Upcoming Courses, and Ongoing Groups and Services
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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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Reading Freshly
This month starting at Chapter 2: Change, with the section beginning, The Man Who Felt Inappropriate.
Newcomers welcome each month!
An opportunity to read Gendlin’s seminal book Focusing with others
A Free Event for Members
Live (no recording)
Once a month on Tuesday - third session December 5, 2023
This month starting at Chapter 2: Change, with the section beginning, The Man Who Felt Inappropriate.
Newcomers welcome each month!
An opportunity to read Gendlin’s seminal book Focusing with others
A Free Event for Members
Live (no recording)
Once a month on Tuesday - third session December 5, 2023
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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 include Find a Focusing Partner events beforehand:
-Thursday, November 16th 7-8:30 pm Eastern (see your local time)
Find a Focusing Partner will be 1 hour before, 6-7 pm Eastern.
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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 include Find a Focusing Partner events beforehand:
-Thursday, November 16th 7-8:30 pm Eastern (see your local time)
Find a Focusing Partner will be 1 hour before, 6-7 pm Eastern.
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Online via Zoom
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We will explore the physicality of our relational patterns, and how to harness the transformative power of creatively working with embodied experience.
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One hour Q & A meeting with Charlotte Howorth. Charlotte will take you through the contents and format of her one-year course leaving time for your questions.
1 hour presentation with Q & A
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A Process Model (APM) can turn into an experience, a journey of changing perspectives and thinking-patterns. This course will offer a possible route into the complex text that allows to experientially understand what the concepts convey. In this workshop we will focus on chapter 8.
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Online group. I use the metaphor of mindful lemmings to describe what it feels like to deal with the powerlessness we experience amid collective madness, such as wars or the climate catastrophe.
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The mainstream cultural story is that thinking will save us. Yet, we know we cannot reason our way in or out of many aspects of a human life. For instance, we cannot reason our way into being present, falling in love, or finding fulfillment. The type of attention and understanding that unites us with others is not thinking but an embodied presence. And the types of problems that we see when we turn to the world, are problems of community and relating. To solve problems of community, we need an embodied response. Our culture, however, struggles in this area.
All the past cultures in the world had embodied responses to problems. Our culture does not. Somewhere along the way, we lost it. We need to face that challenge. In this two-hour workshop, Kevin Johnson will offer a response to that challenge.
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All the past cultures in the world had embodied responses to problems. Our culture does not. Somewhere along the way, we lost it. We need to face that challenge. In this two-hour workshop, Kevin Johnson will offer a response to that challenge.
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In seven 90-minute weekly meetings, we'll explore the basic practices of Focusing, Listening and Focusing partnership to prepare people for Thinking at the Edge.
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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, December 12 (6:30-8:30 pm Eastern)
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Next sessions (pick one 2-hour session to attend):
-Tuesday, December 12 (6:30-8:30 pm Eastern)
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Online via Zoom
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Dans son livre Let your body interpret your dreams (1985) - titre traduisible en français “Laissez votre corps interpréter vos rêves”- Gendlin propose des pistes pour explorer nos rêves avec le sens corporel à travers cinq grandes thématiques que nous vous présenterons au cours de cette table ronde avant de donner une part importante à l’expérimentation en grand groupe et en binôme.
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Have you noticed how the holiday season has a way of intensifying the way we feel? For some, this time of the year feels uplifting, full of celebration and connection. And, for others this time of the year is hard, fraught with family tension, tenderness and loneliness. Perhaps, it’s more of a marbled mix. No wonder this time of year can be so triggering!
Join Lauren for an experiential exploration of how what’s triggering you can grow you. As you’re with the body feel of being triggered in a Focusing way, you create the conditions for tension to ease, insights to emerge and healing to happen.
Some familiarity with Focusing may be helpful but no prior experience with Focusing is required. All are welcome to attend and participate.
Join Lauren for an experiential exploration of how what’s triggering you can grow you. As you’re with the body feel of being triggered in a Focusing way, you create the conditions for tension to ease, insights to emerge and healing to happen.
Some familiarity with Focusing may be helpful but no prior experience with Focusing is required. All are welcome to attend and participate.
Online (Class will also be recorded)
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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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In The Book of Life, Daily Meditations with J. Krishnamurti, the first sevens days of the year is dedicated to listening. Join us from January 1st - January 7th, 2024 (1pm EST/NY) where we learn how to listen from a cleared space.
