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Please note: Listings on this page are either events organized by The International Focusing Institute (TIFI), or are offered independently by Certified Focusing Professionals.  Those organized by TIFI will have one of TIFI’s logos.

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- Eastern Time (New York)
Focusing as your inner GPS Serge Prengel
I teach Focusing as the mindful practice of using your embodied intelligence. That is, to be more in touch with your inner GPS, your bodily felt sense, and use it to navigate the challenges of life.

This 4-session course starts on October 18, 2023. The other sessions are on November 1, November 15, and November 29. It is scheduled at a time convenient for people in many time zones (12:15 pm to 1:45 pm New York time).

Online (Zoom)
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
- Pacific
Ann Weiser Cornell
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.

Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
- Pacific
Ann Weiser Cornell
You've discovered you love Focusing...and you also know there's so much more to learn about applying it to your life. Living a Focusing Life is an 18-meeting, live, online advanced Focusing course to help you gain more confidence as a Focusing partner and work with key issues like action blocks, decisions, and more.

Taught by Ann Weiser Cornell (author of The Power of Focusing).

Includes videos, readings, discussions, group exercises, and partnership practices.

Online via Zoom
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
- Self-paced course, time zones not applicable.
Ann Weiser Cornell
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!
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
Trainer's photo
This is a series of Saturday workshops, running once a month, with virtually open intake. Only the Introduction, "The Art of Focusing" (or equivilant) must be taken as a pre-req, the remaining modules are totally flexible. Students who complete 16 specific modules, along with additional practice and supervision criteria, may become certified as a Focusing Oriented Therapist. Program completion takes about 17 -20 months.


Online, Pacific Standard time zone
Topic: Certification
- Eastern (New York) Time
TIFI Events logo Donata Schoeller
In this workshop, Donata invites us on a journey of realization in which we: Acknowledge our entanglement within an environmental crisis that goes right through the way we think, live, and imply; Reconnect ourselves to the non-man-made energy within our interactional bodies; Explore how the foundational terms in Eugene Gendlin’s A Process Model help us through the moves of acknowledging and reconnecting; and Deliberately experiment and investigate experiences that do not make sense within linguistic divisions.

Registrants should have familiarity with Focusing, but do not need experience with philosophy.

Recordings will be made available to all registrants within 3 hours after each session for viewing prior to the next day - and will be available for

Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, TAE/Philosophy, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
- Pacific Time
Ann Weiser Cornell and Barbara McGavin
Has Focusing changed your life in a profound way? Do you feel called to help facilitate that kind of powerful change for other people? Our two-year live, online program will give you the skills you need to become a Certified Focusing Professional.

Build a profession teaching Focusing, add Focusing to your current profession, or bring Focusing to your family and community.

Our next program starts in October.
Taught by Ann Weiser Cornell, Barbara McGavin, and Additional Program Faculty.

Online via Zoom
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
- EST
Amona Buechler, Focusing Trainer Nervous System Reset
After accidents, certain neurological illnesses, or emotionally challenging incidences, the autonomic nervous system can get stuck in repetitive patterns, overreacting to specific cues. This challenges 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...

This is an introduction to a 21-week Nervous System Reset Online Course
November 18, 2023, until April 06, 2024

Donation based
Time listed in EST, suitable for American and European time zones.

zoom
Topic: Other
Woman in a business jacket with hair pulled back and a blank drop back Logo for Focusing With Laura
You are invited to further explore and delve into the intricacies of Inner Relationship Focusing. This nine-week live virtual course provides you the time and space to assimilate and utilize the insights acquired in Foundations Training Part 1. By developing your inner environment, you will be able to foster genuine, profound, and enduring transformation!

Zoom
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
- Pacific
Jinevra Howard Ann Weiser Cornell
Discover powerful skills for life change based on self-acceptance and being present in the moment. Start to experience the process of Focusing and Focusing partnership. Learn how to cultivate an inner environment of calm, open, curious awareness which is the foundation from which lasting change emerges. Interactive beginning Focusing training by Zoom for 9 weeks, includes partnership practice.

Taught by Jinevra Howard and Ann Weiser Cornell (author of The Power of Focusing).

Includes videos, demos, readings, discussion, group exercises, and individual sessions.

Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
- US Eastern Time
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We explore and practice the basic ideas of Focusing: felt sensing, embodied experience, active listening, the six steps, and "parts" (a linguistic trope that helps us hold attention on unclear or uncomfortable aspects of our experiencing).

This section of the course is for beginners, or anyone seeking a refresher. The emphasis is on the skills and practice of Experiential Focusing. There will likely be a mix of experienced and novice students. From here, a student can continue on with the certification program, or join a CHANGES group, or join a part of the course cycle that appeals to them when the time comes around.


online
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
- Eastern time
Ruth in Jerusalem
The Intermediate-Advanced comprehensive Online Program has been offered by the International Focusing Institute since 2014, and privately since 1995. Equivalent to Levels 3 and 4, the program features training in a small group (maximum 8 participants), a 102 page Training Manual, demos, group and individual exercises, and support in deepening and expanding your understanding and skills in Focusing as well as in sharing Focusing with others.

