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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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- AEST
Sue Burrell Merilyn Mayhew
Our usual practice is to open with an attunement that helps us set aside our busy lives and deliberately come into this protected space, where we can be with whatever is there in our inner world that needs our warm curious attention. Then we separate into pairs or triads to Focus, and come back together at the end for a time of closing.

Focusers of all levels of experience are welcome.
Topic: Changes Groups
- Eastern Time
Oppression support group with Focusing
The group provides an introduction to Focusing, a mindful way to direct your attention internally in a gentle way suitable for people who are dealing with trauma. Participants explore this in Focusing partnerships that may be continued after the group ends.

Zoom link will be sent to registrants
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
- Eastern Time
Wendi Maurer  Focusing Oriented Psychologist  drwendimaurer.com  atasteoftae@gmail.com     3252 Holiday Court, #225 La Jolla, CA 92037  +1 (619) 701-7999  Physicist, Focusing Trainer TIFI  hmuehlethaler@gmx.ch  Falkenweg 10  4600 Olten, Switzerland  +41 79 619 9519
We invite you to an experiential workshop, where you will explore the creative and stimulating power of Thinking At the Edge, TAE. Through playful and meaningful exercises in which you connect in a TAE way, to music, art, and literature, you will experience how new meanings will emerge for your understanding of your being in the world. We will teach you what we mean by connecting in a TAE way, including how our bodily feeling is affected by what we see, hear and read.

Five classes
Topic: TAE/Philosophy
- GMT -3
Florentina Sassoli Alejandro Juroczko

Online
Topic: FOT, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
- Jerusalem time
A picture of Yehudit First
Social Oriented Focusing (SOF) opens a space where delicate issues of human relationships can be met when interacting with each other. By being fully present, we can explore the movement in us and between us while simultaneously connecting to ourselves and the other through the felt .sense conscious body.

SOF is a modality that only exists in relationship with others - birthed in relational space, helping us to stay "home" in ourselves while in the presence of others. Over time, SOF generates the courage to be in relationship while remaining stably anchored inside.  I warmly invite you to explore the movement in us and between us, experiencing SOF in an intimate, enabling and safe space.

Online
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
- Eastern Time
Annette Dubreuil
Focusing Teacher Annette Dubreuil will share the various ways that felt sense body cards can be used to record our embodied experiences. This includes recording the felt sense that emerges in an individual Focusing or meditation session, or recording parts or qualities of ourselves. Once a part is identified, we can see where it lives in our autonomic nervous system and what role it plays. Noticing these aspects help us classify the parts according to Polyvagal Theory, or other classification systems like Internal Family Systems. One can then create a map of one's nervous system or a timeline of one's life to tell your life story. The body cards also help us be more aware of when we are starting to shift neurophysiological states in real life, allowing us to call on our daily

Zoom
Topic: FOT, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
- Eastern (New York) Time
highlights logo TIFI events logo Laury Rappaport
This presentation will provide a brief overview of Focusing-oriented expressive arts (FOAT®), including its main approaches— Theme-Directed FOAT; Clearing a Space with Arts; FOAT Check-in and Working on an Issue.

We will do a Theme-Directed FOAT® exercise on Gene Gendlin’s central concept, the Focusing Attitude— being curious and “friendly” to all of one’s inner experiences, whether uplifting or painful and difficult. This experiential exercise includes user-friendly methods for expressing the felt sense through creative expression.

Note: No experience needed in Focusing and/or arts.

Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
- Eastern (New York) Time
Focusing Roundtables TIFI Events Leonie Stewart Sue Burrell
Our ‘Wise SELF’ is the all-encompassing, best version of YOU and me. In Focusing, we often assume that a person's 'Wise SELF' will emerge organically (and it can). This roundtable will show participants how to unfold your Wise SELF or guide others through a ‘Wise SELF’ Focusing process.

Online
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
- Eastern time
Naty Calviño. FOT (Terapeuta Orientada al Focusing), Coordinadora-en-Entrenamiento, Focusing Trainer
Este taller está dirigido tanto a Terapeutas orientados al Focusing, hayan completado o no su formación, como también a aquellas personas interesadas en explorar la interacción desde el Focusing. En estos 4 encuentros estaremos explorando nuestro ser e interacción como terapeutas/ acompañantes. Para ello abordaremos algunos capítulos de Focusing en Psicoterapia, entre otros textos, para pensar, sentir y seguir avanzando y enriqueciendo nuestra tarea.
Habrá tiempo para compartir con todo el grupo y también en grupos más pequeños y en duplas, focalizando y encontrando formas nuevas y frescas de llevar adelante nuestro rol.
Miércoles 10, 24 y 31 de Agosto, y 14 de Septiembre de 5 pm a 7 pm (Hora de Nueva York).



