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You are invited to become a part of our group as we learn the Inner Relationship Focusing process. In this live virtual nine-week course, you will acquire the skills necessary for cultivating radical lasting life change.
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The program develops in two parts: The Miracle of Focusing as a Hermeneutic Circle and Focusing Facilitators as Educators and Leaders.
How does the magic of Focusing happen when we hold open space for all to be seen and heard? Eugene Gendlin was a Heidegger scholar, and he felt that Heidegger’s hermeneutical circle could provide insight into the ground of felt-sensing and implying-into-occurring. The circle of attention, language and bodily understanding that Larry Berger offers has many commonalities with Gendlin’s A Process Model and provides ways to apply Gendlin’s teaching. Larry encourages us to further apply Gendlin’s philosophy in everyday situations, individual and collective living, especially in political environments.
Katarina Halm will offer Feldenkrais® practice to further our understanding of the hermeneutical circle. Rosa Zubizarreta will contribute listening and reflection during the first part of this session. Larry will also invite Rosa to share a bit about her doctoral research on democratic innovations in Austria. After time for facilitated group conversation, Katarina will offer a Feldenkrais process to lead the closing.
All are welcome to attend. No experience with Focusing or philosophy required.
How does the magic of Focusing happen when we hold open space for all to be seen and heard? Eugene Gendlin was a Heidegger scholar, and he felt that Heidegger’s hermeneutical circle could provide insight into the ground of felt-sensing and implying-into-occurring. The circle of attention, language and bodily understanding that Larry Berger offers has many commonalities with Gendlin’s A Process Model and provides ways to apply Gendlin’s teaching. Larry encourages us to further apply Gendlin’s philosophy in everyday situations, individual and collective living, especially in political environments.
Katarina Halm will offer Feldenkrais® practice to further our understanding of the hermeneutical circle. Rosa Zubizarreta will contribute listening and reflection during the first part of this session. Larry will also invite Rosa to share a bit about her doctoral research on democratic innovations in Austria. After time for facilitated group conversation, Katarina will offer a Feldenkrais process to lead the closing.
All are welcome to attend. No experience with Focusing or philosophy required.
Online (Class will also be recorded)
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Are you curious about Focusing Oriented Therapy?
Discover a somatically-based, relational, research-proven tool for lasting change. Learn how Focusing can facilitate personal growth and strengthen your professional healing practice at this free live intro with Certified Focusing-Oriented Therapist Jeffrey Morrison
Discover a somatically-based, relational, research-proven tool for lasting change. Learn how Focusing can facilitate personal growth and strengthen your professional healing practice at this free live intro with Certified Focusing-Oriented Therapist Jeffrey Morrison
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You are invited to become a part of our group as we learn the Inner Relationship Focusing process. In this live virtual nine-week course, you will acquire the skills necessary for cultivating radical lasting life change.
Online
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Este Cafecitos explorará Focusing y Experiencing Alba Emoting (EAE).
Online
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This Program is designed specifically for therapists and counselors who want to enrich and take their work with clients a step further with Focusing and get their FOT Certification from TIFI. Other people who work with clients in different ways and want to enhance their work are also welcome to attend. (Even though they would not apply for the Certification)
It is an ongoing course of 1 1/2 hours every other week, on Tuesdays, that can be taken independently or as part of the whole Certification Program.
It is an ongoing course of 1 1/2 hours every other week, on Tuesdays, that can be taken independently or as part of the whole Certification Program.
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A Changes Group is a free-of-charge, peer-led group that meets so people can exchange Focusing and listening turns in an atmosphere of safety and mutual respect. It's a group for continuing your Focusing practice; no teaching will be done. We meet on zoom twice per month. Breakout rooms are used after a brief group centering/grounding practice and check in.
This Changes Group is open to people who have not done Focusing before. Beginners can observe in a triad and then have a turn, or participate in our empathy circle.
Our next Changes Groups are:
-Tuesday, June 6th, 3:30-5 pm Eastern **note different day and time
-Saturday, June 24th, 11:30 am - 1 pm Eastern **note different day and time
This Changes Group is open to people who have not done Focusing before. Beginners can observe in a triad and then have a turn, or participate in our empathy circle.
Our next Changes Groups are:
-Tuesday, June 6th, 3:30-5 pm Eastern **note different day and time
-Saturday, June 24th, 11:30 am - 1 pm Eastern **note different day and time
Online via Zoom
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In this eight-week Focusing course, we learn the practice, include being a listener. We slowly learn each of the 6 steps of Focusing, adding a new one every week or two. We also gradually learn new listening skills. Each class consists of a centering, a small experiential exercise, a demonstration and breakout room practice in groups twos or threes.
