This online entry level Focusing skills class prepares you to begin a Focusing partnership. Utilizing Inner Relationship Focusing 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 Thursdays 11:30am - 1:30pm ET New York time or your equivalent.
Is there something that you’d like to do or write about but you lack the confidence to begin? Thinking at the Edge helps you sense into the “more” behind your ideas so that you can write and act from what you know.
Do you long to contribute to the world from the richness of the insights life has given you? With Thinking at the Edge, you delve into your own experience so that your new direction follows from of all you have lived.
Maybe you need clarity and next steps about a persistent problem or a complex issue. With Thinking at the Edge you can find the unique gifts within the challenges you face.
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.
No matter how long ago it was, the past can cast a long shadow over the present. Here’s the good news: There are ways to use a Focusing attitude to heal the trauma that’s holding back your life. Join us for this supportive six-week course and start creating a healing relationship with the hurt parts inside of you.
Taught by Ann Weiser Cornell (author of The Power of Focusing and Focusing in Clinical Practice: The Essence of Change).
Kaleidoscoping into the Implicit: Gene Gendlin's Philosophy - a Pre-recorded offering. This series of eight pre-recorded videos hosted by Dana Ganihar and Dan Schacter offers a wonderful dip into Gendlin's philosophy. The guest lecturers are Rob Parker (2 sessions), Greg Walkerden (2 sessions) , Naohiko Mimura, Donata Schoeller, Ed Casey and Mary Jeanne Larrabee. Register by Dec 31 and apply the discount code Dec2022 for 5% off (whichever price level you choose)
Deep transformational processes start to unfold as a result of Thinking at the Edge. This year-long class will allow those changes to develop more fully and be incorporated in your life, with the support of your fellow TAE-ers.
Imagine being really present in the here-and-now…enjoying interpersonal moments with the freedom to be yourself, to feel good – to experience surprise and delight instead of repetitive, stressful patterns of interaction.
Social Oriented Focusing (SOF) teaches us to untie the KNOTS and NOTS that interfere with relating to others, enabling us to overcome blocks, fears, and automatic behaviors.
In this workshop, we shall take a two-part journey: 1st part: From ‘I’ space to ‘we space’ - Experimenting in moving from the 'I space' to the 'we space', we will sense what happens inside us when we move from being in front of each other (me & you) to being together (us/we). 2nd part: Seeing and being seen from the heart - We will explore how meeting in an SOF way from the heart nurtures both partners in the interaction, creating a place for my light to meet your light, impacting the whole relationship.
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.
Eating has many familiar descriptions, such as; emotional eating, eating addiction, eating disorders, mindful-eating, intuitive eating, etc.
What can be discovered when these descriptions are peeled-off?
What can be found underneath hunger, below the concept?
What can be found when this life force is developed?
In this webinar we will experientially discover the BIG picture of eating. It will also facilitate a new curiosity and mind-opening concepts for self-exploration of hunger.
Some experience with Focusing will be helpful, though all are welcome to attend.
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.
Not feeling good about yourself can be like living under a dark cloud that casts a gloomy shadow on whatever you say, do, think, feel… And that makes life harder than it has to be.
But it doesn’t have to be that way. You can learn how to handle emotional triggers, difficult habits, and inner critics in a way that leaves you feeling better about yourself. Let me help you get started (and share what you can do to keep going!).
Taught by Jan Winhall, this self-paced, six-hour course provides an introduction to Winhall’s Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™, a therapeutic strategy integrating Porges’ polyvagal theory with Gendlin’s felt-sense to de-pathologize trauma and addiction. The model provides a generic framework that can enrich many areas of study including education, health, and organizational development by integrating awareness of embodied processes and how vitally relevant that is to desired outcomes.
The course is an opportunity to spend time with your wanting or project 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 issue. By adding certain moves of THINKING AT THE EDGE (TAE), another practice Gendlin, Mary Hendricks and Kye Nelson created, 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.
Esta serie brinda un espacio para conectar miembros hispanohablantes del Instituto Internacional de Focusing (TIFI). Es un espacio para aprender y expandir el conocimiento sobre Focusing y temas relacionados. El concepto de "Cafecitos" viene de la idea de estar en la casa de un amigo/a y conversar tomándose un café. Queremos que estos Cafecitos se sientan acogedores y que tú te sientas en casa durante estas entrevistas. Cada Cafecito tiene a un nuevo entrevistado quien compartirá su conocimiento sobre algún tema en especial con la comunidad hispanohablante.
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:
-Mondays, January 23-March 20, 1:30-3:30 pm Eastern (no class February 20)
When you gaze up at the stars at night, do you have a sense of being a loved and cherished part of a larger compassionate system?
Or do you feel small and insignificant, and that the universe is cold, chaotic, and uncaring?
Here’s what I’ve learned: The difference between these two worldviews is not an intellectual decision. It’s something you can feel in the wisdom of your body.
Over my 49 years of listening inwardly using Focusing, I’ve made an astonishing discovery: The more I listen within, the more I feel connected to what is much bigger than me.
Join us and explore how inner awareness can connect you to the spiritual dimension.
What does it mean to GUIDE someone else in ways that bring life forward movement? This one-year course is for those wanting to dive deep into the intricacies of one-to-one relationships. 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 also works well if you are already certified or possibly alongside another certification program.
This Learning Community begins as a year-long program meeting twenty times every other week for 1.5 hours. We can choose to continue with regular gatherings providing ongoing support for your path of bringing Focusing into the world. This course/community can be used as a pathway to certification as a Focusing Professional with TIFI.
A new cohort will begin on Sundays, 11am – 12:30pm ET, New York time, beginning January 22, 2023.
Join Jenna Chevalier and Annette Dubreuil for a Focusing mini-retreat in downtown Toronto. Held at Verity, a members-only womens’ club, our event is open to both men and women. Our mini-retreat will give you a taste of Eugene Gendlin's Focusing practice and provide some good energy to begin 2023.
Are you a person, a therapist, a coach, an accompanier, a Focusing facilitator with varied background/different certifications/diverse work experiences? a polymath?
Do you ask yourself what it is that differentiates you from your colleagues?
Do you want to merge Focusing with your whole knowledge?
This class is intended for anyone interested in merging Focusing with their other bodies of knowledge, for those who are looking for a way to communicate their way of being with clients and clarify the "unique product" they offer, creating your "niche" as an accompanier. Or simply anyone who is feeling the need to mold something out of everything they know and learned, and being able to bring it to the world.
This seminar is both didactic and experiential. We encourage spontaneous dialogue, and improvisational demos as well as reflecting on theoretical understandings and discussing readings. It is designed for therapists but does not exclude those in other helping professions. We have three modules a year. New participants are invited to join at the beginning of each module.
Topics include:
Exploring the organic “US-ness” we are made of.
Embodying the culture of a “connectedness sensibility.” (Richard Geist)
Cultivating “US” thinking and attitudes.
Bringing relational consciousness to conflict and disagreement.
Attending to the “I” of ourselves as well as the “YOU” of the client and the “US” of the partnership.
Navigating our own needs in relation to our clients in ways that further the therapeutic relationship.
Keeping our balance in the pulls and pushes of genuine relating.
Cultivating an improvisational spirit as we stay connected to our own inner felt sense.
Join me for your first steps into the Focusing.
We will dive into the basics of this technique in a gentle way, to get in touch with the felt sense and practicing a lot during the course. As Body Oriented Coach, I also use warm up exercises to release the tension in your body and be more open to feel and connect to yourself.
This Course is designed for therapists, coaches, social workers or just anybody who wants to enhance their work with clients, and with themselves, through attending to their bodily wisdom.
It is a short course that goes for 1 1/2 hours every week, in January 2023, that can be taken independently or as part of the whole Certification Program.
Whether you are already using Focusing for yourself or in your work with other people in whatever area, this is going to enrich your own life and help you listen to others in a deeply embodied way, knowing that Wisdom and the capacity for healing is in our bodies. And, when we integrate this deep body wisdom with any other avenue we are working with, we can better help our clients explore their own issues, move forward in their lives and develop new and fresh ways of living and interacting.
Format: Through classroom lectures, life demonstrations, role-playing and supervision of trainees’ videos to enhance participants’ sensitivity to bodily sensations, and learn how to create an environment without criticism, understanding, and acceptance, so that the focuser will be safe enough to explore self and internal resources.
Training focus: Practice and closely supervise participants' Focusing skills:
. Conduct in small groups to enrich learning
. Increase awareness of the body sensations
. Develop empathy listening skills through focusing practices
. Practice focusing skills in a safety containment
. Practicum supervision, after each level of training is
completed, there will be a team supervision response the
progress of the participant at each stage of learning
Thinking at the Edge (TAE) is a method for getting in touch with our felt meanings and articulating them with fresh and precise language.
You will learn TAE steps 1-12 while working on a project of your choice. The 3-person format accommodates different learning styles by placing participants in various roles and allows for adapting the teaching content and pace to individual needs during the exploration process.
With this course, you will complete the first of two courses to earn TIFI's TAE Proficiency Award.
(the times below are just for advising the time frame. Go to details to learn about the time slots offered. )
Thinking at the Edge (TAE) ist eine Methode, um mit unseren gefühlten Bedeutungen in Kontakt zu kommen und sie mit einer frischen und präzisen Sprache zu artikulieren.
Sie werden die TAE 1-12 erlernen und gleichzeitig an einem Projekt Ihrer Wahl arbeiten. Das 3-Personen-Format trägt unterschiedlichen Lernstilen Rechnung, indem die Teilnehmer in verschiedene Rollen schlüpfen und es ermöglicht, den Unterrichtsinhalt und das Lerntempo auf die individuellen Bedürfnisse der Teilnehmenden abzustimmen.
Mit diesem Kurs schließen Sie den ersten von zwei Kursen ab, um den TAE Proficiency Award des TIFI zu erhalten.
(Die unten angegebenen Termine sind nur ein Zeitrahmen. Unter "Details" finden Sie weitere Informationen zu den angebotenen Terminen. )
Changes-Groups sind Begegnungsorte, um Focusing und partnerschaftliches, erlebensbezogenes Zuhören kennenzulernen, zu üben und als individuelle Achtsamkeitspraxis zu etablieren.
As we enter 2023, our plans and resolutions are taking shape. But that initial enthusiasm may be overshadowed by last year's experience of again not getting to your most valuable project. Maybe it's writing that one article or even a book, devising a new course, or reworking your website.
We can't start early enough to identify our challenges. In this session, you'll dive into what's holding you back from committing to your endeavor so you can overcome the first obstacle. Be surprised at how your hesitation can be a resource for your project.
Past Event but you may register for the recordings which are accessible through January 2023. The International Focusing Institute is thrilled to announce the first Thinking at the Edge (TAE) Academy! This 4-day 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. Live attendance required.
Are you new to Focusing or want to refresh the process, or learn with a new teacher?
This small group course (max 8 people) gives you the first few steps into sensing the "more" of what you know, to get in touch with your inner voice, to get a feel for all that is there that does not yet have words or descriptions, but that is the source of next new steps forward in your life.
Felt Sensing (Focusing) will be introduced, and you get to try the process out in reciprocal partnership.
Online on Zoom - a link will be provided before the course starts
The schedule is most suitable for American and European time zones
Learn or refine the art of inner listening and listening to another. From that space, you come into loving contact with yourself and others.
With the Focusing way of being in contact with your body, with your inner sense of something, you are accessing insights that are much deeper and vaster than the emotional or mental dimensions alone can offer.
Mondays: January 9 to July 10, 2023
United States-PDT West Coast: 7:00 am to 10:00 am
United States-EST East Coast: 10:00 am to 1:00 pm
England–GMT: 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Central Europe-CET Central European Time 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm
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.
Our human life is a co-created work of art, where the process of creation is enabled as we turn towards a different kind of order; towards an infinite order. TAE steps can support us in carrying forward this extraordinary creation.
In the first phase of the course we will concentrate on explicating the ‘knowing of our lives’. We will continue from there to explore how this inner knowing can manifest and direct us in our field of expertise or developing creative project.
Doorways to the Soul 1 is an introduction of Levels 1 and 2 of Inner Relationship Focusing where the emphasis is on becoming an empowered Focuser and Relaxed Companion.
The hope is that by the end of the course, you’ll be more resourced to care for your own soul and live more fully alive and @E.A.S.E. into your Embodied Authentic Self Essence.
You’ll also learn how to hold space for others to go within and deepen in their sense of True Self.
We will be focusing on our own unique and different ways of experiencing these special days and end of the year. A space for sharing, exploring, to listen and be listened to... Everybody is invited and welcome.
This workshop began December 9. You can still join this workshop in progress. Recordings of previous sessions will be available after you register.
Living forward is an experience of vital energy that is present in the human body, in nature, in the universe.
In this workshop Mia won’t present big theories, nor will she explain specific knowledge. Each session will start with an introduction to frame the theme and a little bit of sharing from the richness she discovered through various resources. From lived experience she developed some ‘exercises’ or ‘invitations’ everyone can use to explore their own path, trust their own wisdom, discover their own truth and connect to their own mysteries. During the workshop some exercises will be in Focusing pairs (30 minutes in breakout rooms). Each session will close with reflections on the experiential knowledge developed during practicing with living forward principles.
Registrants should have familiarity with Focusing.
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 are not recorded. All recordings will be available for registrants until March 31, 2023.
You don’t know Focusing and/or are interested in the basic level 1-5 Focusing course?
Relate to yourself and others with freshness, emotional intelligence, and an open heart.
The Focusing way of being in contact with your ‘body’, with your inner sense of something, opens up insights, a knowing, much deeper and vaster than the emotional or mental dimensions alone can offer.
Please join us to get a taste of Focusing and to ask any questions you may have.
Monday, December 12, 2022, 1.5-hours
PDT: 8:00am-9:30am, EST 11:00am-12:300pm, GMT 4:00pm-5:30pm, CET 5:00pm-6:30pm
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Esta serie brinda un espacio para conectar miembros hispanohablantes del Instituto Internacional de Focusing (TIFI). Es un espacio para aprender y expandir el conocimiento sobre Focusing y temas relacionados. El concepto de "Cafecitos" viene de la idea de estar en la casa de un amigo/a y conversar tomándose un café. Queremos que estos Cafecitos se sientan acogedores y que tú te sientas en casa durante estas entrevistas. Cada Cafecito tiene a un nuevo entrevistado quien compartirá su conocimiento sobre algún tema en especial con la comunidad hispanohablante.
You might be very familiar with a habitual background atmosphere of restlessness, anxiousness, agitation, or something like that.
At times when this happens, you might know that this inner activation is counter-productive and out of place somehow, but how to find your way to a more relaxed, easy-going state of being?
After accidents, certain neurological illnesses, or challenging emotional incidences, the autonomic nervous system can get stuck in repetitive patterns that challenge our health, well-being, sense of safety and connection, and our creative potential.
We can reprogram our autonomic nervous system and brain, and with that our physical and emotional responses to life’s happenings.
Focusing, Feldenkrais, neuro regulating exercises, theory
Wednesdays, December 7, 2022, to February 22, 2023
PT: 8:00am-10:30am,
EST: 11:00am-1:30pm,
CET: 5:00pm to 7:30pm
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Originally scheduled for November 14, now December Have you ever wondered where Focusing ends and meditation begins (or vice versa)? Do you struggle to meditate consistently? Is your meditation difficult to enjoy – or not quite as delicious as you wish? As a long-term meditator and Focuser (and teacher of both), Elizabeth is fascinated by the processes which take us on our inner journeys. Her approach is flexible and inclusive, in a nutshell, uncovering ways to “meditate as you can, not as you can’t”.
Elizabeth also weaves creativity into her meditation. She draws on poetry and colour to help you plunge happily into your inner world. Her recent book “Journeys to the Deep: A Gentle Guide to Mindfulness Meditation” illustrates this approach. Taking time to reflect and muse after a meditation, she suggests ways in which mini-solo-focusing just after meditating can enrich our meditation and our Focusing, and help us to process and absorb the shifts, transitions, and transformations that we experience – but sometimes miss.
The webinar will include guided meditation experiences, presentation, and time for questions and group sharing. These are designed for any level. It is relevant whether you are just setting out, as a Focuser or meditator, or if you are in need of a meditation refresher or wishing to go deeper with an existing practice.
No matter how long ago it was, the past can cast a long shadow over the present. Here’s the good news: There are ways to use a Focusing attitude to heal the trauma that’s holding back your life. Join us for this supportive six-week course and start creating a healing relationship with the hurt parts inside of you.
Taught by Ann Weiser Cornell (author of The Power of Focusing and Focusing in Clinical Practice: The Essence of Change).
This class is intended for anyone interested in merging Focusing with their other bodies of knowledge, for those who are looking for a way to communicate their way of being with clients and clarify the "unique product" they offer, creating your "niche" as an accompanier. Or simply anyone who is feeling the need to mold something out of everything you know and learned, and being able to bring it to the world.
In this Highlight webinar, Daphna will share her discoveries, the tools she developed during her process of merging all her bodies of knowledge into one whole self, how Focusing is a part of this process and amongst the tools she now uses when accompanying her clients. She is looking forward to sharing the door that opened to an amazing creative process, and is certain that sharing with you how she got here will allow you to collect those enjoyable fruits as well.
Questa conversazione online gratuita fa parte della serie Focusing Roundtable specialmente per i membri di TIFI.
Questa serie offre ai membri un'opportunità preziosa per instaurare una conversazione tra pari con altri membri che parlano italiano e che condividono interessi relazionati al Focusing. Ci auguriamo inoltre che questo programma incoraggi altri a promuovere ulteriori tavole rotonde in Italiano,nel futuro, per continuare la serie.