Online
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
Eating, The big picture
"Eating, the Big Picture" Disney based course invitation:

In Disney-Pixar-movie "Frozen II" it creatively shows how following
a special voice, only oneself can hear, leads to the source of truth
that has never been voiced to us. It shows how this discovery is life saving.

In the new Disney-Pixar-movie "Elemental" it creatively shows how
through a new relationship between basic elements, never thought
possible, the main character finds her true-self.

In "Eating, the Big Picture" course we creatively go to the source in
us, to discover a truth, to make a new relationships with the elements;
food, our true-selves and others, by that we create a more flavorful life.

Online on Zoom
Topic: TAE/Philosophy
- Australian Eastern Daylight Time
Merilyn Mayhew Sue Burrell
Changes Groups give you a chance to slow down and connect with whatever there is inside you that needs your kind attention.

Online
Topic: Changes Groups
- MESZ
Eingang zum igf-Berlin in Mühlenbeck Ansicht 1 Gruppenraum (EG) Ansicht 2 Gruppenraum (EG) Wintergarten vor dem Gruppenraum
Die "Basisausbildung Gesprächs- und Focusingtherapie (igf)" dient zur
Befähigung Menschen mit Focusing zu begleiten auch Focusing in Gruppen anzuleiten. Sie ist auch die Voraussetzung um an der traumasensiblen Focusing-Therapieausbildung am igf-Berlin teilzunehmen.
Die Ausbildung ist besonders geeignet für Menschen, die in beratenden, psycho-sozialen und vor allem in therapeutischen Bereichen tätig sind und ebenso geeignet für Interessentinnen, die ihre persönlichen und beruflichen Ressourcen fördern, sich einfach weiter entwickeln möchten.

Mühlenbeck bei Berlin / Germany
Topic: FOT
- EASTERN TIME
GENDLIN AT THE MOVIES: The study of Gendlin’s work through the medium of video
Many of us have been grounded, nourished and inspired by Gendlin’s prolific writings about psychotherapy and philosophy, and the links between them. But some of his ideas, especially in the philosophical realm, have been difficult for the uninitiated to fully grasp. We are fortunate now in this technological era to have at our fingertips a new, more immediate vehicle for experiencing Gendlin’s foundational ideas—one that not only conveys the power of his words, but also brings us into a lived experience of his way of being.
In this module of our “Therapeutic Us” seminar we will engage not only with Gendlin’s groundbreaking theoretical perspective and his clinical approach, but with his unique presence, which is the embodiment of his teachings. Videos of Gendlin’s talks, demos and

ONLINE
Topic: FOT
- EST
Headshot of a Woman wearing a business jacket and dark brown hair against a plain back drop Logo with hand drawn circles and the words Focusing With Laura beside it in blue
You are invited to become a part of our group as we learn the Inner Relationship Focusing process. In this live virtual nine-week course, you will acquire the skills necessary for cultivating radical lasting life change.

At our core, we are dedicated to cultivating close-knit classroom settings that prioritize immersive, experiential education. Say goodbye to silently staring at screens! We'll methodically practice the art of Focusing together. Our curriculum includes informative lectures, illustrative demonstrations, interactive Q&As, thought-provoking activities, and collaborative partner exercises.

Online
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
- EST
Headshot of a Woman wearing a business jacket and dark brown hair against a plain back drop Logo with hand drawn circles and the words Focusing With Laura beside it in blue
You are invited to become a part of our group as we learn the Inner Relationship Focusing process. In this live virtual nine-week course, you will acquire the skills necessary for cultivating radical lasting life change.

At our core, we are dedicated to cultivating close-knit classroom settings that prioritize immersive, experiential education. Say goodbye to silently staring at screens! We'll methodically practice the art of Focusing together. Our curriculum includes informative lectures, illustrative demonstrations, interactive Q&As, thought-provoking activities, and collaborative partner exercises.

Online
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
- Central European Time (CEST)
Vera Rolfine Fryd Focusing path
Get to know the wonderful process of Felt Sensing, (Focusing), that gives you access to what you know, your inner voice, and to more compassion and self-compassion, openness and spaciousness, in encountering your own and others' inner world.
The course is online and runs in the evening, Central European (Summer) Time.

Online on Zoom - a link will be provided before the course starts
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
- Pacific
Person with coffee cup and journal and pen Picture of Paula Gamble-Grant
Write Your Soul is a 4 week online cohort that offers you an embodied process of discovering more deeply the Sound of the Genuine within.

During this Soulshop, we will participate in different writing and soul listening practices in order to overhear your heart and to sense the ways you want to move forward.

Online
Topic: Spirituality