There will be time for reflection and focusing partnerships interactions - any level of Focusing proficiency is welcome.
There will be time for reflection and focusing partnerships interactions - any level of Focusing proficiency is welcome.
Pre-register on zoom.
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Learn to
> Offer one-to-one Focusing sessions to people who are new to Focusing
> Integrate Focusing into your professional field as a therapist, bodyworker, teacher...
> Teach Focusing to individuals and groups (and offer the PFP-Award)
> Naturally weave aspects of Focusing into all of your daily interactions
The Focusing Professional Certificate
Certified Focusing Professional or Trainer allows you to introduce and guide people who are new to Focusing one-to-one, and to teach Focusing to groups. You will be eligible to offer the International Focusing Institute (TIFI) ‘Proficiency in Focusing Partnership Award’ to students of your Focusing Courses, so they can join the world-wide Focusing Partnership network.
Please note: The dates are set for technical reasons only. TBD with those wanting to participate.
> Offer one-to-one Focusing sessions to people who are new to Focusing
> Integrate Focusing into your professional field as a therapist, bodyworker, teacher...
> Teach Focusing to individuals and groups (and offer the PFP-Award)
> Naturally weave aspects of Focusing into all of your daily interactions
The Focusing Professional Certificate
Certified Focusing Professional or Trainer allows you to introduce and guide people who are new to Focusing one-to-one, and to teach Focusing to groups. You will be eligible to offer the International Focusing Institute (TIFI) ‘Proficiency in Focusing Partnership Award’ to students of your Focusing Courses, so they can join the world-wide Focusing Partnership network.
Please note: The dates are set for technical reasons only. TBD with those wanting to participate.
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Are you looking for ways to have a better connection with your children?
Would you like to learn skills to regulate overwhelming emotions in yourself?
Would you like to act or respond as a trustful and authentic parent?
Would you like to learn skills to regulate overwhelming emotions in yourself?
Would you like to act or respond as a trustful and authentic parent?
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Welcoming new registrants to join us for Chapters V - VI.
25 weekly meetings on Wednesdays
Audio recordings available after each live meeting
Optional discussion groups are available with teaching assistants in various time zones.
25 weekly meetings on Wednesdays
Audio recordings available after each live meeting
Optional discussion groups are available with teaching assistants in various time zones.
Online (Class will also be audio recorded)
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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.
Online (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.
– You can choose the start date that works best for you.
- Courses are scheduled at a time of day that is convenient to people on both coasts of North America as well as in Europe.
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.
– You can choose the start date that works best for you.
- Courses are scheduled at a time of day that is convenient to people on both coasts of North America as well as in Europe.
Online via Zoom
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You are invited to continue learning and unpacking the depths of the Inner Relationship Focusing process. This live virtual nine-week course, gives you the necessary time and space to integrate and apply your skills and knowledge gained in Foundations Training Part 1 (Levels 1 & 2).
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For therapists, coaches, body workers, and anyone who wants to bring focusing more seamlessly into their conversations and who want to learn how to work with their felt sense of the client/focuser and of the relationship. This course is for those who are already certified, or who have trained in the fundamentals of focusing.
Gene was a psychotherapist and most of his focusing work was within the faster more improvisational style of therapeutic conversations.
This 1- year course teaches you how to:
- Bring the skills you have already learnt on other courses, such as resonant reflection of ‘somethings’, finding the right distance, Clearing a Space, the focusing attitude, reminders/invitation, the Critic and parts work seamlessly into a the faster more improvisational style of a therapeutic conversation.
- Several classes will focus on how to tap into, and work with, your felt sense of both the relationship, and of the client/focuser, so that you can, “Be the interaction that makes it better” (Gene Gendlin).
- As part of learning how to work with the felt sense of the relationship Lynn Preston will be a guest teacher and her topic will be how to develop the therapeutic relationship, whether that be in a dyad of group.
- We will also study and practice how each of us is trying to make a deeper point, one that we are often initially not even aware of. We will learn how to listen for the signs of this deeper point and how to facilitate its emergence as we work with focusing’s organic forward movement.
- Students will study and practice how to notice and work with a client's, or focuser’s, forward growing edge, as well as the undertow, or trailing edge that comes with it.
