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Please note: Listings on this page are either events organized by The International Focusing Institute (TIFI), or are offered independently by Certified Focusing Professionals. Those organized by TIFI will have one of TIFI’s logos.
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Pacific Time
Art Club is a space where we go inward to express outward – through drawing, movement, writing, painting, or whatever feels right for you in the moment. Each session involves slowing down and noticing what you have inside that’s worth exploring. It’s a time dedicated for self reflection and self care. Come prepared to pause, listen, and allow your inner wisdom to unfold.
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Eastern Time
We host a monthly drop-in Changes Group for beginners through advanced Focusers
Online
Topic: Changes Groups
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Eastern Time, New York, USA
This series encourages us to live Gendlin's concept of "crossing" in a supportive community setting. This community is for those who often find themselves in situations of facilitating change for others, individuals and groups. It’s a great option for those who are looking for a community-based path toward certification, for those who do not need certification, and for those already certified.
This Learning Community is a 10-month program, meeting twenty times every other week for 1.5 hours. This course/community is a lovely, supportive space to continue learning with other advanced Focusers or to pursue certification at your own pace as a Focusing Facilitator or Trainer with TIFI.
Currently meets every other Thursday, 7:30 - 9pm ET, New York
This Learning Community is a 10-month program, meeting twenty times every other week for 1.5 hours. This course/community is a lovely, supportive space to continue learning with other advanced Focusers or to pursue certification at your own pace as a Focusing Facilitator or Trainer with TIFI.
Currently meets every other Thursday, 7:30 - 9pm ET, New York
Online via Zoom
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced, Certification
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PST
Add this transformative tool to your practice! In this introductory workshop you'll begin to learn the basic steps of Focusing in order to incorporate it in your healing practice. Understanding and working with a Felt Sense (how the body holds living experience about a situation) is the key to moving beyond typical dead ends of talk therapy. Join us!
Online
Topic: FOT
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Eastern Time
Trusting ourselves can be hard, especially when we've spent years learning not to. For many of us, overriding our feelings and inner knowing wasn't a mistake—it was a way of staying safe and connected.
In Coming Back to You a six-week online course, you'll learn how to value your feelings and trust yourself, so you can live more fully and authentically.
In Coming Back to You a six-week online course, you'll learn how to value your feelings and trust yourself, so you can live more fully and authentically.
Online (classes will be recorded)
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Pacific Time
Do you want to find a way to accept your whole being
What about growing more genuine relationships in your life?
Maybe you would enjoy including your body as well as your emotions and thought processes in your decision making.
Are you looking for a way to deal with stress or inner conflicts?
What about growing more genuine relationships in your life?
Maybe you would enjoy including your body as well as your emotions and thought processes in your decision making.
Are you looking for a way to deal with stress or inner conflicts?
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New York Time
Reading Freshly July 2026
An opportunity to read Gendlin’s seminal book Focusing with others
A Free Event for Members - Newcomers welcome to join at any time!
Live (no recording)
Next session July 7, 2026 - Reading will begin in the middle of Chapter 11 The Listening Manual, second main section - THE SECOND KIND OF HELPING: USING YOUR OWN FEELINGS AND REACTIONS ABOUT THE OTHER PERSON
An opportunity to read Gendlin’s seminal book Focusing with others
A Free Event for Members - Newcomers welcome to join at any time!
Live (no recording)
Next session July 7, 2026 - Reading will begin in the middle of Chapter 11 The Listening Manual, second main section - THE SECOND KIND OF HELPING: USING YOUR OWN FEELINGS AND REACTIONS ABOUT THE OTHER PERSON
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, Ongoing, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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Eastern Time
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 eight courses that cover two journeys using the PUPA process. designed to not only learn and teach Focusing, but to also get to know and transform yourself, while creating change in the world. The initial courses cover learning Focusing (the six steps, and five kinds of listening), learning about who you are (how you avoid feeling, and your parts), learning who you want to be and what you want to
The base of the PUPA Focusing Certification Program consists of eight courses that cover two journeys using the PUPA process. designed to not only learn and teach Focusing, but to also get to know and transform yourself, while creating change in the world. The initial courses cover learning Focusing (the six steps, and five kinds of listening), learning about who you are (how you avoid feeling, and your parts), learning who you want to be and what you want to
Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Certification
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Pacific Time
Do you want to find a way to accept your whole being
What about growing more genuine relationships in your life?
Maybe you would enjoy including your body as well as your emotions and thought processes in your decision making.
Are you looking for a way to deal with stress or inner conflicts?
What about growing more genuine relationships in your life?
Maybe you would enjoy including your body as well as your emotions and thought processes in your decision making.
Are you looking for a way to deal with stress or inner conflicts?
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Pacific
Grief has a way of lingering, quietly eroding the ground beneath our sense of peace and stability. Loss can take so many forms: a person or animal you loved, a physical capacity you relied on, a sense of purpose that once anchored you. Finding your footing again can sometimes feel out of reach.
What I've come to understand about the feelings that accompany loss is that they don't want to be fixed or rushed. They want company. And when you can offer yourself genuine presence and compassion, something begins to shift.
I hope you'll join me for this gentle webinar.
What I've come to understand about the feelings that accompany loss is that they don't want to be fixed or rushed. They want company. And when you can offer yourself genuine presence and compassion, something begins to shift.
I hope you'll join me for this gentle webinar.
Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
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Eastern Time (US)
Through this roundtable, we aim to initiate an ongoing platform for TAE practitioners to explore ways to make the TAE process more organic.