Zoom
Topic: FOT
- AEST
Sue Burrell Merilyn Mayhew
Our usual practice is to open with an attunement that helps us set aside our busy lives and deliberately come into this protected space, where we can be with whatever is there in our inner world that needs our warm curious attention. Then we separate into pairs or triads to Focus, and come back together at the end for a time of closing.

Focusers of all levels of experience are welcome.

Hall below St Patrick's Catholic Church, Harrington St, Sydney Australia
Topic: Changes Groups
- EST (New York)
meditation
This 55-minute online workshop will help you change how you approach meditation.

Zoom link upon registration
Topic: Other
- PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)
FOAT Ann Weiser Cornell
Ann will tell the story of meeting and learning Focusing from Gene Gendlin 50 years ago, when she was 22— and how Gene encouraged her to develop her own ideas about teaching Focusing, saying “Keep going!” It’s a part of Gene’s philosophy that the only way to be true to an idea or a method is to bring it through your own body and make it your own. After, Ann will share about the development of Inner Relationship Focusing, and how it grew from seeds planted while she was assisting Gene with his first Focusing workshops.

Inner Relationship Focusing (IRF) is an approach to Focusing based on cultivating an inner state of calm, curious acceptance toward all aspects of the self, including stressful and judgmental thoughts and all sorts of emotions and body sensations. An important

Zoom Online
Topic: Other
- Start 5:30 am Eastern (NY Time) / 11:30 am CET
TIFI Laura Bavalics René Veugelers Joke van Hoeck
PAST EVENT - Open for Post Registration for Recordings. We are excited to gather online for "it Takes a Village...." Creating Connections. It is an opportunity for you to feel, to explore, to share, to deepen your Focusing wisdom and experiences! Our goal is to highlight the diversity and creativity in our Children's Focusing Community, by exploring the many ways we can support children and each other through Focusing and connections.
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Other
- Eastern (New York) Time
Highlights logo TIFI events logo Jeffrey Morrison
We have all been wounded. Our gifts are often buried below trauma, oppression, and shame. Even when we experience our deeper self it can feel re-wounding as we try to step into our biggest self. Trauma can isolate us and hold us back; it can also be something that initiates us to a deeper experience of Self and connection to others when we can find our gifts and share them with others.

Following a brief overview of trauma from a Focusing-Oriented Therapy (FOT) perspective, participants will be invited to explore their own life experiences that have been wounding and others that were enlivening, in search of their implicit gifts.

Therapists and other healing professionals will experience how Presence, guided inquiry, and Focusing can facilitate safety,

Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
- GMT -3
Evento Alejandro Juroczko Florentina Sassoli
Entrenamiento para sumar habilidades y profundizar la escucha experiencial en la prácica de Focusing.

Online
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
- Mira a tu conveniencia
Facets of Focusing Image The International Focusing Institute Event
Este evento ha comenzado. La inscripción permanece abierta hasta el 22 de julio. El acceso a los videos cierra el 23 de julio.

¡El Instituto Internacional de Focusing se complace en ofrecer nuestra primera Cumbre de Facetas de Focusing online!

10 - 23 de Julio de 2022
Todos los videos solo en español
Mira a tu conveniencia

¡Obtendrás 6 videos durante 14 días! Los 6 videos estarán disponibles para ti durante los 14 días completos. Todos te inspirarán con las muchas formas en que la vida y la sociedad pueden liberarse de los patrones preestablecidos. Mira la selección de videos a continuación.
Topic: FOT, TAE/Philosophy, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Other
- CST, México City time
fotografía de Salvador Moreno López
En grupo pequeño, mínimo 3 y máximo 5 personas, conversamos y sentipensamos sobre la práctica de la psicoterapia, el counseling y el acompañamiento terapéutico

Online
Topic: FOT
- Central European time
Being Seriously Playful! Harriet &  René Our symbols inner & outer connections
Children Focusing provides adults with the skills, knowledge and attitudes that allows them to be with ~ and work with children,
using the tools, techniques and inherently gentle, playful approach of Focusing.


The Netherlands
Topic: FOT
- CST, México City time
fotografía de Salvador Moreno López
Compartimos sentipensares desde nuestras experiencias en psicoterapia y desde cómo escuchamos la lectura del texto y las experiencias de las personas participantes.

Online
Topic: FOT
- Eastern (New York) Time
Focusing Roundtables TIFI Marilisa Tamburriello Federico Morgante
Questa conversazione online gratuita fa parte della serie Focusing Roundtable specialmente per i membri di TIFI.

Questa serie offre ai membri un'opportunità preziosa per instaurare una conversazione tra pari con altri membri che parlano italiano e che condividono interessi relazionati al Focusing. Ci auguriamo inoltre che questo programma incoraggi altri a promuovere ulteriori tavole rotonde in Italiano,nel futuro, per continuare la serie.

19:00-21:00 Europa Centrale (Italia)

Online
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced