Upcoming Courses, and Ongoing Groups and Services
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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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Pacific Standard Time
A monthly online Focusing circle for people recovering from cultic or high-control dynamics.
Through a combination of psycho-education on cultic relationship dynamics and a guided Focusing practice, participants are invited to explore the inner impact of these experiences—gently untangling internalized voices, reconnecting with their felt sense, and discovering what is authentically their own.
Third Friday of each month, 10:00-11:30am Pacific Time.
To register, please book through Authentic Self Focusing, where you'll find options to join once or join monthly. CA$40/circle.
https://www.authenticselffocusing.com/cult-recovery
Through a combination of psycho-education on cultic relationship dynamics and a guided Focusing practice, participants are invited to explore the inner impact of these experiences—gently untangling internalized voices, reconnecting with their felt sense, and discovering what is authentically their own.
Third Friday of each month, 10:00-11:30am Pacific Time.
To register, please book through Authentic Self Focusing, where you'll find options to join once or join monthly. CA$40/circle.
https://www.authenticselffocusing.com/cult-recovery
Topic: Introductory
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eastern Time
Six biweekly workshops · 135 minutes each · Online with each workshop examining each step.
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eastern Time
Six biweekly workshops · 135 minutes each · Online with each class exploring each step
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Jerusalem Time
Social Oriented Focusing (SOF) invites us into an embodied practice to untie the KNOTS and NOTS that interfere with relating to others, enabling us to overcome blocks, fears, and automatic behaviors. Imagine being fully present in the here-and-now in a Focusing way, enjoying interpersonal moments with the freedom to be yourself, instead of repeating stressful patterns of separation.
In SOF Course Level 1, we will set out on an SOF journey of discovery from separation to connection. In a safe group setting, we will explore the steps from feeling alone to feeling together, while being our authentic selves.
SOF expands our Focusing awareness allowing us to meet others while remaining intimate with ourselves and our present moment experience, facilitating
In SOF Course Level 1, we will set out on an SOF journey of discovery from separation to connection. In a safe group setting, we will explore the steps from feeling alone to feeling together, while being our authentic selves.
SOF expands our Focusing awareness allowing us to meet others while remaining intimate with ourselves and our present moment experience, facilitating
Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
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Eastern Time, New York, USA
Smartview Conversations is a monthly online gathering to explore the application of our Focusing skills to daily life and interactions. Utilizing exercises from the Facilitator Guide for Smartview Stories, we will explore and build the resourcing qualities life is asking of us now.
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. These webinars emphasize Gendlin's action step; how is it we bring Focusing concepts into our daily living.
We meet on the 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. These webinars emphasize Gendlin's action step; how is it we bring Focusing concepts into our daily living.
We meet on the 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.
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, Ongoing
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CET
The primary purpose of the annual EFA gathering is for European Focusers to connect and inspire each other, and to create European work relationships.
• Daily meetings with the whole group
• A variety of happenings throughout the day, offered by those excited to share something
• Daily Focusing Partnerships
• Home Groups
• Daily meetings with the whole group
• A variety of happenings throughout the day, offered by those excited to share something
• Daily Focusing Partnerships
• Home Groups
St Mary’s Monastery, Hatton Road, Kinnoull, Perth PH2 7BP, Scotland
Topic: Other
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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?
- 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 comes from you?
Inner Relationship Focusing teaches us how to attend to our inner experience in ways that feel deeply satisfying and bring change.
- Feel stuck in a difficult life situation?
- Suffer, but can't connect to the aching place inside?
- 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 comes from you?
Inner Relationship Focusing teaches us how to attend to our inner experience in ways that feel deeply satisfying and bring change.
Zoom details available upon registration
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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PDT (Pacific Time)
Join the Focusing and Expressive Arts Institute's enriching 4-session Zoom series, where we will introduce FOAT tools each session that bring the healing power of Focusing and the expressive arts together. Through this FOAT practice group, small steps will cultivate access to your body’s creative wisdom, positive change, and growth will be nourished. Together we will co-create a supportive community to enhance self-compassion and compassion toward others.
Zoom Online
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
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Eastern Time, New York, USA
Focusing gives us the essence of HOW change happens in practical steps that many other empowering psychological processes lean on. You are embarking on a forever journey of being your own best friend and a healing Presence to the world. Utilizing Inner Relationship Focusing and Relational Neuroscience, we are encouraged to practice both in partnerships and with brief pauses during the day. The fundamentals we explore here are great to return to anytime you are ready to go deeper.