Dates for the next groups:
-Thursdays, June 8th-July 27th, 12-2 pm Eastern time
Dates for the next groups:
-Thursdays, June 8th-July 27th, 12-2 pm Eastern time
Zoom
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The IFT training program is a two-year online training program leading to certification as a Focusing-oriented therapist (FOT). We train therapists to help clients discover their way forward through an embodied experiential process that flows naturally.
The program is built on an underlying theory of the centrality of interaction and how we integrate experience, under ideal situations as well as traumatic circumstances. It consists of four modules:
– You train in three different ways to practice Focusing-oriented therapy (FOT).
– You integrate personal and professional growth in a stimulating process group.
This program offers a lot of flexibility:
– You do not have to commit to the whole training program upfront. You can commit to one course at a time. We also welcome trainees who take a course (or more) but not the full training program.
– Each of the 4 courses is offered twice so you can choose the start date that works best for you for each course.
The program is built on an underlying theory of the centrality of interaction and how we integrate experience, under ideal situations as well as traumatic circumstances. It consists of four modules:
– You train in three different ways to practice Focusing-oriented therapy (FOT).
– You integrate personal and professional growth in a stimulating process group.
This program offers a lot of flexibility:
– You do not have to commit to the whole training program upfront. You can commit to one course at a time. We also welcome trainees who take a course (or more) but not the full training program.
– Each of the 4 courses is offered twice so you can choose the start date that works best for you for each course.
Online via Zoom
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A pupa is the safe place for transformation... in nature this is the cocoon or chrysalis. In Focusing, this is the safety of our Focusing attitude and listening partnerships. The use of felt sense body cards catalyze the process by capturing details and helping us notice our patterns and further explicate our process.
The base of the PUPA Focusing Certification Program consists of five courses that cover a journey. They are designed to not only learn and teach Focusing, but also to get to know and transform yourself, while creating change in the world— by bringing more Focusing into the world.
The five core courses make a PUPA journey: learning Focusing (Pause), learning about who you are (Understanding), learning who you want to be and what you want to bring into the world using Thinking At the Edge (TAE, Gendlin’s second practice) (Permutation), transforming a large block using the 8Cs of self-leadership (Preparation), and finally a course on taking action with embodied leadership (Action).
The additional training requirements provide the skills to teach Focusing and/or guide someone professionally.
The base of the PUPA Focusing Certification Program consists of five courses that cover a journey. They are designed to not only learn and teach Focusing, but also to get to know and transform yourself, while creating change in the world— by bringing more Focusing into the world.
The five core courses make a PUPA journey: learning Focusing (Pause), learning about who you are (Understanding), learning who you want to be and what you want to bring into the world using Thinking At the Edge (TAE, Gendlin’s second practice) (Permutation), transforming a large block using the 8Cs of self-leadership (Preparation), and finally a course on taking action with embodied leadership (Action).
The additional training requirements provide the skills to teach Focusing and/or guide someone professionally.
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Learn the 6 steps of Focusing in this interactive 2-hour workshop. There will be a Focusing demo. 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):
-Monday, June 12 (1:30-3:30 pm EDT)
-Wednesday, June 27 (3-5 pm EDT)
-Tuesday, July 11 (6:30-8:30 pm EDT)
-Thursday, July 27 (8:30-10:30 am EDT)
Next sessions (pick one 2-hour session to attend):
-Monday, June 12 (1:30-3:30 pm EDT)
-Wednesday, June 27 (3-5 pm EDT)
-Tuesday, July 11 (6:30-8:30 pm EDT)
-Thursday, July 27 (8:30-10:30 am EDT)
Online via Zoom
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In this Roundtable, we propose to offer the occasion for parents, grandparents and caregivers to discover what might be behind their children's behaviour in terms of needs, especially when it is not as wanted by adults.
Online
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It is our intention to open up a space with the symposium to address the threatening issues of the climate crisis, the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine and the increasing polarisation within democratic societies with Focusing and Thinking at the Edge. How can we as individuals deal with these threatening issues? How can we find our own life-forwarding direction in this threatening situation? How can we find little next steps of action in the face of these overwhelming issues?
ECC - Experiential Concept Coaching - is an experiential approach that facilitates creative processes in every day life, based on Focusing and Thinking at the Edge.
ECC - Experiential Concept Coaching - is an experiential approach that facilitates creative processes in every day life, based on Focusing and Thinking at the Edge.
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In this four-week beginner Focusing course for advanced listeners, we delve into each of the 6 steps, with each class including a teaching of one or two steps. Each class also includes listening skills, a small experiential exercise, a demonstration and then small group practice (typically in twos or threes).
Dates for the next groups:
-Mondays, 1-3 pm Eastern, June 19, 26 and July 10, 17 (Break week July 3rd)
Dates for the next groups:
-Mondays, 1-3 pm Eastern, June 19, 26 and July 10, 17 (Break week July 3rd)
Zoom
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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 in these challenging times. Each month we'll work with a specific topic like the inner critic, being calm, getting unstuck, self-doubt, making decisions, and more.