Zoom
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, Other, TAE/Philosophy, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
La narrativa condicionada del entorno social atemorizó a los padres y después, ellos, trasladaron sus miedos a sus hij@s. Así durante generaciones y generaciones por milenios. Cuando acompañamos esas voces asustadas, descubrimos la fuente de la auténtica seguridad y experimentamos la restauración de la verdadera confianza. Nos damos a luz a nosotr@s mism@s. Nos auto maternamos y auto paternamos.
Zoom
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
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CET
Wenn dich Focusing interessiert, ist der Einführungskurs eine gute Möglichkeit, mich und Focusing kennenzulernen. Wir machen gemeinsam den ersten Schritt. Dann entscheidest du, ob du am Basis-Kurs teilnehmen möchtest.
Der Einführungskurs ist erforderlich,
wenn du am Basis-Kurs teilnehmen möchtest.
Der Einführungskurs ist erforderlich,
wenn du am Basis-Kurs teilnehmen möchtest.
Vienna, Austria
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UK Time zone
Skills training with Deirdre is a two part 10 week online gathering with a break in between modules.
Students meet in pairs weekly to explore the learning points step by step.
We build conscious awareness of embodiment to expand a spacious body 'home' for all that arrises awaiting the magic of unfolding and discovery.
Deirdre uses her trauma training in Identity orientated psychotrauma lens and 22 years as a craniosacral therapist to blend body and mind.
Students meet in pairs weekly to explore the learning points step by step.
We build conscious awareness of embodiment to expand a spacious body 'home' for all that arrises awaiting the magic of unfolding and discovery.
Deirdre uses her trauma training in Identity orientated psychotrauma lens and 22 years as a craniosacral therapist to blend body and mind.
Topic: Introductory
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Eastern Time, New York, USA
PART 2 is about deepening into the Focusing and Listening process by looking more at the role of how we companion ourselves as well as others. We develop further our personal concept of creating an inner space that welcomes it all and adapting that space as we follow our process. I introduce relational neuroscience here.
Experience in a beginner partnership course is required. Discount for partnership courses or experience beyond that. A great place for advanced Focusers to return to.
Experience in a beginner partnership course is required. Discount for partnership courses or experience beyond that. A great place for advanced Focusers to return to.
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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Pacific Time
Do you want to find a way to accept your whole being
What about growing more genuine relationships in your life?
Maybe you would enjoy including your body as well as your emotions and thought processes in your decision making.
Are you looking for a way to deal with stress or inner conflicts?
Focusing helps with all of these and is a gift you can give to your whole being. You can start with effective little bits that build into a grounded ability to deal with what comes in your daily life.
What about growing more genuine relationships in your life?
Maybe you would enjoy including your body as well as your emotions and thought processes in your decision making.
Are you looking for a way to deal with stress or inner conflicts?
Focusing helps with all of these and is a gift you can give to your whole being. You can start with effective little bits that build into a grounded ability to deal with what comes in your daily life.
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Eastern Time (US)
During this Roundtable, we will celebrate the inspirators, mentors, and role models who have shaped our journey.
Zoom
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, Children, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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CET - Deutschland
Authentic Movement und Focusing sind sanfte, transformierende Wege, dich wohlwollend anzunehmen und in dich selbst hinein tief zu entspannen.
Im bewussten, neugierigen Spüren und Fühlen entfaltet sich der lebendige Reichtum deiner inneren Welten. Diese spannende Entdeckungsreise in Stille oder in Bewegung lässt ungeahnte, bedeutsame Erfahrungen auftauchen, die anstrengungslos ihren Ausdruck finden können. Das Vertrauen in deine authentischen Impulse wächst und lässt dich im Alltag zunehmend flexibel und mit einer Qualität von Leichtigkeit im Moment leben.
Im bewussten, neugierigen Spüren und Fühlen entfaltet sich der lebendige Reichtum deiner inneren Welten. Diese spannende Entdeckungsreise in Stille oder in Bewegung lässt ungeahnte, bedeutsame Erfahrungen auftauchen, die anstrengungslos ihren Ausdruck finden können. Das Vertrauen in deine authentischen Impulse wächst und lässt dich im Alltag zunehmend flexibel und mit einer Qualität von Leichtigkeit im Moment leben.
Deutschland, Siebengebirge (nahe Bonn) Haus Neuglück
Topic: Other
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Eastern Time, New York, USA
Smartview Conversations is a monthly online gathering to explore the application of our Focusing skills to daily life and interactions. Utilizing exercises from the Facilitator Guide for Smartview Stories, we will explore and build the resourcing qualities life is asking of us now.
We will model how to create a safe, playful environment that facilitates neural plasticity. These webinars are FREE to attend. Both experienced Focusers and people new to Focusing are welcome. These webinars emphasize Gendlin's action step; how is it we bring Focusing concepts into our daily living.
We meet on the 4th Tuesday, twice in the same day for different time zones. The times are 11:30am - 12:30pm ET New York time and 7:30 - 8:30pm ET New York time.
We will model how to create a safe, playful environment that facilitates neural plasticity. These webinars are FREE to attend. Both experienced Focusers and people new to Focusing are welcome. These webinars emphasize Gendlin's action step; how is it we bring Focusing concepts into our daily living.
We meet on the 4th Tuesday, twice in the same day for different time zones. The times are 11:30am - 12:30pm ET New York time and 7:30 - 8:30pm ET New York time.
Online via Zoom
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, Ongoing
This is a ten-session Zoom webinar course that introduces participants to the 12 Step Pathway of Recovery from an addictive process (or stuck pattern) using Focusing.
Topic: Introductory