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Wednesday, June 24, 2026
1:00-3:00 pm NY Time
Times worldwide: convert to your time zone
Registration Closes Friday June 20 at 9am NY Time
We are thrilled to invite you to our next Round Table, where we celebrate the inspirators, mentors, and role models who have shaped our journey. Thanks to them, we continue to build a future where Children & Focusing is accessible to everyone—children and their families. During this Roundtable, we will share stories from inspiring individuals such as Marta Stapert, Lucy Bowers, Zack Boukydis and Kazuko Amaha.
We'll also explore some powerful questions:
Who inspired you?
What is your unique story?
How can YOU carry your experience into the world?
This will be the heart of our Focusing exercise, as we come together to reflect, connect, and inspire one another.
We can’t wait to hear your stories and learn from each other.
Let’s continue to stand on the shoulders of giants - together.
Who might be particularly interested in attending this Roundtable?
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. If you are not a member, please join at 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.
About the Hosts
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 specializing 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 is a 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: http://www.childrenfocusing.org; www.deruimte-info.nl
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!
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Registration Information and Price
Free for members.