For coaches, bodyworkers, therapists, teachers and anyone interested in improving their inner and outer relational skills. Our Professional Certification program includes Parts 1-4 and entering The Learning Community for Mastery in Guiding Change. Join our Learn Focusing community to share Focusing
For coaches, bodyworkers, therapists, teachers and anyone interested in improving their inner and outer relational skills. Our Professional Certification program includes Parts 1-4 and entering The Learning Community for Mastery in Guiding Change. Join our Learn Focusing community to share Focusing
Online via Zoom
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Certification
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Suitable for American & European Time Zones
1.5-hour informal meeting to introduce my 20-week Nervous System Reset Online Course
After accidents, certain neurological illnesses, or emotionally challenging incidences, the autonomic nervous system can get stuck in repetitive patterns, overreacting to specific cues. This challenges our health, well-being, sense of safety and connection, and our creative potential. We can gradually...
Join a 1.5-hour Taster
After accidents, certain neurological illnesses, or emotionally challenging incidences, the autonomic nervous system can get stuck in repetitive patterns, overreacting to specific cues. This challenges our health, well-being, sense of safety and connection, and our creative potential. We can gradually...
Join a 1.5-hour Taster
Topic: Other
As a Focuser, you know how transformative Focusing is. But as a therapist, you've probably struggled to integrate it into your practice. Many if not most people seeking therapy aren't ready to do deep Focusing. Some may never be. And you know there's much more to good therapy than facilitating Focusing sessions.
We're the authors of When You Let the Body Lead: Embodied Healing and Change with Contemporary Focusing-Oriented Therapy. In this program, limited to twenty participant-therapists, we present FOT as a powerful, embodied therapy modality you can use to help clients achieve transformative change, including healing from trauma. Over nine monthly two-hour sessions, you’ll learn a unified set of techniques and micro-skills that bring the essence and gift of
We're the authors of When You Let the Body Lead: Embodied Healing and Change with Contemporary Focusing-Oriented Therapy. In this program, limited to twenty participant-therapists, we present FOT as a powerful, embodied therapy modality you can use to help clients achieve transformative change, including healing from trauma. Over nine monthly two-hour sessions, you’ll learn a unified set of techniques and micro-skills that bring the essence and gift of
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Suitable for American & European Time Zones
2-Month or 6-Month Online Course
Relate to yourself and others with freshness, emotional intelligence, and an open heart.
In this gentle, meditative process, both the Focuser and the Listener create a deeply welcoming space for whatever arises. Focusing invites you to connect with your felt sense — your inner sense of something. This opens the door to insights and understanding that go far beyond what emotion and intellect alone can offer.
Focusing Basics, Levels 1 and 2:
Mon Oct 5, 2026 – Nov 30 2026
The full 6-month Level 1-5 course for beginners:
Mon Oct 5, 2026 – Mon April 5, 2027
Relate to yourself and others with freshness, emotional intelligence, and an open heart.
In this gentle, meditative process, both the Focuser and the Listener create a deeply welcoming space for whatever arises. Focusing invites you to connect with your felt sense — your inner sense of something. This opens the door to insights and understanding that go far beyond what emotion and intellect alone can offer.
Focusing Basics, Levels 1 and 2:
Mon Oct 5, 2026 – Nov 30 2026
The full 6-month Level 1-5 course for beginners:
Mon Oct 5, 2026 – Mon April 5, 2027
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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Pacific
Discover powerful skills for life change based on self-acceptance and being present in the moment. Start to experience the process of Focusing and Focusing partnership. Learn how to cultivate an inner environment of calm, open, curious awareness which is the foundation from which lasting change emerges. Interactive beginning Focusing training by Zoom for 9 weeks, includes partnership practice.
Taught by Jinevra Howard and Ann Weiser Cornell (author of The Power of Focusing).
Includes videos, demos, readings, discussion, group exercises, and individual sessions.
Taught by Jinevra Howard and Ann Weiser Cornell (author of The Power of Focusing).
Includes videos, demos, readings, discussion, group exercises, and individual sessions.
Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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Pacific
Has Focusing changed your life in a profound way? Do you feel called to help facilitate that kind of powerful change for other people? Our two-year live, online program will give you the skills you need to become a Certified Focusing Professional.
Build a profession teaching Focusing, add Focusing to your current profession, or bring Focusing to your family and community.
Our next program starts in October.
Taught by Ann Weiser Cornell, Barbara McGavin, and Additional Program Faculty.
Build a profession teaching Focusing, add Focusing to your current profession, or bring Focusing to your family and community.
Our next program starts in October.
Taught by Ann Weiser Cornell, Barbara McGavin, and Additional Program Faculty.
Online via Zoom
Topic: Certification
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Eastern Time
The way we work with our clients reflects the relational and embodied nature of our mind process.
In this course, you study how the bodily felt sense emerges in the context of interaction and explore the physicality of our relational patterns.
