Past Events
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
In the first-year students learn the core essentials of focusing guiding and how to help their client’s ‘go inside’ to find, open, and move forward a felt sense, leading to transformation and lasting change. In addition, students will start to learn how to bring focusing into that relational and faster pace dynamic of therapeutic conversations.
If students choose to they then can have the option to join a second year where they learn further how to use a more improvisational style of a therapeutic conversation. In addition, we learn how to work with the ‘one interaction’ that we are together by using the felt sense of the relationship (the felt sense of the ‘I’, of the ‘You’, & of the ‘Us’) to move the interaction and the client forward. We further learn how to be ‘the
If students choose to they then can have the option to join a second year where they learn further how to use a more improvisational style of a therapeutic conversation. In addition, we learn how to work with the ‘one interaction’ that we are together by using the felt sense of the relationship (the felt sense of the ‘I’, of the ‘You’, & of the ‘Us’) to move the interaction and the client forward. We further learn how to be ‘the
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Eastern Time
In the first-year students learn the core essentials of focusing guiding and how to help their client’s ‘go inside’ to find, open, and move forward a felt sense, leading to transformation and lasting change.
In the second-year students learn how to weave the guiding they learnt in the first year seamlessly into the more fluid and improvisational style of a therapeutic conversation. In addition, we learn how to work with the ‘one interaction’ that we are together by using the felt sense of the relationship (the felt sense of the ‘I’, of the ‘You’, & of the ‘Us’) to move the interaction and the client forward. We further learn how to be ‘the interaction that makes it better’ which is the concept and practice that Eugene Gendlin talked about being the center of his work with
In the second-year students learn how to weave the guiding they learnt in the first year seamlessly into the more fluid and improvisational style of a therapeutic conversation. In addition, we learn how to work with the ‘one interaction’ that we are together by using the felt sense of the relationship (the felt sense of the ‘I’, of the ‘You’, & of the ‘Us’) to move the interaction and the client forward. We further learn how to be ‘the interaction that makes it better’ which is the concept and practice that Eugene Gendlin talked about being the center of his work with
Two-Year Online Focusing Certification with International Guest Teachers (63 CE credits)
Topic: FOT
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AEST - Australian Eastern Standard Time
Our Changes Group is a free, peer-led group that meets so people can exchange Focusing and listening turns in an atmosphere of safety and mutual respect. It is a group for developing and continuing your Focusing practice.
Online
Topic: Changes Groups
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AEST (GMT+10)
This workshop will support you in learning the Focusing process for your benefit of expanding self-awareness, cultivating self-compassion and developing a kinder way of relating. It will help you discover a reliable way of knowing what is authentic and meaningful to you and utilise that holistic, embodied intelligence for navigating your life.
Melbourne, Australia
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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PDT
Learn and experience the power of working with the Felt Sense - how the body holds living experience about a situation - and why it is the key to moving beyond the typical dead ends of therapy. Didactic and experiential with demonstrations. 6 CEUs for Therapists.
Workshop held on May 5 & 6, 9 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
Workshop held on May 5 & 6, 9 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
Online
Topic: FOT
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Dublin/UK time
Do you…..
• feel stressed when you have to make choices?
• struggle with making decisions?
• put things on the back burner, because it’s too difficult to decide?
• second guess your own choices?
If the answer to any of these is “Yes”, perhaps this is the course for you. There is a way to work with all of these experiences that will enable you to make more confident decisions and find the next steps towards wise action.
• feel stressed when you have to make choices?
• struggle with making decisions?
• put things on the back burner, because it’s too difficult to decide?
• second guess your own choices?
If the answer to any of these is “Yes”, perhaps this is the course for you. There is a way to work with all of these experiences that will enable you to make more confident decisions and find the next steps towards wise action.
Online on zoom
Topic: Other
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Pacific Daylight Time
“Nothing that feels bad is ever the last step.” Eugene Gendlin, Focusing
A free (pay-what-you-can) offering on experiential dreamwork and focusing. In this session, Leslie Ellis will discuss the transformational practice of re-entering a dream and allowing it to carry forward. You will learn:
How to help your client safely enter and let a dream continue in a way that is safe, creative and authentic.