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 in these challenging times. Each month we'll work with a specific topic like the inner critic, being calm, getting unstuck, self-doubt, making decisions, and more.
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
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Has Focusing changed your life in a profound way? Do you feel called to help facilitate that kind of powerful change for other people? Join us for a free open house and find out how you can become a Certified Professional in Inner Relationship Focusing. Our next program starts in October.
In this webinar, you'll get to meet and interact with many of the program teachers. Discover the different components of the program and how they integrate. Share your goals and ask your questions. Familiarize yourself with the program prerequisites, requirements, and application process. Understand how you (and your future clients) benefit from our comprehensive training program.
In this webinar, you'll get to meet and interact with many of the program teachers. Discover the different components of the program and how they integrate. Share your goals and ask your questions. Familiarize yourself with the program prerequisites, requirements, and application process. Understand how you (and your future clients) benefit from our comprehensive training program.
Online via Zoom
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Learn and experience the power of working with the Felt Sense - how the body holds living experience about a situation - and why it is the key to moving beyond the typical dead ends of therapy. Didactic and experiential with demonstrations. 6 CEUs for Therapists.
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The Weeklong is the flagship event of The International Focusing Institute (TIFI), begun in 1979. It is intended for all those certified by TIFI. It is a warm and intimate event, and features a certification ceremony.
This year the Weeklong will again be online and will have an in person option in Dublin, Ireland.
June 25 - July 1, 2023
El Weeklong es el evento insignia del Instituto Internacional de Focusing (TIFI), iniciado en 1979. Está destinado a todos aquellos certificados por TIFI. Es un evento cálido e íntimo, y cuenta con una ceremonia de certificación.
Este año, Weeklong volverá a estar en línea y tendrá una opción presencial en Dublín, Irlanda.
25 de junio - 1 de julio de 2023
This year the Weeklong will again be online and will have an in person option in Dublin, Ireland.
June 25 - July 1, 2023
El Weeklong es el evento insignia del Instituto Internacional de Focusing (TIFI), iniciado en 1979. Está destinado a todos aquellos certificados por TIFI. Es un evento cálido e íntimo, y cuenta con una ceremonia de certificación.
Este año, Weeklong volverá a estar en línea y tendrá una opción presencial en Dublín, Irlanda.
25 de junio - 1 de julio de 2023
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Maybe you can’t stop binge watching?
Or maybe it's tough to not go to the food cupboard over and over?
And there’s always our smart phone to give us a quick fix.
Or maybe it's tough to not go to the food cupboard over and over?
And there’s always our smart phone to give us a quick fix.
Online
TAE practice in 14 steps is designed by Dr. Eugene T. Gendlin in such a way that personal project is built up by following each step in succession.
Steps can be learned in succession. They can be discovered and used also separately.
It is beneficial for you to know the whole available selection of steps. They represent parts of Dr. Gendlin’s Philosophy of the Implicit Entry.
I believe and support Gendlin’s teaching style by guiding you through this practice and learning the Steps in such way first. This will help you experience the gradual discovery of capacity to think from your felt sense. It also supports breaking the language barrier for free felt sensing language to appear.
Steps can be learned in succession. They can be discovered and used also separately.
It is beneficial for you to know the whole available selection of steps. They represent parts of Dr. Gendlin’s Philosophy of the Implicit Entry.
I believe and support Gendlin’s teaching style by guiding you through this practice and learning the Steps in such way first. This will help you experience the gradual discovery of capacity to think from your felt sense. It also supports breaking the language barrier for free felt sensing language to appear.
Online
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Online on Zoom
Le séminaire d'été de l'IFEF est ouvert à tous, débutants ou confirmés :
Un parcours d'initiation structuré sur 4 jours permet de découvrir les bases du focusing
pour les personnes ayant déjà eu une initiation, les étudiants de l'IFEF et les praticiens en exercice, des ateliers de pratique et de perfectionnement sont proposés
Un parcours d'initiation structuré sur 4 jours permet de découvrir les bases du focusing
pour les personnes ayant déjà eu une initiation, les étudiants de l'IFEF et les praticiens en exercice, des ateliers de pratique et de perfectionnement sont proposés
En résidentiel en Ardèche (France)
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Este Programa está dirigido específicamente para terapeutas, psicólogos, counselors, que quieran enriquecer su trabajo con Focusing y obtener la Certificación como Terapeuta Orientado al Focusing (FOT) de TIFI. También son bienvenidos otros profesionales de distintos ámbitos de ayuda que quieran incluir Focusing en su trabajo. (Aunque no calificarían para la Certificación)
Los encuentros son semanales, de 1 hora y 1/2 , los jueves, y se pueden tomar de forma independiente o como parte del Programa de Certificación.
Los encuentros son semanales, de 1 hora y 1/2 , los jueves, y se pueden tomar de forma independiente o como parte del Programa de Certificación.