No es fácil recordar nuestra capacidad innata de sentir la vida en cada momento, de encontrarnos con partes de nosotros y esas partes que se despiertan en contacto con el entorno y otras personas.
A menudo, estas facetas de nosotros están tan arraigadas en nuestra experiencia que sentimos que esto es lo que somos. Desde allí vivimos la mayor parte del tiempo, con algo allí dentro de nosotros que está en el transfondo de la experiencia, por lo que, en cierto modo, están en gran medida donde se forma la experiencia de la vida.
Focusing puede ayudarte a sanar y a tener una relación amistosa con tus partes más difíciles y complejas para una evolución progresiva dentro de ti.
En este monográfico nos adenatramos en como acompañar y hacernos amigos de nuestra parte crítica.
Are there things you need to do, or want to do, but you just don’t do them?
Whether you’re struggling to exercise, change your eating habits, can’t seem to make time for self-care, long to pursue a dream but can’t get any traction, or have another sort of stuck action, we’d love to show you how to work with what’s blocking you so you can move forward.
You’ll also discover how to break free from motivation styles based on being hard on yourself so you can move forward with kindness and self-compassion!
Introduction to Focusing and my Basic Focusing Skills Course
Relate to yourself and others with freshness, emotional intelligence, and an open heart.
Focusing offers a way for coming into loving contact with yourself and others. When you are in contact with your body, with your inner sense of something, letting your expressions arise from there, you are accessing insights that are much deeper and vaster than the emotional or mental dimensions alone can offer.
With this foundation, the way in which your life unfolds is experienced as deeply meaningful; sometimes it’s easy, sometimes it’s difficult, but there is always an undercurrent sense of rightness, of following a natural flow.
Intro:
Monday, November 21, 2022, 1.5-hours
PT: 7:00am-10:30am, EST 10:00am am-11:30pm, GMT 4:00pm – 5:30pm, CET 4:00pm – 5:30pm
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The full course will take place: January 2 to July 10, 2023, Mondays.
“Lo que se divide, no se siente, permanece igual. Cuando se siente, cambia.
¡La mayoría de la gente no sabe esto! Piensan que al no permitir el sentimiento de sus formas negativas se hacen buenos. Por el contrario, eso mantiene estas partes negativas estáticas, lo mismo de año en año. Unos momentos de sentirlo en el cuerpo le permiten cambiar. Si hay en ti algo malo, enfermo o poco sólido, déjalo estar internamente y respira. Esa es la única forma en que puede evolucionar y cambiar a la forma que necesita”
1.25-hour Taster for:
3-month Nervous System Reset online course
December 2022 through February 2023
You might be very familiar with a habitual background atmosphere of restlessness, anxiousness, agitation, or something like that.
At times when this happens, you might know that this inner activation is counter-productive and out of place somehow, but how to find your way to a more relaxed, easy-going state of being?
After accidents, certain neurological illnesses, or emotionally challenging incidences, the autonomic nervous system can get stuck in repetitive patterns that challenge our health, well-being, sense of safety and connection, and our creative potential.
We can invite and gradually build new patterns in our autonomic nervous system and brain. In doing so, we change our spontaneous physical, emotional and mental responses to life's occurrences.
Modalities in this course:
Focusing, Neuro-regulating exercises, Feldenkrais: Awareness Through Movement, Theory (e.g. Polyvagal Theory and brain plasticity), Sharing, Q & A, Silences
Friday, November 18, 2022, 1.25 hours
PT: 9:30am-10:45am, EST: 12:30pm-1:45pm, GMT: 5:30pm to 6:45pm, CET: 6:30pm to 7:45pm
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We create intimate group environments which emphasize active, experiential learning! We will systematically develop and safely apply our new skill of Focusing. There will be lectures, live and recorded demonstrations, opportunities for questions and reflections, group exercises, games and paired exercises within and outside class time.
We promise that you will not stare at the computer screen and never speak in class!
Live Q&A with Charlotte about her 2-Year Focusing Certification course with international teachers starting January 2023 (66.5 CEU credits for social workers).
Changes-Groups sind Begegnungsorte, um Focusing und partnerschaftliches, erlebensbezogenes Zuhören kennenzulernen, zu üben und als individuelle Achtsamkeitspraxis zu etablieren.
This is a 4 week encounter/therapy group, where we listen to each other in a Focusing way and in a safe space, where each person has the opportunity to explore their own issues, and, through Focusing and interaction, be able to move their lives forward and develop new and fresh ways of living and interacting.
When we harness the power of our body’s natural healing process through accessing the autonomic nervous system and our felt sense, transformation occurs right before our eyes.
In this Roundtable, Rafael Villeta will share his method of “bridging” Focusing and tennis instruction and interact with other Focusers who are engaged with sports in the hope of a mutual sharing.
Introduction to Focusing and my Basic Focusing Skills Course
Relate to yourself and others with freshness, emotional intelligence, and an open heart.
Focusing offers a way for coming into loving contact with yourself and others. When you are in contact with your body, with your inner sense of something, letting your expressions arise from there, you are accessing insights that are much deeper and vaster than the emotional or mental dimensions alone can offer.
With this foundation, the way in which your life unfolds is experienced as deeply meaningful; sometimes it’s easy, sometimes it’s difficult, but there is always an undercurrent sense of rightness, of following a natural flow.
The full course will take place: January 2 to July 10, 2023, Mondays.
No matter how long ago it was, the past can cast a long shadow over the present. Here’s the good news: There are ways to use a Focusing attitude to heal the trauma that’s holding back your life. Join us for this supportive six-week course and start creating a healing relationship with the hurt parts inside of you.
Taught by Ann Weiser Cornell (author of The Power of Focusing and Focusing in Clinical Practice: The Essence of Change).
Un espacio de encuentro (1 al mes) entre personas interesadas en focusing, facilitado de forma voluntaria y generosa por un compañero o compañera que nos ofrece un ejercicio experiencial o una muestra de cómo utiliza el focusing con otra disciplina.
Esta serie brinda un espacio para conectar miembros hispanohablantes del Instituto Internacional de Focusing (TIFI). Es un espacio para aprender y expandir el conocimiento sobre Focusing y temas relacionados. El concepto de "Cafecitos" viene de la idea de estar en la casa de un amigo/a y conversar tomándose un café. Queremos que estos Cafecitos se sientan acogedores y que tú te sientas en casa durante estas entrevistas. Cada Cafecito tiene a un nuevo entrevistado quien compartirá su conocimiento sobre algún tema en especial con la comunidad hispanohablante.
1.25-hour Taster for:
3-month Nervous System Reset online course
December 2022 through February 2023
You might be very familiar with a habitual background atmosphere of restlessness, anxiousness, agitation, or something like that.
At times when this happens, you might know that this inner activation is counter-productive and out of place somehow, but how to find your way to a more relaxed, easy-going state of being?
After accidents, certain neurological illnesses, or emotionally challenging incidences, the autonomic nervous system can get stuck...
Thursday, October 20, 2022
PT: 9:00am-10:15am, EST: noon-1:15pm, CET: 6:00pm to 7:15pm
Modalities in this course:
Focusing, Neuro-regulating exercises, Feldenkrais: Awareness Through Movement, Theory, Sharing, Q & A
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. 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.
This online entry level Focusing skills class prepares you to begin a Focusing partnership. Utilizing Inner Relationship Focusing 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. Meets on Tuesdays, 7-9pm ET New York time.
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.
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“The essence of working with another person is to be present as a living being. And that is lucky, because if we had to be smart, or good, or mature, or wise, then we would probably be in trouble. But, what matters is not that. What matters is to be a human being with another human being, to recognize the other person as another being in there.”
(Gendlin 1990, p. 205)
Online on Zoom - a link will be provided before the course starts
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 be offered in a wonderful new way! It will again be online but will have an in person option in two places in Dublin, Ireland and in the US in Madison CT (approximately 2 hours outside of New York City).
October 16 - 21, 2022
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 se ofrecerá de una manera nueva y maravillosa! Volverá a estar en línea pero tendrá una opción en persona en dos lugares en Dublín, Irlanda y en los EE. UU. en Madison CT (aproximadamente 2 horas fuera de la ciudad de Nueva York).
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Deepen and explore your listening to a Focusing partner, to clients, or in your life, as a way of deepening your listening to yourself and to your surroundings.
Increase your presence and your “mindfulness” in your life through deepening your listening in a Felt Sensing kind of way.
Online on Zoom - a link will be provided before the course starts
Each day there is space for offerings, discussions and workshops, as well as relaxation and social times.
We will gather for supper at 7pm on Thursday 13 October, and meet each other informally after supper. On Friday, we can have an option for Focusing partnerships and then meet as a whole group in the meeting room. That is when we can plan our time together. Time slots for offerings could be 2 hours; more or less. It’s a gathering, not a conference, and it’s shared and created by those of us who attend. We will finish after lunch on Sunday, at 2pm. You can also arrive a couple of days earlier and leave later if you wish. Informal self-organized meetings are possible for those who arrive earlier.
The theme of our gathering is:
The Art of Relating
“Relationships & Interaffecting”
The Art of Relating
“Relationships & Interaffecting”
We invite you to contribute your offerings: workshops, talks, lectures, discussion groups. All offerings are welcome.
Even if you are not sure yet if you will join, please feel free to post what you would like and need, or what you migh offer at the gathering by posting it on the communication platform:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yPOLKH7vBfyZwK-y5KGsP7-2VTRqZ4y9QOn5OwndPYU/edit
This Therapist Roundtable will draw from the chapter 22 entitled “It fills itself in” from Gendlin’s book, Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy: A Manual of the Experiential Method (1996), pp.276--282. A copy of that chapter will be sent to you after you register.
Understanding who we are in an embodied way is a powerful way to grow our emotional regulation and emotional intelligence. When we know what it feels like in our bodies when we get scared, or mad, or are happy—or when more complicated patterns or parts emerge—then we can more quickly notice these shifts in our autonomic nervous system. This clarity helps us know when we need to self-soothe or reach out to others for co-regulation.
The class spends the first three weeks in the grounded parts, building a “safe nest” to do the deeper Focusing on our wounded and protector parts in weeks four to seven. As we map our parts, we also map out our timeline. At first with the key memories, and then with the parts that are connected to the memories. We finish the class by completing our timelines and noticing what additional insights emerge for us in being with the timeline.
Two course time options, Wednesday, October 12-December 7 2022 (no class November 2)
-12:30-2:30 pm Eastern (New York Time)
-6:30-8:30 pm Eastern (New York Time)
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 Ann Weiser Cornell (author of The Power of Focusing), Jinevra Howard, and Carol Nickerson.
Includes videos, demos, readings, discussion, group exercises, and individual sessions.
In this 8-week group, you will use Focusing to transform a significant issue in your life, in part by deepening your access to Self through the 8Cs of Self-Leadership. The 8Cs are calmness, connectedness, curiosity, clarity, compassion, confidence, courage and creativity.
By crossing these qualities with our issue, we move through it by pausing, understanding the issue, transforming it, and then preparing for action, and finally taking action.
Your issue can be working towards a personal or professional goal. However, the course is designed in such a way that you can also bring a different topic each week to your Focusing, and concentrate on building your 8Cs which help you live as your Self more often.
Focusing on the Focuser adds another dimension of depth to the Focusing process.
Focusing on the way a person focuses is an approach to discerning underlying patterns that keep the transformative possibilities of felt-shift within an unnecessarily restricted range. When deep-seated patterns are more consciously felt, they become raw material for a greater artistry of self-sculpting. This opens the way for further innovations we will begin to explore about bringing variations of Focusing into ever-expanding recesses and dimensions of the being.
While at the University of Chicago, Marty and Gendlin became Focusing partners, alternating doing Focusing sessions with each other every week. In this Highlight, Marty will share some anecdotes from his time with Gendlin, as well as exercises based on the ramifications of how he and Gendlin Focused together. There will also be time for questions and reciprocal learning opportunities.
Some familiarity with Focusing will be helpful, though all are welcome to attend.
In this enriching 4-session Zoom series, we will introduce FOAT tools to support those wishing to face life's challenges with greater kindness, strength, and self-compassion. Together we will co-create a supportive community to learn and practice these tools for deepening into our authenticity, presence, and creative wisdom– and identify steps toward growth, healing, and change. There will be opportunities to support our connection and deepen our skills of compassionate presence and listening through small and large group sharing.
Introduction to Focusing and my Basic Focusing Skills Course
Relate to yourself and others with freshness, emotional intelligence, and an open heart.
Focusing offers a way for coming into loving contact with yourself and others. When you are in contact with your body, with your inner sense of something, letting your expressions arise from there, you are accessing insights that are much deeper and vaster than the emotional or mental dimensions alone can offer.
With this foundation, the way in which your life unfolds is experienced as deeply meaningful; sometimes it’s easy, sometimes it’s difficult, but there is always an undercurrent sense of rightness, of following a natural flow.
The full course will take place: November 28, 2022 to June 12, 2023
Gendlin says our primary job as therapists is to “BE THE INTERACTION” that makes change possible. I have pondered the implications and applications of this statement for many years. Now, amid global uncertainty and upheaval, this radical injunction takes on new meaning, complexity and challenge. What is this way of being that has the power to ignite transformation, even in times of stress?
In this module, we will enter the realm of the “US,” finding respite in the understanding that we are fundamentally and inextricably interconnected--WE ARE INTERACTION! We will explore both the ideas and skills of being the healing interaction and empowering the forces of connectedness and forward movement.
Webinar de 30 minutos de duración. Posteriormente compartiremos información sobre nuestros programas de certificación como Instructor(a) de Focusing y en Terapia Orientada por el Focusing que inician en el 2023.
• The ability to support another person’s Focusing process
• An experience of listening to yourself and others that brings a closer connection
• A simple process for being with deep and complex feelings
• The ability to hold big and difficult life situations with spacious awareness
• The resource of Awake Awareness: how to access it, how to be in it, and how to return to it so that what wants to emerge can do so in an environment of safety
• The ability to maintain connection with yourself while in connection with another
• A process that can help you let go of habitual unwanted behaviors and move you forward from repetitive life situations
We will briefly touch on and experiment with some basic aspects of Nonviolent Communication, a systematic pathway for recognizing and communicating our feelings, needs, and wishes (in a conflict situation). Combined with the Focusing way of aimless inner listening into what’s initially vague and fuzzy, the NVC process for fruitful communication attains a greater depth.
This practice can release us from stuck places in which both parties might not have felt heard and respected. Instead of pointing fingers, at others in blame, or at ourselves causing shame, this conscious form of communication - clear, honest, and warmhearted - can magically open doors for meeting everybody's needs.
This reflection offered as part of Lynn Preston's group "help for Helpers"
There is something you would love to realize and make it part of your life or contribute it to the world? Develop your ideas with the movements of TAE.
Questa conversazione online gratuita fa parte della serie Focusing Roundtable specialmente per i membri di TIFI.
Questa serie offre ai membri un'opportunità preziosa per instaurare una conversazione tra pari con altri membri che parlano italiano e che condividono interessi relazionati al Focusing. Ci auguriamo inoltre che questo programma incoraggi altri a promuovere ulteriori tavole rotonde in Italiano,nel futuro, per continuare la serie.
We create intimate group environments which emphasize active, experiential learning! We will systematically develop and safely apply our new skill of Focusing. There will be lectures, live and recorded demonstrations, opportunities for questions and reflections, group exercises, games and paired exercises within and outside class time.
We promise that you will not stare at the computer screen and never speak in class!
Taster (1 hour) for:
3-month Nervous System Reset online course
December 2022 through February 2023
You might be very familiar with a habitual background atmosphere of restlessness, anxiousness, agitation, or something like that.
At times when this happens, you might know that this inner activation is counter-productive and out of place somehow, but how to find your way to a more relaxed, easy-going state of being?
After accidents, certain neurological illnesses, or emotionally challenging incidences, the autonomic nervous system can get stuck in repetitive patterns that challenge our health, well-being, sense of safety and connection, and our creative potential.
We can invite and gradually build new patterns in our autonomic nervous system and brain. In doing so, we change our spontaneous physical, emotional and mental responses to life's occurrences.
PT: 8:00am-9:00am, EST: 11:0am-12:00pm, CET: 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
Modalities in this course:
Focusing, Neuro-regulating exercises, Feldenkrais: Awareness Through Movement, Theory, Sharing, Q & A
We create intimate group environments which emphasize active, experiential learning! We will systematically develop and safely apply our new skill of Focusing. There will be lectures, live and recorded demonstrations, opportunities for questions and reflections, group exercises, games and paired exercises within and outside class time.
We promise that you will not stare at the computer screen and never speak in class!
In this Roundtable, we would like to invite you to explore how we can be with, and listen to children in our care, taking in their experiences one day at a time. Through the complexity of their life situation, how can we help them to find their way to a safe place inside.