- In most stuck places there can be several threads and one of these is often a younger place, or flash back. Students will learn how to identify and unpack these places allowing their forward edge to flow and grow.
- We will have a class with Isabel Adon on working with focusing and grief and trauma.
- Students to become certified Focusing Oriented Therapists, or Focusing Professionals.
- Students also have the option of also being certified as focusing teachers and trainers.
Mary Hendricks, Eugene Gendlin’s wife and former teacher of TFI’s certification course, and director of TFI, handed the role of teaching and responsibility for certifying focusing professionals for the Institute to Charlotte several years ago. Charlotte led the Institute’s certification program for over 12 years and has a wealth of experience as a focusing teacher and has worked as a focusing oriented therapist and coach herself for 27 years.
Gene was a psychotherapist and most of his focusing work was within the faster more improvisational style of therapeutic conversations.
This 1- year course teaches you how to:
- Bring the skills you have already learnt on other courses, such as resonant reflection of ‘somethings’, finding the right distance, Clearing a Space, the focusing attitude, reminders/invitation, the Critic and parts work seamlessly into a the faster more improvisational style of a therapeutic conversation.
- Several classes will focus on how to tap into, and work with, your felt sense of both the relationship, and of the client/focuser, so that you can, “Be the interaction that makes it better” (Gene Gendlin).
- As part of learning how to work with the felt sense of the relationship Lynn Preston will be a guest teacher and her topic will be how to develop the therapeutic relationship, whether that be in a dyad of group.
- We will also study and practice how each of us is trying to make a deeper point, one that we are often initially not even aware of. We will learn how to listen for the signs of this deeper point and how to facilitate its emergence as we work with focusing’s organic forward movement.
- Students will study and practice how to notice and work with a client's, or focuser’s, forward growing edge, as well as the undertow, or trailing edge that comes with it.
- In most stuck places there can be several threads and one of these is often a younger place, or flash back. Students will learn how to identify and unpack these places allowing their forward edge to flow and grow.
- We will have a class with Isabel Adon on working with focusing and grief and trauma.
- Students to become certified Focusing Oriented Therapists, or Focusing Professionals.
- Students also have the option of also being certified as focusing teachers and trainers.
Mary Hendricks, Eugene Gendlin’s wife and former teacher of TFI’s certification course, and director of TFI, handed the role of teaching and responsibility for certifying focusing professionals for the Institute to Charlotte several years ago. Charlotte led the Institute’s certification program for over 12 years and has a wealth of experience as a focusing teacher and has worked as a focusing oriented therapist and coach herself for 27 years.
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PAST EVENT (November 2 - 5, 2023 - REGISTRATION FOR RECORDINGS REMAIN OPEN THROUGH JAN 15, 2024.
RECORDINGS ACCESSIBLE THROUGH FEB 5, 2024.
At this critical time in our history, many of us are sensing a need for action. How does Focusing-Oriented Therapy help us meet the challenges of NOW? What is needed for us to hold the uncertainty of our future? We hope this conference will encourage an exploration of this urgency, how we hold the uncertainty and find ways of moving forward. Recordings of the live conference will be available through February 5, 2024
La fresca urgencia del ahora y el poder transformador de la terapia orientada al Focusing.
Traducción al español para la mayoría de las presentaciones
RECORDINGS ACCESSIBLE THROUGH FEB 5, 2024.
At this critical time in our history, many of us are sensing a need for action. How does Focusing-Oriented Therapy help us meet the challenges of NOW? What is needed for us to hold the uncertainty of our future? We hope this conference will encourage an exploration of this urgency, how we hold the uncertainty and find ways of moving forward. Recordings of the live conference will be available through February 5, 2024
La fresca urgencia del ahora y el poder transformador de la terapia orientada al Focusing.
Traducción al español para la mayoría de las presentaciones
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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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You are invited to continue learning and unpacking the depths of the Inner Relationship Focusing process. This live virtual nine-week course, gives you the necessary time and space to integrate and apply your skills and knowledge gained in Foundations Training Part 1 (Levels 1 & 2).
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Anchors and swimmers is based on the premise that when people connect through their vulnerability, micro change happens.
No matter how oppositional our beliefs may be, when we “go underneath” we discover our innate humanness and interconnectedness. How we hold our differences may be more important than being right if we want to build vibrant communities and create peace in our world.