Methods of active imagination that can be applied to engaging with dreams.
Why dreaming the dream forward is an essential ingredient in modern nightmare treatment, and how to help nightmare sufferers transform their dream lives.
A free (pay-what-you-can) offering on experiential dreamwork and focusing. In this session, Leslie Ellis will discuss the transformational practice of re-entering a dream and allowing it to carry forward. You will learn:
How to help your client safely enter and let a dream continue in a way that is safe, creative and authentic.
Methods of active imagination that can be applied to engaging with dreams.
Why dreaming the dream forward is an essential ingredient in modern nightmare treatment, and how to help nightmare sufferers transform their dream lives.
Via Zoom. Link sent upon registration
Topic: FOT
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Eastern Time
This 8-week course will create a space for individuals to come together, share and get support for their feelings about the ecological and climate crises, to create more space for new or continued courageous action.
This course welcomes those who have been working on climate action for years and those who are just beginning to feel the magnitude of this existential threat.
Climate stress is held in the body. Connecting with our bodily wisdom can help us engage with and expand beyond contracted feelings of ecological grief and anxiety and rekindle more aliveness and joy. Powered by a new sense of resiliency, we can relinquish stories of separation and find deeper connection with ourselves, nature, and community.
This course welcomes those who have been working on climate action for years and those who are just beginning to feel the magnitude of this existential threat.
Climate stress is held in the body. Connecting with our bodily wisdom can help us engage with and expand beyond contracted feelings of ecological grief and anxiety and rekindle more aliveness and joy. Powered by a new sense of resiliency, we can relinquish stories of separation and find deeper connection with ourselves, nature, and community.
Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
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start Friday 6:00 am Eastern (New York time) - end Sunday 2:00 pm Eastern (New York time)
The Recordings- Past Event- Moments of Wonder - Online Children & Focusing Conference took place Feb 10 - 12, 2023. We are delighted to offer main presentations from Lucy Bowers, Atsmaout Perlstein and Harriet Teeuw. Registration will remain open through May 1st for those who would like to register for the recordings and accompanying handouts (which are accessible until May 15, 2023)
Online
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Children
The topic for this week (May 20th) will be: Embodied Values.
Free weekly Focusing circle. We start with a deep discussion on a topic in Focusing, psychology, philosophy, or literature, and proceed into a Focusing practice related to the theme. It's a good way to expand your Focusing practice with a fun, casual, and experimental approach.
Free weekly Focusing circle. We start with a deep discussion on a topic in Focusing, psychology, philosophy, or literature, and proceed into a Focusing practice related to the theme. It's a good way to expand your Focusing practice with a fun, casual, and experimental approach.
Online--Zoom link available after registration
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Changes Groups
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Spain Time (GMT +1)
Facilitar procesos: EL ARTE DE ACOMPAÑAR
Modalidad presencial en Madrid.
Habrá opción de conectarse por zoom si quedan plazas libres.
Facilitadora: Isabel Gascón
Abril
viernes 28 de 16 a 20h (España - GMT+1)
sábado 29 de abril 10 a 14h y de 16 a 20h (España - GMT+1)
Mayo
sábado 20 de 10 a 14h y de 16 a 20h (España - GMT+1)
domingo 21 de 10 a 14h (España - GMT+1)
Máximo 6 participantes
Modalidad presencial en Madrid.
Habrá opción de conectarse por zoom si quedan plazas libres.
Facilitadora: Isabel Gascón
Abril
viernes 28 de 16 a 20h (España - GMT+1)
sábado 29 de abril 10 a 14h y de 16 a 20h (España - GMT+1)
Mayo
sábado 20 de 10 a 14h y de 16 a 20h (España - GMT+1)
domingo 21 de 10 a 14h (España - GMT+1)
Máximo 6 participantes
ONLINE
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
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Eastern (New York) Time
This Roundtable is one in a series on Focusing and Listening. This first one features Interactive Focusing. Interactive Focusing has a good reputation as a very effective method in building healthy relationship between people. What may be less known is that it is a most powerful way to develop empathic listening skills with its unique step-by-step procedures.
