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.
A culture in which we listen to each other, to help more profound, more holistic insights emerge, is a culture with the potential for more creativity, compassion and wisdom. We warmly invite you to join us in a conversation about listening and felt sensing.
Online
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, FOT, Intermediate/Advanced, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
Join an introduction to a Focusing course in which you learn all the fundamentals for having Focusing Partnerships, and for Focusing alone or in a group. You will be eligible to join the International Focusing Partnership Network (This offers you t have free, world-wide Focusing Partnerships).
What happens during this Taster:
What is Focusing? - a brief practice - Q & A - about my course
This is an introduction to a 6-month Level 1 to 5 Focusing Skills Online Course. The full length course will begin in November or December 2023.
Donation based. Suggested donation €12 for 1.5 hours.
REGISTRATION REMAINS OPEN through August 15, as the recordings are available through August 31. Session dates April 15, 22, 26, 29 and May 6, 10.
Thinking at the Edge (TAE) is a practice for bringing your felt ideas to life. It is a methodology for learning to think with the felt sense, so that thought is integrated with the whole of our experiencing. It is a powerful tool for moving from a vague sense of something we know to bringing those “somethings” to life. You can read more about TAE here.
The TAE-fest is intended as a light-hearted opportunity to explore TAE. Six teachers will offer you opportunities to touch into the power of TAE. If you are a beginner, it allows you to explore the potential of TAE. If you are already familiar with it, the TAE-fest can
A creative, visual way to parse the threads of our inner experience that get tangled in fraught relational situations. Based on the NVC practice of identifying our feelings and needs—we will tease out the finer threads that make up our own unique tapestries. Perceptions, fears, hopes, beliefs, values, and needs may be some threads to gently untangle. The intention of this practice is for us to feel held in the care of our own and others’ witnessing – and a way to clear space around the Heart for the flow of vulnerability, connection, and healing.
Available three consecutive Thursdays or Fridays depending on sign-ups
Presenter: Hideo Tanaka, Ph.D. with
Moderator: Akira Ikemi, Ph.D.
Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning (Gendlin, 1962/1997) is a seminal work from Gendlin's early years. It is the theoretical cornerstone for practices such as "Focusing" and "Thinking at the Edge".
This work explores in detail how words and felt sense support each other. The more you unpack the work, the more you will see what roles words and felt sense each play in "forming a felt sense," "getting a handle," and "resonating the handle."
This presentation will explain the functional relationships between words and the felt sense that is a core part of this work, while also explaining the terms "experiencing,
Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, TAE/Philosophy, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
Do you dread speaking in public? Or maybe you enjoy it, but get very nervous?
Maybe you know you have as much to say as anyone else and a part of you really wants to give more talks.
But another part is terrified you’ll mess up, another is saying you’re no good, and yet another is annoyed that you feel like this. There are almost too many parts to keep track of, and each talk brings the same old smorgasbord of misery.
This course will help you develop a whole new way of approaching this issue of public speaking. You will be asked to deliver a short talk in front of the group in week 5, and given some skills training to help you do that. But skills training is a small component of this course.
Self-care isn't just about finding ways to unwind. It's about taking care of your well-being at every level – mind, body, emotions, spirit, and relationships.
Whether You’re:
Burned out, exhausted, or overwhelmed from juggling too much for too long. Tired and making it through the day, but hoping it could get better. Or engaged in good self-care and wanting to deepen your practice.
This course will help you create small, sustainable changes so you can live a more well-rested, self-loving life.
Die Focusing Wochen auf dem Achberg sind seit über drei Jahrzehnten ein alljährlicher Treffpunkt für Focusing-Interessierte aus Deutschland, der Schweiz und Österreich. Ein Schwerpunkt ist das Angebot von Focusing-Grundkursen, Themenkursen und dem Trainerkurs. Ein anderer Schwerpunkt wird gebildet durch experimentelle Gruppen zur Weiterentwicklung des Focusing-Ansatzes und/oder Schreibprojekte. Neben den fortbildungsorientierten Teilnehmer:innen gibt es auch die Möglichkeit für Focusing-Interessierte, ihre eigenen Projektvorhaben mitzubringen und den Austausch mit Interessierten zu suchen.
Herzlich willkommen sind auch diejenigen, die nur ausspannen, am wunderschönen Pool liegen oder die Infrastruktur des Hauses genießen (man kann auch zelten und campen!) und von der speziellen
- Feel stuck in a difficult life situation?
- Suffer considerably but find you can't connect with the aching place inside?
- Or feel your life is ok but could be richer and more intimate in ways you can't yet quite articulate?
And do you want to find your own way forward, one that feels good and that comes from you?
Inner relationship focusing teaches us how to attend to our inner experience in a way that feels deeply satisfying. This attending to ourselves brings change both inside and outside, as stuck places within begin to feel safe enough to take their next steps.
Este Programa está dirigido específicamente para terapeutas, psicólogos, counselors, que quieran enriquecer su trabajo con Focusing y obtener la Certificación como Terapeuta Orientado al Focusing (FOT) de TIFI. También son bienvenidos otros profesionales de distintos ámbitos de ayuda que quieran incluir Focusing en su trabajo. (Aunque no calificarían para la Certificación)
Los encuentros son semanales, de 1 hora y 1/2 , los jueves, y se pueden tomar de forma independiente o como parte del Programa de Certificación.
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.
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!
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 138page 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
Es un programa fundamentalmente orientado a la práctica sentipensada de la psicoterapia, desde la perspectiva de la Filosofía de lo Implícito y el Focusing, complementando con aportaciones de otras disciplinas como la música, la literatura, mindfulness y neurociencias.
This Roundtable will initiate a conversation on how a poem, combined with Focusing, can act as a powerful portal into deeper aspects of being human, or help us connect with other than human dimensions, which includes everything in the ‘natural world,’ but also that which ‘lies beyond.’
Online
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, FOT, Intermediate/Advanced, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events