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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This is the last of our three part interactive online course. We will guide you, in a playful way, through the third phase of TAE (steps 10 - 14): Connecting terms (words, phrases, concepts) to create a formal, logical theory.
For this part 3 class, we welcome those who have experienced at least steps 1 - 5.
Come join us if you like to dip into the exciting experience of the more of TAE.
For this part 3 class, we welcome those who have experienced at least steps 1 - 5.
Come join us if you like to dip into the exciting experience of the more of TAE.
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LEVEL 2 is about deepening into the Focusing and Listening process by looking more at the role of the Companion. A companion to ourselves as well as others. I introduce neuroscience here. We develop further our personal concept of creating an inner space that welcomes it all and adapting that space as we follow our process.
Class meets six times on Wednesdays 7-9pm EST beginning Sept 30 and ending Dec 2.
Class meets six times on Wednesdays 7-9pm EST beginning Sept 30 and ending Dec 2.
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LEVEL 2 is about deepening into the Focusing and Listening process by looking more at the role of the Companion. A companion to ourselves as well as others. I introduce neuroscience here. We develop further our personal concept of creating an inner space that welcomes it all and adapting that space as we follow our process.
Class meets six times on Wednesdays 11am - 1pm EDT beginning Sept 30 and ending Dec 2.
Class meets six times on Wednesdays 11am - 1pm EDT beginning Sept 30 and ending Dec 2.
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Gathering of people for Focusing practice, learning, sharing and self care.
Depending on the numbers and requests we will have a spontaneous mix of group tuning in to felt sense, whole body experiences, and partnerships.
You pay in advance when you want to join and I will send you a zoom meeting link.
Depending on the numbers and requests we will have a spontaneous mix of group tuning in to felt sense, whole body experiences, and partnerships.
You pay in advance when you want to join and I will send you a zoom meeting link.
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What will I experience?
Experience the Vitality and Wholeness of my Wholebody Self in Connection with Another Person: Me Here with You There in Harmony of BOdyMind/Heart/Spirit
Invite and Discover my Own Inner Healing Resource of Relational Body Wisdom
Connect to and Integrate the Primary Inner Directed Movements of the Baby, Child and Adolescent Bodies into an Expanded Adult Relational Wisdom Body
Learn to Trust and Follow the Whole Body’s Felt Sensing and Sensori-Energetic-Affective Signals and Movements as Doorways into Conscious Adult Relationships
Practise Wholebody Listening, Resonance and Inter-affecting Communication to Foster Mutually Satisfying Relational Connection
Engage in Wholebody
Experience the Vitality and Wholeness of my Wholebody Self in Connection with Another Person: Me Here with You There in Harmony of BOdyMind/Heart/Spirit
Invite and Discover my Own Inner Healing Resource of Relational Body Wisdom
Connect to and Integrate the Primary Inner Directed Movements of the Baby, Child and Adolescent Bodies into an Expanded Adult Relational Wisdom Body
Learn to Trust and Follow the Whole Body’s Felt Sensing and Sensori-Energetic-Affective Signals and Movements as Doorways into Conscious Adult Relationships
Practise Wholebody Listening, Resonance and Inter-affecting Communication to Foster Mutually Satisfying Relational Connection
Engage in Wholebody
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Eastern (New York Time)
Focusing Highlights is a series of interactive, online pay-what-you-can classes.
In this class, participants will learn how a felt sense functions in a Quaker Meeting’s gathering circle.
You will also see how the Quakers modified their gathering circle to fit the needs of working with prison inmates through the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP), and how a felt sense can lead to change and transformations among inmates within and as a result of the workshops the New York Quakers have been facilitating since the 1970's.
There will also be some time for questions and comments from participants. All are welcome to attend. Some experience with Focusing and/or Gendlin’s Philosophy will be helpful but is not required. Material covered in
In this class, participants will learn how a felt sense functions in a Quaker Meeting’s gathering circle.
You will also see how the Quakers modified their gathering circle to fit the needs of working with prison inmates through the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP), and how a felt sense can lead to change and transformations among inmates within and as a result of the workshops the New York Quakers have been facilitating since the 1970's.