Our attempt is to provide a wider view of psychotherapy and of how personal development might be supported, beyond schools and techniques. In this frame we would like to present Gene Gendlin's murky edge as a very basic reference point, which addresses a core principle in psychotherapyt. Gendlin’s stance shall be demonstrated with the following quotation:
" I want to start with the most important thing I have to say: The essence of working with another person is to be present as a living being. And that is lucky, because if we had to be smart, or good, or mature, or wise, then we would probably be in trouble. But, what matters is not that. What matters is to be a human being with another human being, to recognize the other person as another being in there. Even if it is a cat or a bird, if you are trying to help a wounded bird, the first thing you have to know is that there is somebody in there, and that you have to wait for that "person," that being in there, to be in contact with you. That seems to me to be the most important thing. So, when I sit down with someone, I take my troubles and feelings and I put them over here, on one side, close, because I might need them. I might want to go in there and see something. And I take all the things that I have learnt—client-centered therapy, reflection, focusing, Gestalt, psychoanalytic concepts and everything else (I wish I had even more)—and I put them over here, on my other side, close. Then I am just here, with my eyes, and there is this other being. If they happen to look into my eyes, they will see that I am just a shaky being. I have to tolerate that. They may not look. But if they do, they will see that. They will see the slightly shy, slightly withdrawing, insecure existence that I am, I have learnt that that is O.K. I do not need to be emotionally secure and firmly present. I just need to be present. There are no qualifications for the kind of person I must be. What is wanted for the big therapy process, the big development process is a person who will be present. And so I have gradually become convinced that even I can be that. Even though I have my doubts when I am by myself, in some objective sense I know I am a
person"
Gendlin, E.T. (1990). The small steps of the therapy process: How they come and how to help them come. In G. Lietaer, J. Rombauts & R. Van Balen
(Eds.), Client-centered and experiential psychotherapy in the nineties, pp.205-224. Leuven: Leuven University Press.
Participants of this year-long experiential program will leave with much greater confidence and creativity in working with personal dreams or the dreams of others, and will understand how to run a dream group and tend to nightmares. The class is a mix of live zoom workshops, rich self-paced online materials and practice partnerships.
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.
"For us prayer is being responsive to the unfolding of the felt-sense as a Carrying Forward of the Larger System."
The Art of Prayer (AoP) is a regenerative learning approach exploring a core component of our shared human existence - our natural capacity for prayer. It is a framework of practices, in which people from all walks of life and traditions, religious and secular, prayers and non-prayers - are invited to reconnect and rediscover gateways into the field of prayer.
The practice of AoP forms a complementary aspect of POF - Prayer Oriented Focusing - in which Focusing practices are integrated into an embodied, living model for existence.
In this workshop we will: Introduce the approach as developed in Shakio Institute; Practice movements of AoP; Open space for questions and discussion; Share details concerning upcoming learning opportunities.
Attending the workshop live is encouraged as there will be exercises in breakout rooms, though all registrants will receive a link to view the recording afterwards.
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 (every other week), 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, discussion, group exercises, and partnership practices.
This presentation includes a brief overview of FOAT with an experiential exercise on the “Focusing Attitude.” The exercise teaches how to be curious and “friendly” to our inner experience; and the basic step of FOAT– how to access a felt sense, symbolize it as an image, gesture, sound, word, or phrase– and express it through the arts. This FOAT exercise is a self-care practice for practitioners that can also be applied to working with others.
Introduction to Focusing and my Basic Focusing Skills Course
Relate to yourself and others with freshness, emotional intelligence, and an open heart.
Focusing offers a way for coming into loving contact with yourself and others. When you are in contact with your body, with your inner sense of something, letting your expressions arise from there, you are accessing insights that are much deeper and vaster than the emotional or mental dimensions alone can offer.
With this foundation, the way in which your life unfolds is experienced as deeply meaningful; sometimes it’s easy, sometimes it’s difficult, but there is always an undercurrent sense of rightness, of following a natural flow.
The full course will take place: November 28, 2022 to June 12, 2023
Daremos una visión introductoria de ¿qué es Focusing? con algún ejercicio experiencial.
Focusing nos conecta con nuestra vivencia corporal y nos ayuda a lidiar con nuestras emociones no deseadas para encontrar más paz interna y mayor vitalidad.
Ante a las emociones no deseadas e incomodas como incertidumbre, ansiedad, frustración, miedo, ira, tristeza…. intentamos evitarlas, otras nos peleamos con ellas pero parece que nada funciona para que esto cambie.
Focusing es una guía interna que nos ayuda a acoger y escuchar amorosamente todas estas vivencias para transformarlas.
“Lo que se resiste persiste lo que se acepta se transforma”.
Not feeling good about yourself can be like living under a dark cloud that overshadows whatever you say, do, think, feel… but it doesn't have to be like that
Join us for this powerful FREE webinar series where you'll learn healthier ways to handle mistakes and regrets. You'll also learn why appreciating yourself can be tricky (and what you can do to help with that).
Get effective, research-based self-awareness skills you can use right away to start feeling calmer, stronger, and more confident.
Join us and become part of a revolution of kindness (toward yourself and others).
A highly experiential, interactive workshop facilitated by Lucy Bowers. It is Lucy's hope to provide the why, the how, the when, and the where Focusing and Children needs to be encouraged and nurtured.
In this workshop, participants will: Learn the benefits of Focusing as an effective tool in our interaction with children; Discover how easy Focusing is for children to learn and integrate into their development, enabling their growth emotionally, intellectually, socially, physically, and spiritually; Be introduced to the value Lucy places on using children’s books (with students of all ages) and some examples of such. There will be a demonstration and also time for questions and discussion.
Attending the workshop live is encouraged as there will be exercises in breakout rooms, though all registrants will receive a link to view the recording afterwards.
Changes-Groups sind Begegnungsorte, um Focusing und partnerschaftliches, erlebensbezogenes Zuhören kennenzulernen, zu üben und als individuelle Achtsamkeitspraxis zu etablieren.
What does it mean to GUIDE someone else in ways that bring life forward movement? This one-year course is for those wanting to dive deep into the intricacies of one-to-one relationships. 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 also works well if you are already certified or possibly alongside another certification program.
This Learning Community begins as a year-long program meeting twenty times every other week for 1.5 hours. We can choose to continue with regular gatherings providing ongoing support for your path of bringing Focusing into the world. This course/community can be used as a pathway to certification as a Focusing Professional with TIFI.
Fall 2022 will meet on Sundays, 11am – 12:30pm ET, New York time, beginning Sept 11.
Sometimes, trauma makes us feel unsafe to bring our awareness into our bodies. Felt sensing and our sense of connection with our resources offers us the capacity to safely connect with ourselves and our life issues without re-experiencing trauma.
In this experiential workshop we will understand in a simple way how trauma works in our human systems. We will learn ways to connect with our bodies, without focusing on the internal bodily experiences. We will also learn how to always stay in charge of our own process, while we befriend ourselves in a safe way at a pace that feels just right.
Building off Doorways to the Soul 1 (or any Level 1 +2 level training), we'll continue to cultivate our [email protected] and deepen in being more empowered as a Focuser AND as a Companion.
Hildegard of Bingen said, "Learn to be a faithful friend to your soul." But how many of us actually know how to do that?
Doorways to the Soul will introduce Focusing levels 1 and 2 in a way that helps people P.A.U.S.E. and begin to learn how to attend to the deep wisdom of their heart, soul, mind and body.
The emphasis is on helping a new Focuser feel relaxed and to introduce companioning at a simple level.
Formación Habilidades de Focusing 2022 – 2023 Comienza en Septiembre
Lunes 5 de septiembre de 2022 a las 17 - 19 hora España.
Marta Fabregat - Focusing Practitioner & Trainer (CIT)
Una introducción completa a las habilidades de Focusing.
Proceso y aprendizaje grupal de un año.
Este curso es el año 1 del programa de formación de dos años que ofrece Marta Fabregat en su Escuela de Focusing Embodied Origin.
Puedes tomar este primer año como un viaje personal, profundizando tu confianza y practicando Focusing. Este curso está diseñado para generar facilidad y profundidad a tu propio ritmo a medida que maduras tu comprensión a través de la práctica grupal e individual.
Después del año 1, puedes decidir si deseas continuar con la formación profesional de Focusing.
Marta Fabregat - Focusing Practitioner & Trainer ( CIT)
A Comprehensive Introduction to Focusing Skills
Year-long group learning and process
This course is year 1 of the two-year training programme offered by Marta Fabregat at her Focusing School Embodied Origin Focusing.
You can take this first year as a personal journey, deepening your confidence and practicing Focusing. This course is designed to generate ease and depth at your own rhythm as you deepen your understanding through group and individual practice.
After year 1 you can then decide if you want to continue your year 2 Embodied Origin Focusing Professional Training.
Our usual practice is to open with an attunement that helps us set aside our busy lives and deliberately come into this protected space, where we can be with whatever is there in our inner world that needs our warm curious attention. Then we separate into pairs or triads to Focus, and come back together at the end for a time of closing.
The group provides an introduction to Focusing, a mindful way to direct your attention internally in a gentle way suitable for people who are dealing with trauma. Participants explore this in Focusing partnerships that may be continued after the group ends.
We invite you to an experiential workshop, where you will explore the creative and stimulating power of Thinking At the Edge, TAE. Through playful and meaningful exercises in which you connect in a TAE way, to music, art, and literature, you will experience how new meanings will emerge for your understanding of your being in the world. We will teach you what we mean by connecting in a TAE way, including how our bodily feeling is affected by what we see, hear and read.
Social Oriented Focusing (SOF) opens a space where delicate issues of human relationships can be met when interacting with each other. By being fully present, we can explore the movement in us and between us while simultaneously connecting to ourselves and the other through the felt .sense conscious body.
SOF is a modality that only exists in relationship with others - birthed in relational space, helping us to stay "home" in ourselves while in the presence of others. Over time, SOF generates the courage to be in relationship while remaining stably anchored inside. I warmly invite you to explore the movement in us and between us, experiencing SOF in an intimate, enabling and safe space.
Focusing Teacher Annette Dubreuil will share the various ways that felt sense body cards can be used to record our embodied experiences. This includes recording the felt sense that emerges in an individual Focusing or meditation session, or recording parts or qualities of ourselves. Once a part is identified, we can see where it lives in our autonomic nervous system and what role it plays. Noticing these aspects help us classify the parts according to Polyvagal Theory, or other classification systems like Internal Family Systems. One can then create a map of one's nervous system or a timeline of one's life to tell your life story. The body cards also help us be more aware of when we are starting to shift neurophysiological states in real life, allowing us to call on our daily practices to self-regulate in the moment, including calling on some quality of Self energy (for example one of the 8Cs of Self-Leadership). Examples of body cards, nervous system mapping and a timeline will be shared. Finally, a Focusing exercise will be guided so you can better get to know one of your qualities of Self.
This presentation will provide a brief overview of Focusing-oriented expressive arts (FOAT®), including its main approaches— Theme-Directed FOAT; Clearing a Space with Arts; FOAT Check-in and Working on an Issue.
We will do a Theme-Directed FOAT® exercise on Gene Gendlin’s central concept, the Focusing Attitude— being curious and “friendly” to all of one’s inner experiences, whether uplifting or painful and difficult. This experiential exercise includes user-friendly methods for expressing the felt sense through creative expression.
Note: No experience needed in Focusing and/or arts.
Our ‘Wise SELF’ is the all-encompassing, best version of YOU and me. In Focusing, we often assume that a person's 'Wise SELF' will emerge organically (and it can). This roundtable will show participants how to unfold your Wise SELF or guide others through a ‘Wise SELF’ Focusing process.
Este taller está dirigido tanto a Terapeutas orientados al Focusing, hayan completado o no su formación, como también a aquellas personas interesadas en explorar la interacción desde el Focusing. En estos 4 encuentros estaremos explorando nuestro ser e interacción como terapeutas/ acompañantes. Para ello abordaremos algunos capítulos de Focusing en Psicoterapia, entre otros textos, para pensar, sentir y seguir avanzando y enriqueciendo nuestra tarea.
Habrá tiempo para compartir con todo el grupo y también en grupos más pequeños y en duplas, focalizando y encontrando formas nuevas y frescas de llevar adelante nuestro rol.
Miércoles 10, 24 y 31 de Agosto, y 14 de Septiembre de 5 pm a 7 pm (Hora de Nueva York).
Our usual practice is to open with an attunement that helps us set aside our busy lives and deliberately come into this protected space, where we can be with whatever is there in our inner world that needs our warm curious attention. Then we separate into pairs or triads to Focus, and come back together at the end for a time of closing.
Focusers of all levels of experience are welcome.
Hall below St Patrick's Catholic Church, Harrington St, Sydney Australia
Ann will tell the story of meeting and learning Focusing from Gene Gendlin 50 years ago, when she was 22— and how Gene encouraged her to develop her own ideas about teaching Focusing, saying “Keep going!” It’s a part of Gene’s philosophy that the only way to be true to an idea or a method is to bring it through your own body and make it your own. After, Ann will share about the development of Inner Relationship Focusing, and how it grew from seeds planted while she was assisting Gene with his first Focusing workshops.
Inner Relationship Focusing (IRF) is an approach to Focusing based on cultivating an inner state of calm, curious acceptance toward all aspects of the self, including stressful and judgmental thoughts and all sorts of emotions and body sensations. An important principle is the “radical acceptance of everything,” the assumption that there are no enemies inside, and everything in us deserves and needs compassion for how it is trying to help us. Ann will present the main highlights of Inner Relationship Focusing along with an experiential exercise.
Post Event registration available. through August 1st because the recordings will be available until August 15, 2022.
That Eugene Gendlin had a special relationship with the medieval German mystic Meister Eckhart was already evident from the fact that he had his sermons and treatises on that nearby shelf next to his work-armchair, where otherwise only his own manuscripts were waiting for further processing. Meister Eckhart‘s book was literally close at hand.
In this experiential workshop, In this workshop, Donata intends to curiously explore edges and bridges between Gendlin’s process-thinking and Meister Eckharts' approaches.
Registrants should have familiarity with Focusing, but do not need experience with philosophy.
Recording Note: Recordings will be made available to all registrants within 3 hours after each session for viewing prior to the next day (except in the case of unexpected technical difficulty). Breakout rooms are not recorded. All recordings will be available for registrants until August 15, 2022.
PAST EVENT - Open for Post Registration for Recordings. We are excited to gather online for "it Takes a Village...." Creating Connections. It is an opportunity for you to feel, to explore, to share, to deepen your Focusing wisdom and experiences! Our goal is to highlight the diversity and creativity in our Children's Focusing Community, by exploring the many ways we can support children and each other through Focusing and connections.
We have all been wounded. Our gifts are often buried below trauma, oppression, and shame. Even when we experience our deeper self it can feel re-wounding as we try to step into our biggest self. Trauma can isolate us and hold us back; it can also be something that initiates us to a deeper experience of Self and connection to others when we can find our gifts and share them with others.
Following a brief overview of trauma from a Focusing-Oriented Therapy (FOT) perspective, participants will be invited to explore their own life experiences that have been wounding and others that were enlivening, in search of their implicit gifts.
Therapists and other healing professionals will experience how Presence, guided inquiry, and Focusing can facilitate safety, regulation, and connection. This ultimately leads to unwinding wounds and finding gifts, strengths, and resources for growth.
While open to all, this class is ideal for skilled Focusers, therapists, and other healing professionals.
Este evento ha comenzado. La inscripción permanece abierta hasta el 22 de julio. El acceso a los videos cierra el 23 de julio.
¡El Instituto Internacional de Focusing se complace en ofrecer nuestra primera Cumbre de Facetas de Focusing online!
10 - 23 de Julio de 2022
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En grupo pequeño, mínimo 3 y máximo 5 personas, conversamos y sentipensamos sobre la práctica de la psicoterapia, el counseling y el acompañamiento terapéutico
Children Focusing provides adults with the skills, knowledge and attitudes that allows them to be with ~ and work with children,
using the tools, techniques and inherently gentle, playful approach of Focusing.
Compartimos sentipensares desde nuestras experiencias en psicoterapia y desde cómo escuchamos la lectura del texto y las experiencias de las personas participantes.
Questa conversazione online gratuita fa parte della serie Focusing Roundtable specialmente per i membri di TIFI.
Questa serie offre ai membri un'opportunità preziosa per instaurare una conversazione tra pari con altri membri che parlano italiano e che condividono interessi relazionati al Focusing. Ci auguriamo inoltre che questo programma incoraggi altri a promuovere ulteriori tavole rotonde in Italiano,nel futuro, per continuare la serie.
Are you stuck with an issue you've been working on for years?
Recently discovered something that feels too big for a few session?
Wanting to learn a way of staying with a life issue over some time?
This course offers support over some time to sensing into a topic and staying with it over some time, through partnership exercises, some theoretical sharings and process sharing in group.
Online on Zoom - a link will be provided before the course starts
The theme is inspired by the simple, yet fundamental question which Carl Rogers asked himself: “How can I be of help?” It is a question we think is of interest for person centered and experiential (PCE) practitioners and researchers, as well as more broadly in the world of psychotherapy. A question we find it worthwhile revisiting in order to explore what answers may be found today.
If you are curious about a new way of understanding addiction and other trauma responses this group is for you. Come and join us as we work with my new model based on my book Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model. Together we will explore how addictions act as ‘propellors’ that shift us back and forth from a flight/fight state to a numbing Fold state in a valiant attempt to survive. Through the polyvagal lens addictions are appreciated as adaptive responses in maladaptive environments. They help us in the short term, hurt us in the long term, and we can’t stop doing them.
Lawrence Berger and serge Prengel will be discussing how we make sense of the world and our place in it, i.e. what is usually called philosophy or spirituality. There will be time for Q & A from the audience.
No matter how long ago it was, the past can cast a long shadow over the present. Here’s the good news: There are ways to use a Focusing attitude to heal the trauma that’s holding back your life. Join us for this supportive six-week course and start creating a healing relationship with the hurt parts inside of you.
Taught by Ann Weiser Cornell (author of The Power of Focusing and Focusing in Clinical Practice: The Essence of Change)
We want to be present, especially with people and in situations that matter to us. And yet, being present in a relaxed way can feel challenging.
In this webinar, we will explore “relaxed presence” through a lens that combines Focusing/Felt Sensing with Dr. Stephen Porges’ Polyvagal theory of the nervous system.
