Past Events
Primary tabs
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.
-
GMT
In June 2025, Professor Akira Ikemi will lead a three-day workshop for intermediate-level focusers in Warsaw, Poland. The workshop will cover Professor Ikemi’s current interests: Focusing Alpha and Focusing Beta, introduce Asian Focusing, and explore experiential scales. It is a great opportunity to practice in an international Focusing community and to visit the beautiful city of Warsaw at this lovely time of year. The workshop will be conducted in English.
INTRA, 40 Bajana Street, 01-904 Warsaw, Poland
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
-
Eastern Time
Join us for Part 2 of the live, virtual 9-week training in Inner Relationship Focusing. This next step in your journey deepens your practice, equipping you with the skills to foster profound, lasting change in both your personal and professional life.
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate
-
New York Time
The members of the TIFI Membership Committee are pleased to invite you to our first Members Meet the Membership Committee event!
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
-
Irish Time
This is a space for those who have completed Year 1 of Focusing or its equivalent of Proficiency in Focusing listening, or are currently on the path to becoming Focusing Practitioners. And also a space for those who want to sensed their way into Focusing through monthly monographics with a Focusing Community. It’s a place to deepen your practice, month by month, held in the company of others, and guided by the richness of life themes we all meet in ourselves, like Shame, Anger, Inner Critic, Pleasure, and the Inner Child.
Focusing invites us to listen deeply, gently turning toward what lives in us with care and curiosity. Through this process, we connect more fully with our emotional and relational landscapes, both personally and collectively.
If you’ve been
Focusing invites us to listen deeply, gently turning toward what lives in us with care and curiosity. Through this process, we connect more fully with our emotional and relational landscapes, both personally and collectively.
If you’ve been
Topic: Ongoing
-
Fifth session July 1st 2025
Reading Freshly
An opportunity to read Gendlin’s seminal book Focusing with others
A Free Event for Members
Live (no recording)
Fifth session July 1, 2025 - We will start Chapter 3.
An opportunity to read Gendlin’s seminal book Focusing with others
A Free Event for Members
Live (no recording)
Fifth session July 1, 2025 - We will start Chapter 3.
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, Ongoing, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
-
Eastern Daylight Saving Time/Eastern Time for November meeting
If you’re drawn to inner exploration, this course offers a gentle, structured way to stay with what’s not yet clear. Based on Thinking at the Edge, Thetaland® – The Game of Inquiry invites you into creative dialogue with your felt sense. Over six months, you'll receive videos, weekly inspirations, live sessions, and a supportive community. Thetaland® becomes a steady companion—playful, profound, and attuned to your unique inner process.
The course starts on July 1st. Pre-registration ends on June 15.
The course starts on July 1st. Pre-registration ends on June 15.
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Changes Groups, TAE/Philosophy
-
Hora de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Intercambiar modos, descubrir necesidades (personales o de equipo) y reflexionar sobre cómo estamos viviendo estos procesos
Topic: Other
-
Jerusalem Time
At some time or another, all of us have been in conflict with someone that we love or that is significant in our lives. Perhaps it was a parent, a child, a partner, a friend, a colleague…whoever it was, something happened, something got in the way of the relationship.
In Social Oriented Focusing ׂׂ(SOFׁ) there is an understanding that the relationship is more important than the conflict, and from this perspective, we can use SOF tools to stop our automatic patterns of reacting and actually manage the conflict.
In Social Oriented Focusing ׂׂ(SOFׁ) there is an understanding that the relationship is more important than the conflict, and from this perspective, we can use SOF tools to stop our automatic patterns of reacting and actually manage the conflict.
Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
-
Start ; Friday, 15:00 pm central european time
Thematic workshops: throughout the 4 days, a number of workshops on the theme of the inner path will be offered by various IFEF-certified trainers. They form the core of the seminar.
Introductory workshops on the practice of focusing: a “red thread” of discovery over 4 days: the stages of the focusing process, “bodily sense” and the experiential dimension, “bodily movement” and the emergence process, listening and internal location, etc...
Small groups: These are daily places of exchange, listening and sharing, where everyone meets up with the same participants in a more intimate space throughout the seminar.
Introductory workshops on the practice of focusing: a “red thread” of discovery over 4 days: the stages of the focusing process, “bodily sense” and the experiential dimension, “bodily movement” and the emergence process, listening and internal location, etc...
Small groups: These are daily places of exchange, listening and sharing, where everyone meets up with the same participants in a more intimate space throughout the seminar.
