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Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy

FOT


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Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy: What is it?

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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Training in Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy

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Conference on Focusing-Oriented Therapy:

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.

SEE Focusing and Dreams 

For more information about Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy
please see the Website link: International Association of Focusing-Oriented Therapists (IAFOTs)

YouTube Channel: Focusing-Oriented Therapies

What FOT is - German, Chinese and Romanian

German | Chinese | Romanian 

Carl Rogers, Person Centered, Existential and Humanistic Psychology

Eugene Gendlin and Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy has a deep connection to the work of Carl Rogers and the Person Centered (or Client Centered) tradition as well as to Existential Psychology and Humanistic Psychology.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: The World Association for Person Centered & Experiential Psychotherapy & Counseling has a bibliography at https://pce-literature.org/en which contains information about a wide range of resources, including where to find articles by and about Focusing, Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy and Eugene Gendlin.  Just put “Gendlin” or “Focusing” into the search box.

VIDEO: Nada Lou has a video on her YouTube channel of Gene Gendlin discussing Carl Rogers.  You can find that at this link.

FOT Event Listings

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Women's Soul Midwifery Focusing Training
- EST
Angie Hensley, PhD, LMFT
Angelina Hensley, PhD, LMFT
If you identify as a woman and are a licensed mental health therapist looking to incorporate somatic body wisdom and sacred feminine arts into your practice, this training is for you!
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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Tennessee
Topic: FOT
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The embodied & relational edge of Focusing-oriented therapy
- Eastern Time
serge prengel focusing-oriented therapy
Serge Prengel
An experiential course & process group for therapists
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. 

Online (Zoom)
Topic: FOT
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Prayer as a Journey Through States of Consciousness
- Eastern Time
Dana and Baruch with Shakio: https://shakio.org/en/
Dana Ganihar and Baruch Brenner with the Shakio Institute
Focusing and Kabbalah in Living
Dana and Baruch in person!
2 Day residential retreat in beautiful Chelsea, Michigan, USA. The purpose of the workshop is to explore, through direct experience, the process of moving through different states of consciousness until reaching a unique state called "prayer consciousness." In this state, a shift occurs in the perception of life, giving rise to new steps into reality.

Chelsea, Michigan, USA
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, FOT, Spirituality, TAE/Philosophy
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The mindful & proactive edge of Focusing-oriented therapy
- US Eastern Time (New York)
DNA of change Serge Prengel
Serge Prengel
An experiential course & process group for therapists
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.
Topic: FOT
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