“Relaxed Presence” will have psychoeducational and experiential components.
This class is intended for anyone interested in Focusing/Felt Sensing (whether seasoned practitioner or newbie) who is also curious about how the state of their nervous systems—seen through the Polyvagal Theory lens—impacts their capacity to be in relaxed presence.
The workshop will present an introduction to my book Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model, Routledge, 2021. Included is a description of the FSPM theoretical framework, an introduction to The Embodied Assessment and Treatment Tool™ and Carnes Three Circle Practice, a tool for working with addiction. Participants will also learn about Gendlin’s Focusing/Felt Sense practice. A mixture of didactic information, experiential practices, and case examples will guide the clinician in applying the model.
An introductory course in Focusing which can be taken as a stand-alone or as module 1 of the British Focusing Association's Focusing Skills certificate. Suitable for beginners or those who would like to refresh their Focusing skills.
An 8 week experiential class in listening to the felt sense to cultivate resilience both in the moment and as an enduring trait. Each class is conducted in a spirit of discovery, curiosity and experimentation as we learn to listen to the felt sense through a series of individual and interactive explorations. Each session will offer group attunement, individual practices and breakout sessions to share our discoveries and further explore together. No prior Focusing experience is required to get full benefit from this class. Since the Felt Sense is always fresh and new, all levels of Focusing experience are welcome.
This Therapist Roundtable will draw from chapter 21 on Values in Gendlin’s book, "Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy: A Manual of the Experiential Method" (1996). In this chapter, Gendlin explores the meaning of “values” to us as humans and more particularly the role of values in psychotherapy.
Our current model of understanding addiction as a brain disease is failing. Rates are soaring and people are dying in the streets. We desperately need a fresh approach. One that addresses addiction and other trauma responses where they live, in the body. In this workshop we will explore the intersection of trauma and addiction and how to address both with an embodied approach.
The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™ (FSPM) shifts the current pathologizing paradigm to a strength-based approach. Through the lens of Stephen Porges’ Polyvagal theory, addiction is seen as an adaptive stress response in our autonomic nervous system. Addictive behaviors are the body’s attempt to emotionally regulate by acting as propellers that facilitate neurophysiological shifts in our nervous system. The model integrates Porges Polyvagal theory and Gendlin’s Felt Sense Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy enabling us to appreciate trauma/addictive behaviors as adaptive responses in maladaptive environments. The FSPM provides a generic framework that can support any therapeutic modality.
The webinar series will present an introduction to Jan’s book Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model. Included is a detailed description of the FSPM theoretical framework, an introduction to The Embodied Assessment and Treatment Tool™ and Carnes Three Circle Practice, a tool for working with addiction. Participants will also learn about Gendlin’s Focusing/Felt Sense practice. A mixture of didactic information, experiential practices, demonstrations, and case examples will guide the clinician in applying the model. This course will be informative for those new to the field of trauma/addiction as well as seasoned practitioners.
Setting boundaries is complex and likely to bring up a lot of mixed feelings! In this free mini-course, we'll address three specific issues that can come up with boundaries, including:
- Learning how to tell if your needs are getting pushed aside (which often happens when you say yes but mean no)
- Discovering what a healthy boundary looks like and how simple they can be (something you probably didn’t learn growing up)
- Understanding what you’re saying yes to when you say no (and why this tip helps you communicate better with the people in your life)
- Plus, we'll talk about what might be going on inside when someone says no to you.
No matter how challenging healthy boundaries might feel today…
You can get practical help that brings immediate relief.
Registration for this Rountable is now closed. In every dream there is a direction of growth. In this roundtable we will experience how even a nightmare indicates that direction of growth. Harriet will give us some cases from her practice of children suffering from nightmares and how she worked with them, using Focusing and Art.
This group is a weekly gathering to empower, hearten and encourage therapists, counselors, teachers and helpers of all kinds. We will begin our week by accompanying each other, with embodied listening and connection, to meet the profound challenges of this time.
We will start the meetings with a brief reflection on how Focusing can nurture, inspire and steady us so that we can be present for others. A Focusing conversation will emerge from whatever is there for us in the moment.
Realization Process (RP) is a spiritual path of awakening to one’s fundamental nature through deep contact with the body. Being fully in the physical body provides a healthy, natural boundary between oneself and the world – While at the same time, it provides maximum contact with the environment.
One can start to release the artificial self-protective contractions that succeed mostly in cutting off full contact with oneself and one’s environment. Of course, this is immediately practical and useful from a Focusing point of view!
Jocelyn has been an Inner Relationship and Wholebody Focusing trainer and guide for 12 years who has been using mini-RP practices to help clients (and herself) come fully into their bodies at the beginning of a Focusing session. Most of the clients she works with are already Focusing and/or engaged in practices like Somatic Experiencing. Yet, they are often surprised at the new depth in their felt sensing capacity. She invites you to join her in exploring a few RP practices particularly relevant to Focusing partnership.
This webinar is most suitable for anyone who has had some experience in Focusing partnership, though all are welcome to attend.
This is a Course for Advanced Focusers, that you can choose to do as further practice and to go deeper into different topics, or as part of the whole Certification Program.
Thursdays at 10 am (Eastern time). You can still join!
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.
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.
Our workshop is an opportunity to reconsider something you aren't happy with, something you disagree with in your life. We aim at a coherent new understanding. You will be guided to develop fresh meanings and forms from your felt sense. This way you create the kind of "normality" that make you feel healthier, happier and empowered.
Our usual practice is to open with an attunement that helps us set aside our busy lives and deliberately come into this protected space, where we can be with whatever is there in our inner world that needs our warm curious attention. Then we separate into pairs or triads to Focus, and come back together at the end for a time of closing.
Focusers of all levels of experience are welcome.
Nysgjerrig på Focusing (Felt Sensing)? Har du lyst til å bli mer kjent med den visdommen som kroppen har om situasjonene dine, og som det logiske hodet ikke har direkte tilgang til?
Dette er det første kurset i Modul 1 av Grunnutdanning i Felt Sensing og Medsensing.
Kurset gir deg et første møte med denne selv-empatiske prosessen som gir deg tilgang til det du vet, til din egen indre stemme, og til mer medfølelse og selv-medfølelse, trygghet og romslighet i møte med egne og andres følelser.
Online på Zoom - du vil få tilsendt en link før kurset starter
This conference has ended but post registrations are available through May 1, 2022. The recordings will be available through May 31, 2022.
The Third Felt Sense Conference
Honoring the work of Eugene T. Gendlin
"Embodied Liberation: the Felt Sense & Social Justice”
“We cannot be sure that Focusing will always undo imposed forms from society, but having a ‘political analysis’ can help us to see things and question things that we might not otherwise notice.”
-Eugene Gendlin
Let’s come together to explore the social change potency and potential of Focusing.
An in-person course for just 6 participants. With two trainers and just six participants we are able to provide an exceptional holding experience that feels safe and supportive as you explore and deepen the practice of Focusing within your client work. The course explores Focusing and deep listening from the context of therapy and will give you the confidence to integrate it safely into your therapeutic work with clients. On passing the course, you will be eligible to receive a certificate in Focusing-Oriented Therapy from The International Focusing Institute, New York (TIFI).
We invite you to join us for a 4-week workshop centered around the theme of self-discovery. In this workshop, you will be introduced to the creative and intuitive approach of Focusing-Oriented Expressive Arts. Focusing, a form of felt-sensing, is a practice of allowing our bodies to guide us to deeper self-knowledge and healing. Each week, you will be guided through a FOAT® invitation to delve into parts of your many-faceted self and illustrate your experience through the creation of a SoulCollage® card. The SoulCollage® process is highly conducive to awakening your intuition and empowering inner wisdom.
What you will gain:
• Access your inner wisdom
• Build self-awareness
• Develop self-compassion
• Practice self-care
This two hour workshop with introduce you to a new way of understanding relationships that is outlined in my book Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™. I will teach you how to deepen your relationships with partners, family and friends, and your children, by practicing a 6 step process that facilitates powerful moments of change. By learning how to connect more intimately with your own bodily knowing, you can create safe interactions. An introduction to the model, and experiential exercises will be included, along with helpful handouts to guide you through the process.
The Felt Sense Polyvagal Dialogue integrates Imago therapy, the work of Harville Hendrix and Helen La Kelly Hunt, into the Felt sense Polyvagal Model. It will appeal to those who know Imago.
The Path of the Sensing Being Retreat will be combining the process of Focusing and Contemplative Presence Practice, this retreat invites a sense of living from an embodied sense of Presence. Coming back to remembering our true most natural and simple nature in community.
Focusing se basa en la muy positiva expectativa de cambio. No concibe al ser humano como una estructura fija, cuya forma pueda ser analizada de una vez para siempre. Concibe a la persona como proceso. Gendlin
Aprendiendo a escuchar nuestra sabiduría corporal
Si querés redescubrir y escuchar esa voz interior y la sabiduría del cuerpo... te invito a conocer Focusing.
Qué es Focusing?
Es una forma de atención corporal que te permite ir más allá de los pensamientos , sentimientos y emociones conocidas, los mandatos, creencias y condicionamientos...para poder contactarte con lo más real y auténtico en vos y comenzar a dar esos pasos de cambio que hasta ahora no podías dar, contactarte con todo tu potencial y creatividad y llevar tu vida adelante.
Si ya sos un profesional en el ámbito de ayuda y querés profundizar en la escucha, en la exploración y en la congruencia tanto para tu ser profesional como para ofrecerlo a otros, estos encuentros también son para vos!
Vos elegís la modalidad. Podés optar por realizar la Diplomatura y Certificación Internacional o simplemente participar de los encuentros cada 15 días por zoom!
Días y horario: Segundo y cuarto miércoles de cada mes. 17 a 19 (Hora de NY) 18 a 20 (Hora Argentina)
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.
Imagine being really present in the here-and-now…enjoying interpersonal moments with the freedom to be yourself, to feel good – to experience surprise and delight instead of repetitive, stressful patterns of interaction.
Social Oriented Focusing (SOF) is a field of advanced Focusing studies. It teaches us to untie the KNOTS and NOTS that interfere with relating to others, enabling us to overcome blocks, fears, and automatic behaviors.
The course runs for 8 weeks and each session is 2.5 hours long, beginning at 5 pm Israel time (10 am NY time).
This online entry level Focusing class prepares you to begin a Focusing partnership. It's 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 in 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.
Felt understanding underpins all our saying and doing, as Gendlin demonstrates in 'Experiencing and the creation of meaning'. Focusing practice shows, though, that the thoroughness and sensitivity with which we let felt understanding shape our saying and doing varies greatly. This series of six workshops introduces you to practice experiments that you can use to explore how you listen and talk, where others' are coming from, and ways to shift conversational rhythms to create more space for everyone to dip into felt understanding as you think and talk together. 6 weeks for 2 hours, from mid February to the end of March.
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.
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.
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 Ann Weiser Cornell (author of The Power of Focusing) and Jinevra Howard.
Includes videos, demos, readings, discussion, group exercises, and individual sessions.
What exactly is the Felt Sense, and how does it relate to Polyvagal theory? Therapists are hearing a lot about the Felt Sense these days. We invite you to come and learn more about it from some of our seasoned Focusing Oriented Therapists—Jan Winhall, Leslie Ellis, Serge Prengel and Jeffrey Morrison— who learned about it directly from the creator of the term Felt sense, Eugene Gendlin.
Together we will explore the embodied nature of felt sensing, how and why to bring it into your therapy with trauma and addicted clients. And we will show you the connections with polyvagal theory as we discuss The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model. Focusing Trainer Annette Dubreuil will outline the Focusing Steps, and the power of Focusing Partnerships as a way to enhance co-regulation for your clients.
The International Focusing Institute is delighted to offer our second Facets of Focusing Online Summit!
Watch at your convenience between April 14 -25, 2022.
Once again, we’ve combed through our archives of the many engaging people who have offered workshops, lectures and classes over the last several years. We’ve curated a collection which will give you a broad experience of many facets of Focusing and Felt Sensing.
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.
This 8 week course will provide an interactive and experiential opportunity to explore our own relationship to grief- going at our own pace and only where our beautiful, tough, tender, strong and broken hearts are wanting to go, including a full turning away if that is what the felt sense wants. We will use tools that allow the felt sense to express itself through writing, movement and making marks on the page along with more standard Focusing practices to allow for a richer and more nuanced exploration than words alone will allow. Care will be taken in each session to create a safe container so that we can relax and be together in whatever ways feel just right at the time.
A four-week (5 sessions) interactive training in embodied awareness and deep listening where we will learn the basic partnering skills of Focusing or ‘Felt Sensing’ in combination with the wisdom of the mandala to nurture the conditions for balance, self-care, and healthy transformation.
This is part of an ongoing group, that you can join any time, and just do separate workshops for a month or continue with the group. You can also choose to come to separate ones. (I suggest you do the 4 sessions, to have the complete process, but each one will also be a process in itself).
These next Thursdays in April we'll be sharing this topic: Overcoming limitations and finding our potential and creativity.
There will be different topics each month.
It is an invitation to meet, to pause, to listen to ourselves, to find that "more" to our feelings and emotions, to give space, acceptance and friendliness to whatever comes, to find that inner connection, and grow in love and compassion towards ourselves, others and our environment...To find and develop our own uniqueness and potential, and be able to move forward in fresh, new ways...
"People find richness in each other as they open up in Focusing and listening" Gendlin
We will be meeting once a week for 1 hour and a half, and you can join any time.
It's open for everybody, whether you have some, a lot or no experience in Focusing, whether you are already using Focusing for yourself or in your work with other people in whatever area, this is going to enrich your own life and help you listen to others in a deeply embodied way, knowing that Wisdom and the capacity for healing and growth is in our bodies.
Thursdays from 5.30 pm to 7 pm (Eastern Time) in April.
Eugene Gendlin’s PHILOSOPHY OF THE IMPLICIT FOR THERAPISTS
with LYNN PRESTON
A study group exploring how Focusing and relational perspectives can deepen and empower therapeutic relationships.
We have been exploring the philosophical doorways into how Gendlin’s new world of process thinking transforms the work of psychotherapy. In this module, we will use TAE (Thinking At the Edge) practices to become more at home in making the theory of Focusing-Oriented Therapy a base from which to think creatively about our participation in therapeutic relationships. Felt sense thinking enables us to gain confidence in the dance of thinking “for ourselves” but not “by ourselves.”
What if you were to find some simple doorways into what Gendlin calls the ‘implicit intricacy’… the ‘more’… so that you could say more of what you mean with greater clarity and creativity?
Gendlin developed ‘certain genuine steps’– in Focusing and in Thinking at the Edge (TAE) – and from these steps emerge simple practices you can use in your everyday life.
The approach here is to take some of the practices Gendlin developed for more formal practices such as theory or concept development and use them for specific interests. When you make these practices your own, they can support you in many ways.
In this webinar, we will do exercises together, and we will also dip into some pieces from writers, poets & artists to see how they work with the implicit intricacy — you can work in this way too!
Participants should have some experience of Focusing, felt sensing and listening, though all are welcome to attend. You may be curious about using felt-sensing in new ways, and having some fun along the way.
Joan Klagsbrun, Ph.D. will share stories about Gene Gendlin and teach the benefits of integrating Focusing with Positive Psychology, accompanied by an enriching experiential exercise. Learn new ways to discover and savor the positive aspects of Iife in this uplifting presentation!
Setting boundaries is complex and likely to bring up a lot of mixed feelings! In this free mini-course, we'll address three specific issues that can come up with boundaries, including:
- Learning how to tell if your needs are getting pushed aside (which often happens when you say yes but mean no)
- Discovering what a healthy boundary looks like and how simple they can be (something you probably didn’t learn growing up)
- Understanding what you’re saying yes to when you say no (and why this tip helps you communicate better with the people in your life)
- Plus, we'll talk about what might be going on inside when someone says no to you.
No matter how challenging healthy boundaries might feel today…
You can get practical help that brings immediate relief.
Der hybride Rahmen
• Präsenz & Zoom
• Lange & kurze Einheiten
• Große Gruppe & kleine Gruppen
• Für Menschen, die in Wien wohnen oder auch weiter weg
• Verschiedene Focusing Leiterinnen
Live in Vienna (5 dates, once a month) and via Zoom in small groups
In 'Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy,' Gendlin tells a story of a client discovering a Focusing move that she draws into the texture of her everyday life. In this Roundtable, we will explore the informal micropractices that you rely on, for a little while or over quite long periods.
This Therapists’ Roundtable will draw from the chapter on “The Client-Therapist Relationship” in Gendlin’s book, "Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy: A Manual of the Experiential Method" (1996). In this chapter, Gendlin offers a guiding vision for how therapists can create an effective therapeutic experience for their clients.
Take a deep dive into focusing-oriented dreamwork with like-minded participants and an expert guide. Learn how to work with dreams with confidence - for yourself and your clients.
Learn how to listen to your inner wisdom through creating a positive inner relationship with yourself. Develop the knowledge and skills to begin to practise Focusing and listening. This is an experiential course in partnership Focusing. By the end of Level 1, you will have a basic understanding of the Focusing process, and there is an option to continue on to the next Levels of the course.
Esta es una invitación a encontrarnos, a hacer una pausa, a explorar eso "más" que nuestros sentimientos y emociones, a dar espacio, aceptación y escucha amigable a lo que sea que aparezca, a encontrar esa conexión interior, a crecer en amor y compasión hacia nosotros mismos, hacia otros y hacia nuestro ambiente... ir más allá de los pensamientos , sentimientos y emociones conocidas, los mandatos, creencias y condicionamientos...para poder contactarnos con lo más real y auténtico en nosotros y comenzar a dar nuevos pasos de cambio, contactarnos con todo nuestro potencial y creatividad y llevar nuestra vida adelante.