Anchors and Swimmers applies the Focusing attitude to create a safely anchored environment where the power and grace of receptive listening and connective reflecting deepens the conversation, shifts mindsets, offers comfort, and changes lives. Community connection heals our sense of isolation and disconnection, as wall as helps heal old traumas we may carry.
Some familiarity with Focusing will be helpful, though all are welcome.
No matter how oppositional our beliefs may be, when we “go underneath” we discover our innate humanness and interconnectedness. How we hold our differences may be more important than being right if we want to build vibrant communities and create peace in our world.
Anchors and Swimmers applies the Focusing attitude to create a safely anchored environment where the power and grace of receptive listening and connective reflecting deepens the conversation, shifts mindsets, offers comfort, and changes lives. Community connection heals our sense of isolation and disconnection, as wall as helps heal old traumas we may carry.
Some familiarity with Focusing will be helpful, though all are welcome.
Online (Class will also be recorded)
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The untold story relates to the story that lay beyond the words. It is the essence of the story, what we really want to convey, but often don’t quite manage to put into words, don’t quite get the listener to truly understand, to truly be with us.
In this workshop, we will create the conditions for felt conversation – the kind of conversation that enables us to connect through sensing and relating with each other. Using SOF, we will enter the inside and in-between of the storyteller and the listener, a place where the story can be held and contained, enabling deep connection and healing.
The workshop will include presentations, guided experiences, and time for practice, sharing and questions.
Live attendance is recommended. All registrants (whether or not you attend live) will receive an email to view the recording after the workshop. The recording will be available for one month after the workshop concludes. Breakout rooms are not recorded. Some familiarity with Focusing will be helpful, though all are welcome to attend.
In this workshop, we will create the conditions for felt conversation – the kind of conversation that enables us to connect through sensing and relating with each other. Using SOF, we will enter the inside and in-between of the storyteller and the listener, a place where the story can be held and contained, enabling deep connection and healing.
The workshop will include presentations, guided experiences, and time for practice, sharing and questions.
Live attendance is recommended. All registrants (whether or not you attend live) will receive an email to view the recording after the workshop. The recording will be available for one month after the workshop concludes. Breakout rooms are not recorded. Some familiarity with Focusing will be helpful, though all are welcome to attend.
Online (Class will also be recorded)
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The Urge to Indulge = a repetitive cycle of indulging in food, drink, internet, TV, or other behaviors, followed by guilt, shame, and self-blame. That cycle springs from something deeper, a war over the control of pain and painful emotions, and the avoidance of forward-moving action.
Join us and discover how you can change repetitive behaviors without evoking shame or inner critics so you can have a more peaceful, empowered life.
Join us and discover how you can change repetitive behaviors without evoking shame or inner critics so you can have a more peaceful, empowered life.
Online via Zoom
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Please join us for the 2024 Thinking at the Edge (TAE) Academy!
This online Academy will allow you to both take a deep dive into TAE, and also to get a broad experience of outstanding teachers from all over the world.
TAE is a practice developed by Gene Gendlin and Mary Hendricks-Gendlin. It is related to Focusing but has a different emphasis. Both are grounded in the “felt sense,” that murky sense of something you know which is not yet in words. With TAE, we intentionally and systematically build upon that not-yet-articulated place to allow for something new to be brought into the world.
The Main Classes are intended as live experiences, so please block out the time for those in your schedule.
This online Academy will allow you to both take a deep dive into TAE, and also to get a broad experience of outstanding teachers from all over the world.
TAE is a practice developed by Gene Gendlin and Mary Hendricks-Gendlin. It is related to Focusing but has a different emphasis. Both are grounded in the “felt sense,” that murky sense of something you know which is not yet in words. With TAE, we intentionally and systematically build upon that not-yet-articulated place to allow for something new to be brought into the world.
The Main Classes are intended as live experiences, so please block out the time for those in your schedule.
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Our goal here is to return to the essence of Focusing and ourselves as living process. I ask that participants are Focusing weekly with a partner at least one month before class begins and throughout our time together. There is a lot of reading, often more than you might choose to do. We touch on a variety of approaches to learn and practice Focusing. We begin and end remembering that always that which has learned Focusing is Partiality, not Presence. My Part 4 is a great place to return to whenever you would like to go deeper with your process from wherever it is. Requires Part 3 or equivalent experience.