There will also be some time for questions and comments from participants. All are welcome to attend. Some experience with Focusing and/or Gendlin’s Philosophy will be helpful but is not required. Material covered in
Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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Once a month we meet on zoom for a conversation with Gendlin, either through key paragraphs from the 'A Process Model' or through a video (of a workshop he taught). Later on we will go into breakout rooms for a focusing exercise related to what we read. Each session will last two hours.
A Two-Year Focusing Training with Beth Mahler and Maria Skoufas develops a deep sense of awareness
needed to care for ourselves while caring for others and the world around us. By delving deeply into
Focusing over a period of two years in a safe, supportive and nurturing environment we can greatly
enhance our potential for change, ethically and with integrity for generations to come. A consistent
group dynamic forms over time providing a protected space that allows the process to experientially
expand and deepen. It’s a personal journey that will result in growth and evolution of self and possibly
reveal the emerging teacher from within.
needed to care for ourselves while caring for others and the world around us. By delving deeply into
Focusing over a period of two years in a safe, supportive and nurturing environment we can greatly
enhance our potential for change, ethically and with integrity for generations to come. A consistent
group dynamic forms over time providing a protected space that allows the process to experientially
expand and deepen. It’s a personal journey that will result in growth and evolution of self and possibly
reveal the emerging teacher from within.
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This year’s scaled-down virtual Gathering will be held in 3 parts as indicated below (Note: All times listed in EASTERN):
10-11:30 am - Opening/Welcome/Extended Check-Ins
1-3 pm - Virtual Changes
4-5:30 pm - Focusing Fun-Ease/Closing
10-11:30 am - Opening/Welcome/Extended Check-Ins
1-3 pm - Virtual Changes
4-5:30 pm - Focusing Fun-Ease/Closing
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Eastern (New York) Time
Sorry registration is closed because the event is full. This free online conversation is Part of the Focusing Roundtable series especially for TIFI members in Australia and New Zealand.
In this Roundtable we can explore and experience how a simple pause holds the potential to change the world inside and around us.
In this Roundtable we can explore and experience how a simple pause holds the potential to change the world inside and around us.
Online
Topic: The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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Eastern (New York Time)
This free online conversation is Part of the Focusing Roundtable series for TIFI members. The TIFI Membership Committee is pleased to introduce Therapists’ Circles, a new Roundtable series, designed especially for members who work with clients in therapeutic settings.
Online
Topic: The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
Te invito a conocer qué es focusing...Aprender a escuchar la sabuduría de nuestro cuerpo y a partir de allí lograr pasos de cambio hacia el desarrollo integral de nuestro ser (físico, emocional y espiritual), tanto para nuestras vidas como para facilitarlo en las vidas de otros.
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Aprende Focusing
Entrénate en Focusing
Crece practicando Focusing
Entrénate en Focusing
Crece practicando Focusing
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Focusing es un modo de conectar con nosotros mismos desde el cuerpo, sintonizando “de dentro hacia afuera".
Es una invitación a pensar sobre nosotros mismos, sintonizando con el “de dentro hacia afuera”.
En vez de intentar decir o pensar cual es el problema, cual es la respuesta, debemos mantenernos en silencio y atender la versión corporalmente sentida del problema.
Así es como al dejarla formase, un cierto desarrollo, una masa aperceptible moldea u crea todo lo que ves, lo que conoces – todo lo que sos!!! Entonces entendemos que es algo de un proceso-de-vida-posterior.
Es una invitación a pensar sobre nosotros mismos, sintonizando con el “de dentro hacia afuera”.
En vez de intentar decir o pensar cual es el problema, cual es la respuesta, debemos mantenernos en silencio y atender la versión corporalmente sentida del problema.
Así es como al dejarla formase, un cierto desarrollo, una masa aperceptible moldea u crea todo lo que ves, lo que conoces – todo lo que sos!!! Entonces entendemos que es algo de un proceso-de-vida-posterior.
