Upcoming Courses, and Ongoing Groups and Services
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Eastern Time
Focusing changes lives. We know that - that’s why we became Focusing Professionals. Keep your own practice going by connecting with other Focusing professionals to trade Focusing & Listening turns.
Focusing for Focusing Professionals group
Saturdays, 11:30am-1pm Eastern Time Zone
On Zoom
Contact Jenna Fenstermacher, [email protected] to register.
Seeking additional volunteers to support, if interested, please contact Jenna.
Held in English. If interested in hosting in Spanish or other languages, please contact Jenna.
Focusing for Focusing Professionals group
Saturdays, 11:30am-1pm Eastern Time Zone
On Zoom
Contact Jenna Fenstermacher, [email protected] to register.
Seeking additional volunteers to support, if interested, please contact Jenna.
Held in English. If interested in hosting in Spanish or other languages, please contact Jenna.
Online
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Eastern Time (New York time)
Words can sometimes feel inadequate for carrying onward a still-forming-meaning. Perhaps we use a word too soon, inadvertently cutting short a process of discovery that needs more time. To take good care of our process, we can devise other ways - gestures, signs, sounds, etc. - to convey what we are experiencing, or what we are needing in the moment with our partner or listener.
This workshop supports the meta-communicative boundaries of the Focusing interaction by formulating helpful non-verbal attunements and agreements with our listener. In a spirit of experimentation, we will find good new ways to indicate our needs during various phases of a Focusing process, creating a unique repertoire of signals for dyadic focusing partnerships and beyond.
This workshop supports the meta-communicative boundaries of the Focusing interaction by formulating helpful non-verbal attunements and agreements with our listener. In a spirit of experimentation, we will find good new ways to indicate our needs during various phases of a Focusing process, creating a unique repertoire of signals for dyadic focusing partnerships and beyond.
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
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Pacific Time
Aging brings both challenges and opportunities, but it doesn’t have to feel like it’s all downhill from here. In fact, this chapter of life can be one of growth, connection, and newfound purpose.
You can develop a positive outlook on the future (and know how to be kinder to yourself when you can’t do that). Join us and get tools, wisdom, and support for every stage of the aging journey.
You can develop a positive outlook on the future (and know how to be kinder to yourself when you can’t do that). Join us and get tools, wisdom, and support for every stage of the aging journey.
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
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France Paris
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Irish Standard Time/British Standard Time
Do you:
- Feel stuck in a difficult life situation?
- Suffer, but can't connect to the aching place inside?
- Or feel your life could be richer in ways you can't yet quite articulate?
And do you want to find your own way forward, one that feels good and that comes from you? Inner Relationship Focusing teaches us how to attend to our inner experience in ways that feel deeply satisfying and brings change.
- Feel stuck in a difficult life situation?
- Suffer, but can't connect to the aching place inside?
- Or feel your life could be richer in ways you can't yet quite articulate?
And do you want to find your own way forward, one that feels good and that comes from you? Inner Relationship Focusing teaches us how to attend to our inner experience in ways that feel deeply satisfying and brings change.
Zoom details available upon registration
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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Eastern (New York) Time
Această Masă Rotundă este o invitație adresată vorbitorilor de limba română care sunt interesați de Focusing să se întâlnească, să împărtășească experiențe și să aibă timp să facă focusing împreună în grupuri mici.
Online
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, FOT, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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Central European Time
In deze live 2-daagse BasisTraining gaan we door met verdieping en het oefenen van focussen met een focus maatje. We geven we ook aandacht aan problemen die zich kunnen voordoen tijdens een Focusing proces.
Als je wat meer wilt weten over Focusing, bekijk dan hier mijn video: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMvftGO_x4WQ3W7GdyAPkSA
Als je wat meer wilt weten over Focusing, bekijk dan hier mijn video: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMvftGO_x4WQ3W7GdyAPkSA
Live, Laren NH, the Netherlands
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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CET
Zwischen den Focusing-Wochen im Sommer bietet diese Gruppe Gelegenheit für alle deutschsprachigen Focuser, sich zu begegnen und gemeinsam Focusing zu leben und zu üben. Willkommen sind bekannte wie neue Gesichter. Die Sitzungen werden von Trainerinnen und Trainer aus dem Netzwerk angeleitet.