Meets eight times on Wednesdays, 7 – 9 pm New York time.
Meets eight times on Wednesdays, 7 – 9 pm New York time.
Online via Zoom
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Introductory weekend seminar as prerequisite to join a two- year training in 2024 with certification afterwards as Focusing Trainer, Focusing Professional or Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy due to the professional background and regulations.
Hamburg-Blankenese, Germany
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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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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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A Process Model (APM) can turn into an experience, a journey of changing perspectives and thinking-patterns. This course will offer a possible route into the complex text that allows to experientially understand what the concepts convey. In this workshop we will focus on the Basic Model, chapters I - V.
Zoom
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Je (her)ontdekt en verdiept jouw ervaring met de wijsheid van het lichaam.
De kracht van Focusing: Verrijkend en Verdiepend, een 2-daagse vol, inspiratie, verbinding, ontmoeting en verdieping. van 11 tot 17 in Amersfoort
De kracht van Focusing: Verrijkend en Verdiepend, een 2-daagse vol, inspiratie, verbinding, ontmoeting en verdieping. van 11 tot 17 in Amersfoort
LIFE in Amersfoort
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PAST EVENT (September 28 - October 1, 2023)- Registration for the recordings for The Gendlin Symposium will remain open through February 1, 2024 as the recordings remain accessible through February 15, 2024.
Online (will also be recorded)
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Relate to yourself and others with freshness, emotional intelligence, and an open heart.
During this safe and gentle process:
> you listen to yourself and others with every cell of your body, with your whole being, and a deep acceptance
> you allow yourself to be seen while being authentically yourself
> you express yourself honestly, yet skillfully and respectfully
> you listen without judgment as you deeply tune into another person’s experience
> where you may have felt stuck, your life changes for the better as you experience a natural flow again
6.5-month Level 1 to 5 Focusing Skills Course - starts about Feb 19 until about Sept 17, including a summer break, 2024
Time listed in CET Central European Time. Suitable for America time zones.
During this safe and gentle process:
> you listen to yourself and others with every cell of your body, with your whole being, and a deep acceptance
> you allow yourself to be seen while being authentically yourself
> you express yourself honestly, yet skillfully and respectfully
> you listen without judgment as you deeply tune into another person’s experience
> where you may have felt stuck, your life changes for the better as you experience a natural flow again
6.5-month Level 1 to 5 Focusing Skills Course - starts about Feb 19 until about Sept 17, including a summer break, 2024
Time listed in CET Central European Time. Suitable for America time zones.
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The course is an opportunity to spend time with your wanting or project to integrate Focusing into your life—whether personally or professionally—in both an embodied and more than logical way. Like being in contact with a yet undiscovered treasure box. With FOCUSING, a practice laid out by philosopher and psychotherapist Eugene T. Gendlin, you will get in touch with your Felt Sense and be able to develop surprisingly fresh understandings that make a difference, especially in how you are with your special project or issue. By adding certain moves of THINKING AT THE EDGE (TAE), another practice Gendlin created, with Mary Hendricks and Kye Nelson, we will show you how you can speak more and more precisely from your Felt Sense. In doing so, you will discover important details by redefining key terms, becoming aware of paradoxes or clarifying the richness of your lived experience.
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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 and Ann Weiser Cornell (author of The Power of Focusing).
Includes videos, demos, readings, discussion, group exercises, and individual sessions.
Taught by Jinevra Howard 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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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.
Class meets six times on Sundays 2 - 4 pm EST beginning February 25.
Class meets six times on Sundays 2 - 4 pm EST beginning February 25.
Online via Zoom
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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 Tuesdays 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 Tuesdays 7 - 9 pm ET New York time or your equivalent.
Online via Zoom
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Guiding the group and your experience is built from ou experiences in working with groups. 4 key elements are important;
1. Concrete experience (doing/ having an experience)
2. Reflective observation, (reviewing/ reflecting on the experience)
3. Active experimentation (planning, trying out what you have learned)
4. Abstract conceptualization (concluding, learning from the experience)
1. Concrete experience (doing/ having an experience)
2. Reflective observation, (reviewing/ reflecting on the experience)
3. Active experimentation (planning, trying out what you have learned)
4. Abstract conceptualization (concluding, learning from the experience)
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Topics Covered. Working with creative expression and non-verbal communication. we will learn the basic listening skills of Children’s Focusing.