"Las personas encuentran riqueza en sí mismas y en los otros a medida que se abren en el Focusing y la escucha." Gendlin
Nos vamos a encontrar una vez a la semana durante 1 hora, o 1 hora y media, según la cantidad de participantes.
Es abierto a todos, tengas mucha. poca o ninguna experiencia en Focusing, Si ya sos un profesional en el ámbito de ayuda y querés profundizar en la escucha, en la exploración y en la congruencia tanto para tu ser profesional como para ofrecerlo a otros, estos encuentros también son para vos!
Is anxiety keeping you from feeling present?
Is stress keeping you from connecting in meaningful ways?
Do you want soothing comfort for your burnout or overwhelm?
If you answer any of these questions yes, this FREE class is for you…
We invite you to join us for an introduction to Focusing Oriented Expressive Arts (FOAT®), a Focusing approach that incorporates the expressive arts with Gendlin’s Focusing to enhance and deepen inner knowing.
In this webinar we will review the basics of Focusing and FOAT® and engage in a simple collage process to experience this powerful approach. You will be guided in a theme-directed FOAT® invitation, to delve into a part of your many-faceted self and illustrate your experience through the creation of a SoulCollage® card. The SoulCollage® process is highly conducive to awakening your intuition and empowering inner wisdom.
This webinar is hands-on, with ample time given to create your collage. No prior Focusing or arts experience is required.
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!
A Process Model can turn into an experience. This amazing text allows to conceive creative exercises that make it come alive. Experientially you will understand more easily what the concepts convey. You will be able to think-with Eugene Gendlin.
PLEASE NOTE: This 2-session workshop began on March 9 but you may still join. You will have access to the recording of the first session after you register and both recordings will be available for one month after the workshop concludes.
Imagine being really present in the here-and-now…enjoying interpersonal moments with the freedom to be yourself, to feel good – to experience surprise and delight instead of repetitive, stressful patterns of interaction.
Social Oriented Focusing (SOF) teaches us to untie the KNOTS and NOTS that interfere with relating to others, enabling us to overcome blocks, fears, and automatic behaviors.
This two-part workshop will include presentations, guided experiences, and time for sharing and questions.
All are welcome to attend. Some familiarity with Focusing will be helpful.
When you don't feel good about yourself, it can be like living under a dark cloud that casts a gloomy shadow on whatever you say, do, think, feel… And that makes life harder than it has to be.
But it doesn’t have to be that way. You can learn how to handle emotional triggers, difficult habits, and inner critics in a way that leaves you feeling better about yourself. Let me help you get started (and share what you can do to keep going!).
Questa conversazione online gratuita fa parte della serie Focusing Roundtable specialmente per i membri di TIFI.
Questa serie offre ai membri un'opportunità preziosa per instaurare una conversazione tra pari con altri membri che parlano italiano e che condividono interessi relazionati al Focusing. Ci auguriamo inoltre che questo programma incoraggi altri a promuovere ulteriori tavole rotonde in Italiano,nel futuro, per continuare la serie.
Using live experiential demonstrations viewed between classes, participants will safely awaken their implicit relational body wisdom. We explore and safely carry forward one's naturally occurring inner directed movements towards and away from intimate relating. We meet by-monthly and offer a 3-part professional development certification structure to carry forward learner needs and goals.
This course, which will take place over four Sunday mornings, will teach you some the elements of Focusing: sensing into your body, describing what you find there, and welcoming whatever comes. It will also introduce you to some of the skills you need for accompanying someone else while they are Focusing. No previous knowledge of Focusing is required, but if you would like to book a one-to-one session with me you are welcome to do so.
Prayer Oriented Focusing (POF) opens new pathways into what we call ‘prayer consciousness’ as well as novel insights into the focusing process; insights that emerged from Gendlin’s philosophy and - to our surprise - from his interest during his final years with the connection between human beings and what he termed The Larger System.
The aim of Prayer Oriented Focusing (POF) is to support the Focuser’s essential life processes, and to reformulate and refresh pathways into the intimate experience of being in the world.
This workshop is intended for those already familiar with Focusing though all are welcome to attend. Attending the workshop live is encouraged as there will be exercises in breakout rooms, though all registrants will receive a link to the recording afterwards.
This is an introductory workshop to Domain Focusing (mind/body/heart Focusing) . We will move through the five-phases of Domain Focusing using my H.O.W. We Heal model and highlighting the realm of Self Empathy.
An eight-week online focusing course suitable for beginners or experienced Focusers wishing to deep in their practice. Each week will focus on one of the six steps through small and large group interaction, learning and practice.
Last year, I started the format of Coffee with Gendlin. The basic idea is to explore specific concepts of Gendlin's philosophy in a pleasant atmosphere and apply them experientially.
This year's theme is "Naked Saying and Close Listening."
As uncomfortable as the word "naked" might make us, we all have a longing to be original and natural.
With naked saying and close listening, we will explore how to say what we mean, free ourselves from constraints of language forms, and find ways to trust our inner voices.
Listening to what your inner voice has to say will bring you closer to yourself.
I am very excited to go on this gentle and deep journey with you.
Early Bird Fee ends February 15!
This online series of Focusing conversations will center on some of the central issues of our time—issues that cry out for our attention but are most difficult to engage. We believe that Focusing attitudes and skills can make it possible to overcome the barriers to genuine conversations about the issues that matter most. Each workshop will include an introductory talk, large group discussion as well as small group sharing.
Following the Felt Sense often leads to a quality of contentment. . . and maybe even delight.
Gendlin teaches that we are one interaction, and he has shown that we may understand this principle in an embodied way. If we attend to the ‘outer’ world as a Focusing partner, as both a Listener and fellow Focuser, the reality of our one interaction becomes increasingly apparent. This Focusing Highlight explores the interplay between the ‘inner’ and ‘outer’ worlds.
This Highlight is intended for those already familiar with Focusing though all are welcome to attend. Participants will be invited to share, ask questions, and be part of a demonstration.
The next online QF training workshop on Zoom will be on March 23rd and 24th 2022. 11 am – 1 pm New York time (4 – 6 pm CET).
“Resolving Conflict and Achieving Inner Harmony”.
This training workshop will train participants in the understanding and use of Quantum Focusing and Internal Family Systems. Working with Energetic Connection, both externally in personal relationships and internally leads to healing of conflicted parts. This then allows a clearing of blockages so that energy can flow freely and effortlessly into relationships and action. Creating the future that you want, right now, by harmonising previously troublesome relationships and achieving inner harmony.
This is one complete workshop on two seperate days.
Times: Wednesday 23rd, & Friday 25th March 11.00 am – 1.00 pm New York (ET) – (4 -6 pm CET).
Contact: Alex Maunder: [email protected] or (M) 00447817219698 for more information.
In this Roundtable, we would like to invite you to explore how using the Experiencing/Awareness Scale as a contextual modality can serve as a program design and delivery template. During our Roundtable, we will review the details of the Experiencing Scale and discuss its applications.
After the first two levels of my level 1 to 5 Focusing Skills course, you will be able to have a Focusing partnership with others who have also learned the basics of Focusing.
In level 1 & 2 you will be offered a lot of new material to experiment with. This might feel technical or artificial at times. For you to begin to flow with Focusing process naturally and intuitively needs practice. With time, you can inwardly relax, both as a Focuser and as listener, which is the foundation for a deeply meaningful process to occur. Therefore, I highly recommend joining the entire level 1-5 course until September 12, 2022.
If you are unsure, schedule a Focusing Session with me, the fee will be offset against the course fee in case you decide to join. https://move-with-life.org/online/
United States-PDT West Coast: 8:00 am to 11:00 am
United States-EST East Coast: 11:00 am to 14:00 pm
England–GMT: 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Germany-CET Central European Time 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm
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Online - Suitable for American and European Time Zones
In this course, you will learn all the fundamentals of Focusing and you will be able to apply this remarkable process in your life as a self-help tool both for yourself and with a Focusing partner. It is also a great first step if you envision to further certify as a Focusing Professional.
After completion of this level 1-5 course, you are eligible for “Proficiency in Focusing Partnership Award – PFPA”.
Addiction treatment has been driven by a pathologizing model that leaves out the wisdom of the body in the healing journey. This forum will bring together leading experts who will share the evolving new paradigms based on cultural trends, scientific discoveries, recent research, new clinical approaches, and treatment center experiences.
This event will address aspects of managed care at treatment centers. It will present the inter-related treatment of trauma and addiction using bottom-up and top-down integrative approaches. Through our panelist presentations and discussions, clinicians, practitioners, professionals, and staffers can get the big picture and in-practice insights for treatment.
The Q&A segment will address today's pressing questions in our field.
This USABP Forum precedes the 2022 International Body Psychotherapy Journal Spring-Summer Issue (our international peer-reviewed journal) that will feature articles, research, book reviews, and more on addiction. Submissions for articles are accepted until February 1st.
Designed for professionals working with children and young people of all ages-from toddlers to teenagers! Also open to parents, grandparents, caregivers, and anyone interested in learning these skills. Most importantly it’s available for YOU!
El taller enfatiza el desarrollo de habilidades y actitudes orientadas por el Focusing, y complementa con aportaciones de algunas investigaciones en neurociencias.
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 Ann Weiser Cornell (author of The Power of Focusing) and Jinevra Howard.
Includes videos, demos, readings, discussion, group exercises, and individual sessions.
In this Roundtable, we will use the image of the coracle on the high seas as a departure point for our investigation into how we can use our own stories, experiences, Focusing Presencing and the support of each other in connection as we navigate the high seas in this time of multiple transitions and upheavals.
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 February 8.
Setting boundaries is complex and likely to bring up a lot of mixed feelings! In this free mini-course, we'll address three specific issues that can come up with boundaries, including:
- Learning how to tell if your needs are getting pushed aside (which often happens when you say yes but mean no)
- Discovering what a healthy boundary looks like and how simple they can be (something you probably didn’t learn growing up)
- Understanding what you’re saying yes to when you say no (and why this tip helps you communicate better with the people in your life)
Plus, we'll talk about what might be going on inside when someone says no to you.
No matter how challenging healthy boundaries might feel today…
You can get practical help that brings immediate relief.
You don’t know Focusing and/or are interested in the basic level 1-5 Focusing course?
Please join us to get a taste of Focusing and to ask any questions you may have.
On February 5, 11:00 am - 01:00 pm EST (New York), we will discover the richness of a "...", highlight its potential, and deal with its obstacles.
- We will discover the many facets of a "..." and learn about its functions.
- We will explore different approaches to locating and maintaining a "..." so that it can be fully unlocked.
The Free Online Session is the first of 9 sessions of the 2022 series "Coffee with Gendlin - From Philosophy into Practice"
- You will receive a handout with the exercises from the session so that you can continue to experiment with a "..."
The session will be recorded, so you can listen to it later in case you cannot make it on February 5, or when the time (11 am EST) does not suit you.
My METHOD of teaching TAE follows the recommendation and style designed by Eugene T. Gendlin Ph.D. This means teaching TAE Steps and utilize these to a project of your choice. This way, you will learn both the Method of how to do TAE again and again on different topics, discover how each step functions AND you will be working on applying all of that to your own topic.MODULE ONE STEPS 1-5
Thinking at the Edge is embodied thinking. It’s the crossover between thinking and sensing in a Focusing way. It’s especially helpful if you have some writing or study that you want to do; some area of exploration where you already have some knowledge.
This is the last of our three part interactive online course. During our 6 classes, we will guide you in a playful way, through the third phase of TAE (steps 10 - 14). You will be connecting terms (words, phrases, concepts) to bring together what you have found in the preceding steps. This allows you to create a formal theory that is logical and rooted in felt-sensing, which can be applied to other fields and to your own topic.
Love your first experience with TAE and want more? You don’t have to have steps 1 - 9 to join us for this class.
PLEASE NOTE: This class ended on November 17 but you may complete a post registration which will give you access to all recordings and resources until February 28, 2022.
An interactive 4-session course facilitated by Rob Parker. Live sessions on Wednesdays: October 27, November 3, November 10, and November 17, 2021.
The Experience of felt sensing is in many ways at the heart of Focusing and of Gendlin's philosophy of the implicit. But how well do we understand this experience? For example, how is it that the body can “know” something that the mind does not? Isn't "knowing" supposed to happen in the brain?
Using lecture, discussion and experiential exercises, this course will explore Gendlin's understanding of felt sense, and along the way we will also explore his understanding of consciousness, meaning, and life. Thus it will also be a good introduction to Gendlin's philosophy. And if you are already familiar with Gendlin's philosophy, this series may help you carry your understanding forward in a new way.
All are welcome. The class size will not be limited and participants do not need to attend live. Recordings of the individual sessions will available to all registrants prior to the next session (except in the case of technical difficulties).
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.
Taught by Ann Weiser Cornell (author of The Power of Focusing) and Carol Nickerson.
Includes videos, demos, readings, discussion, group exercises, and individual sessions. Partnership Proficiency Recognition awarded on completion.
This is an introductory class to focusing and listening. It is a small study group with a free one on one initial session. The class is deliberately kept small to ensure each participant ends with a complete understanding of the process and begins to experience the benefits of what Focusing can provide. Individual attention will be given to each participant as needed as well as assigned partnerships between class dates.
This course, continuing from Level 1, is about the nurturing companion to a Focusing process. Cultivating Presence as the Companion and learning how the partner can support the Focuser's Presence. Advanced listening techniques are taught as well as how to "lead-in" the Focuser if they would like that.
Online; Central Coast of California, USA. Pacific Standard Time
In this series, we will see how Gendlin’s new world of process thinking transforms the work of psychotherapy. The awareness of how we are interacting rather than what we are talking about gives the therapy relationship a new environment, a new home base. We will show how the philosophical concepts illuminate the moment-to-moment therapeutic interaction, deepening and broadening our
understanding of what makes for growth and change.
NOTE: Katrijn and Julian's offering is 90 minutes. The additional 30 minutes is for those attending the live session to go into breakout rooms for partnership practice (optional).
"This is not a workshop, a class, a demonstration, a Q and A or a ‘how to’, although it holds the potential to be all those things. We offer an insight into and from within our shared process. We invite you to an insight into and from within our shared and evolving process. It is a container we have been constructing together delicately for the last four years.
Starting with the principles of relational wholebody focusing; we pause, take time, and zoom into the fundamental movements of two people relating. This connection is held by a structure. Every interaction that occurs between us happens within and is informed by this structure. Every time we meet, we take time to lay the foundations of this structure.
In this session we will explore in real time a new development. What is possible when we open our focusing structure to others? If this proposal is as interesting and exciting as it continues to be for us, we look forward to welcoming you. To this place of adventure and discovery."
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.
8 week experiential class in a Focusing approach to how to befriend what is difficult. It is a given that life is full of difficulties. Some of them arise in a moment or full day of challenges or frustration and others are those longer term difficulties that seem to defy solution and return to us again and again. The fact of them is inescapable but how we walk with them, how we carry them, can make a world of difference in how the journey feels as we choose our next steps and travel the rough terrain. Taking a Rumi’s “Guest House” approach to what is challenging can completely shift our experience and allow us to discover the gifts hidden in what we find challenging. Class size limited to 12. Participants should plan to attend live. Some sessions will be recorded by request and made available to class participants only if they cannot attend a particular session.
When you gaze up at the stars at night, do you have a sense of being a loved and cherished part of a larger compassionate system?
Or do you feel small and insignificant, and that the universe is cold, chaotic, and uncaring?
Here’s what I’ve learned: The difference between these two worldviews is not an intellectual decision. It’s something you can feel in the wisdom of your body.
Over my 49 years of listening inwardly using Focusing, I’ve made an astonishing discovery: The more I listen within, the more I feel connected to what is much bigger than me.
Join me and Peter Gill — and explore how inner awareness can connect you to the spiritual dimension.
Leslie Ellis, author of A Clinicians Guide to Dream Therapy, (Routledge Press) will do a session on a powerful method for helping your traumatized clients work with nightmares. We will discuss the nature of nightmares and how they relate to the process of addiction/freeze states, through a polyvagal lens.
Module Two of our COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT TRAINING PROGRAM is starting January 19, 2022. This innovative learning experience is an exploration of how the ideas and skills of Eugene Gendlin’s Focusing can help us, as individuals and communities, heal our polarizations and disconnections and develop new ways to genuinely relate across our differences. This project is designed to cultivate visionary leadership in facilitating community creativity, cohesion and resilience.
Not feeling good about yourself can be like living under a dark cloud that casts a gloomy shadow on whatever you say, do, think, feel… And that makes life harder than it has to be.
But it doesn’t have to be that way. You can learn how to handle emotional triggers, difficult habits, and inner critics in a way that leaves you feeling better about yourself. Let me help you get started (and share what you can do to keep going!).
Imagine being really present in the here-and-now…enjoying interpersonal moments with the freedom to be yourself, to feel good – to experience surprise and delight instead of repetitive, stressful patterns of interaction.
Social Oriented Focusing (SOF) teaches us to untie the KNOTS and NOTS that interfere with relating to others, enabling us to overcome blocks, fears, and automatic behaviors.
In this webinar, we shall take a two-stage journey: Stage 1: From shades of aloneness to shades of togetherness; and Stage 2: From I to we without losing our boundaries.
There will be a presentation, guided experiences, and time for sharing and questions.
All are welcome to attend. Some familiarity with Focusing will be helpful but is not required.