Topic: Changes Groups
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Eastern Time (New York Time)
Learn Gendlin's classic 6 steps of Focusing in this interactive 2-hour workshop. There will be a Focusing demonstration. And you will have the opportunity to experience Focusing for a 20-minute turn, as well as a listening turn in breakout groups.
Next sessions (pick one 2-hour session to attend):
-Thursday, November 14, 1-3 pm Eastern
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Next sessions (pick one 2-hour session to attend):
-Thursday, November 14, 1-3 pm Eastern
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Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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Eastern Time
Meet the Team: (will be taught in English, with elements of Cross Lingual, Cross Cultural Focusing)
Other Languages spoken by team members (Japanese, Greek, French)
Beth Mahler, LCSW, FOT, Certifying Coordinator
Anne Lawrence, PhD, CFP, Coordinator in Training
Yoshimi Shimizu, LMHC, FOT
Maria Skoufas, Certifying Coordinator
Erin Keller, LCSW, FOT
Asata N’Gonzi, IFOT, CFP
Michelle Krenzelok, CFP
Jocelyn Kahn, CFT
Other Languages spoken by team members (Japanese, Greek, French)
Beth Mahler, LCSW, FOT, Certifying Coordinator
Anne Lawrence, PhD, CFP, Coordinator in Training
Yoshimi Shimizu, LMHC, FOT
Maria Skoufas, Certifying Coordinator
Erin Keller, LCSW, FOT
Asata N’Gonzi, IFOT, CFP
Michelle Krenzelok, CFP
Jocelyn Kahn, CFT
In Person & Online Coursework is involved in USA
Topic: Ongoing
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Note time zone on schedule
"Less is More" - Online Children and Focusing Conference 2024
"Menos es más" - Conferencia en línea sobre niños y Focusing 2024
Sometimes the most special moments are also the simplest.
A veces, los momentos más especiales también son los más simples.
Children approach Focusing instinctively, the most important thing we can provide is simply our empathetic, listening presence. It can be challenging to stand back and let the child’s process unfold on its own.
Los niños se acercan al Focusing de manera instintiva, lo más importante que podemos brindar es simplemente nuestra presencia empática y atenta. Puede ser un desafío dar un paso atrás y dejar que el proceso del niño se desarrolle por sí solo.
"Menos es más" - Conferencia en línea sobre niños y Focusing 2024
Sometimes the most special moments are also the simplest.
A veces, los momentos más especiales también son los más simples.
Children approach Focusing instinctively, the most important thing we can provide is simply our empathetic, listening presence. It can be challenging to stand back and let the child’s process unfold on its own.
Los niños se acercan al Focusing de manera instintiva, lo más importante que podemos brindar es simplemente nuestra presencia empática y atenta. Puede ser un desafío dar un paso atrás y dejar que el proceso del niño se desarrolle por sí solo.
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Children, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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Sunday evenings at 6 p.m. EST (New York) /Monday mornings 10 a.m. AEDT (Sydney)
Do you have an impulse to do something new in life, based on your lived experience? Or maybe you have a creative project you have set aside, or an aspect of your work that you would like to deepen. In TAE you explore something that draws your interest and attention, whether it stresses you or delights you. The result of your exploration will be a deeper understanding of how Gendlin's philosophy manifests in your own life.
Online
Topic: TAE/Philosophy
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Eastern Time, New York, USA
Smartview Conversations is a monthly online gathering to explore application of our Focusing skills to daily life and interactions. Our skill emphasis for 2024 is the Power of AND, how we hold our own space in relationship to others and how we hold space within us for both our right and left hemisphere's perspectives.
For November, we will do body awareness exercises to explore the perspectives of the left and right sides of our body. Most of us will be able to tell how we are wired from this time.
These webinars are FREE to attend. Both experienced Focusers and people new to Focusing are welcome.
We meet on the 3rd or 4th Tuesday, twice in the same day for different time zones. The times are 11:30am - 12:30pm ET New York time and 7:30
For November, we will do body awareness exercises to explore the perspectives of the left and right sides of our body. Most of us will be able to tell how we are wired from this time.
These webinars are FREE to attend. Both experienced Focusers and people new to Focusing are welcome.
We meet on the 3rd or 4th Tuesday, twice in the same day for different time zones. The times are 11:30am - 12:30pm ET New York time and 7:30
Online via Zoom
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, Ongoing
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Eastern Time, New York, USA
Smartview Conversations is a monthly online gathering to explore application of our Focusing skills to daily life and interactions. Our skill emphasis for 2024 is the Power of AND, how we hold our own space in relationship to others and how we hold space within us for both our right and left hemisphere's perspectives.
