Your Hosts
Where & When
This meeting will take place on Zoom.
A confirmation of your registration will be sent shortly after registering.
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 1:00-3:00 pm NY Time
7:00-9:00 pm Central European Time
Times worldwide: convert to your time zone
Registration Closes Friday February 14 at 12pm NY Time
During this Children & Focusing Roundtable we will explore the Focusing process with special needs children from the parent - teacher perspective in classroom settings.
Questions and themes we might explore together are:
- How can a teacher's own process help to unfold an emphatic environment in the classroom?
- How to create a safe and welcoming environment for children with special needs to support their inner process?
- How could we support the parent - child relationship through Focusing in the classroom?
- How to nourish children's empathy through Focusing in the classroom?
Join us at this Children & Focusing Roundtable where you can find a supportive community to listen to your process and own experience. And we will also explore ideas, and good practices that can help you grow in your own Children and Focusing work.
Who might be particularly interested in attending this Roundtable?
Everyone with curiosity about Children & Focusing is invited!
If you are a Focusing-oriented professional working with children, or adults (parents, teachers, psychologists, caregivers, etc.) around children, and anyone interested in exploring the child within, you are warmly welcome.
CONNECTION>CONVERSATION>COMMUNITY
What to expect from Focusing Roundtables: Each Focusing Roundtable is designed to promote informal peer-to-peer conversation. Rather than acting as expert presenters, the Hosts will serve as conversation moderators to encourage sharing and exploration of the topics from the participants’ own perspectives. All participants’ sharings are welcome and valuable, no matter what level of experience or knowledge you have on the topic. This Roundtable will be recorded. Normally and hereforwaard, to preserve the nature of informal conversation, Roundtables are offered live only. Registration is unlimited. Participants are encouraged to create follow up opportunities for connection among themselves after the Roundtable.
The TIFI Membership Committee is pleased to offer this series of Focusing Roundtables designed especially for members of the Institute. As a special event, this Roundtable is open to all members and non-members. This program will afford participants a valuable opportunity to engage in casual peer-to-peer conversation with others who share Focusing-related interests.
Your hosts are members of the Children & Focusing Advisory Group
Hosts for this Roundtable - Laura Bavalics, René Veugelers and Harriet Teeuw
Laura Bavalics is an early childhood educator, play mentor, and drama teacher. She is a Certified Focusing Professional and a Focusing-oriented educator, who has been working with young children, parents, and professionals for over twenty-five years. She is a professional director of the Pendula inclusive kindergarten program for children in foster care and with special needs at the Világszép Foundation in Hungary. She is also teaching at ELTE University, Hungary, in their College of Education. Laura is a member of the International Leadership Council and the Children's Focusing Advisory Board.
René Veugelers is a Coordinator specialising in Children’s Focusing, with an emphasis on the non-verbal world, René teaches parents, therapists, teachers and others how to be with children in a Focusing way, how to (re)connect to their own inner child experiences and how to integrate creativity and flexibility into their life and work. His work and experiences as a psychiatric nurse and as an art therapist with children, of any age, embraces an expanded richness of creative elements and supports a natural unfolding of creative process. René lives and works in the Netherlands, where he teaches Children Focusing and specializes in working with children with ADHD, ADD, trauma and attachment disorder.
Harriet Teeuw: Focusing Coordinator and Art Therapist, working in her own practice with children and adults in The Netherlands. Teaching “Dynamic Expressive Focusing” and Focusing International Online (Dream) Workshops and Certification Program for Focusing Practitioners: https://www.childrenfocusing.org/www.deruimte-info.nl; [email protected]
Registration Information and Price
Zoom: We use Zoom for all of our online offerings. Please attend by computer so that we can have your video presence as well as your audio. Calling in by phone is also possible but not preferred.
Price: The co-hosts are volunteering their time in order that this program may be brought to members of TIFI at no charge.
PLEASE NOTE: When you register, if your dues are current, your registration is confirmed. If your dues are not current or or if you are not yet a member, please go to the membership page to pay your dues or join and then return to this page to register. Membership page: http://focusing.org/membership. Because this is a members only program, your spot in the Roundtable is not held until your dues are paid. Thank you!
Contact
Questions: [email protected]
Registration Information and Price
The TIFI Membership Committee is pleased to offer this series of Focusing Roundtables designed especially for members of the Institute. If you are not a member, please join at http://www.focusing.org/membership, then return to this page to register. This program will afford members a valuable opportunity to engage in casual peer-to-peer conversation with other members who share Focusing-related interests.