A Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapist (FOT) is a psychotherapist, counselor or psychologist, licensed in their jurisdiction, who, in addition to their therapy training, has completed a certification program specializing in integrating Focusing into therapy. In FOT, the client is invited to notice how their body makes feelings about their life issues, and they are helped to gently access what the body says about what they are experiencing.
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We run a regular Focusing-Oriented Therapy Conference.
We held one online November 2-5, 2023. See above for more information on that one. The FOT conferences have generally taken place every 2 years. Check out the 2023 Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy Conference at this link.
This interactive workshop invites participants to experience and explore Focusing – a bottom-up (somatic) process that supports and helps to shift the psychological and emotional landscape related to climate change and the broader polycrises. Focusing is one of the original modern somatic-oriented therapies and its wisdom and approach are embedded in many popular healing modalities. Through guided exercises and breakout sessions, attendees will experience how Focusing connects us to our inner knowing in a way that helps us find the clarity and heart to engage with the world in whatever way we can best be of service. Focusing is a powerful tool for peer-to-peer listening, whether in therapy, Climate Cafés, or group settings.
Potencia tu práctica profesional con nuestro entrenamiento intensivo.
Aprende a aplicar esta poderosa técnica en tu trabajo, descubriendo nuevas herramientas para tu desarrollo profesional.
Descubre tu camino hacia una vida plena.
Un sábado al mes, sumérgete en tu autodescubrimiento, explorando tus sensaciones y encontrando la autonomía y libertad que buscas.
Comenzamos el 29 de marzo.
Vamos de Marzo a Diciembre.
Participa desde cualquier lugar del mundo.
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This is a series of Saturday workshops, running once a month, with virtually open intake. Only the Introduction, "The Art of Focusing" (or equivalent) must be taken as a pre-req, the remaining modules are totally flexible. Students who complete 16 specific modules, along with additional practice and supervision criteria, may become certified as a Focusing Oriented Therapist. Program completion takes about 17 -20 months.
We begin with learning the basic steps of Focusing so you can practice with a partner and bring Focusing into your healing practice. Understanding and working with a felt sense (how the body holds living experience about a situation) is the key to moving beyond the typical dead ends of talk therapy. Like mindfulness, Focusing helps us step back and observe our experience and then takes us further into Relational Presence with inner parts and with one another.
This two-year training program for healers will create a sacred space where we open to our embodied, wildish nature as the ground for developing our capacity to midwife soul healing. Through focusing and the felt sense, together we will come into a deeper relationship with the wisdom of our bodies and the natural world, integrating focusing and the felt sense as we grow our medicine woman toolkits.
You will learn divine feminine ways of knowing and being to develop:
• deep, embodied, soulful connections with other healing artists
• capacity to engage with focusing therapeutically for yourself, your clients and your community
• ability to become ensouled and bring more soul forward with your clients and communities using a focusing approach
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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 Integrative Focusing.
With Integrative Focusing, the goal of lasting change is not separate from how we work to achieve it.
You practice ways to foster a mindful, proactive space in which clients will organically tap into their inner ability to heal and grow.
You develop a quality of presence that allows clients to face what might otherwise feel uncomfortable or even unbearable and allows new possibilities to emerge.