You do this experientially as you practice creatively using embodied experience to harness the transformative power of Focusing at the edge of experience.
In this course, you study how the bodily felt sense emerges in the context of interaction and explore the physicality of our relational patterns.
You do this experientially as you practice creatively using embodied experience to harness the transformative power of Focusing at the edge of experience.
Online (Zoom)
Topic: FOT
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UK Time
You got as far as you can in your coaching practice, and you are a great coach.. But you want to be able to work with clients at a deeper level – to help the client get to the root cause of their challenges.
You already have many great tools but they somehow miss the mark with those deepest issues. You are now looking for new ways to support the client. You also want to bring more of your AUTHENTIC SELF to the coaching conversation – but, you just don't know how to do that in a way that will really support the client .
If these are the questions you’re struggling with, then you’re in the right place.
This training was made for YOU.
In this training, you will learn to access your own body’s wisdom, to help you have more
You already have many great tools but they somehow miss the mark with those deepest issues. You are now looking for new ways to support the client. You also want to bring more of your AUTHENTIC SELF to the coaching conversation – but, you just don't know how to do that in a way that will really support the client .
If these are the questions you’re struggling with, then you’re in the right place.
This training was made for YOU.
In this training, you will learn to access your own body’s wisdom, to help you have more
On Zoom
Topic: Certification
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Eastern Time, New York, USA
Have a self-care goal that just won't stick?
Join us as we explore the inner and outer dynamics of self-care processes. Utilizing spatial awareness skills to navigate our inner landscape, we lean heavily on writing, art and body awareness activities. Our goal is to experience ourselves as living process and find it easier to give ourselves space when we need it to transform patterns that no longer serve us.
Meeting five weeks for 1.5 hours, this series is for All Levels! This space is for those curious about Focusing and looking for a gentle introduction. It's also ideal for an experienced Focuser to explore these challenging tangles with the benefit of a weekly structure. Our time is primarily experiential. We work individually, not partnering
Join us as we explore the inner and outer dynamics of self-care processes. Utilizing spatial awareness skills to navigate our inner landscape, we lean heavily on writing, art and body awareness activities. Our goal is to experience ourselves as living process and find it easier to give ourselves space when we need it to transform patterns that no longer serve us.
Meeting five weeks for 1.5 hours, this series is for All Levels! This space is for those curious about Focusing and looking for a gentle introduction. It's also ideal for an experienced Focuser to explore these challenging tangles with the benefit of a weekly structure. Our time is primarily experiential. We work individually, not partnering
Online via Zoom
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
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Central European Time
Inmitten von Felsen, Fluss, Bäumen und Pferden –
in einem Schloss zwischen Elsass und Burgund, nahe Langres in Frankreich.
Dieser Workshop lädt dich ein, dich in Beziehung zu erleben – mit deinem Körper und deiner Mitwelt. In der Begegnung mit Menschen, Tieren und Natur werden persönliche Bedürfnisse sowie zwischenmenschliche Dynamiken sichtbar.
in einem Schloss zwischen Elsass und Burgund, nahe Langres in Frankreich.
Dieser Workshop lädt dich ein, dich in Beziehung zu erleben – mit deinem Körper und deiner Mitwelt. In der Begegnung mit Menschen, Tieren und Natur werden persönliche Bedürfnisse sowie zwischenmenschliche Dynamiken sichtbar.
Château Faverolles, nahe Langres in Frankreich.
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate
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Central European Time
This workshop invites you to experience yourself in relationship — with your body and the world around you. Encounters with other people, animals, and nature reveal personal needs and interpersonal dynamics.
Château Faverolles, a castle between Alsace and Burgundy, near Langres in France
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
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AEST
This workshop outlines the essence and main elements of Focusing-Oriented Therapy (FOT) and its distinct approach to clients’ change process. FOT is a form of client-centred, process-oriented, experiential therapy with a humanistic spirit and a relational heart. It works with immediate experience by using the felt sensing method—directly felt bodily experience of one’s lived reality.
You will learn about:
- FOT view of personality, philosophy of change, psychotherapy process and interventions
- Assessment process from the FOT perspective
- Balancing the internal (deep inner work), relational (relational dynamic between the client and the therapist), and external (present-day life’s problem-focused) focus and work, with the awareness of the
You will learn about:
- FOT view of personality, philosophy of change, psychotherapy process and interventions
- Assessment process from the FOT perspective
- Balancing the internal (deep inner work), relational (relational dynamic between the client and the therapist), and external (present-day life’s problem-focused) focus and work, with the awareness of the
Canterbury Community Precinct 2 Kendall Street Canterbury, VIC Australia
Topic: FOT