As we move through these uneasy times our bodies search for ways to soothe. Old habits that helped us in the past may reemerge. New habits may begin to form. How do we feel about these self soothing behaviours? Are they good? Are they bad? Are they ugly? When does a habit become an addiction? How can we help ourselves to develop a practice that calms us down, soothing our nervous system?
The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™ for working with trauma and addiction provides us with answers to these questions. Through daily practices and an embodied process of Focusing, we learn to regulate our autonomic nervous system. Healing and restorative habits evolve over time—one felt shift at a time—as we come together in community with safety and respect.
Each week, we will visit a different quality of Self-leadership, to build our inner resources for self-regulation. There are 8Cs of Self-leadership, one for each week: calm, curiosity, clarity, creativity, compassion, confidence, courage and connection.
By flocking together in community, we can use the good to heal our trauma and release the bad and ugly ‘ways.’
An online entry level Focusing class that prepares you to begin a Focusing partnership. And a great opportunity to review the basics of Self-in-Presence as a way of being that creates space for lasting change.
Meets six times on Sundays 1 - 3 pm New York EDT.
This online series of Focusing conversations will center on some of the
central issues of our time—issues that cry out for our attention but are most
difficult to engage. We believe that Focusing attitudes and skills can make it
possible to overcome the barriers to genuine conversations about the issues
that matter most. Each workshop will include an introductory talk, large
group discussion as well as small group sharing.
You are warmly invited to a special New Year’s Day PAUSE to:
* de-stress from residual holiday distress
* rest in a moment of stillness
* effortless-ly form your new year’s aspiration
Register NOW to enjoy the sale price of $0, that’s right: FREE! (Sale expires on Thurs. Dec. 30). If you register while the class is free, you still need to go through the “payment” process in order to receive your Zoom invitation.)
Last year we gathered on Dec. 26th to celebrate Gene Gendlin’s birthday, which falls on Christmas Day. It was a deeply meaningful and connecting experience for many of us—one that sustained us throughout the year. There was a feeling of Gene’s presence in the midst of us, warming our hearts and enlivening our minds, helping us to remember the “BIG SYSTEM” during the bleak isolation of COVID winter. Those of us who knew Gene heard stories that we had never heard before and experienced surprising new facets of this incredibly multi-dimensional man. Those of us who did not know Gene personally contributed their ways of knowing Gene and feasted on the memories of those who did.
This year we want to gather online on Monday, Dec. 27th for another Gene Birthday Party to cherish his vibrant living presence. We want to experience ourselves as the interaction that carries forward his revolutionary way of thinking and being. We look forward to being together in this richly creative, flourishing community and seeing what we make in our Focusing conversation.
Journaling ist ein Bereich der Reflexion, des Erinnerns, des Neu- und Wiederkombinierens, der Revision, eine lebendige Methode, um von Unordnung zu Klarheit zu gelangen, ein Kanal zum Hinterfragen und Verbinden. Als solches öffnet das Journaling einen Raum, um sich selbst zu nähern und neue Sichtweisen zu ermöglichen – was das Papier zu einem perfekten Ort für ein Focusing macht.
Esta conversación en línea gratuita es parte de la serie Focusing Roundtable especialmente para miembros de TIFI.
Una cultura organizacional enfocada en el bienestar y la salud es el pilar fundamental para el éxito de las empresas y organizaciones. A través de prácticas saludables es posible conseguir líderes y equipos sanos y motivados, tanto en el desarrollo grupal como así también individual.
Esta conversación en línea gratuita es parte de la serie Focusing Roundtable especialmente para miembros de TIFI.
Una cultura organizacional enfocada en el bienestar y la salud es el pilar fundamental para el éxito de las empresas y organizaciones. A través de prácticas saludables es posible conseguir líderes y equipos sanos y motivados, tanto en el desarrollo grupal como así también individual.
You don’t know Focusing and/or are interested in the basic level 1-5 Focusing course?
Please join us to get a taste of Focusing and to ask any questions you may have.
This online series of Focusing conversations will center on some of the central issues of our time—issues that cry out for our attention but are most difficult to engage. We believe that Focusing attitudes and skills can make it possible to overcome the barriers to genuine conversations about the issues that matter most. Each workshop will include an introductory talk, large group discussion as well as small group sharing.
A 'hot potato' is an issue that most people don’t want to talk about. It can involve unpleasant or even dangerous consequences for anyone dealing with it.
In a world of growing uncertainty, it is not surprising that our conversations and our thinking, are becoming increasingly polarized. It is becoming more difficult to hold civil conversations—or conversations at all—around ‘hot potato’ topics.
In this webinar, we will use Focusing to unravel some of the complexity for ourselves, for others, and around the issue itself.
All are welcome to attend. Some familiarity with Focusing will be helpful but is not required.
We want to know about you! The purpose of this first meeting in English, Spanish and German is to reach, contact and know those people that are out there that know a little about Focusing maybe just having their first steps in their training or practicing it for a while but alone and looking to join our international community.
Wir würden dich gerne kennenlernen! Der Zweck dieses ersten Treffens auf Englisch, Spanisch und Deutsch ist es, die Leute zu erreichen, zu kontaktieren und zu kennen, die ein wenig über Focusing wissen, vielleicht nur ihre ersten Schritte in ihrer Ausbildung machen oder es für eine Weile praktizieren, aber alleine und suchen unserer internationalen Gemeinschaft beizutreten.
¡Queremos saber de ti! El propósito de este primer encuentro en inglés, español y alemán es conectar, contactar y conocer a aquellas personas que están en el mundo que saben un poco de Focusing tal vez solo estén dando sus primeros pasos en su entrenamiento o practicándolo por un tiempo, y abiertas a unirse a nuestra comunidad internacional.
In this Roundtable we will share our experience of being in a reading group and how we worked together. We will offer some guidelines or suggestions that might be useful if you are interested in setting up a similar group.
Le Focusing relationnel met une attention toute particulière sur la relation à soie, à l’autre, dans un groupe ou une communauté. Il a comme fondement, la bienveillance envers soi et envers les autres, la pause, la présence et l’accès au ressenti. Il est basé sur la croyance que le Focusing est un langage universel, car tous les humains peuvent ressentir, guider leur vie et leurs actions et créé à partir de ce qu’ils ressentent. (source: Extraits du cahier de formation DFQ 2016)
Cette formation en petit groupe permet d'acquérir les bases pour pratiquer le Focusing en partenariat et aussi de l'intégrer dans son quotidien.
As life starts to expand again, it might seem like everything is getting easier. And, in some ways, that's true. Yet, there are also challenges (and stressors) you probably haven't had to face for a long time. One thing is for sure, we are in times of unprecedented change (at least in our lifetimes) and that's a hard place to be.
This is a 30-minute free webinar (with Ann Weiser Cornell) with warm, positive tips for emotional self-care in these challenging times.
My 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 our last webinar in 2021. We'll be back next year!
The next online QF training workshop on Zoom will be on Nov 14th 2021.
This training workshop will train participants in the understanding and use of the Alexander Technique. Focusing and Internal Family Systems and the theory and practice of working with Parts within the circle of the whole. Working with Energetic Connection, both externally in personal relationships, in nature and internally leads to healing of conflicted parts. This then allows a clearing of blockages so that energy can flow freely and effortlessly into action. Creating the future that you want, right now, by living beyond the constrictions of space and time.
By looking at the SPECT brain scan images of a Focusing client we can gain an understanding of basic Neuroscience and see how Quantum Focusing can lead to "neuroplasticity" or long-term change.
This is one complete workshop.
Times: Sunday 9.00 am – 12.00 noon and 1.00 pm – 4.00 pm New York (EDT) -3 Hrs to Los Angeles so,
Sunday 6.00 am – 9.00 am and 10.00 am – 1.00 pm Los Angeles Sunday 3.00 pm – 6.00 pm and 7.00 pm – 10.00 pm Rome ( CEST)
Cost: $150 (waged), $75 (low income), $25 (no regular income).
All proceeds will go to the Focusing Neuroscience Research Fund to pay for further SPECT scans in California.
Contact: Alex Maunder: [email protected] or (M) 00447817219698
website: www.quantumfocusing.org
In this Roundtable we will share our experience of being in a reading group and how we worked together. We will offer some guidelines or suggestions that might be useful if you are interested in setting up a similar group.
Les thématiques phares qui seront visiter sont:
Le ressenti corporel & la resonance
La langage du “quelque chose” - crée une distance
et on va aussi experimenter en binômes le partenariat du Focusing.
The International Focusing Institute is delighted to offer our first Facets of Focusing Online Summit!
Watch at your convenience between November 11 - 16, 2021.
We’ve combed through our archives of the many engaging people who have offered workshops, lectures and classes over the last several years. We’ve curated a collection which will give you a broad experience of many facets of Focusing and Felt Sensing. For five days, you’ll be treated to three videos a day which will give you a sparkling array of experiences and insights. From Wholebody Focusing to Children & Focusing, to Finding your Voice, to opening up to “Widefulness,” and more! All will inspire you with the many ways that life and society can break free from pre-set patterns.
15 videos! Three videos released daily and available for 72 hours each PLUS 2 live zoom conversations daily.
Dr. Akira Ikemi first met Gene Gendlin in 1979, then became a graduate student at the University of Chicago where Gene was a professor. The first part of this workshop will begin with Akira Ikemi’s personal reflections about what was inspiring about Gene. Listening to stories like these helps to illuminate and carry forward deeper understandings of the living roots of Focusing and its philosophy— which continues to unfold in new ways today.
Akira Ikemi will then share about the influences of Wilhelm Dilthey’s hermeneutics on Focusing, a method which Gendlin developed. After, Akira Ikemi will lead a Focusing exercise that he created— Crossing with Animals— which helps to teach two concepts of Gene’s philosophy, Experiencing and Crossing. Participants will then learn to apply the principles of Experiencing and Crossing to art images or expressions. This will also enrich the understanding and practice of Focusing-Oriented Expressive Arts.
A serie of three experiential workshops of 2h each. During these sessions, we will explore the languages of our experience, combining focusing with movements, voice, and expressive arts.
The themes of the sessions will be
- Welcoming your life energy
- Creating connections within you
- Interacting from your true self
Two options to accommodate different times:
Mondays, Nov. 8, 15, & 22 at 10am NY time
Tuesdays, Nov, 9,16, & 23 at 3pm Tokyo time
To register, please send an email to [email protected]
In this Oceania Roundtable, we will be paying attention to our experience of spending time together in an interactive enquiry. We may find that the roles of Focuser and listener fall away or are changing from moment to moment according to the participants’ felt sense of what is unfolding.
Sydney: Friday, 5th November 2021 from 11:00 am-1:00 pm AEDT
New Zealand: Friday, 5th November 2021 from 1:00pm -3:00pm NZDT
Perth, Western Australia: Friday, 5th November from 8:00am -10:00am AWST
New York: Thursday, 4th November from 8:00pm-10:00 pm EDT
Thinking at the Edge grounds your ideas in your lived experience.
For example:
Is there something that you’d like to do or write about but you lack the confidence to begin? Thinking at the Edge helps you sense into the “more” behind your ideas so that you can write and act from what you know.
Do you long to contribute to the world from the richness of the insights life has given you? With Thinking at the Edge, you delve into your own experience so that your new direction follows from of all you have lived.
Maybe you need clarity and next steps about a persistent problem or a complex issue. With Thinking at the Edge you can find the unique gifts within the challenges you face.
This 2-hour workshop is an intimate experience with you and two other people, plus myself as the facilitator. Each person gets a 30-minute Focusing turn. As the facilitator, I listen to each Focuser. In observing, you hold space for the Focuser, deepening everyone's experience.
Focusing Triads are held a few times per month. Next date and time options:
-Wednesday, November 3, 2-4 pm EDT
-Tuesday, November 30, 3-5 pm EDT
"People find richness in each other as they open up in Focusing and listening" Gendlin
This is a Focusing oriented Encounter group where everybody is invited to participate, whatever knowledge of Focusing you have or don't have.
If you want to grow and get to know yourself more, find ways of living from a more embodied and connected place, or you are struggling with addictive behaviors, or everyday challenging issues, or just want to connect with others and enjoy the richness of interaction, you are very welcome to join the group.
We'll be building a space of safety, sharing, and listening to one another in a Focusing way.
Mondays from 11.30 am to 1 pm (Eastern Time) Starting November 1st.
For more information and registering, please e mail me:
In this Oceania Roundtable, the question we will explore is "Can Focusing transform how we handle hot potatoes?" We will organize our exploration into two stages, first working in small groups to bring awareness to our own personal patterns of handling hot potatoes and then experimenting by choosing a hot potato to discuss together.
Saturday, 30th October 2021 from 7:00-9:00 pm Sydney, AEST
Saturday, 30th October 2021 from 9:00-11:00 pm, New Zealand, NZST
Saturday, 30th October from 4:00-6:00 pm Perth, Western Australia, AWST
Journaling is a realm of reflection, remembrance, recombination, revision. It is a lively method for moving from clutter to clarity, a conduit for questioning and connecting. Join us in the realm of reflection to explore fresh ways of seeing. In this Roundtable, we will explore and experience some journaling exercises as Focusers.
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.
Esta conversación en línea gratuita es parte de la serie Focusing Roundtable especialmente para miembros de TIFI.
Gendlin con Focusing y V. Satir con su modelo de crecimiento inter personal promovieron una nueva forma de relacionarse con uno mismo, con los otros y con el contexto. Esta mesa redonda nos dará la oportunidad de compartir y quizás, crear nuevos puentes, opciones, y conexiones.
This Highlight will give you a two hour look into Clearing Space and Making Space.
A human being can tune in to the physical and emotional body of the Self, and the relational self, orient through engaging with Self in its dynamic state of current balance. Clearing Space provides a freshly new perspective as a source for connecting with your own unique human potential.
Using didactic learning, guided experience, and demonstration, participants will be able to come into new ideas, energizing their own creativity for Clearing Space and its many therapeutic values. Whether you are new to Clearing Space or looking to seek new insights that were not present at the start, you belong here.
All are welcome to attend. Some familiarity with Focusing will be helpful but is not required.
This Highlight will give you a two hour look into Clearing Space and Making Space.
A human being can tune in to the physical and emotional body of the Self, and the relational self, orient through engaging with Self in its dynamic state of current balance. Clearing Space provides a freshly new perspective as a source for connecting with your own unique human potential.
Using didactic learning, guided experience, and demonstration, participants will be able to come into new ideas, energizing their own creativity for Clearing Space and its many therapeutic values. Whether you are new to Clearing Space or looking to seek new insights that were not present at the start, you belong here.
All are welcome to attend. Some familiarity with Focusing will be helpful but is not required.
This Highlight will give you a two hour look into Clearing Space and Making Space.
A human being can tune in to the physical and emotional body of the Self, and the relational self, orient through engaging with Self in its dynamic state of current balance. Clearing Space provides a freshly new perspective as a source for connecting with your own unique human potential.
Using didactic learning, guided experience, and demonstration, participants will be able to come into new ideas, energizing their own creativity for Clearing Space and its many therapeutic values. Whether you are new to Clearing Space or looking to seek new insights that were not present at the start, you belong here.
All are welcome to attend. Some familiarity with Focusing will be helpful but is not required.
A new study group exploring how Focusing and relational perspectives can deepen and empower therapeutic relationships.
PART ONE: Eugene Gendlin’s Philosophy for Clinicians
In this series we will enter into a new world of process thinking rather than our familiar unit thinking. This awareness of how we are interacting rather than what we are talking about gives the therapy relationship a new environment, a new home base.
A 4 week introduction to Felt Sensing (Focusing) that gives a first introduction to the process of Felt Sensing or Focusing.
Felt Sensing is for you if you want to:
- get access to more of what you know, through your body
- get to know your inner voice and inner world
- be more compassionate towards yourself and others
- be more open and spacious with yourself and others
This is a class for those who have taken at least Levels One and Two of Focusing and want to increase their confidence as Focusing partners. It will ground your understanding of how Focusing creates change, helping you navigate puzzling situations that can come up in Focusing sessions. The class will help you qualify for TIFI's partnership network.
An online, interactive course facilitated by Nicoletta Corsetti. In Spanish with translation to English. 6 sessions on Sundays: October 17, October 31, November 14, November 28, December 12, and December 19, 2021.
Un curso interactivo en línea facilitado por Nicoletta Corsetti. Idioma: español con traducción al inglés. 6 sesiones los domingos: 17 de octubre, 31 de octubre, 14 de noviembre, 28 de noviembre, 12 de diciembre y 19 de diciembre de 2021.
In honor of Janet Klein's dedication to the Institute's Advanced and Certification Weeklong, we are offering a $30 discount to anyone who has ever attended the Weeklong. Apply discount code jkweeklong
En honor a la dedicación de Janet Klein a la Semana de Focusing Avanzado y Certificación del Instituto (Weeklong), estamos ofreciendo un descuento de $30 a todos los que hayan participado alguna vez en ella (en el Weeklong) . El código para aplicar el descuento es jkweeklong
Participants will learn the distinctive moments of the model: Empathic Response, Interactive Response, The Relationship Check.
The course is intended for people who already have Focusing experience.
Class size will not be limited and participants do not need to attend live. Recordings of the individual sessions will available to all registrants prior to the next session (except in the case of technical difficulties).
Los participantes podrán aprehender los momentos distintivos del modelo: Respuesta Empática, Respuesta Interactiva, Revisión de la Relación.
El curso está reservado a personas que tienen una formación de base de Focusing.
El tamaño de la clase no estará limitado y los participantes no necesitan asistir en vivo. Las grabaciones de las sesiones individuales estarán disponibles para todos los inscritos antes de la próxima sesión (excepto en el caso de dificultades técnicas).
