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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Hora del Este, Nueva York
En Tres aserciones sobre el cuerpo, Gendlin dice que nuestros cuerpos son heredados de las plantas. Las plantas, sin tener cerebro ni sistema nervioso ni los cinco sentidos, crean sus cuerpos de la luz, del aire, del agua, de la tierra. Nuestras sensaciones corporales con significado vienen de esta capacidad de las plantas de sentir lo que necesitan y recibirlo del entorno.
Online
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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Eastern Time
An empathy circle, practiced in a Focusing way, is a regular Focusing exchange, held by the entire group. As such, there is a Focuser, a listener, and the remaining participants act as observers/witnesses. After the Focusing, each are invited to offer an empathic reflection to the Focuser.
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Online via Zoom.
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, Changes Groups, Ongoing
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Eastern/New York Time
Join other Focusing professionals as we practice Focusing. Professional work grows from our personal practice, so let’s continue Focusing. This can also be a unique place for folks to Focus about their professional Focusing work with clients or students and work projects in general.
This a place to land to do paired Focusing partnership, no teaching is offered. Breakout rooms are arranged for each pair. This is a drop-in group, no commitment required. Cost: free, no cost.
Private to Focusing Professionals - TIFI Certified Focusing Professionals and trainees, trained by any coordinator, includes all types of Focusing Professionals (FOT, Focusing Trainer, Focusing Professional).
This a place to land to do paired Focusing partnership, no teaching is offered. Breakout rooms are arranged for each pair. This is a drop-in group, no commitment required. Cost: free, no cost.
Private to Focusing Professionals - TIFI Certified Focusing Professionals and trainees, trained by any coordinator, includes all types of Focusing Professionals (FOT, Focusing Trainer, Focusing Professional).
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Eastern/New York Time
This group is open to all Focusing students who have Focusing training from any trainer. This is a space for folks to land to practice Focusing and continue to keep it as part of their life. We practice using the skills we already know; no teaching is offered - just pairs for partnership at a reliable time and place. This is a drop-in group, no commitment required.
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Eastern Time (New York Time)
A Changes Group is a free-of-charge, peer-led group that meets so people can exchange Focusing and listening turns in an atmosphere of safety and mutual respect. It's a group for continuing your Focusing practice; no teaching will be done.
We meet on zoom twice per month. We have a centering/grounding practice to begin followed by a check in (usually in breakout rooms), followed by time for practice in groups of two or three. You can also chose to join an empathy circle if you'd like to observe or practice in a bigger group.
Our next Changes Groups are:
-Sunday, February 23rd, 6:30-8 pm Eastern (see your local time) *note this is the 4th Sunday
-Friday, March 7th, 12:30-2 pm Eastern (see your local time) + Find a Focusing Partner, 11
We meet on zoom twice per month. We have a centering/grounding practice to begin followed by a check in (usually in breakout rooms), followed by time for practice in groups of two or three. You can also chose to join an empathy circle if you'd like to observe or practice in a bigger group.
Our next Changes Groups are:
-Sunday, February 23rd, 6:30-8 pm Eastern (see your local time) *note this is the 4th Sunday
-Friday, March 7th, 12:30-2 pm Eastern (see your local time) + Find a Focusing Partner, 11
Online via Zoom
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Changes Groups
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Eastern Time
ALL are welcome to attend -- whether you are an experienced Focuser or are brand new and would like to experience a new way to listen and be with yourself.
These 90-minute interactive Zoom-based gatherings are designed to create an atmosphere of safety and mutual respect for both experienced and less-experienced Focusers.
And - there's NO FEE to attend.
These 90-minute interactive Zoom-based gatherings are designed to create an atmosphere of safety and mutual respect for both experienced and less-experienced Focusers.
And - there's NO FEE to attend.
Online
Topic: Free, Changes Groups
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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. Our skill emphasis for 2025 is being our own Self-Mentor. 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 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. These webinars emphasize Gendlin's action step; how is it we bring Focusing concepts into our daily living.
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
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, Ongoing
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Hora Buenos Aires, Argentina- Zona horaria: UTC-3
Programa Intensivo de Entrenamiento on-line de 60 horas dividido en 3 módulos a lo largo del año en “Focusing Dinámico Expresivo” para el acompañamiento de Niños, Adolescentes y la relación con el Niño Interior.
