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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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Experience a series of playful and profound Focusing processes for encountering the most unlovable parts of yourself… and embracing them. Not only that but also embracing the part of you that doesn’t love them! The result: at least a taste of the freedom and ease that are possible for you as you transform painful inner states into something more life-affirming.

Online via Zoom
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Lynn Preston Charlotte Howorth
Together we study the central concepts in focusing and explore how we use these in clinical practice.

With
Lynn Preston (www.lynnprestonforp.com)
Charlotte Howorth (www.howortherapy.com).

- AEDT
This free online conversation is Part of the Focusing Roundtable series especially for TIFI members in Australia and New Zealand. In this Roundtable, As Down Under Focusers, we are often separated by vast distances from each other, as well as from the rest of the world. This platform of virtual Roundtables provided by TIFI can help us to connect, build community, and draw on the deep pool of experience and knowledge we have.

Indigenous peoples of both Australia and New Zealand share an ancient tradition of deep listening. In that spirit, we offer the first Roundtables conversation. Deep listening is also vital to Focusing.

Online
Topic: The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
- New York Time
Roundtable Logo Doralee Grindler Katonah Kevin Krycka Mary McDonald
The TIFI Membership Committee is pleased to offer this series of Focusing Roundtables designed especially for members of the Institute. If you are not a member, please join at https://focusing.org/page/join-or-renew, and then return to this page to register. This program will afford members a valuable opportunity to engage in casual peer-to-peer conversation with other members who share Focusing-related interests.

Online
Topic: The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
- New York time
Focusing Highlights is a series of interactive, online pay-what-you-can classes.
Kjell will teach us about how the endeavor of acquiring a foreign language differs from the task of learning the rules of a language. This class is designed to also enrich your dialogue with yourself, and there will be time for questions and discussion.

Online
Topic: The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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Learn how to listen to your inner wisdom through creating a positive inner relationship with yourself. Develop the knowledge and skills to begin to practise Focusing alone, and to begin to listen to an other, so you can Focus with a companion. By the end of Level 1, you will have a basic understanding of the Focusing process.

Just Being Centre
- New York time
An online, interactive 4-session course facilitated by Rob Parker. This is a unique opportunity for participants to get an overview of the philosophy behind Focusing, its relevance for personal growth and for the social problems of our time, with one of Gendlin's closest colleagues.

Online
Topic: The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
- New York time
This free online conversation is Part of the Focusing Roundtable series for TIFI members. In this Roundtable, we will explore how we, as Focusers, might provide support to refugees, as well as the potential that a Focusing oriented approach might provide. There are many possibilities for supporting refugees, both informally and formally. Informal approaches might include welcoming refuges and helping them to integrate into local communities by being present, listening, and providing practical support. More formal possibilities might include offering Focusing-oriented programs that enable people to find greater resilience or inner strength. We also will explore how Focusing might provide self-care to ourselves as we support people who have experienced often severe difficulties or trauma.

Online
Topic: The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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The process of Thinking at the Edge gives your ideas and projects the time and space they need to grow. You will learn how sense into your own lived experience, bringing life to your ideas in a way that can’t be reached by intellect alone. As a result, your project will become imbued with heart-felt breadth, depth, and commitment.
- New York time
An online, interactive workshop facilitated by Celia Dawson. In a small group setting, participants will learn about the stages of trauma, and experience self-care practices and how to use them with clients.

Online
Topic: The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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This course covers the basics of working with dreams, including how to recall and record dreams, current dream science relevant to dreamwork, and live dreamwork demonstrations to ground these ideas in practice. It is designed for clinicians, but open to anyone who wants to work more confidently with dreams. In addition to 7 self-paced talks (voice-over powerpoint) that you can watch as often as you like, there will be a combination of demos and live sessions, recorded so you can listen later if needed.
In this online-class we are going to think in an experiential / "Thinking at the Edge-way" about how Focusing can be applied to Coaching.
The class includes an introduction to TAE-steps 1-5 .
You are going to explore your personal felt meaning of "Focusing-oriented Coaching", the challenges and paradoxes of it and the richness of finding new ways of "Focusing in Coaching."
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This free online conversation is Part of the Focusing Roundtable series for TIFI members. It is the second offering of the same program which was offered in July 2019. New registrants only please. Class size is limited. In this Roundtable we invite you to explore with us what happens when Focusing crosses Coaching and how this crossing might more effectively promote individual or group transformation. This Roundtable will provide the space to dig deep into our curiosity about Focusing and Coaching and sense what might come next.

Online
Continuing from a Level 1 or entry Focusing class, we explore further what it is like to create space within yourself that invites neural integration and lasting change. I teach primarily Inner Relationship Focusing with neuroscience and embodiment additions.
- New York time
Focusing Highlights is a series of interactive, online pay-what-you-can classes. Bio-Spirituality is the name of a Focusing approach developed in a Christian tradition. Its founders, Peter Campbell and Ed McMahon, both Catholic Jesuits and Psychotherapists, describe Bodily knowing and learning in this way: `Values, basic human goodness, and a positive sense of self are all learned in the body! It doesn’t grow in us because we follow an external list of do’s and don’ts. It is not discovered through religious or ethical interpretations. Rather, it is given to us through our body’s ability to be aware of its connections and in the knowing of being part of a Greater Whole. Bio-Spiritual Focusing is the bridge that connects you with a Sacred Place greater than yourself.’

Online
Topic: The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
An online entry level Focusing class. This class is for those who recognize that Focusing skills are valuable and they are open to trying the benefits of a partnership practice. Focusing, like any other skill we might choose to learn, is not an instant knowing. Gradually, over time, you become more skilled. This unfolding actually never stops, so you are embarking on a forever journey of healing self and being a healing Presence to the world around you.
An online entry level Focusing class. This class is for those who recognize that Focusing skills are valuable and they are open to trying the benefits of a partnership practice. Focusing, like any other skill we might choose to learn, is not an instant knowing. Gradually, over time, you become more skilled. This unfolding actually never stops, so you are embarking on a forever journey of healing self and being a healing Presence to the world around you. Begins Sunday, October 13, 2019 at 12 pm EST and meets six times for 2 hours.
- Eastern (Hora Nueva York)
Kjell nos enseñará acerca de la diferencia entre
adquirir y aprender un idioma. La actitud hacia uno
mismo ante el esfuerzo de adquirir un idioma nuevo y
lo que implica la adquisición de uno.
A través de ejercicios guiados revelará nuevas formas
de trabajar con un idioma nuevo.
Independientemente de su nivel de experiencia con
Focusing, cualquier persona que pueda hablar un
idioma y tenga curiosidad por la adquisición de
cualquier idioma es bienvenida.

The process of acquisition vs the task of learning the
rules of a language are different. Your attitude to yourself, to the
endeavour of acquiring a foreign language and to
what language acquisition is will be explored.
Kjell will teach

Online
Topic: The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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This is a live interactive experiential course with a small group, where you learn and practice something new about Focusing and Listening every week, gaining immediate benefit.
Tuesdays starting October 8, 2019. 2pm - 5pm, UK time.
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Change begins with an inkling, a something that knows about what might be next.  If you are in the midst of a big change, contemplating a change or feeling stuck "trying" to change, this daylong has something for you!

We will approach the day, "bodyfully," encouraging an embodied self held in a conscious Focusing-oriented environment as we explore and discover how change is present in you, in the present moment.

StepwiseNow studio, 325 S Highland Ave Suite 109. Easily accessible from NYC (3 minutes from the Scarborough train station), Lower and mid-Westchester and Rockland Counties..