The central goal is to achieve authentic contact and open connection through simple, structured exercises designed to support the process of re-connection with yourself and to articulate ways to transfer this authenticity into your everyday life with children and your roles as a parent, grandparent, therapist, or teacher.
The central goal is to achieve authentic contact and open connection through simple, structured exercises designed to support the process of re-connection with yourself and to articulate ways to transfer this authenticity into your everyday life with children and your roles as a parent, grandparent, therapist, or teacher.
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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 using the PUPA process. 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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The base of the PUPA Focusing Certification Program consists of five courses that cover a journey using the PUPA process. 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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Zoom
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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.
Class meets six times on Tuesdays 7-9pm EST beginning May 14.
Class meets six times on Tuesdays 7-9pm EST beginning May 14.
Online via Zoom
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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.
Meets for six times Sunday afternoons from 2 - 4 pm EDT.
Prerequisite: Level or Part 2 Focusing training
Meets for six times Sunday afternoons from 2 - 4 pm EDT.
Prerequisite: Level or Part 2 Focusing training
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.
Plön, Germany
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A one week residential workshop in Assisi Italy. Assisi is the spiritual heart of Italy and permeated with the peaceful and loving vibrations of St Francis and St Clare. This course is for couples, or singles, who wish to learn Wholebody Experiential Focusing (WEF) skills and use it to improve their energetic connection and empathic listening skills. It takes courage and skill to be radically authentic in your communication.
Residential in the Catholic retreat centre of Porziano, Assisi, Italy.
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Zu diesem Retreat laden wir dich ein, wenn du nach sanften, aber tiefgreifend transformierenden Wegen suchst, in dir selbst anzukommen… wenn du dich danach sehnst, entspannter und lebendiger im gegenwärtigen Moment zu leben…
wenn du neugierig darauf bist, dich dem Abenteuer des Nichtwissens zu öffnen und dein Vertrauen ins Leben zu vertiefen.
5-Tages-Retreat, 18. bis 23. Juni 2024
wenn du neugierig darauf bist, dich dem Abenteuer des Nichtwissens zu öffnen und dein Vertrauen ins Leben zu vertiefen.
5-Tages-Retreat, 18. bis 23. Juni 2024
Deutschland, Siebengebirge (nahe Bonn)
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Invite yourself to come to an intensive 5 day Focusing training in July 2024 about “A unique possibility to experience ‘Dynamic Focusing”! It will be from wednesday 17th (18 pm) till the Monday the 22nd (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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Our goal here is to return to the essence of Focusing and ourselves as living process. I ask that participants are Focusing weekly with a partner at least one month before class begins and throughout our time together. There is a lot of reading, often more than you might choose to do. We touch on a variety of approaches to learn and practice Focusing. We begin and end remembering that always that which has learned Focusing is Partiality, not Presence. My Part 4 is a great place to return to whenever you would like to go deeper with your process from wherever it is. Requires Part 3 or equivalent experience.
Meets eight times on Sundays, 2 – 4 pm New York time.
Meets eight times on Sundays, 2 – 4 pm New York time.
Online via Zoom
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This course trains you to deepen and integrate your conceptual and experiential understanding of the process of change at several levels. One level is to integrate what happens clinically with clients and what it brings up for you personally. Our exploration straddles personal process and supervision, based on the idea that what we encounter with our clients is a rich source of personal and professional growth. Another level is integrating this deeply personal process with conceptual learning about Focusing as the DNA of Change.
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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.
Meets for six times Tuesday evenings from 7 - 9 pm EDT.
Prerequisite: Level or Part 2 Focusing training
Meets for six times Tuesday evenings from 7 - 9 pm EDT.
Prerequisite: Level or Part 2 Focusing training
Online via Zoom
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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 Tuesdays 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 Tuesdays 7 - 9 pm ET New York time or your equivalent.
Online via Zoom
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SAVE THE DATE - Weeklong for Advanced Focusers 2024
Hybrid - Online or Online with in-person at Mercy by the Sea in Connecticut, US
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SAVE THE DATE - "Less is More" - Children & Focusing Online Conference 2024
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