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Changes-Groups sind Begegnungsorte, um Focusing und partnerschaftliches, erlebensbezogenes Zuhören kennenzulernen, zu üben und als individuelle Achtsamkeitspraxis zu etablieren.
Zoom meeting
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Rob Parker studied philosophy with Gene Gendlin for several hours a week from 2003 until Gene's passing in 2017. Rob has been leading A Process Model (APM) reading groups for many years and we are delighted that Rob has now teamed up with the Institute to offer them.
In meeting format on Zoom, Rob will offer a 22 weekly meetings which will include a talk and time for questions and discussion. Downloadable audio (not video) recordings of Rob’s weekly meetings will be available to all registrants.
Optional: Participants can form discussion groups to explore and clarify concepts discussed in the main meetings. Discussion groups are intended to be self-organizing. As of June 1, two advanced APM students have volunteered to lead groups.
In meeting format on Zoom, Rob will offer a 22 weekly meetings which will include a talk and time for questions and discussion. Downloadable audio (not video) recordings of Rob’s weekly meetings will be available to all registrants.
Optional: Participants can form discussion groups to explore and clarify concepts discussed in the main meetings. Discussion groups are intended to be self-organizing. As of June 1, two advanced APM students have volunteered to lead groups.
Online (Class will also be audio recorded)
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Join us for this delectably delicious workshop where we will explore how Focusing Oriented Nutrition Skills (FONS) can offer fresh insights to fiery questions like these: How does embracing a life thriving direction allow us to approach differently everything related to food, living, and interacting How can we reveal the implicit life implying in our eating, and find out how explicating it can take us toward a richer tasting life?
Come to explore with us innovative skills that evoke energy, aliveness and fundamentally carry our hunger-nutrition-process forward in refreshing ways. We will introduce a new direction for life that sprouts from deep implying that is already at-work in our nutrition choices, eating and satiation-ing.
During the workshop, we will have a chance to practice new skills, such as "re-sourcing," to help get to the source of pattern creation. Another is supporting our body in a process of creating a new kind of "life-taste". Experience a different way of relating to all things nutrition, which doesn't look for what's wrong or try to sugar-coating parts of the process. This workshop melds together Thinking at the Edge (TAE) and "Focusing Attitudes" as essential ingredients for exploring food interactions while embracing a life-thriving direction.
This workshop is suitable for all levels of Focusing, including those not familiar with Focusing, and will not include breakouts.
Come to explore with us innovative skills that evoke energy, aliveness and fundamentally carry our hunger-nutrition-process forward in refreshing ways. We will introduce a new direction for life that sprouts from deep implying that is already at-work in our nutrition choices, eating and satiation-ing.
During the workshop, we will have a chance to practice new skills, such as "re-sourcing," to help get to the source of pattern creation. Another is supporting our body in a process of creating a new kind of "life-taste". Experience a different way of relating to all things nutrition, which doesn't look for what's wrong or try to sugar-coating parts of the process. This workshop melds together Thinking at the Edge (TAE) and "Focusing Attitudes" as essential ingredients for exploring food interactions while embracing a life-thriving direction.
This workshop is suitable for all levels of Focusing, including those not familiar with Focusing, and will not include breakouts.
Online (Class will also be recorded)
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Invite yourself to come to an intensive 5 day Focusing training in July 2023 about “A unique possibility to experience ‘Dynamic Focusing”! It will be from Friday 14th (18 pm) till the wedensday the 19th (13 pm) in Friesland. Several topics are essential and will be covered: Listening in three directions; The Emerging Body language Unconditional authentic empathy, Creating space, Safety and boundaries, Contact/ Contract; Selfcare; Working with symbolisations/ expression and of course (pre-verbal) inner child work. More information: look at https://www.childrenfocusing.org/being-seriously-playful-symposium/
The venue is “De Bron” a retreat and conference centre ;There are plenty of opportunities in the local area for canoeing, walking, biking and sight seeing.
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REGISTRATION OPEN through July 15 because recordings are avaialble through July 31, 2023. See details when you view full event listing.
This online three-part series with Dennis Windego on the felt sense and the medicine wheel will assist helpers and natural helpers to journey beside client’s (or yourself/fellow human beings) trauma, and complex trauma memories to achieve: Mino-Biimaadiiziwiin (The Good Life). Mino-Biimaadiiziwiin is a decolonizing method to address the impacts of colonial trauma with land-based teachings, medicines, spirituality, and ceremonies.
Dennis will demonstrate the powerful shift of the felt sense and the medicine wheel through experiential exercises, trauma recovery stories, and triad group practice sessions/discussions.
Dennis works with and trains therapists who work with Indigenous populations, however, he invites anyone seeking to experience these teachings to register. He will use common language and the exercise instructions will be easy to follow. No experience with Focusing or felt sensing is required. Participants will acquire tools and build sacred bundles to assist Indigenous populations and their allies for truth and reconciliation.