We will model how to create a safe, playful environment that facilitates neural plasticity. These webinars are FREE to attend. Both experienced Focusers and people new to Focusing are welcome.
We meet on the 3rd or 4th Tuesday, twice in the same day for different time zones. The times are 11:30am - 12:30pm ET New York time and 7:30 - 8:30pm ET New York time.
We will model how to create a safe, playful environment that facilitates neural plasticity. These webinars are FREE to attend. Both experienced Focusers and people new to Focusing are welcome.
We meet on the 3rd or 4th Tuesday, twice in the same day for different time zones. The times are 11:30am - 12:30pm ET New York time and 7:30 - 8:30pm ET New York time.
Online via Zoom
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Eastern time
Topics:
• The self-care of the facilitator.
•Exercises.
• What to do when a participant does not feel like feel participating nor following a suggestion.
• The self-care of the facilitator.
•Exercises.
• What to do when a participant does not feel like feel participating nor following a suggestion.
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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CET
You may be familiar with a habitual background atmosphere of restlessness, anxiousness, agitation, or something like that. ...
We can invite and gradually build new patterns in our autonomic nervous system and brain. In doing so, we change our spontaneous physical, emotional and mental responses to life’s occurrences.
> Focusing exchanges
> Awareness Through Movement (ATM)
> Neuro Regulating Exercises
> Theoretical discourses
> Shared silence
Online Course:
Wednesdays, Nov 20, 2024 to April 9, 2025
We can invite and gradually build new patterns in our autonomic nervous system and brain. In doing so, we change our spontaneous physical, emotional and mental responses to life’s occurrences.
> Focusing exchanges
> Awareness Through Movement (ATM)
> Neuro Regulating Exercises
> Theoretical discourses
> Shared silence
Online Course:
Wednesdays, Nov 20, 2024 to April 9, 2025
Topic: Other
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Pacific
As these uncertain times continue to challenge us in unprecedented ways, our need for connection and emotional support is greater than ever.
This is a 30-minute free webinar (with Ann Weiser Cornell) with warm, positive tips for emotional self-care in these challenging times. Each month is different as Ann responds to the present moment and whatever the group is bringing.
Our hope is that you’ll leave the webinar with a greater sense of resilience and some relief from the stressful feelings you might be having. And that you’ll know you are not alone.
This is a 30-minute free webinar (with Ann Weiser Cornell) with warm, positive tips for emotional self-care in these challenging times. Each month is different as Ann responds to the present moment and whatever the group is bringing.
Our hope is that you’ll leave the webinar with a greater sense of resilience and some relief from the stressful feelings you might be having. And that you’ll know you are not alone.
Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
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CET
Las prácticas tutorizadas de focusing tienen por finalidad la práctica del focusing con asesoramiento para consolidar el conocimiento y el manejo del procedimiento e iniciar al alumnado a la facilitación de procesos de focusing como guía.
Nota: Para cursar el módulo de prácticas tutorizadas el alumno deberá haber superado los dos primeros niveles de focusing.
Nota: Para cursar el módulo de prácticas tutorizadas el alumno deberá haber superado los dos primeros niveles de focusing.
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Eastern Time Zone
The course is an opportunity to spend time with your wanting or project to integrate Focusing into your life—whether personally or professionally—in both an embodied and more than logical way. Like being in contact with a yet undiscovered treasure box. With FOCUSING, a practice laid out by philosopher and psychotherapist Eugene T. Gendlin, you will get in touch with your Felt Sense and be able to develop surprisingly fresh understandings that make a difference, especially in how you are with your special project or issue. By adding certain moves of THINKING AT THE EDGE (TAE), another practice Gendlin created, with Mary Hendricks and Kye Nelson, we will show you how you can speak more and more precisely from your Felt Sense. In doing so, you will discover important details by redefining
Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, TAE/Philosophy
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New York time
Following a year-long group of "Reading Freshly" Gendlin’s book Focusing with fellow Focusers, Mary gives a personal account of the experience and how reflecting on it led her to unexpected places in considering what Focusing is or can be.
Some familiarity with Focusing is helpful, but no prior experience with Focusing or philosophy is required. All are welcome to attend and participate.
Some familiarity with Focusing is helpful, but no prior experience with Focusing or philosophy is required. All are welcome to attend and participate.
Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events