professional (TIFI), participants will have the opportunity to experience Demonstrations of Interactive Focusing (for beginners), as well as partner with more experienced Interactive Focusers (intermediate to advanced).
Online with Zoom
Topic: Changes Groups
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Eastern Time, New York, USA
PART 2 is about deepening into the Focusing and Listening process by looking more at the role of the Companion. A companion to ourselves as well as others. I introduce neuroscience here. We develop further our personal concept of creating an inner space that welcomes it all and adapting that space as we follow our process. Requires some previous partnership experience.
Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Certification
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EST
Hi all,
I'm excited to offer Somatically Informed Inner Relationship Focusing (SIRF) Parts 1 and 2 starting April 22nd!
This class will meet Tuesdays from 5pm to 7pm EST and is recorded in case you miss a class. Each class includes a practice with a peer. Recordings available for 1 year.
Combining Inner Relationship Focusing with Somatic work, SIRF is an embodied parts work model that is both an unparalleled support for working with clients with developmental trauma as well as an extraordinary self care practice. SIRF supports a deeply calming attuned relationship to self that brings clarity and confidence for both you and for your clients. For more information and registration links:
https://maureengallagherphd.com/embodied-parts-work-04-2025
I'm excited to offer Somatically Informed Inner Relationship Focusing (SIRF) Parts 1 and 2 starting April 22nd!
This class will meet Tuesdays from 5pm to 7pm EST and is recorded in case you miss a class. Each class includes a practice with a peer. Recordings available for 1 year.
Combining Inner Relationship Focusing with Somatic work, SIRF is an embodied parts work model that is both an unparalleled support for working with clients with developmental trauma as well as an extraordinary self care practice. SIRF supports a deeply calming attuned relationship to self that brings clarity and confidence for both you and for your clients. For more information and registration links:
https://maureengallagherphd.com/embodied-parts-work-04-2025
Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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Eastern Time, New York, USA
Join us for an online advanced Focusing class that helps you understand where you are within a process and then, to sense what is needed from you for this situation now. Utilizing Inner Relationship Focusing, Spatial Awareness and Neuroscience concepts, we learn to guide ourselves and others in ways that invite relational trust, lasting change and life forward flow. Valuable practices for healing professionals, teachers, etc. Discount for those repeating.
Online via Zoom.
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Certification
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Brussels, Central European Time
Feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or just looking for a fresh way to navigate workplace challenges? Discover the power of Focusing, a unique technique that helps you tune into your body’s wisdom—your built-in GPS for resilience and well-being.
This online five-session program (each 2 hours) will introduce you to a deeper way of listening—not just to others, but to yourself. The best part? Your first session is completely free! Try it out, experience the method, and see if it’s right for you before committing.
This online five-session program (each 2 hours) will introduce you to a deeper way of listening—not just to others, but to yourself. The best part? Your first session is completely free! Try it out, experience the method, and see if it’s right for you before committing.
Online
Topic: Introductory
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CET
Un espacio para pausar... escuchar y ser escuchado/a.
Modera: Miembros de la Junta de Focusing España
Modera: Miembros de la Junta de Focusing España
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Eastern USA (New York)
There is a lot of upheaval and uncertainty within many countries. The geopolitical situation is more unstable than it has been in a long time. And, globally, the threat of the climate catastrophe looms large. We cannot help but be affected by all of this.
How do we regain a sense of agency when so much of what is happening is beyond our control?
In this group, we are going to explore together how these situations manifest bodily in our emerging self. We are going to do this within a mindful and proactive perspective.
How do we regain a sense of agency when so much of what is happening is beyond our control?
In this group, we are going to explore together how these situations manifest bodily in our emerging self. We are going to do this within a mindful and proactive perspective.
Register to get Zoom link
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Pacific Daylight Time
Annual meeting of Focusers, open space organization, anyone present can offer Focusing based workshop, discussion, or presentation. Our purpose is cooperatively building supportive community amongst Focusers.
Menucha Retreat Center, Columbia Gorge, Oregon
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Changes Groups, Other
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EADT
Whether you recently completed the foundational Focusing Course and started the FOT journey, or you want to keep refining or refreshing your skills, I want to support you every step of the way. These workshops are for all of you who want to apply the Focusing process or practice FOT in your therapeutic practice. Each workshop will have different experiential practices focused on understanding the client’s process (formulation) and improving the skills.
Melbourne, Glen Waverley, VIC, Australia
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
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New York time
In this workshop, we will closely examine Gendlin’s philosophical focus on "transitions." We will experiment with different types of transitions to observe how meaning shifts based on how we connect words and what we do "between" them. We will enact simple exercises with words, and will jointly witness the journeys of insights that arise, even if those words initially seem insignificant or are chosen at random. And we will read passages from Gendlin’s philosophical work to help us understand what is happening.
This workshop is intended for those already familiar with Focusing though all are welcome to attend.
This workshop is intended for those already familiar with Focusing though all are welcome to attend.
Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Other, TAE/Philosophy, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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Eastern/New York Time
Join other Focusing professionals as we practice Focusing. Professional work grows from our personal practice, so let’s continue Focusing. This can also be a unique place for folks to Focus about their professional Focusing work with clients or students and work projects in general.
This a place to land to do paired Focusing partnership, no teaching is offered. Breakout rooms are arranged for each pair. This is a drop-in group, no commitment required. Cost: free, no cost.
Private to Focusing Professionals - TIFI Certified Focusing Professionals and trainees, trained by any coordinator, includes all types of Focusing Professionals (FOT, Focusing Trainer, Focusing Professional).
This a place to land to do paired Focusing partnership, no teaching is offered. Breakout rooms are arranged for each pair. This is a drop-in group, no commitment required. Cost: free, no cost.
Private to Focusing Professionals - TIFI Certified Focusing Professionals and trainees, trained by any coordinator, includes all types of Focusing Professionals (FOT, Focusing Trainer, Focusing Professional).
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Eastern/New York Time
This group is open to all Focusing students who have Focusing training from any trainer. This is a space for folks to land to practice Focusing and continue to keep it as part of their life. We practice using the skills we already know; no teaching is offered - just pairs for partnership at a reliable time and place. This is a drop-in group, no commitment required.
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Eastern Time
ALL are welcome to attend -- whether you are an experienced Focuser or are brand new and would like to experience a new way to listen and be with yourself.
These 90-minute interactive Zoom-based gatherings are designed to create an atmosphere of safety and mutual respect for both experienced and less-experienced Focusers.
And - there's NO FEE to attend.
These 90-minute interactive Zoom-based gatherings are designed to create an atmosphere of safety and mutual respect for both experienced and less-experienced Focusers.
And - there's NO FEE to attend.
Online
Topic: Free, Changes Groups