You do not have to be a professional to experience this powerful way of being. As our Elders have communicated since time immemorial, “We are all healers. The healing medicine is inside all of us”.
Recording Note: Recordings will be made available to all registrants as soon as possible after each session for viewing prior to the next session (except in the case of unexpected technical difficulty). Breakout rooms in triads are not recorded. All recordings will be available for registrants until July 31, 2023.
This online three-part series with Dennis Windego on the felt sense and the medicine wheel will assist helpers and natural helpers to journey beside client’s (or yourself/fellow human beings) trauma, and complex trauma memories to achieve: Mino-Biimaadiiziwiin (The Good Life). Mino-Biimaadiiziwiin is a decolonizing method to address the impacts of colonial trauma with land-based teachings, medicines, spirituality, and ceremonies.
Dennis will demonstrate the powerful shift of the felt sense and the medicine wheel through experiential exercises, trauma recovery stories, and triad group practice sessions/discussions.
Dennis works with and trains therapists who work with Indigenous populations, however, he invites anyone seeking to experience these teachings to register. He will use common language and the exercise instructions will be easy to follow. No experience with Focusing or felt sensing is required. Participants will acquire tools and build sacred bundles to assist Indigenous populations and their allies for truth and reconciliation.
You do not have to be a professional to experience this powerful way of being. As our Elders have communicated since time immemorial, “We are all healers. The healing medicine is inside all of us”.
Recording Note: Recordings will be made available to all registrants as soon as possible after each session for viewing prior to the next session (except in the case of unexpected technical difficulty). Breakout rooms in triads are not recorded. All recordings will be available for registrants until July 31, 2023.
Online (Class will also be recorded)
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Creating Space for Community is a bi-monthly gathering to explore concepts around inner/outer community building, belonging and thriving.
These webinars are FREE to attend. During our time together, we will create a safe, playful environment to explore how we show up for the communities outside of us. These webinars emphasize Gendlin's action step; how is it we bring Focusing concepts into our daily living.
These webinars are FREE to attend. During our time together, we will create a safe, playful environment to explore how we show up for the communities outside of us. These webinars emphasize Gendlin's action step; how is it we bring Focusing concepts into our daily living.
Online via Zoom
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The Focusing Basics Program designed and taught by Ruth Hirsch, an internationally recognized trainer with over 25 years experience teaching Focusing, this program is equivalent to Levels 1 and 2. The training includes 8 weekly class sessions, an introductory 1-1 Guided Focusing Session with the Trainer, a 138page Manual, homework partnerships and email support between classes.
During these times when the world and our place in it might feel uncertain, Focusing offers you a straight-forward way to find inner peace and meaning through connecting more deeply with yourself and each other.
With ample personal attention in a small group setting (maximum 8 participants), you’ll gain a fundamental understanding of Focusing. You'll also acquire the skills and ability to use this remarkable process in your life, both by yourself and with a partner.
During this time when the world and our place in it might feel uncertain, the process of learning Focusing offers you the ability to connect with your self and each other in a deeper more meaningful way.
Learning Focusing will allow you to make decisions that you feel good about, have more vitality in your life, connect more fully with yourself and your spirituality, improve your relationship with yourself and others, learn how to work with the inner critic- in general, learning Focusing will positively affect all aspects of your life!
This program is also suitable as a first step for professionals in learning Focusing for use with clients.
Part 2 of the Core Focusing Training Program will be scheduled later in 2023.
During these times when the world and our place in it might feel uncertain, Focusing offers you a straight-forward way to find inner peace and meaning through connecting more deeply with yourself and each other.
With ample personal attention in a small group setting (maximum 8 participants), you’ll gain a fundamental understanding of Focusing. You'll also acquire the skills and ability to use this remarkable process in your life, both by yourself and with a partner.
During this time when the world and our place in it might feel uncertain, the process of learning Focusing offers you the ability to connect with your self and each other in a deeper more meaningful way.
Learning Focusing will allow you to make decisions that you feel good about, have more vitality in your life, connect more fully with yourself and your spirituality, improve your relationship with yourself and others, learn how to work with the inner critic- in general, learning Focusing will positively affect all aspects of your life!
This program is also suitable as a first step for professionals in learning Focusing for use with clients.
Part 2 of the Core Focusing Training Program will be scheduled later in 2023.
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Do you:
- Feel stuck in a difficult life situation?
- Suffer considerably but find you can't connect with the aching place inside?
- Or feel your life is ok but could be richer and more intimate in ways you can't yet quite articulate?
And do you want to find your own way forward, one that feels good and that comes from you?
Inner relationship focusing teaches us how to attend to our inner experience in a way that feels deeply satisfying. This attending to ourselves brings change both inside and outside, as stuck places within begin to feel safe enough to take their next steps.
- Feel stuck in a difficult life situation?