I'm happy to invite you to this free Open Space Focusing Activity today, Friday, October 15 at 4 pm (Eastern Time) It's open for everybody, whether you have little knowledge and experience of Focusing or you are more experienced and want to enjoy connecting in a Focusing way. We will be sharing together as a group and then have some time to go into diads or triads. Then we'll be sharing again in our big group.
Please write to me at [email protected] so I can send you the link
Or whatsapp: +5491157408743
Please feel free to share this information with anybody you know might be interested.
You are all welcome!
This course integrates the two methods, Focusing and TAE, and combines personal growth and creative deep thinking. It brings in more of Gendlin's philosophy and provides applications of specific thought-movements. With Thetaland®--The Game of Inquiry thinking with the felt sense becomes flexible, accessible, and playful.
"Thought-Movements with the Felt Sense" is for you when you already have some experience in Focusing and Focusing partnership and are interested to learn more about thinking from a felt sense.
Or you are seeking a certification path that includes Focusing, TAE, and other practices coming from Gendlin’s philosophy.
If you are already certified, you might want to expand your experience and knowledge about the philosophical background of Focusing and TAE and learn more felt-sensing applications.
Registration is closed. Please see the same event on October 26. Journaling is a realm of reflection, remembrance, recombination, revision. It is a lively method for moving from clutter to clarity, a conduit for questioning and connecting. Join us in the realm of reflection to explore fresh ways of seeing. In this Roundtable, we will explore and experience some journaling exercises as Focusers.
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 Ann Weiser Cornell (author of The Power of Focusing) and Jinevra Howard.
Includes videos, demos, readings, discussion, group exercises, and individual sessions.
Social Oriented Focusing is our flagship course in the field of advanced
Focusing studies. In this course we will discover how powerful Focusing
can be when it is used in the interpersonal-social circle.
The aim of this course is to allow us to experience new forms of
interaction, to develop a new sense: A sense for social interaction that
will give us the room and the freedom to be ourselves, to feel good in
our communication with others and in our relationships.
Join us for a 6-week workshop combining FOAT® (Focusing-Oriented Expressive Arts) and SoulCollage®, two creative and insightful approaches to inner exploration. In this workshop you will be introduced to FOAT® as a gentle and curious way to explore your inner experience and access the felt sense. Then you will learn the fun and powerful artistic process of SoulCollage® that uses images as a means of expressing your inner wisdom. Blending FOAT® and SoulCollage® fosters a profound experience allowing our body to guide us to deeper self-discovery. All levels of Focusing, FOAT® or SoulCollage® are welcome!
A menudo no sabemos cómo relacionarnos con nuestras emociones y sensaciones.
Focusing es una técnica que nos permite aprender a escuchar lo que nos quieren decir nuestras sensaciones internas con respecto a un asunto, una relación o una situación y poder conectar con nuestra sabiduría más profunda. En este curso, [email protected] participantes aprenderán las bases para enfocar y acompañar en duos para empezar a recibir los regalos que sus emociones y sensaciones les pueden transmitir. Es un curso experiencial.
Fechas: jueves 7 y 21 de octubre, 11 y 25 noviembre, 9 de diciembre 2021
Nos gustaria invitarlos a participar en esta reunión y diálogo que nos permitirá encontrarnos por tres días y una tarde para compartir sentipensares y experiencias en relación con el Focusing desde nuestras perspectivas culturales y personales.
The FORCE team is gearing up for our third ONLINE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT TRAINING PROJECT starting Oct. 6th. This innovative learning experience is a response to the current urgent need for real conversation across differences. It offers a way to explore the question: Can the ideas and skills of Eugene Gendlin’s Focusing help us as individuals and communities to heal our polarizations and disconnections? Can Focusing be the yeast that enables the bread of genuine relating to rise? This project is a passionate call designed to cultivate visionary leadership in facilitating community creativity, cohesion and resilience.
The training is a “pay it forward” project based on the conviction that participants will bring their increased awareness and skills to community life.
This will be an opportunity to meet and greet facilitators Beth Mahler and Maria Skoufas along with classmates. We will have an opportunity to hear from you where you are at NOW in your Focusing journey and where your vision is setting a path for you. We will allow clear and unclear edges of awareness to form to help shape the beginning of the next two years studying and exploring the process of Focusing and Listening.
Zoom Meeting Time: Oct 3, 2021 12:00-3:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
NOTE: Registrants will benefit from having attended or viewed the Highlight recording prior to the workshop. If you did not previously register for the Highlight, you may register for the Post-Highlight recording by emailing [email protected]
There are many varieties of traditional prayer. The act of pray-ing expands the meaning of being human, of being fully human.
In this workshop we will explore and develop a new kind of prayer consciousness: a lucid prayer movement that transforms our life experience - free of theological underpinnings.
Attending the workshop live is encouraged as there will be exercises in breakout rooms, though all registrants will receive a link to the recording afterwards.
This Therapists’ Circle will draw from Gene’s 1991 article, “On emotion in therapy.” We will distinguish emotions from feelings and the felt sense, and talk about how we work with them--navigating in and out of their terrain, with the goal of serving therapeutic change.
**This International Focusing Highlight will be offered in English with simultaneous translation into German and Mandarin**
Changing the Unchangeable (aka Macroshifting) invites one to engage with something one has tried to change (e.g. a persistent relationship or career problem) but has failed at changing. If, given one’s other accomplishments, it is unclear why someone has failed, it is probably a macro. According to Robert, macros are what change with difficulty. Macros also go further into who one is, and further out into society. . .
(Eine Focusing-Architektur um das Unveränderliche zu verändern)
„Changing the Unchangeable“ (auch Macroshifting genannt) lädt dazu ein, sich mit etwas zu befassen, das man ändern möchte (z. B. ein hartnäckiges Beziehungs- oder Karriereproblem), an dem man jedoch bislang gescheitert ist. Bleibt es trotz vielfältiger Bemühungen unklar, warum eine gewünschte Veränderung nicht gelingen möchte, handelt es sich wahrscheinlich um ein Macro. Laut Robert ist ein Macro etwas, das sich schwer ändern lässt. Macros reichen tief in die eigene Persönlichkeit und zugleich auch tief in die Gesellschaft hinein. . .
An online entry level Focusing class that prepares you to begin a Focusing partnership. And a great opportunity to review the basics of Self-in-Presence as a way of being that creates space for lasting change.
Meets six times on Wednesdays 7 – 9pm Eastern New York Time.
Event full. Spaces available in the Thursday session Sept 30. This Therapists’ Circle will draw from Gene’s 1991 article, “On emotion in therapy.” We will distinguish emotions from feelings and the felt sense, and talk about how we work with them--navigating in and out of their terrain, with the goal of serving therapeutic change.
This 3 PART FOCUSING course is aimed for BEGINNERS.
Course is designed particularly for those who are interested in Focusing and are NOT necessarily therapists.
AIM is
To learn inner work of Focusing for yourself and your personal use.
To share your skills with your friends, coworkers, anyone who wants to know about
“What IS Focusing???”
Aim is to receive PFP Award (Proficiency as Focusing Partner) which qualifies you to join TIFI Partnership Network.
PFP Award also opens further Focusing Training if you decide to go in that direction.
With this information first -EVERYBODY is also invited to join this course. Therapists are welcome if interested in this course. Also welcome are any Trainers or Coordinators who are motivated by new ideas/different approaches to gain Focusing Proficiency.
For 24 hours, beginning at 8am Eastern US time on Saturday, September 25, experienced Focusers will be on Zoom to offer you a taste of felt sensing and an opportunity to connect with one another!
This is a chance to experience Focusing with a variety of teachers who will lead you in an experience to guide you toward your felt sense. You don't need to know anything about Focusing or the felt sense in order to attend; this is for you if you want to be able to be more attuned to your body and what it is holding.
Each hour will be given in a different language with English translation!
Come to as many of the one-hour experiences as you like!
This circle is an 8-week journey for men interested in liberation, living meaningful lives, healing, and connection. It’s a place to practice and support mutual liberation. Through sharing our struggles, strength, and visions for a better way, we can forge new possibilities and begin to manifest them in the world. We can be models for a more liberatory masculinity and contribute to the well-being of all.
Join Jeffrey Morrison, Director of the Seattle Focusing Institute, and Randi Love for this introductory workshop on the transformative potential of Focusing. You’ll begin to learn the basic steps of Focusing so that you can incorporate Focusing in your healing practice.
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. We learn tools to guide ourselves and others that invite relational trust, lasting change and life forward flow.
Meets for six times Wednesday evenings from 7 - 9 pm EDT.
Prerequisite: Level 2 Focusing training
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.
Taught by Ann Weiser Cornell (author of The Power of Focusing) and Carol Nickerson.
Includes videos, demos, readings, discussion, group exercises, and individual sessions. Partnership Proficiency Recognition awarded on completion.
Le Focusing relationnel met une attention toute particulière sur la relation à soie, à l’autre, dans un groupe ou une communauté.
Cette formation en petit groupe permet d'acquérir les bases pour pratiquer le Focusing Relationnel en partenariat et aussi de l'intégrer dans son quotidien.
La pratique sera au coeur de ce parcours et les personnes qui connaissent déjà le Focusing y trouveront donc la possibilité d'approfondir, de pratiquer ou encore découvrir une formule collective (ainsi que de prendre part à une communauté de partenaires pendant et au-delà de la formation).
Les mardis 21/9, 28/9, 5/10, 12/10/2021 13h à 15h (Québec) - ou de 19h à 21h (Europe).
Rencontres par Zoom. Groupe de 10 personnes max
It’s been a rough ride. Our bodies fold up to endure the hardship, and they slowly begin to stretch out as it feels safer. But we still don’t know how far we can stretch, how safe is safe enough? Let’s be together this fall and share our journey through the lens of the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™.
This is a 6 Module, 3 year, professional development training program for clinicians who wish to deepen their relational wholebody responsiveness when interacting with clients. The living body contains a rich tapestry of implicit life doorways and possibilities for healing and transforming complex trauma or simply opening up ingrained maladaptive social coping mechanisms.
This is a 6-Module,3 year Relational Wholebody Focusing Trainer Certification program that cultivates a wholebody heartfelt relationship with the Self, with Another Person, and with everyday adult life situations. By the end of year 2, students achieve Professional Practitioner Certification in this method. In Year 3, students receive ongoing mentorship support as they facilitate their own students in these same methods with paired Trainer Practicums. My the end of three years, students will have expanded their wholebody relational capacities in all kinds of life situations. See website: www.relationalwholebodyfocusingforlife.com
Esta serie brinda un espacio para conectar miembros hispanohablantes del Instituto Internacional de Focusing (TIFI). Es un espacio para aprender y expandir el conocimiento sobre Focusing y temas relacionados. El concepto de "Cafecitos" viene de la idea de estar en la casa de un amigo/a y conversar tomándose un café. Queremos que estos Cafecitos se sientan acogedores y que tú te sientas en casa durante estas entrevistas. Cada Cafecito tiene a un nuevo entrevistado quien compartirá su conocimiento sobre algún tema en especial con la comunidad hispanohablante.
Esta serie brinda un espacio para conectar miembros hispanohablantes del Instituto Internacional de Focusing (TIFI). Es un espacio para aprender y expandir el conocimiento sobre Focusing y temas relacionados. El concepto de "Cafecitos" viene de la idea de estar en la casa de un amigo/a y conversar tomándose un café. Queremos que estos Cafecitos se sientan acogedores y que tú te sientas en casa durante estas entrevistas. Cada Cafecito tiene a un nuevo entrevistado quien compartirá su conocimiento sobre algún tema en especial con la comunidad hispanohablante.
Note two sections: Sept 9 and Sept 17. Register for only one section please. Many of us work with, inhabit or experiment with practices that foster mindfulness. The Roundtable is an opportunity for all of us to come together and compare our experiences. We want to be become more aware and conscious of how these practices can work together, or understand what happens inside us when we are drawing on one or another to both.
This course will provide the student with the techniques, context, community, and philosophical background to become a skilled practitioner and/or instructor. Caregivers, health care providers, teachers, and clinicians find this training invaluable.
Online and in person... Buckingham, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
When a client brings a dream or nightmare, do you feel confident in helping them process it? If you would like to deepen and enrich your dreamwork practice, and learn how to safely treat nightmares, consider joining us.
This course is designed to provide practical ways on how to use language in clear and engaging ways, saying more of what you mean. It takes its inspiration and many of its practices from the insights and work of Gene Gendlin.
We will use examples from our own experience, and many from writers, poets, artists and other Focusing practitioners along the way. We will do exercises together and you are encouraged to try these out between sessions on your own projects.
An online entry level Focusing class that prepares you to begin a Focusing partnership. And a great opportunity to review the basics of Self-in-Presence as a way of being that creates space for lasting change.
Meets six times on Tuesdays 7 – 9pm EDT New York.
LEVEL 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.
Class meets six times for 2 hrs each.
Mondays 7-9pm EDT beginning September 13
In this Roundtable we would like to invite you to explore how different forms of symbolization and activities can help children and teenagers to connect with their inner self-experience. We will share case examples and videos and discuss ready-to-use techniques that can help young people with self-expression in an open, safe, supportive environment.
The course combines on-demand lectures by Jan Winhall with recorded conversations between Jan and Stephen Porges. Also included is a live 90-min Q&A session with Jan held at 12:00 pm September 10, 2021.
The information session will be introducing the course "Thought-Movements with the Felt Sense" as part of a two-yearlong Training & Certification Program "Deep Thinking to Move Life and Thoughts Forward".
Note two sections: Sept 9 and Sept 17. Register for only one section please. Many of us work with, inhabit or experiment with practices that foster mindfulness. The Roundtable is an opportunity for all of us to come together and compare our experiences. We want to be become more aware and conscious of how these practices can work together, or understand what happens inside us when we are drawing on one or another to both.
This is a 6 week online Course for those who have had some contact with Focusing (Level 2), with the possibility of doing the other levels of the Focusing Training Program that lead to certification or just enjoy the learning and practice of Focusing at any level you choose.
We'll be meeting once a week for two hours during these 6 weeks. where we will share Gendlin's wisdom and also go into Polyvagal Theory and understand how our bodies are always trying to keep us safe and carry us in the direction of life.
Participants can also benefit from private sessions with a 50 % discount. (optional)
Thursdays 5 pm (Eastern time)
Note: This Course started Thursday 2nd, and this is the last opportunity to register for this coming class.
For more information and registering, please e mail me:
Two sessions for volunteers and future volunteers!
Please sign up for one or both sessions:
8AM Wednesday September 8 (see separate event listing)
8PM Wednesday September 8
We are training current and future volunteers to learn some of the ins and outs of Zoom, such as how to create breakout rooms. If you are a current volunteer or if you’d like to consider volunteering as a Zoom support person for TIFI’s online classes and events, please attend! Also, just come to be part of the crowd, or just to improve your Zoom skills. The more people we have, the more effective it will be for us to teach breakout rooms.
(We do recognize that this falls in the middle of the Jewish High Holy Days. We apologize about this - if you would like to attend but can't make either of these dates, please let us know.)
Please sign up for one or both sessions:
8AM Wednesday September 8
8PM Wednesday September 8 (see separate event listing to register for evening session)
We are training current and future volunteers to learn some of the ins and outs of Zoom, such as how to create breakout rooms. If you are a current volunteer or if you’d like to consider volunteering as a Zoom support person for TIFI’s online classes and events, please attend! Also, just come to be part of the crowd, or just to improve your Zoom skills. The more people we have, the more effective it will be for us to teach breakout rooms.
(We do recognize that this falls in the middle of the Jewish High Holy Days. We apologize about this - if you would like to attend but can't make either of these dates, please let us know.)
Not feeling good about yourself can be like living under a dark cloud that casts a gloomy shadow on whatever you say, do, think, feel… And that makes life harder than it has to be.
But it doesn’t have to be that way. You can learn how to handle emotional triggers, difficult habits, and inner critics in a way that leaves you feeling better about yourself. Let me help you get started (and share what you can do to keep going!).
Focusing Nivel Intermedio
A partir de Septiembre.
Lunes 18 a 20 (hora del Este)
Lunes 19 a 21 hs. (Hora Argentina)
Si ya tenés nivel 1 y 2 de Focusing y querés seguir avanzando, o ya tenés una idea y querés seguir practicando...estos encuentros son para vos! Serás muy bienvenido/a.
Comunicate conmigo al +5491157408743 o a [email protected]
En esta certificación podrás experimentar muchos aspectos olvidados de quien realmente eres que se irán integrando como rompecabezas para sentirte en LIBERTAD de ser tú mismo.
This is a 6 week online Course for Beginners (level 1) with the possibility of doing the other levels of the Focusing Training Program that lead to certification or just enjoy the learning and practice of Focusing at any level you choose.
We'll be meeting once a week for two hours during these 6 weeks. where we will share Gendlin's wisdom and also go into Polyvagal Theory and understand how our bodies are always trying to keep us safe and carry us in the direction of life.
Tuesdays 11 am -1 pm (Eastern time)
For more information and registering, please e mail me: [email protected] or whatsapp +5491157408743
What does it mean to GUIDE someone else in ways that bring life forward movement? This one-year course is for those wanting to dive deep into the intricacies of one-to-one relationships. This community is for those who often find themselves in situations of facilitating change for others. It’s a great option for those who do not need certification, and also works well if you are already certified or possibly alongside another certification program.
This learning community begins as a year-long program meeting fifteen times for 1.5 hours and continues with regular one-hour meetings as long as you wish to join us. This course does NOT provide certification as a Focusing Guide.
