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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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An introduction to five basic tools for building a more-solid foundation upon which we can create healthy intimacy, with ourselves and others.
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This is an advanced course for people with some knowledge of WBF who want to be able to powerfully clarify their intentions in Life, to manifest their dream and also to be able to realistically look at what is perhaps getting in the way and preventing that.
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When something in your life has become so stuck that you can't think or act your way out of it, that's what we call a Tangle. And in the very places where your life feels most Tangled, there the treasure of your unlived life is waiting to be released. Untangling is a process based on Inner Relationship Focusing that can help you be present with your tangled life issues in such a way that they can begin to untangle and you can live into your own new possibilities. In this five-week course on Zoom, you'll learn how to:
• Cultivate your resources of calm inner strength and self-compassion, so you don’t feel stuck even if Parts of you do.
• Separate out the different strands and threads in your Tangle so you can begin to feel more ease amid the struggle.
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Is there something that you’d like to do or write about but you just don’t know how or where to begin?
Maybe you want to discover in a new direction in life that follows from of all you have lived.
Do you long to contribute to the world from the richness of your experience?
With Thinking at the Edge, your ideas and projects will finally get the time and space they need to grow. You will learn how to ground your thinking in your own lived experience, bringing life to your ideas in a way that can’t be reached by intellect alone. Your project will become imbued with heart-felt breadth, depth, and commitment.
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A felt-sensed application and introduction of the 12 Steps of Recovery to "Love Addiction."
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The second year of my FOT training program builds on the solid foundation of skills learned in the first year, while adding depth to your understanding of Focusing-Oriented Therapy and its application for unwinding chronic stress and trauma. A solid foundation of Focusing experience and personal interview are required to participate. Open to therapists and other healing professionals.

Vashon Island Studio near Seattle
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During our retreat we invite you to explore the energy of autumn,
where life starts to return to the earth. So we too start to return
to Mother Earth, to strengthen our roots, our foundation, our sense
of being fully grounded. During our time together we will use experiential exercises, meditation, and focusing practices to fully integrate our embodied senses which resource us for every day strength.

South Seaside Park, NJ - A New Jersey Shore Location
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Our 2nd annual Midwest Focusers Gathering will be held Friday, September 27 to Sunday, September 29, 2019 at Tower Hill Camp & Retreat Center in Sawyer, MI.
Check-in arrival time is at 3pm on Friday. Our Gathering will officially end at 3pm on Sunday.

Tower Hill Camp & Retreat Center, Sawyer, MI [two hours east of Chicago, IL]
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Seven 75 min classes every other week online exploring the concepts and practice skills of focusing conversations and focusing oriented relational therapy. Can join class at any week.
An online entry level Focusing class on Sundays this fall that prepares you to begin a Focusing partnership. This class is primarily Inner Relationship Focusing with some neuroscience and embodiment additions. This is a great opportunity to review the basics of Self-in-Presence as a way of being that creates space for lasting change.
An online entry level Focusing class that prepares you to begin a Focusing partnership. And a great opportunity to review the basics or Self-in-Presence as a way of being that creates space for lasting change.
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This free online conversation is Part of the Focusing Roundtable series for TIFI members. Class size is limited. PLEASE NOTE: if you attended the first date of this Roundtable held on August 28, please do not register in order to give others a chance. In this Roundtable, we will explore “the space between”. As Focusers, we know and love this space. It is the space of the pause... the space where we can sense both the relational implicit and the unfolding of our inner process... the space which allows for a transformative process to occur.
Topic: The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
- New York time
Focusing Highlights is a series of interactive, online pay-what-you-can classes.
Dreamwork expert Leslie Ellis will guide participants through an experiential practice in how to locate and embody the life force contained in their dreams. There will be time for questions and discussion, as well as a dreamwork demonstration.

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Topic: The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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Interactive advanced Focusing training by Zoom for 9 weeks, includes partnership practice.
- New York time
Note: you may register for this class after the first session. As recordings are sent, you will receive recordings to the classes you missed.

In this three-session course, Jan will be speaking in English, and Victoria Stanham will be the English/Spanish translator. Classes will be held in Webinar format, where only the teacher and translator will be seen. Participants will be able to ask questions in Spanish or English, and there will be some time for discussion.

En este curso de tres sesiones, Jan hablará en español y Victoria Stanham será la traductora español/inglés. Las clases se llevarán a cabo en formato de seminario web, donde sólo se verá al profesor y al traductor. Los participantes podrán hacer preguntas en español o inglés, y habrá tiempo para

Online
Topic: The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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Live interactive Focusing training by Zoom for 9 weeks, includes partnership practice.
Dr. Leslie Ellis' new book is for clinicians who want more confidence working with dreams. The book covers the current science and clinical evidence in support of dreamwork. Ellis offers clear steps and clinical examples, many from her practice of focusing-oriented dreamwork, to illustrate simple and effective ways to work with dreams.
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Formación Presencial en EDHUCA Counseling.
Coordinadora Certificante Elena Frezza

Calderón de la Barca y Shakespeare. Chalet Piccola
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This free online conversation is Part of the Focusing Roundtable series for TIFI members. Class size is limited .By coming together in this Roundtable, we hope to begin a rich conversation in which we can learn about the relevant work of academic colleagues in other parts of the world. Gendlin’s philosophical thinking and praxis was born and developed in the academic environment. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago and taught there from 1964 to 1995. Over the years faculty members, researchers and philosophers all over the world have found innovative ways to introduce Gendlin’s theory into their courses, research projects, psychological and therapeutic models, and philosophical explorations in academia and beyond.

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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.
Thursdays starting 5 September 2019. 12 noon - 3pm UK time.

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