- Suffer considerably but find you can't connect with the aching place inside?
- Or feel your life is ok but could be richer and more intimate in ways you can't yet quite articulate?
And do you want to find your own way forward, one that feels good and that comes from you?
Inner relationship focusing teaches us how to attend to our inner experience in a way that feels deeply satisfying. This attending to ourselves brings change both inside and outside, as stuck places within begin to feel safe enough to take their next steps.
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Die Focusing Wochen auf dem Achberg sind seit über drei Jahrzehnten ein alljährlicher Treffpunkt für Focusing-Interessierte aus Deutschland, der Schweiz und Österreich. Ein Schwerpunkt ist das Angebot von Focusing-Grundkursen, Themenkursen und dem Trainerkurs. Ein anderer Schwerpunkt wird gebildet durch experimentelle Gruppen zur Weiterentwicklung des Focusing-Ansatzes und/oder Schreibprojekte. Neben den fortbildungsorientierten Teilnehmer:innen gibt es auch die Möglichkeit für Focusing-Interessierte, ihre eigenen Projektvorhaben mitzubringen und den Austausch mit Interessierten zu suchen.
Herzlich willkommen sind auch diejenigen, die nur ausspannen, am wunderschönen Pool liegen oder die Infrastruktur des Hauses genießen (man kann auch zelten und campen!) und von der speziellen Lernatmosphäre um sie herum profitieren möchten.
Herzlich willkommen sind auch diejenigen, die nur ausspannen, am wunderschönen Pool liegen oder die Infrastruktur des Hauses genießen (man kann auch zelten und campen!) und von der speziellen Lernatmosphäre um sie herum profitieren möchten.
Focusing Wochen Achberg am Bodensee
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REGISTRATION REMAINS OPEN through August 15, as the recordings are available through August 31. Session dates April 15, 22, 26, 29 and May 6, 10.
Thinking at the Edge (TAE) is a practice for bringing your felt ideas to life. It is a methodology for learning to think with the felt sense, so that thought is integrated with the whole of our experiencing. It is a powerful tool for moving from a vague sense of something we know to bringing those “somethings” to life. You can read more about TAE here.
The TAE-fest is intended as a light-hearted opportunity to explore TAE. Six teachers will offer you opportunities to touch into the power of TAE. If you are a beginner, it allows you to explore the potential of TAE. If you are already familiar with it, the TAE-fest can deepen and expand your experience.
Thinking at the Edge (TAE) is a practice for bringing your felt ideas to life. It is a methodology for learning to think with the felt sense, so that thought is integrated with the whole of our experiencing. It is a powerful tool for moving from a vague sense of something we know to bringing those “somethings” to life. You can read more about TAE here.
The TAE-fest is intended as a light-hearted opportunity to explore TAE. Six teachers will offer you opportunities to touch into the power of TAE. If you are a beginner, it allows you to explore the potential of TAE. If you are already familiar with it, the TAE-fest can deepen and expand your experience.
Online (Class will also be recorded)
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Stage Focusing se relier à son intuition
Dordogne France (Payzac 24270)
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Have you developed a project with TAE? Has that been a while ago as well? How has what emerged in your TAE process affected your daily life? Where do you stand with it now? Is your concept still coherent? Would you like to pick up the thread again?
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TAE es profundizar en el proceso de Focusing, con pasos especiales, diseñados para ayudarnos a encontrar lo que queremos decir, lo que queremos llevar al mundo, basado en nuestras experiencias de vida.
TAE fue desarrollado por Eugene Gendlin, PhD y su esposa, Mary Hendricks Gendlin, PhD, los fundadores del movimiento mundial de Focusing.
TAE fue desarrollado por Eugene Gendlin, PhD y su esposa, Mary Hendricks Gendlin, PhD, los fundadores del movimiento mundial de Focusing.
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We belong to the natural world just as much as a the crow or deer, yet somehow we have forgotten this. We have found ourselves disconnected from our home and from all that sustains us. We have forgotten our place in the more than human world. This immersive retreat will invite us to learn again how to listen and converse with the natural world, we will learn how to listen to it’s wisdom.
United Kingdom
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If you want to deepen and consolidate the felt sensing method and learn to handle some situations when the process can get stuck, this is the workshop for you. You will advance your way of recognising and responding to inner conflicts and learn how to support the process of others.
Melbourne, Australia
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Hearth Place is offering a two year in person Nature Guided Focusing Oriented Therapy Training starting September 2023
Cowichan Valley, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
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A comprehensive introduction and year-long group process to dive into Focusing on your own personal journey and inner enquiry in the context of weekly group meetings and weekly parterships.
Online Event
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This online entry level Focusing skills class prepares you to begin a Focusing partnership. Utilizing Inner Relationship Focusing, Spatial Awareness and Neuroscience based exercises spread out over a few months, this is a great opportunity to ground yourself in the basics of Self-in-Presence as a way of being that creates space for lasting change. You are encouraged to practice both in partnerships and with brief pauses during your day.
