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.
“Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. And when our souls lie down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about” - Rumi
In challenging times like these, it feels increasingly important to take time to experience a dimension in us that is not touched and affected by what is going on around and within us. This inner dimension does not disconnect us emotionally from what is happening but it allows us to rest and resource ourselves so that we can stay open and be more fully present to Life.
Rumi's poem above is an invitation to rest in this dimension - sometimes called “the underlying field of living Presence"– a
Like Focusing, play is a way to discover our true selves, and connect with others in unexpected ways. In this webinar, we will explore what the intersection of mindful embodied attention and an improvisational attitude might look and feel like. We will blend Focusing with games and exercises adapted from the world of theatrical improvisation. Small group demonstrations will help illustrate this cross-pollination.
All are welcome to attend; no improvisation or Focusing experience is necessary.
This is an introductory class to Focusing. The class is deliberately being kept small to ensure each participant ends with a complete understanding of the process and begins to experience the benefits of what Focusing can provide. Individual attention and sessions will be given to each participant by one or both teachers as well as assigned partnerships between most class dates. The cost is based on a sliding scale principle, normally $200, but interested individuals who cannot afford that amount should still apply.
The 4 dates are December 19 and 20, 2020, and January 23 and 30, 2021. Please email [email protected] for more information.
This free online conversation is Part of the Focusing Roundtable series especially for TIFI members.
This Roundtable expands the understandings, skills and practices developed during our first “Focusing on Politics” Roundtable. In this follow-on Roundtable, through discussion and Focusing, we will explore Structural Oppression and Alienation and learn to recognize them.
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.
This free online conversation is Part of the Focusing Roundtable series especially for TIFI members.
This Roundtable expands the understandings, skills and practices developed during our first “Focusing on Politics” Roundtable. In this follow-on Roundtable, through discussion and Focusing, we will explore Structural Oppression and Alienation and learn to recognize them.
Holidays can bring much stress due to the weight of layers of expectations for ourselves and others. Focusing can help us to re-weave connections to ourselves just as we are and to develop a welcoming relationship with whatever is arising in us just as it is in each moment.
In this two hour interactive Focusing workshop, we will co-create a safe space to bring ourselves as we truly are in this moment and reconnect to the aliveness in us that wants to be experienced and expressed just the way it is. There will be both whole group and small breakout group opportunities to connect and practice together. Whole group and individual and small group practice will help to re-weave connection to our inner compass.
Focusing Comenzamos próximamente el Nivel 1 por Zoom!!
Se está formando un lindísimo grupo del que podés ser parte!
Qué es Focusing?
Es una forma de atención corporal que te permite ir más allá de los pensamientos , sentimientos y emociones conocidas, los mandatos, creencias y condicionamientos...para poder contactarte con lo más real y auténtico en vos y comenzar a dar esos pasos de cambio que hasta ahora no podías dar, contactarte con todo tu potencial y creatividad y llevar tu vida adelante.
Si ya sos un profesional en el ámbito de ayuda y querés profundizar en la escucha, en la exploración y en la congruencia tanto para tu ser profesional como para ofrecerlo a otros, estos encuentros también son para vos!
“Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. And when our souls lie down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about” - Rumi
In challenging times like these, it feels increasingly important to take time to experience a dimension in us that is not touched and affected by what is going on around and within us. This inner dimension does not disconnect us emotionally from what is happening but it allows us to rest and resource ourselves so that we can stay open and be more fully present to Life.
Rumi's poem above is an invitation to rest in this dimension - sometimes called “the underlying field of living Presence"– a sense of the aliveness felt within the body and around us as a nourishing Presence
Focusing Highlights is a series of interactive, online pay-what-you-can classes.
How can we use the Focusing process to encourage a long-desired change, to give up a habit and develop a new one, or to make a difficult decision?
In this Highlight webinar, Amona will guide participants to experiment with some action-step inviting practices which you can use as both Focuser or Companion.
All are welcome to attend. Some experience with Focusing will be helpful but is not required.
Participants will use the exploratory process of Relational Wholebody Felt Sensing to develop their own implicit relational body knowing as an important tool for safety and connection with the Client. We will meet on a zoom internet platform, twice monthly, to deepen our theoretical and experiential understanding of Relational Wholebody Focusing Oriented Therapy
This free online conversation is Part of the Focusing Roundtable series especially for TIFI members.
Joanna Macy’s Work-That-Reconnects (“the Work”) provides both a model for the current unraveling of social and ecological systems and an experiential group process for transforming the difficult feelings arising from this unraveling. This workshop will explore how Focusing and the Work might complement each other. It will include some conceptual framing of the Work, breakout exercises, and group harvesting.
Focusing Comenzamos próximamente el Nivel 1 por Zoom!!
Se está formando un lindísimo grupo del que podés ser parte!
Qué es Focusing?
Es una forma de atención corporal que te permite ir más allá de los pensamientos , sentimientos y emociones conocidas, los mandatos, creencias y condicionamientos...para poder contactarte con lo más real y auténtico en vos y comenzar a dar esos pasos de cambio que hasta ahora no podías dar, contactarte con todo tu potencial y creatividad y llevar tu vida adelante.
Si ya sos un profesional en el ámbito de ayuda y querés profundizar en la escucha, en la exploración y en la congruencia tanto para tu ser profesional como para ofrecerlo a otros, estos encuentros también son para vos!
Are you stressed about your feelings around the US election? A lot of people are. It’s the most momentous election in living memory, and there is so much that could go wrong. Even if you’re doing everything you can, you might still be feeling tense and anxious to the point of distraction and sleeplessness.
Meeting the challenges of this unprecedented time will require all of us to be as calm, alert, and wise as we can possibly be.
We’d like to help. In this 30-minute free webinar, Ann Weiser Cornell and Barbara McGavin, creators of Inner Relationship Focusing, will offer their supportive and compassionate presence, including tips for navigating stressful emotions in extreme times.
Aprenderemos cómo la Filosofía de lo Implícito y la psicoterapia orientada por el Focusing dan pautas en un proceso de transformar traumas emocionales. Integraremos también aportes de P. Levin y S. Porges.