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.
Do you want to find a way to accept your whole being
What about growing more genuine relationships in your life?
Maybe you would enjoy including your body as well as your emotions and thought processes in your decision making.
Are you looking for a way to deal with stress or inner conflicts?
Focusing helps with all of these and is a gift you can give to your whole being. You can start with effective little bits that build into a grounded ability to deal with what comes in your daily life.
PART 2 is about deepening into the Focusing and Listening process by looking more at the role of how we companion ourselves as well as others. We develop further our personal concept of creating an inner space that welcomes it all and adapting that space as we follow our process. I introduce relational neuroscience here.
Experience in a beginner partnership course is required. Discount for partnership courses or experience beyond that. A great place for advanced Focusers to return to.
Skills training with Deirdre is a two part 10 week online gathering with a break in between modules.
Students meet in pairs weekly to explore the learning points step by step.
We build conscious awareness of embodiment to expand a spacious body 'home' for all that arrises awaiting the magic of unfolding and discovery.
Deirdre uses her trauma training in Identity orientated psychotrauma lens and 22 years as a craniosacral therapist to blend body and mind.
Wenn dich Focusing interessiert, ist der Einführungskurs eine gute Möglichkeit, mich und Focusing kennenzulernen. Wir machen gemeinsam den ersten Schritt. Dann entscheidest du, ob du am Basis-Kurs teilnehmen möchtest.
Der Einführungskurs ist erforderlich,
wenn du am Basis-Kurs teilnehmen möchtest.
La narrativa condicionada del entorno social atemorizó a los padres y después, ellos, trasladaron sus miedos a sus hij@s. Así durante generaciones y generaciones por milenios. Cuando acompañamos esas voces asustadas, descubrimos la fuente de la auténtica seguridad y experimentamos la restauración de la verdadera confianza. Nos damos a luz a nosotr@s mism@s. Nos auto maternamos y auto paternamos.
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 Wednesdays, that can be taken independently or as part of the whole Certification Program.
Grief has a way of lingering, quietly eroding the ground beneath our sense of peace and stability. Loss can take so many forms: a person or animal you loved, a physical capacity you relied on, a sense of purpose that once anchored you. Finding your footing again can sometimes feel out of reach.
What I've come to understand about the feelings that accompany loss is that they don't want to be fixed or rushed. They want company. And when you can offer yourself genuine presence and compassion, something begins to shift.
Do you want to find a way to accept your whole being
What about growing more genuine relationships in your life?
Maybe you would enjoy including your body as well as your emotions and thought processes in your decision making.
Are you looking for a way to deal with stress or inner conflicts?
In this eight-week Focusing course, we learn the practice, including being a listener. We slowly learn each of the 6 steps of Focusing, adding a new one every week or two. We also gradually learn new listening skills. Each class consists of a centering, a small experiential exercise, a demonstration and breakout room practice in groups of twos or threes.
Dates for the next groups:
-Tuesdays, September 1-October 20 , 10 am to 12 pm Eastern.
Art Club is a space where we go inward to express outward – through drawing, movement, writing, painting, or whatever feels right for you in the moment. Each session involves slowing down and noticing what you have inside that’s worth exploring. It’s a time dedicated for self reflection and self care. Come prepared to pause, listen, and allow your inner wisdom to unfold.
A pupa is the safe place for transformation... in nature this is the cocoon or chrysalis. In Focusing, this is the safety of our Focusing attitude and listening partnerships. The use of felt sense body cards catalyze the process by capturing details and helping us notice our patterns and further explicate our process.
The base of the PUPA Focusing Certification Program consists of eight courses that cover two journeys using the PUPA process. designed to not only learn and teach Focusing, but to also get to know and transform yourself, while creating change in the world. The initial courses cover learning Focusing (the six steps, and five kinds of listening), learning about who you are (how you avoid feeling, and your parts), learning who you want to be and what you want to
An opportunity to read Gendlin’s seminal book Focusing with others
A Free Event for Members - Newcomers welcome to join at any time!
Live (no recording)
Next session July 7, 2026 - Reading will begin in the middle of Chapter 11 The Listening Manual, second main section - THE SECOND KIND OF HELPING: USING YOUR OWN FEELINGS AND REACTIONS ABOUT THE OTHER PERSON
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, Ongoing, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
Do you want to find a way to accept your whole being
What about growing more genuine relationships in your life?
Maybe you would enjoy including your body as well as your emotions and thought processes in your decision making.
Are you looking for a way to deal with stress or inner conflicts?
Trusting ourselves can be hard, especially when we've spent years learning not to. For many of us, overriding our feelings and inner knowing wasn't a mistake—it was a way of staying safe and connected.
In Coming Back to You a six-week online course, you'll learn how to value your feelings and trust yourself, so you can live more fully and authentically.
Add this transformative tool to your practice! In this introductory workshop you'll begin to learn the basic steps of Focusing in order to incorporate it in your healing practice. Understanding and working with a Felt Sense (how the body holds living experience about a situation) is the key to moving beyond typical dead ends of talk therapy. Join us!
This is a series of Saturday workshops, running once a month, with virtually open intake. Only the Introduction, "The Art of Focusing" (or equivalent) must be taken as a pre-req, the remaining modules are totally flexible. Students who complete 16 specific modules, along with additional practice and supervision criteria, may become certified as a Focusing Oriented Therapist or as a Certified Focusing Professional. Program completion takes about 17 -20 months.
Want to watch as Ann Weiser Cornell guides someone through their very first Focusing session?
Focusing can be puzzling to talk about. It can be hard to learn from a book or a video. But when someone is actually taken through the process, you get it! Be present to observe as Ann guides three first-time Focusers (one each week) - and then comment afterward. The guest Focusers are volunteers who understand that their session will be witnessed by a safe and respectful group of people.
Changes Groups sind Orte für Partnerschaftliches FOCUSING.
In regelmäßigen Treffen bieten Changes Groups einen Raum, um gemeinsam FOCUSING zu praktizieren.
Treffen in 2026:
26. Mai, 16. Juni, 14. Juli, 25. August, 15. September, 13. Oktober, 10. November, 8. Dezember