For coaches, bodyworkers, therapists, teachers and anyone interested in improving their inner and outer relational skills. Part 1 meets six times for two hours, usually every other week. This class can be your first step toward professional certification by completing Parts 1-4, then entering the ongoing Learning Community for Mastery in Guiding Change. This class meets Mondays 7-9 pm ET New York time or your equivalent.
For coaches, bodyworkers, therapists, teachers and anyone interested in improving their inner and outer relational skills. Part 1 meets six times for two hours, usually every other week. This class can be your first step toward professional certification by completing Parts 1-4, then entering the ongoing Learning Community for Mastery in Guiding Change. This class meets Mondays 7-9 pm ET New York time or your equivalent.
Online via Zoom
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Online
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Gene Gendlin conducted research "On Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning" at the University of Chicago, this followed on a collaboration with Carl R. Rogers, one of the founding fathers of psychotherapy research and the humanistic approach to psychology. Relating to the world and people around, the aim of his "Philosophy of the Implicit" is to come in touch with one's bodily felt resonance.
The Experiencing workshops offer opportunities to taste moments of this approach as well as deliver a sound base for a wish to participate in a two (2) year training course, which will kick-off in early 2024.
The Experiencing workshops offer opportunities to taste moments of this approach as well as deliver a sound base for a wish to participate in a two (2) year training course, which will kick-off in early 2024.
Hamburg, N.N.
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Take the second half of the Inner Relationship Focusing Training Program developed by Ann Weiser Cornell. Go deeper into Focusing and Focusing partnership. Learn the skill of guiding with sensitivity and awareness. Interactive advanced Focusing training by Zoom for 9 weeks, includes partnership practice.
Includes videos, demos, readings, discussion, group exercises, and individual sessions. Partnership Proficiency Recognition awarded on completion.
Includes videos, demos, readings, discussion, group exercises, and individual sessions. Partnership Proficiency Recognition awarded on completion.
Online via Zoom
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Treasure Maps is a 6-day residential retreat, an intensive workshop for people with Focusing experience who want to apply our Untangling® method to life’s most hard-to-change issues.
We’ve been teaching Treasure Maps in 15 countries over the past 25 years, helping thousands of people learn our method, getting responses like this one from Paul Fitzgerald: "The Treasure Maps experience was like a dissolving of an old way of seeing life and having new eyes to engage life with more freedom. I'd highly encourage anyone interested in deepening their Focusing to take this course."
We believe that transformation occurs most readily in an atmosphere of respect, acceptance, openness, warmth, playfulness, and support. Our mission is to enable you to live from your vibrant, strong, authentic self so you can bring your gifts and your passion into the world. We teach in English and people attend from many countries.
We’ve been teaching Treasure Maps in 15 countries over the past 25 years, helping thousands of people learn our method, getting responses like this one from Paul Fitzgerald: "The Treasure Maps experience was like a dissolving of an old way of seeing life and having new eyes to engage life with more freedom. I'd highly encourage anyone interested in deepening their Focusing to take this course."
We believe that transformation occurs most readily in an atmosphere of respect, acceptance, openness, warmth, playfulness, and support. Our mission is to enable you to live from your vibrant, strong, authentic self so you can bring your gifts and your passion into the world. We teach in English and people attend from many countries.
Loveland, Colorado
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Dear Colleagues,
We invite all in the field of Person-centred and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counselling to submit abstracts for the PCE 2023 European Symposium.
Deadline for submission of abstracts is April 30th 2023 (extended).
We are looking forward to the results and insights of all scientists, theoreticians, trainers, supervisors and practitioners, who look closely into the Symposium theme.
The presentations and workshops will be available at the Symposium in Athens, Greece.
Online attendees will be able to attend the presentations via live streaming, as well as to participate in workshops carried out online.
Your submission will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee.
All the abstracts, the presentations and the workshops will be in English.
We look forward to your presentation and to seeing you in person in Athens or ONLINE.
We invite all in the field of Person-centred and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counselling to submit abstracts for the PCE 2023 European Symposium.
Deadline for submission of abstracts is April 30th 2023 (extended).
We are looking forward to the results and insights of all scientists, theoreticians, trainers, supervisors and practitioners, who look closely into the Symposium theme.
The presentations and workshops will be available at the Symposium in Athens, Greece.
Online attendees will be able to attend the presentations via live streaming, as well as to participate in workshops carried out online.
Your submission will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee.
All the abstracts, the presentations and the workshops will be in English.
We look forward to your presentation and to seeing you in person in Athens or ONLINE.
Athens, Greece
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Online (will also be recorded)
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Creating Space for Community is a bi-monthly gathering to explore concepts around inner/outer community building, belonging and thriving.
