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.
This Program is designed specifically for therapists and counselors who want to enrich and take their work with clients a step further with Focusing and get their FOT Certification from TIFI. Other people who work with clients in different ways and want to enhance their work are also welcome to attend. (Even though they would not apply for FOT Certification)
It is an ongoing course of 1 1/2 hours every other week, on Tuesdays, that can be taken independently or as part of the whole Certification Program.
An opportunity to read Gendlin’s seminal book Focusing with others
A Free Event for Members
Live (no recording)
Once a month on Tuesdays starting March 4, 2025
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, Ongoing, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
This group is open to all Focusing students who have Focusing training from any trainer. This is a space for folks to land to practice Focusing and continue to keep it as part of their life. We practice using the skills we already know; no teaching is offered - just pairs for partnership at a reliable time and place. This is a drop-in group, no commitment required.
Join other Focusing professionals as we practice Focusing. Professional work grows from our personal practice, so let’s continue Focusing. This can also be a unique place for folks to Focus about their professional Focusing work with clients or students and work projects in general.
This a place to land to do paired Focusing partnership, no teaching is offered. Breakout rooms are arranged for each pair. This is a drop-in group, no commitment required. Cost: free, no cost.
Private to Focusing Professionals - TIFI Certified Focusing Professionals and trainees, trained by any coordinator, includes all types of Focusing Professionals (FOT, Focusing Trainer, Focusing Professional).
Most therapists will agree about the importance of a therapeutic relationship. The quality of interpersonal interaction is the most important therapeutic factor because all other interventions happen within that interaction. The client's problems will not get resolved in interactions that replay the kind in which the problem was created. “We need [to provide] a new kind of interaction, one in which the client actually lives in a new way beyond the old stoppage” (Gendlin, 1996, p.286).
Unsere Vision ist es, im Frühjahr einen Focusing-inspirierenden Raum für uns zu schaffen. Wir hoffen auf ein Geben und Nehmen und auf frische Impulse im gemeinsamen Tun. Wir werden uns in den Workshops kennenlernen im Zuhören, im Partnerschaftlichen Focusing und einem hoffentlich fruchtbaren, zukunftsorientierten Austausch auf dem Marktplatz.
Die Einladung geht an Alle – Willkommen sind Interessierte, die Focusing kennenlernen wollen und ebenso Focusing-Kolleg*innen
Pensar de una forma nueva es vivir y experienciar la vida de una forma nueva. Exploraremos dos aspectos de la filosofía de Gendlin (su nueva forma de pensar) y mostraremos cómo descubrir y transformar un par de supuestos profundamente implícitos puede transformar nuestras vidas y, eventualmente, nuestra civilización.
En línea (La clase también será grabada)
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, TAE/Philosophy, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
Focusing Highlights is a series of interactive, online pay-what-you-can classes.
In this Highlight, Debra will share how fitness and health can be approached and practiced in a Focusing way, giving us a fresh relationship to movement and exercise.
Some familiarity with Focusing is helpful, but no prior experience is required. All are welcome to attend and participate.
Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
Discover focusing and other embodied practices to help deepen your work with clients. You’ll also learn to explore your own aliveness and body’s wisdom and discover the gifts it has for you as a person.
Through this work you can learn to regulate your own nervous system and that of your client. As well as focusing, the program will also draw on Circling, the NARM™ framework (Neuro Affective Relational Model) and polyvagal toning. This course is introductory in nature, nonetheless you will gain tools to help you increase the impact of your work with clients.
All sessions are experiential and interactive. Practice with fellow students between taught sessions will help to integrate learning.
More info on video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5Y-LMZpWq0&t=2s
Programa Intensivo de Entrenamiento on-line de 60 horas dividido en 3 módulos a lo largo del año en “Focusing Dinámico Expresivo” para el acompañamiento de Niños, Adolescentes y la relación con el Niño Interior.
Será dictado en Inglés, con traducción simultánea al Español.
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 3rd or 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.
ALL are welcome to attend -- whether you are an experienced Focuser or are brand new and would like to experience a new way to listen and be with yourself.
These 90-minute interactive Zoom-based gatherings are designed to create an atmosphere of safety and mutual respect for both experienced and less-experienced Focusers.
And - there's NO FEE to attend.
This group is open to all Focusing students who have Focusing training from any trainer. This is a space for folks to land to practice Focusing and continue to keep it as part of their life. We practice using the skills we already know; no teaching is offered - just pairs for partnership at a reliable time and place. This is a drop-in group, no commitment required.
Join other Focusing professionals as we practice Focusing. Professional work grows from our personal practice, so let’s continue Focusing. This can also be a unique place for folks to Focus about their professional Focusing work with clients or students and work projects in general.
This a place to land to do paired Focusing partnership, no teaching is offered. Breakout rooms are arranged for each pair. This is a drop-in group, no commitment required. Cost: free, no cost.
Private to Focusing Professionals - TIFI Certified Focusing Professionals and trainees, trained by any coordinator, includes all types of Focusing Professionals (FOT, Focusing Trainer, Focusing Professional).
En Tres aserciones sobre el cuerpo, Gendlin dice que nuestros cuerpos son heredados de las plantas. Las plantas, sin tener cerebro ni sistema nervioso ni los cinco sentidos, crean sus cuerpos de la luz, del aire, del agua, de la tierra. Nuestras sensaciones corporales con significado vienen de esta capacidad de las plantas de sentir lo que necesitan y recibirlo del entorno.
Online
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
During this Children & Focusing Roundtable we will explore the Focusing process with special needs children from the parent - teacher perspective in classroom settings.
Online
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, Children, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
Offer one-to-one Focusing sessions to people who are new to Focusing
Integrate Focusing into your professional field as a therapist, bodyworker, teacher…
Teach Focusing to individuals
Naturally weave aspects of Focusing into all of your daily interactions
Year 2:
Learn to teach Focusing to groups
If you have done the practitioner training already (year-1, you can join my year-2 training
Receive the Focusing Professional Certificate by The International Focusing Institute - TIFI
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
You can join levels 3-5 of my Focusing course after you have attended a basic Focusing skills course.
After completion of this course, you can apply for the PFP-Award to join the International Focusing Partnership Network to have Focusing Partnership exchanges free of charge.