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Saturday, March 29th, 2025 from 10:00am to 12:30pm New York time Your time here
Live attendance is recommended. All registrants (whether or not you attend live) will receive an email to view the recording after the workshop. The recording will be available for one month after the workshop concludes. Breakout rooms are not recorded.
An experiential workshop in Social Oriented Focusing (SOF) with Yehudit First
Imagine being really present in the here-and-now…enjoying interpersonal moments with the freedom to be yourself, to feel good – to experience surprise and delight instead of repetitive, stressful patterns of interaction.
SOF teaches us to untie the KNOTS and NOTS that interfere with relating to others, enabling us to overcome blocks, fears, and automatic behaviors.
On both sides of Giving and Receiving
In this workshop, we'll explore the beautiful dance of giving and receiving, and how it can blossom into a deeper connection with ourselves and others. We'll discover how to create a safe and nurturing space for authentic sharing, a space where we can truly connect, sharing from the depths of our being (meeting in an SOF way). In this way, both the giver and receiver feel seen, heard, and valued.
Together, we'll learn how to:
• Open our hearts: Cultivate a sense of warmth and vulnerability, allowing ourselves to give and receive with greater ease and joy.
• Embrace co-acceptance: Move beyond judgment and create a foundation of understanding and compassion for ourselves and others.
• Nurture mutual growth: Discover how giving and receiving can be a catalyst for personal transformation and deeper intimacy in our relationships.
This workshop is an invitation to connect with your inner wisdom, celebrate the power of human connection, and experience the profound joy of giving and receiving from the heart. The workshop will include presentations, guided experiences, SOF – Social Oriented Focusing practicing in Breakout rooms, and time for sharing and questions.
All are welcome to attend. Familiarity with Focusing will be helpful.
Format
We use Zoom videoconferencing for our online classes. The session will be held in meeting format so that all participants can see the presenters and each other. You will need to have a computer/mobile device. Calling in by phone is also possible but not preferred as participation in breakout rooms will be limited.
All registrants (whether or not you attend live) can view the recording for one month. Breakout rooms are not recorded.
Bio
Yehudit First is an experienced Body Psychotherapist, Group Facilitator, Teacher of Focusing/FOT and TIFI Coordinator from Israel. She is known for her emphasis on interpersonal connection through Social Oriented Focusing (SOF). Yehudit shares her expertise globally, teaching SOF online to Focusers worldwide. She also uses SOF in her clinic and through Zoom for individual, group and couple therapy sessions.
For more information on Yehudit’s trainings see: https://www.focusing-first.com/sof
For more information:
Contact Elizabeth at [email protected] or (845) 480-5111
Price: $40 Members, $50 Non-members
Registration Information and Price
Yehudit is volunteering to offer this workshop to support The International Focusing Institute.
Registration Policies
*Note: If the price is not affordable, please email [email protected] to check on scholarship funds.
DEI Scholarship. There are DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) Scholarship funds available for anyone in a group under-represented in TIFI's programs, including people aged 30 or younger, those in the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) community and others. For more about our DEI scholarship, please see focusing.org/board. To apply, email [email protected].
Refunds: A full refund minus a $25 administrative fee for cancellations 14 days before the start date. Cancellations less than 14 days before the start date are nonrefundable. The International Focusing Institute reserves the right to cancel or re-schedule for insufficient enrollment or for other unanticipated reasons. In such cases you will be given a choice of applying your tuition to future programs, or having the full enrollment fee returned to you.
TIFI reserves the right to cancel, change and alter the program if necessary. Participants authorize TIFI to use their name, statements and likeness without charge, for promotional purposes in publications, advertising, video, web, new media, or other formats.
By registering for this course with the Institute, and in consideration of the right and opportunity to participate in and contribute to the Institute’s classes, for the purposes of its control of all video and/or audio recordings thereof pertaining to uses serving our purposes and goals, in enrolling in this session you acknowledge and agree to the Institute’s ownership of all rights in such classes, including all rights under copyright therein. If you plan to use, post or display any portion or clips of these recordings, including posting these to a website or to a social media platform or portal, you agree that you will seek and obtain the prior approval of the Institute. In no circumstance shall any portion or clip posted or displayed exceed 3 minutes in duration.
At many of our events, we will end class by taking a screenshot. All those who don't want to be included will have the chance to leave. Taking screenshots for sharing (such as on social media) are not allowed at other times during the class. Thanks for your cooperation.
$ 40.00
Paid-up Institute Members
$ 50.00
Non-members
Contact
Questions: [email protected]
Registration Information and Price
Price: $40 Members, $50 Non-members
If the lowest price is not affordable, please email [email protected] to check on scholarship funds.