Fall 2021 will meet on Thursdays, 7:30-9pm ET, New York time, beginning Sept 2.
Esta serie brinda un espacio para conectar miembros hispanohablantes del Instituto Internacional de Focusing (TIFI). Es un espacio para aprender y expandir el conocimiento sobre Focusing y temas relacionados. El concepto de "Cafecitos" viene de la idea de estar en la casa de un amigo/a y conversar tomándose un café. Queremos que estos Cafecitos se sientan acogedores y que tú te sientas en casa durante estas entrevistas. Cada Cafecito tiene a un nuevo entrevistado quien compartirá su conocimiento sobre algún tema en especial con la comunidad hispanohablante. Estos Cafecitos son sin cargo para los miembros del TIFI con lo cual es condición estar asociado al TIFI para participar. Si aún no eres miembro de TIFI puedes acceder a www.focusing.org/membership o escribirnos a [email protected]
Entrenarás habilidades para profundizar tu relación con la Voz Critica Interna, y con el Niño interno, de modo tal que puedan fluir los aspectos trabados, donde la energía de vida se encuentra estancada.
In this Oceania Roundtable, the question we will explore is "Can Focusing transform how we handle hot potatoes?" We will organize our exploration into two stages, first working in small groups to bring awareness to our own personal patterns of handling hot potatoes and then experimenting by choosing a hot potato to discuss together.
Friday, 27th August 2021 from 9:00am-11:00am Sydney, AEST
Friday, 27th August from 11:00am-1:00pm, New Zealand, NZST
Friday, 27th August from 7:00am-9:00am Perth, Western Australia, AWST
Is there something that you’d like to do or write about but you lack the confidence to begin? Thinking at the Edge helps you sense into the “more” behind your ideas so that you can write and act from what you know.
Do you long to contribute to the world from the richness of the insights life has given you? With Thinking at the Edge, you delve into your own experience so that your new direction follows from of all you have lived.
Maybe you need clarity and next steps about a persistent problem or a complex issue. With Thinking at the Edge you can find the unique gifts within the challenges you face.
Esta conversación en línea gratuita es parte de la serie Focusing Roundtable especialmente para miembros de TIFI.
En esta Mesa Redonda invitaremos a la sensación sentida de cada persona sobre la muerte. De allí se podrá experimentar como reconocer completamente lo sentido puede cambiar profundamente nuestra relaciones y manera de vivir.
Throughout his life - Gendlin, the philosopher of ‘being human’ - continuously investigated the processes that enabled life to move forward and evolve.
We were excited to discover that in his last years Gendlin explored the intricate connections between humans and the larger system, a discovery that inspired our path of on-going crossing between Focusing and prayer.
In this webinar we will: Explore what happens when we “Clear the space” for the word “prayer”; Become inspired by relevant texts of Gendlin's philosophy when you read them with a fresh perspective; Learn and experience the new kind of model of “Prayer for Focusers” we developed.
There will also be time for questions and comments from participants. This webinar is intended for those already familiar with Focusing though all are welcome to attend.
An online, interactive 4-session course facilitated by Amona Buechler. Takes place on 4 Wednesdays: August 4, 11, 18, and 25, 2021.
Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and Focusing in combination offer a beautiful ground for exploring how to refine these delicate listening and communication skills.
All are welcome. The class size will not be limited and participants do not need to attend live. Recordings of the individual sessions will be distributed to all registrants prior to the next session (except in the case of technical difficulties).
Nuestro espacio está destinado a brindar tanto un lugar de práctica para aquellos que están aprendiendo, como así tambien una oportunidad para aquellos que sientan ganas de conocer qué es Focusing, y vivenciarlo mediante breve práctica.
Is there something that you’d like to do or write about but you lack the confidence to begin? Thinking at the Edge helps you sense into the “more” behind your ideas so that you can write and act from what you know.
Do you long to contribute to the world from the richness of the insights life has given you? With Thinking at the Edge, you delve into your own experience so that your new direction follows from of all you have lived.
Maybe you need clarity and next steps about a persistent problem or a complex issue. With Thinking at the Edge you can find the unique gifts within the challenges you face.
Much remains to be explored and learned about how Focusing can enhance organizational effectiveness, leadership and the employee experience. In this Roundtable we will explore what happens (or could happen) when The Pause is brought into our organizations, businesses and workplaces.
> Companion: Sharing Your Responses to the Focuser’s Session
> When to use which ‘Reminding Suggestion’?
> Letting the Full ‘Felt Sense’ Emerge for a Deep, Meaningful Process
> Being in Presence versus Being Merged, Noticing the Difference
> Closure, Resources, Future Perspectives
What might our human world look like if we were to organise it with the felt sense in mind?
We can make the felt sense an organising principle for everyone in responding to the world around us in a reflective manner. We can listen to it in facing our collective challenges, including climate change and other threats to our future.
In this Highlight webinar Peter will present a neuroscience perspective on the felt sense as the expression of one half of the brain – the right hemisphere – and he will suggest some features of this organising principle.
The illustrated presentation will be followed by discussion so that participants have the opportunity to contribute their own thoughts on the subject.
All are welcome to attend. Some familiarity with Focusing will be helpful, but is not required.
Much remains to be explored and learned about how Focusing can enhance organizational effectiveness, leadership and the employee experience. In this Roundtable we will explore what happens (or could happen) when The Pause is brought into our organizations, businesses and workplaces.
This short course will introduce you to my three favourite experiential dreamwork methods: focusing, gestalt and active imagination. You will learn basic and important ways to use these methods to engage with dreams and also to help treat nightmares, a critical skill for any clinician working with clients who suffer from depression or the effects of trauma.
The 3-hour live online class will be divided into the follow sections:
- Overview of embodied experiential dreamwork practice
- Techniques to weave focusing (Gendlin), Gestalt therapy (Perls) and active imagination (Jung) together for a safe, gentle and deeply experiential approach to any dream
- Application, including demos and exercises for working with the dreams and nightmares in a safe, engaging and deeply experiential way
The Weeklong is the flagship event of The International Focusing Institute, begun in 1979. It is intended for all those who are advanced in their practice of Focusing. It is a warm and intimate event, and features a certification ceremony.
This year, we encourage attendees (if it is feasible) to find a place to be away from home while attending the Weeklong online. If possible, arrange to be somewhere with great internet service which will allow you to be away from your everyday life, in order to have a retreat during the week.
How to develop moment-by-moment presence: Leslie Ellis, Serge Prengel, and Jan Winhall will address this question and any questions you may have about the Integrative Focusing Therapy training that starts this September.
Post-event registration is open. Access to full Symposium recordings and resources remain available through July 31, 2021. The Departments of Psychology and Philosophy at Seattle University, in partnership with The Gendlin Center for Research of the International Focusing Institute, held a symposium advancing the work of Eugene Gendlin. Participants to exploreD the implications of Gendlin’s posthumous collection Saying What We Mean: Implicit Precision and the Responsive Order (2018). This extraordinary collection, edited by Edward Casey and Donata Schoeller, brings together a series of essays demonstrating Gendlin’s creative and insightful ability to balance conversations across a wide range of voices in philosophy and psychology.
Our plenary speakers were Ed Casey, Robert Scharff, Donata Schoeller and Eric Severson. Recordings from these and all participant paper presentations as well as pre-recorded participant papers are included with post - event registration.
As life starts to expand again, it might seem like everything is getting easier. And, in some ways, that's true. Yet, there are also challenges (and stressors) you probably haven't had to face for a long time. One thing is for sure, we are in times of unprecedented change (at least in our lifetimes) and that's a hard place to be.
This is a 30-minute free webinar (with Ann Weiser Cornell) with warm, positive tips for emotional self-care in these challenging times.
My 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.
Note: This workshop has concluded, however, Post-Workshop Registration is now open. All registrants will have access to course materials and recordings from July 9-October 15, 2021.
This 4-day intensive workshop will focus on Gendlin’s 'basic model' within A Process Model.
In this experiential workshop, Donata will guide participants through chosen paragraphs from the first 4 chapters which lay a path of understanding. From there it will be easier and more pleasurable to re-read the original text.
Registrants should have familiarity with Focusing, but do not need experience with philosophy or A Process Model.
NOTE: This workshop is designed for either full live registration or registration for the recordings. Each day of this 4-day workshop builds upon the day before. Therefore, we ask that registrants plan to attend all 4 sessions live or wait for the recordings.
All registrants will receive a link to the recordings approximately 2 weeks after the conclusion of the workshop (breakout rooms are not recorded).
Esta serie brinda un espacio para conectar miembros hispanohablantes del Instituto Internacional de Focusing (TIFI). Es un espacio para aprender y expandir el conocimiento sobre Focusing y temas relacionados. En este Cafecito compartiremos la historia del “Recovery Focusing “ y una experiencia de las tres fases de su modelo HOW We Heal.
Please join bestselling author and Focusing Trainer Ann Dowsett Johnston for a three-hour experiential workshop on Zoom. Learn how to use your felt sense as a compass in your writing, guiding you to find your truest voice, your deepest feelings, your most authentic storytelling.
As we move beyond midsummer, we are surrounded by the aliveness and bounty of Nature. We tend the land and provide the best conditions for everything to grow, but most of the process of growth goes on quietly, out of sight, visible only through its fruits.
In this gathering, you are invited to give your body the best conditions you can for awakening more fully to its own aliveness, for stepping back and sensing into the underlying energy field of spacious, life-giving Presence that animates and heals us.
While technology clearly enables many wonderful things (this Roundtable, for example), we may have never paused to reflect deeply on the nature of our relationship to the digital wilderness we now inhabit. In this Roundtable, we’ll address the issues presented by our digital world.
This is an 8 week Level 1 totally online course, with the possibility of doing the other levels of the Focusing Training Program that leads to certification or just enjoy the learning and practice of Focusing at any level you choose.
We'll be meeting once a week for two hours during these 8weeks. where we will share Gendlin's wisdom and also go into Polyvagal Theory and understand how our bodies are always trying to keep us safe and carry us in the direction of life.
Thursdays in the evening: 6.30 pm-8.30 pm (Argentina time) This course will be starting Thursday 1st of July with a break the week of July 22 (Weeklong is taking place) and going on for 8 weeks.
For more information and registering, please e mail me: [email protected] or whatsapp +5491157408743
There was too much content to fit in the Highlights Series! So, here's an eight-week course.
Drawing like Focusing is a set of individual skills or parts that, when combined, result in a global process that allows us to see the world in a new way. Join us to explore how drawing can facilitate fresh understanding, new ways of seeing your inner process.
No drawing skills required! People who claim "I'm-not-an-artist" and newly emerging drawers are welcome and encouraged.
While technology clearly enables many wonderful things (this Roundtable, for example), we may have never paused to reflect deeply on the nature of our relationship to the digital wilderness we now inhabit. In this Roundtable, we’ll address the issues presented by our digital world.
As life starts to expand again, it might seem like everything is getting easier. And, in some ways, that's true. Yet, there are also challenges (and stressors) you probably haven't had to face for a long time. One thing is for sure, we are in times of unprecedented change (at least in our lifetimes) and that's a hard place to be.
This is a 30-minute free webinar (with Ann Weiser Cornell) with warm, positive tips for emotional self-care in these challenging times.
My 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.
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 136 page 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 your clients.
This event is full and registration is closed. In this Roundtable we will connect with our own experiences of being at school, taking those exams and going home with the results. We invite you to explore how we can support children during these stressful times and explore different kinds of expressing and supporting.
An online, interactive workshop facilitated by Serge Prengel. This offering will be held in meeting format so that all participants can see the presenter and each other.
This experiential workshop is especially timely for people who live in an area where re-entry is starting at some point this year. For those in countries where re-entry is still a distant hope, this class might help you prepare for when that moment finally comes.
Attending live is encouraged as there will be the some exercises in breakout rooms, though all registrants will receive a link to the recording afterwards.
In this course you will learn:
How to find what inspires you and you want to express it, but have difficulties in finding the right words;
How to think and use language from your felt sensing;
How to write for yourself and how to write for the public;
How to use these tools at your work and in your therapy practice.
Esta conversación en línea gratuita es parte de la serie Focusing Roundtable especialmente para miembros de TIFI.
En esta Mesa Redonda exploraremos esos momentos en donde hay incertidumbre, falta de propósito y sentido. El poder estar con lo desconocido de eso que se quiere formar y aun no lo ha hecho. Confiando en la desconfianza con el proceso natural de la vida.
Drawing like Focusing is a set of individual skills or parts that, when combined, result in a global process that allows us to see the world in a new way. Discard notions of what an artist is and use drawings as an experience that can be tooled, like writing, to deepen your understanding of your experience.
Join us to cross and explore the relationship between the wholes and parts of these ways of seeing. We will learn how drawing can be a perceptual problem-solving tool and process record in your focusing practice.
All are welcome to attend. Some familiarity with Focusing will be helpful but is not required. People who say “I am not an artist, I can barely draw a stick figure” as well as working or professional artists are equally welcome.
This training workshop will train participants in the understanding and use of the Alexander Technique. Focusing and Family Systems and the theory and practice of working with Parts. We will practice working with the "Energetic Connection", both externally in personal relationships, in nature and internally in healing conflicted parts.
Note: 2 sections, June 2 and June 10 - registration is permitted for one or the other. This free online conversation is Part of the Focusing Roundtable series for TIFI members. The TIFI Membership Committee is pleased to introduce Therapist Roundtables, a Roundtable series designed especially for members who work with clients in therapeutic settings.
Listening to the wisdom of our bodies
This is an 8 week Level 1 totally online course, with the possibility of doing the other levels of the Focusing Training Program that leads to certification or just enjoy the learning and practice of Focusing at any level you choose.
We'll be meeting once a week for two hours during these 8 weeks, where we will share Gendlin's wisdom and also go into Polyvagal Theory and understand how our bodies are always trying to keep us safe and carry us in the direction of life.
There are two options:
Thursdays in the morning: 10 am -12 pm (Argentina time)
Thursdays in the evening: 6.30 pm-8.30 pm (Argentina time). This course will be starting Thursday 1st of July
Inner critics can be crushing, right? From paralyzing you with perfectionism to hurling shame-inducing words your way, they know how to hurt you.
It might surprise you to hear that inner critics actually have good intentions. They’re really just trying to save your life (I promise!). They mean well. But they’re afraid of what might happen if you ____. And the only way those voices know how to defend you leaves you feeling terrible.
Join me for Finding Freedom From Inner Critics and find a new way to relate to the negative, shaming voice in your head.
Join Marise Lariviere and Lynn Pollock, Certified Focusing Trainers: Specialization in FOAT®, for an introductory workshop combining FOAT® and SoulCollage® - two creative and insightful approaches to inner exploration. This workshop is open to all levels!
It feels like an apt moment to invite you to our next Pause for Presence gathering on Saturday June 5th. We are moving towards the Summer Solstice and if we let Nature be just as it is, the new life of Spring will naturally mature into the fullness and bounty of the earth.
Las practicas tutorizadas de Focusing son una parte fundamental en el proceso formativo. En ellas se aprende a facilitar a otras personas el proceso experiencial de Focusing.
Para acompañar estos procesos es necesario adquirir las actitudes básicas de este modelo, su metodología y los recursos suficientes para poder adaptarse a las necesidades individuales de la persona que va a enfocar.
Se adaptarán también los conocimientos necesarios en función del ámbito en el que se aplicara Focusing: psicoterapia, educación, salud, crecimiento personal, etc.
En estos espacios formativos y experienciales se combina el aprendizaje individual enriquecido siempre por la participación del grupo.
My training program is to help more Chinese people to learn about Focusing, using Chinese directly, To sense the philosophy of felt sense and accompany it, in order to transform their lives and emotions through this process.
Note: 2 sections, June 2 and June 10 - registration is permitted for one or the other. This free online conversation is Part of the Focusing Roundtable series for TIFI members. The TIFI Membership Committee is pleased to introduce Therapist Roundtables, a Roundtable series designed especially for members who work with clients in therapeutic settings.
Es una forma de atención corporal que te permite ir más allá de los pensamientos , sentimientos y emociones conocidas, los mandatos, creencias y condicionamientos...para poder contactarte con lo más real y auténtico en vos y comenzar a dar esos pasos de cambio que hasta ahora no podías dar, contactarte con todo tu potencial y creatividad y llevar tu vida adelante.
Si ya sos un profesional en el ámbito de ayuda y querés profundizar en la escucha, en la exploración y en la congruencia tanto para tu ser profesional como para ofrecerlo a otros, estos encuentros también son para vos!
Vos elegís la modalidad. Podés optar por realizar la Diplomatura o simplemente participar de los encuentros una vez a la semana por zoom!
Para registrarte, por favor envíame mail a [email protected] o comunícate al 5491157408743
Naty Calviño
Focusing Trainer (con certificación del Instituto Internacional de Focusing de Nueva York)
Esta serie brinda un espacio para conectar miembros hispanohablantes del Instituto Internacional de Focusing (TIFI). Es un espacio para aprender y expandir el conocimiento sobre Focusing y temas relacionados. El concepto de "Cafecitos" viene de la idea de estar en la casa de un amigo/a y conversar tomándose un café. Queremos que estos Cafecitos se sientan acogedores y que tú te sientas en casa durante estas entrevistas. Cada Cafecito tiene a un nuevo entrevistado quien compartirá su conocimiento sobre algún tema en especial con la comunidad hispanohablante. Estos Cafecitos son sin cargo para los miembros del TIFI con lo cual es condición estar asociado al TIFI para participar. Si aún no eres miembro de TIFI puedes acceder a www.focusing.org/membership o escribirnos a [email protected]