These webinars are FREE to attend. They are like a taster of the longer Smartview Conversations Course which will dive deeper into a particular book from the Smartview Stories series and have a similar class format.
These webinars are FREE to attend. They are like a taster of the longer Smartview Conversations Course which will dive deeper into a particular book from the Smartview Stories series and have a similar class format.
Online via Zoom
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You are invited to further explore and delve into the intricacies of Inner Relationship Focusing. This nine-week live virtual course provides you the time and space to assimilate and utilize the insights acquired in Foundations Training Part 1. By developing your inner environment, you will be able to foster genuine, profound, and enduring transformation!
Online
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The Intermediate-Advanced comprehensive Online Program has been offered by the International Focusing Institute since 2014, and privately since 1995. Equivalent to Levels 3 and 4, the program features training in a small group (maximum 8 participants), a 102 page Training Manual, demos, group and individual exercises, and support in deepening and expanding your understanding and skills in Focusing as well as in sharing Focusing with others.
Online
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Discover powerful skills for life change based on self-acceptance and being present in the moment. Start to experience the process of Focusing and Focusing partnership. Learn how to cultivate an inner environment of calm, open, curious awareness which is the foundation from which lasting change emerges. Interactive beginning Focusing training by Zoom for 9 weeks, includes partnership practice.
Taught by Jinevra Howard, Carol Nickerson, and Ann Weiser Cornell (author of The Power of Focusing).
Includes videos, demos, readings, discussion, group exercises, and individual sessions.
Taught by Jinevra Howard, Carol Nickerson, and Ann Weiser Cornell (author of The Power of Focusing).
Includes videos, demos, readings, discussion, group exercises, and individual sessions.
Online via Zoom
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Has Focusing changed your life in a profound way? Do you feel called to help facilitate that kind of powerful change for other people? Our two-year live, online program will give you the skills you need to become a Certified Focusing Professional.
Build a profession teaching Focusing, add Focusing to your current profession, or bring Focusing to your family and community.
Our next program starts in October.
Taught by Ann Weiser Cornell, Barbara McGavin, and Additional Program Faculty.
Build a profession teaching Focusing, add Focusing to your current profession, or bring Focusing to your family and community.
Our next program starts in October.
Taught by Ann Weiser Cornell, Barbara McGavin, and Additional Program Faculty.
Online via Zoom
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You've discovered you love Focusing...and you also know there's so much more to learn about applying it to your life. Living a Focusing Life is an 18-meeting, live, online advanced Focusing course to help you gain more confidence as a Focusing partner and work with key issues like action blocks, decisions, and more.
Taught by Ann Weiser Cornell (author of The Power of Focusing) with featured guest teacher, Barbara McGavin.
Includes videos, readings, discussions, group exercises, and partnership practices.
Taught by Ann Weiser Cornell (author of The Power of Focusing) with featured guest teacher, Barbara McGavin.
Includes videos, readings, discussions, group exercises, and partnership practices.
Online via Zoom
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Want to watch as Ann Weiser Cornell guides someone through their very first Focusing session?
Focusing can be puzzling to talk about. It can be hard to learn from a book or a video. But when someone is actually taken through the process, you get it! Be present to observe as Ann guides three first-time Focusers (one each week) - and then comment afterward. The guest Focusers are volunteers who understand that their session will be witnessed by a safe and respectful group of people.
Focusing can be puzzling to talk about. It can be hard to learn from a book or a video. But when someone is actually taken through the process, you get it! Be present to observe as Ann guides three first-time Focusers (one each week) - and then comment afterward. The guest Focusers are volunteers who understand that their session will be witnessed by a safe and respectful group of people.
Online via Zoom
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If you are curious about exploring dreams, this workshop will help you reconnect with your inner life and discover richness and guidance in dreams. If you are a health professional, while working with people, your clients will inevitably share their dream at some point. That is such a potent moment in the healing process, and knowing how to respond effectively is vital. This workshop will give you experiential ways of working with dreams.
Melbourne, Australia
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Annual EFA Gatherings have the primary purpose for European Focusers to connect and inspire each other, and to create European work relationships.
Bassano del Grappa in northern Italy
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In our death and grief averse times - how would it be to make create a space of welcoming for what has been exiled for too long? What does our wise and intelligent body know about grief? What does our grief need to flow and be released?
Online
Creating Space for Community is a bi-monthly gathering to explore concepts around inner/outer community building, belonging and thriving.
These webinars are FREE to attend. They are like a taster of the longer Smartview Conversations Course which will dive deeper into a particular book from the Smartview Stories series and have a similar class format.
These webinars are FREE to attend. They are like a taster of the longer Smartview Conversations Course which will dive deeper into a particular book from the Smartview Stories series and have a similar class format.
Online via Zoom
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This course is a highly experiential integration of clinical practice with neuroscience and somatic psychology, especially the Polyvagal Theory and an embodied approach to trauma.
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