Será dictado en Inglés, con traducción simultánea al Español.
Será dictado en Inglés, con traducción simultánea al Español.
En línea
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Buenos Aires- Argentina
Modalidad: Exposición dialogada + teórica y vivencial.
Charla participativa con la posibilidad de covisionar ideas para armar un taller.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1QhYprEtQcJI3RRhf2eP6d1fyuDdeNvrmNjSvoDQhDbw
Charla participativa con la posibilidad de covisionar ideas para armar un taller.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1QhYprEtQcJI3RRhf2eP6d1fyuDdeNvrmNjSvoDQhDbw
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UK Time
Discover focusing and other embodied practices to help deepen your work with clients. You’ll also learn to explore your own aliveness and body’s wisdom and discover the gifts it has for you as a person.
Through this work you can learn to regulate your own nervous system and that of your client. As well as focusing, the program will also draw on Circling, the NARM™ framework (Neuro Affective Relational Model) and polyvagal toning. This course is introductory in nature, nonetheless you will gain tools to help you increase the impact of your work with clients.
All sessions are experiential and interactive. Practice with fellow students between taught sessions will help to integrate learning.
More info on video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5Y-LMZpWq0&t=2s
Through this work you can learn to regulate your own nervous system and that of your client. As well as focusing, the program will also draw on Circling, the NARM™ framework (Neuro Affective Relational Model) and polyvagal toning. This course is introductory in nature, nonetheless you will gain tools to help you increase the impact of your work with clients.
All sessions are experiential and interactive. Practice with fellow students between taught sessions will help to integrate learning.
More info on video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5Y-LMZpWq0&t=2s
Topic: Introductory
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New York time
Focusing Highlights is a series of interactive, online pay-what-you-can classes.
In this Highlight, Debra will share how fitness and health can be approached and practiced in a Focusing way, giving us a fresh relationship to movement and exercise.
Some familiarity with Focusing is helpful, but no prior experience is required. All are welcome to attend and participate.
In this Highlight, Debra will share how fitness and health can be approached and practiced in a Focusing way, giving us a fresh relationship to movement and exercise.
Some familiarity with Focusing is helpful, but no prior experience 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
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Hora de Nueva York
Pensar de una forma nueva es vivir y experienciar la vida de una forma nueva. Exploraremos dos aspectos de la filosofía de Gendlin (su nueva forma de pensar) y mostraremos cómo descubrir y transformar un par de supuestos profundamente implícitos puede transformar nuestras vidas y, eventualmente, nuestra civilización.
En línea (La clase también será grabada)
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, TAE/Philosophy, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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CET
6. Focusing-Impuls-Konferenz des Deutschen Focusing Instituts
28. Feb./01. März 2025 Fr. 19 - Sa. 18 Uhr
Freitag Abend:
Vortrag
Samstag (Vormittag und Nachmittag):
Workshops
Miteinander verbinden, gegenseitig inspirieren, Zukunft gestalten
Unsere Vision ist es, im Frühjahr einen Focusing-inspirierenden Raum für uns zu schaffen. Wir hoffen auf ein Geben und Nehmen und auf frische Impulse im gemeinsamen Tun. Wir werden uns in den Workshops kennenlernen im Zuhören, im Partnerschaftlichen Focusing und einem hoffentlich fruchtbaren, zukunftsorientierten Austausch auf dem Marktplatz.
Die Einladung geht an Alle – Willkommen sind Interessierte, die Focusing kennenlernen wollen und ebenso Focusing-Kolleg*innen
28. Feb./01. März 2025 Fr. 19 - Sa. 18 Uhr
Freitag Abend:
Vortrag
Samstag (Vormittag und Nachmittag):
Workshops
Miteinander verbinden, gegenseitig inspirieren, Zukunft gestalten
Unsere Vision ist es, im Frühjahr einen Focusing-inspirierenden Raum für uns zu schaffen. Wir hoffen auf ein Geben und Nehmen und auf frische Impulse im gemeinsamen Tun. Wir werden uns in den Workshops kennenlernen im Zuhören, im Partnerschaftlichen Focusing und einem hoffentlich fruchtbaren, zukunftsorientierten Austausch auf dem Marktplatz.