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Each week I’ve been gathering a group of people like you and sharing some processes for greater calm, comfort, and even hope.
Connection and community are such a blessing in these challenging times.
I’d love to have you join us this week… free… and easy to connect for just 30 minutes via Zoom.
Together let's explore practical skills that'll help you access your greatest inner resources: resilience and calm.
Connection and community are such a blessing in these challenging times.
I’d love to have you join us this week… free… and easy to connect for just 30 minutes via Zoom.
Together let's explore practical skills that'll help you access your greatest inner resources: resilience and calm.
Online via Zoom
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A six week online course: Thursdays 6:30-8:30pm EDT
Now available in a time-delayed blended learning format for international Focusers
Via Zoom
Writing is a powerful source of embodied wisdom when we give the process time to unfold in our Focusing Practice.We will explore language that forms from implicit experiencing. Through evocative writing practices words are invited to come from Felt Sense memories.
The first hour of the course will be a workshop format that will be recorded. The second hour will be in break out rooms with smaller groups led by Jan and Ann. For those new to Focusing, Trainer Jenna Chevalier will lead a group in learning the basic six steps of Focusing practice.
Now available in a time-delayed blended learning format for international Focusers
Via Zoom
Writing is a powerful source of embodied wisdom when we give the process time to unfold in our Focusing Practice.We will explore language that forms from implicit experiencing. Through evocative writing practices words are invited to come from Felt Sense memories.
The first hour of the course will be a workshop format that will be recorded. The second hour will be in break out rooms with smaller groups led by Jan and Ann. For those new to Focusing, Trainer Jenna Chevalier will lead a group in learning the basic six steps of Focusing practice.
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Want to watch as Ann Weiser Cornell guides someone through their very first Focusing session?
Focusing can be puzzling to talk about. It can be hard to learn from a book or a video. But when someone is actually taken through the process, you get it! Be present to observe as Ann guides three first-time Focusers (one each week) - and then comment afterward. The guest Focusers are volunteers who understand that their session will be witnessed by a safe and respectful group of people.
Focusing can be puzzling to talk about. It can be hard to learn from a book or a video. But when someone is actually taken through the process, you get it! Be present to observe as Ann guides three first-time Focusers (one each week) - and then comment afterward. The guest Focusers are volunteers who understand that their session will be witnessed by a safe and respectful group of people.
Online via Zoom
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An online entry level Focusing class that prepares you to begin a Focusing partnership. And a great opportunity to review the basics of Self-in-Presence as a way of being that creates space for lasting change.
Meets six times on Mondays for two hours, 7 – 9pm EDT.
Meets six times on Mondays for two hours, 7 – 9pm EDT.
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Thinking at the Edge (TAE) fertilizes your ideas by grounding them in your lived experience. For example:
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 in life 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 helps you find the unique gifts within the challenges you face.
Class
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 in life 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 helps you find the unique gifts within the challenges you face.
Class
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Are you faced with a changed world you never planned for?
It’s natural to be stunned by a loss, and unable to move forward.
It could be the loss of a person, or of a job, or of a whole way of life.
Big change, as well as big loss, can leave you feeling confused and anchorless.
How do you find your way when you’ve lost all your familiar landmarks? You still have a reliable guide. You have a place in you that knows your way forward, even if you’ve never been there before.
Navigating loss and change means learning how to trust your inner sense of rightness.
Hard as it is, a time of loss can be a huge teacher about how to trust yourself. Because no one else knows what you need to get through this time… and
It’s natural to be stunned by a loss, and unable to move forward.
It could be the loss of a person, or of a job, or of a whole way of life.
Big change, as well as big loss, can leave you feeling confused and anchorless.
How do you find your way when you’ve lost all your familiar landmarks? You still have a reliable guide. You have a place in you that knows your way forward, even if you’ve never been there before.
Navigating loss and change means learning how to trust your inner sense of rightness.
Hard as it is, a time of loss can be a huge teacher about how to trust yourself. Because no one else knows what you need to get through this time… and
Online via Zoom