Children & Focusing Roundtable Series - A Drop of Treasure

Special Event - Open to Members and Non-Members
This Roundtable will be recorded and the recording sent to all registrants within 2 weeks of the event.
All Invited!

Tuesday, September 24, 2024  1:00-3:00 pm NY Time
7:00-9:00 pm Central European Time

Times worldwide: convert to your time zone

During this Children & Focusing Roundtable we will experience and discuss the meaning behind the upcoming Less is More online Children & Focusing Conference.

Questions and themes we might explore together are:

• What does Less is More means to me in my Children & Focusing practice?
• What is at the heart of my Children & Focusing work?
• What ways could I share my experiences that the essence of my work shines through?
• What does it mean to me being part of the Children & Focusing community?
• How can I implement the concept ‘Less is More’ into my life and with the children around me?

Join us at this Children & Focusing Roundtable where you can find a supportive community to listen to your process. And we will also explore ideas, and good practices that can help to unfold your presentation or curiosity/exploration around ‘Less is More’.

• Are you playing with the idea of participating or presenting at the conference?
• Are you wondering how to share your experiences?
• Or perhaps you just want to explore the theme ‘Less is More’ in the Children & Focusing context

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, Joke Van Hoeck 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.

Joke Van Hoeck has been a child psychologist and psychotherapist for more than 18 years. A mother of three children, she can’t imagine a life without Focusing. She is a certified Focusing Professional and Focusing oriented therapist. Joke lives and works in Belgium and has a special interest in bringing Focusing to parents who are looking for a new way of dealing with the daily life struggles in raising children.

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]