Die Einladung geht an Alle – Willkommen sind Interessierte, die Focusing kennenlernen wollen und ebenso Focusing-Kolleg*innen
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EADT
Most therapists will agree about the importance of a therapeutic relationship. The quality of interpersonal interaction is the most important therapeutic factor because all other interventions happen within that interaction. The client's problems will not get resolved in interactions that replay the kind in which the problem was created. “We need [to provide] a new kind of interaction, one in which the client actually lives in a new way beyond the old stoppage” (Gendlin, 1996, p.286).
Melbourne, Glen Waveley, VIC, Australia
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
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Eastern/New York Time
Join other Focusing professionals as we practice Focusing. Professional work grows from our personal practice, so let’s continue Focusing. This can also be a unique place for folks to Focus about their professional Focusing work with clients or students and work projects in general.
This a place to land to do paired Focusing partnership, no teaching is offered. Breakout rooms are arranged for each pair. This is a drop-in group, no commitment required. Cost: free, no cost.
Private to Focusing Professionals - TIFI Certified Focusing Professionals and trainees, trained by any coordinator, includes all types of Focusing Professionals (FOT, Focusing Trainer, Focusing Professional).
This a place to land to do paired Focusing partnership, no teaching is offered. Breakout rooms are arranged for each pair. This is a drop-in group, no commitment required. Cost: free, no cost.
Private to Focusing Professionals - TIFI Certified Focusing Professionals and trainees, trained by any coordinator, includes all types of Focusing Professionals (FOT, Focusing Trainer, Focusing Professional).
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Eastern/New York Time
This group is open to all Focusing students who have Focusing training from any trainer. This is a space for folks to land to practice Focusing and continue to keep it as part of their life. We practice using the skills we already know; no teaching is offered - just pairs for partnership at a reliable time and place. This is a drop-in group, no commitment required.
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Eastern (New York) Time
Reading Freshly
An opportunity to read Gendlin’s seminal book Focusing with others
A Free Event for Members
Live (no recording)
Once a month on Tuesdays starting March 4, 2025
An opportunity to read Gendlin’s seminal book Focusing with others
A Free Event for Members
Live (no recording)
Once a month on Tuesdays starting March 4, 2025
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, Ongoing, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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Eastern time
This Program is designed specifically for therapists and counselors who want to enrich and take their work with clients a step further with Focusing and get their FOT Certification from TIFI. Other people who work with clients in different ways and want to enhance their work are also welcome to attend. (Even though they would not apply for FOT Certification)
It is an ongoing course of 1 1/2 hours every other week, on Tuesdays, that can be taken independently or as part of the whole Certification Program.
It is an ongoing course of 1 1/2 hours every other week, on Tuesdays, that can be taken independently or as part of the whole Certification Program.
Online
Topic: FOT
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Irish Standard Time/British Standard Time
Learn how to disidentify from traumatised parts and allow them to be just as they are.
Zoom details available upon registration
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
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New York time
Harnessing the Power of Instances with Focusing: “It’s like that time when…”
4-session course led by Mary Jennings
In our everyday conversations we often use what Gendlin calls ‘instances’ to say more of what we mean. We will explore how Focusing can enhance this capacity in many ways. In these 4 weekly sessions we will explore how we can work with instances in a Focusing way. We will look at how poets and other artists use the power of instances to generate striking images and insights and how we can be as creative. We will look at how we might collaborate in generating new insights on everyday ideas by sharing our own ‘instances’ and experiences.
4-session course led by Mary Jennings
In our everyday conversations we often use what Gendlin calls ‘instances’ to say more of what we mean. We will explore how Focusing can enhance this capacity in many ways. In these 4 weekly sessions we will explore how we can work with instances in a Focusing way. We will look at how poets and other artists use the power of instances to generate striking images and insights and how we can be as creative. We will look at how we might collaborate in generating new insights on everyday ideas by sharing our own ‘instances’ and experiences.
Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Other, TAE/Philosophy, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events