Les Jardins intérieurs Quartier le buis – 07200 St Privat FRANCE – tél +33 (0)9 70 40 82 15 Coordonnées G.P.S : L.N.44°37'31'' l. E.4° 24' 38''
-
New York Time
Gendlin valued Clearing a Space very highly. How about you? Is Clearing a Space (CAS) a standard part of your own Focusing practice, or your teaching of Focusing? Or have you replaced it with something else – maybe an attunement? Join us to share what place CAS has in your Focusing practice – is it essential, optional, irrelevant or something else?
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
-
Eastern Time, New York, USA
Smartview Conversations is a monthly online gathering to explore the application of our Focusing skills to daily life and interactions. Our skill emphasis for 2025 is being our own Self-Mentor. We will explore and build the resourcing qualities life is asking of us now.
We will model how to create a safe, playful environment that facilitates neural plasticity. These webinars are FREE to attend. Both experienced Focusers and people new to Focusing are welcome. These webinars emphasize Gendlin's action step; how is it we bring Focusing concepts into our daily living.
We meet on the 4th Tuesday, twice in the same day for different time zones. The times are 11:30am - 12:30pm ET New York time and 7:30 - 8:30pm ET New York time.
We will model how to create a safe, playful environment that facilitates neural plasticity. These webinars are FREE to attend. Both experienced Focusers and people new to Focusing are welcome. These webinars emphasize Gendlin's action step; how is it we bring Focusing concepts into our daily living.
We meet on the 4th Tuesday, twice in the same day for different time zones. The times are 11:30am - 12:30pm ET New York time and 7:30 - 8:30pm ET New York time.
Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, Ongoing
-
Central European Time = GMT+1 (Budapest)
How can we experience inner safety in the midst of constant change – not just in theory, but in the body and through lived experience?
Experiential Focusing offers a way to connect to change and to our inner sense of safety through bodily felt sensations.
Experiential Focusing offers a way to connect to change and to our inner sense of safety through bodily felt sensations.
MEMO Conference Hall, Budapest, Hungary
-
CET
Facilitadores: Coordinadores Focusing Focusing España
-
New York Time
The members of the TIFI Membership Committee are pleased to invite you to our first Members Meet the Membership Committee event!
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
-
New York time
This Highlight explores what a Focusing-Oriented Coaching approach can look like. Many coaches have trained in Focusing but often struggle with therapeutic language and examples that don’t fully align with a coaching framework. By bridging this gap, the program offers a path for coaches to integrate Focusing into their practice in a way that honors both its depth and the distinct nature of coaching.
All are welcome to attend and participate, with or without prior knowledge of Gendlin’s Philosophy. No affiliation with Education or learning is needed.
All are welcome to attend and participate, with or without prior knowledge of Gendlin’s Philosophy. No affiliation with Education or learning is needed.
Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
-
Eastern Time
Dana and Baruch in person!
2 Day residential retreat in beautiful Chelsea, Michigan, USA. The purpose of the workshop is to explore, through direct experience, the process of moving through different states of consciousness until reaching a unique state called "prayer consciousness." In this state, a shift occurs in the perception of life, giving rise to new steps into reality.
2 Day residential retreat in beautiful Chelsea, Michigan, USA. The purpose of the workshop is to explore, through direct experience, the process of moving through different states of consciousness until reaching a unique state called "prayer consciousness." In this state, a shift occurs in the perception of life, giving rise to new steps into reality.
Chelsea, Michigan, USA
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, FOT, Spirituality, TAE/Philosophy
This is a series of Saturday workshops, running once a month, with virtually open intake. Only the Introduction, "The Art of Focusing" (or equivalent) 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.
Topic: Certification, FOT, Ongoing
-
New York Time
Six-Session Group taking a Fresh Look at Gendlin's "Small Steps"
led by Beatrice Blake
A Free Event for Members
Live (no recording)
Once a month on Fridays June - November
led by Beatrice Blake
A Free Event for Members
Live (no recording)
Once a month on Fridays June - November
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, Ongoing, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
-
New York time
For both philosophers, encountering Gendlin sparked a deep connection—something just "clicked." Their openness to taking a leap into philosophical practice and its underlying process philosophy allowed them to engage with his ideas in a transformative way.
This is a "pay what you can" event. It will be recorded (except small group breakout rooms) for later viewing if you cannot attend live.
This is a "pay what you can" event. It will be recorded (except small group breakout rooms) for later viewing if you cannot attend live.
Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, TAE/Philosophy, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
-
CET
Formación de prácticas online
Facilitadora: Yolanda Vaquero, trainer focusing
Facilitadora: Yolanda Vaquero, trainer focusing