Online
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, FOT, Intermediate/Advanced, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
Handle als kreativer Teil des Klimawandels, wende TAE an (Act as a part of climate change using TAE)
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New York time
In deutscher Sprache mit englischer Übersetzung verfügbar
In German with English translation
Sei ein kreativer Teil des Klimawandels, mit der Magie von TAE/Act as a creative part of climate change using the magic of TAE
In German with English translation
Sei ein kreativer Teil des Klimawandels, mit der Magie von TAE/Act as a creative part of climate change using the magic of TAE
Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: TAE/Philosophy, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Other
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Pacific
The quality of your interactions with other people affects your energy, your mood, and your ability to thrive. If you worry about what other people think, hide your true self, have people in your life whose habits drive you crazy, or get overwhelmed by the feelings of others and pull away... We can help!
In this course, you'll learn how to turn reactions to other people into sources of healing and self-discovery, increase your ability to feel safe with others, embrace positive experiences, and be truly OK being exactly who you are (whether you're alone or with others).
Join us and start having more satisfying experiences with everyone in your life – including yourself!
In this course, you'll learn how to turn reactions to other people into sources of healing and self-discovery, increase your ability to feel safe with others, embrace positive experiences, and be truly OK being exactly who you are (whether you're alone or with others).
Join us and start having more satisfying experiences with everyone in your life – including yourself!
Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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Eastern (Hora Nueva York)
Este Cafecitos explorará Focusing y psicodélicos.
Online
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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Eastern Time
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. Thinking at the Edge training helps you find the unique gifts within the challenges you face.
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. Thinking at the Edge training helps you find the unique gifts within the challenges you face.
Online
Topic: TAE/Philosophy
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Pacific Time
Gene Gendlin, the “father” of Focusing, said this once when addressing some clinical psychologists:
“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’d probably be in trouble.
But what matters is not that.
What matters is to be human with another human.”
Heart and Soul centered work is also, at the core, about being a human with another human. And in the heart and art of Focusing, I’ve found nothing better that gives us permission to both let ourselves, and our clients, explore the natural beauty, wonder and messiness of all things human.
“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’d probably be in trouble.
But what matters is not that.
What matters is to be human with another human.”
Heart and Soul centered work is also, at the core, about being a human with another human. And in the heart and art of Focusing, I’ve found nothing better that gives us permission to both let ourselves, and our clients, explore the natural beauty, wonder and messiness of all things human.
Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
Four week mini course exploring belonging
Online
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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Eastern Time
Serge Prengel is inviting you to a 90-minute workshop on Focusing. A free workshop. This will give you a gut-level understanding of how our bodily felt sense functions as an inner GPS.
Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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MESZ
Möchtest du dein Verständnis über Gott und die Welt erweitern, deine Sicht der Dinge von vorgegebenen Kategorien befreien, neue eigene Gedanken entwickeln?
Vielleicht möchtest du deine eigenen, über das allgemeine Verständnis hinausgehende Gedanken ordnen, in eine kommunizierbare Form bringen, die ausdrückt, was du wirklich meinst?
Vielleicht hast du einen Auftrag zu erfüllen und möchtest dir klar werden, wie du diesen mit deinen eigenen Intensionen verbinden kannst.
Der interaktive Online-Kurs gibt einen spielerischen ersten Einstieg in die grundlegenden Prinzipien und Bewegungen von Thinking at the Edge (TAE). Übungen mit Texten, Bildern und Musik lockern den Kurs auf und tragen zum Lernprozess für dein eigenes Thema bei.
Der
Vielleicht möchtest du deine eigenen, über das allgemeine Verständnis hinausgehende Gedanken ordnen, in eine kommunizierbare Form bringen, die ausdrückt, was du wirklich meinst?
Vielleicht hast du einen Auftrag zu erfüllen und möchtest dir klar werden, wie du diesen mit deinen eigenen Intensionen verbinden kannst.
Der interaktive Online-Kurs gibt einen spielerischen ersten Einstieg in die grundlegenden Prinzipien und Bewegungen von Thinking at the Edge (TAE). Übungen mit Texten, Bildern und Musik lockern den Kurs auf und tragen zum Lernprozess für dein eigenes Thema bei.
Der
Topic: TAE/Philosophy