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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Eastern Time, New York, USA
Focusing gives us the essence of HOW change happens in practical steps that many other empowering psychological processes lean on. You are embarking on a forever journey of being your own best friend and a healing Presence to the world. Utilizing Inner Relationship Focusing and Relational Neuroscience, we are encouraged to practice both in partnerships and with brief pauses during the day. The fundamentals we explore here are great to return to anytime you are ready to go deeper.
For coaches, bodyworkers, therapists, teachers and anyone interested in improving their inner and outer relational skills. Our Professional Certification program includes Parts 1-4 and entering The Learning Community for Mastery in Guiding Change. Join our Learn Focusing community to share Focusing
For coaches, bodyworkers, therapists, teachers and anyone interested in improving their inner and outer relational skills. Our Professional Certification program includes Parts 1-4 and entering The Learning Community for Mastery in Guiding Change. Join our Learn Focusing community to share Focusing
Online via Zoom
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Certification
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Suitable for American & European Time Zones
1.5-hour informal meeting to introduce my 20-week Nervous System Reset Online Course
After accidents, certain neurological illnesses, or emotionally challenging incidences, the autonomic nervous system can get stuck in repetitive patterns, overreacting to specific cues. This challenges our health, well-being, sense of safety and connection, and our creative potential. We can gradually...
Join a 1.5-hour Taster
After accidents, certain neurological illnesses, or emotionally challenging incidences, the autonomic nervous system can get stuck in repetitive patterns, overreacting to specific cues. This challenges our health, well-being, sense of safety and connection, and our creative potential. We can gradually...
Join a 1.5-hour Taster
Topic: Other
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Suitable for American & European Time Zones
2-Month or 6-Month Online Course
Relate to yourself and others with freshness, emotional intelligence, and an open heart.
In this gentle, meditative process, both the Focuser and the Listener create a deeply welcoming space for whatever arises. Focusing invites you to connect with your felt sense — your inner sense of something. This opens the door to insights and understanding that go far beyond what emotion and intellect alone can offer.
Focusing Basics, Levels 1 and 2:
Mon Oct 5, 2026 – Nov 30 2026
The full 6-month Level 1-5 course for beginners:
Mon Oct 5, 2026 – Mon April 5, 2027
Relate to yourself and others with freshness, emotional intelligence, and an open heart.
In this gentle, meditative process, both the Focuser and the Listener create a deeply welcoming space for whatever arises. Focusing invites you to connect with your felt sense — your inner sense of something. This opens the door to insights and understanding that go far beyond what emotion and intellect alone can offer.
Focusing Basics, Levels 1 and 2:
Mon Oct 5, 2026 – Nov 30 2026
The full 6-month Level 1-5 course for beginners:
Mon Oct 5, 2026 – Mon April 5, 2027
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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Pacific
Discover powerful skills for life change based on self-acceptance and being present in the moment. Start to experience the process of Focusing and Focusing partnership. Learn how to cultivate an inner environment of calm, open, curious awareness which is the foundation from which lasting change emerges. Interactive beginning Focusing training by Zoom for 9 weeks, includes partnership practice.
Taught by Jinevra Howard and Ann Weiser Cornell (author of The Power of Focusing).
Includes videos, demos, readings, discussion, group exercises, and individual sessions.
Taught by Jinevra Howard and Ann Weiser Cornell (author of The Power of Focusing).
Includes videos, demos, readings, discussion, group exercises, and individual sessions.
Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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Pacific
Has Focusing changed your life in a profound way? Do you feel called to help facilitate that kind of powerful change for other people? Our two-year live, online program will give you the skills you need to become a Certified Focusing Professional.
Build a profession teaching Focusing, add Focusing to your current profession, or bring Focusing to your family and community.
Our next program starts in October.
Taught by Ann Weiser Cornell, Barbara McGavin, and Additional Program Faculty.
Build a profession teaching Focusing, add Focusing to your current profession, or bring Focusing to your family and community.
Our next program starts in October.
Taught by Ann Weiser Cornell, Barbara McGavin, and Additional Program Faculty.
Online via Zoom
Topic: Certification
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Eastern Time
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 Focusing at the edge of experience.
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 Focusing at the edge of experience.
Online (Zoom)
Topic: FOT
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Eastern Time, New York, USA
Have a self-care goal that just won't stick?
Join us as we explore the inner and outer dynamics of self-care processes. Utilizing spatial awareness skills to navigate our inner landscape, we lean heavily on writing, art and body awareness activities. Our goal is to experience ourselves as living process and find it easier to give ourselves space when we need it to transform patterns that no longer serve us.
Meeting five weeks for 1.5 hours, this series is for All Levels! This space is for those curious about Focusing and looking for a gentle introduction. It's also ideal for an experienced Focuser to explore these challenging tangles with the benefit of a weekly structure. Our time is primarily experiential. We work individually, not partnering
Join us as we explore the inner and outer dynamics of self-care processes. Utilizing spatial awareness skills to navigate our inner landscape, we lean heavily on writing, art and body awareness activities. Our goal is to experience ourselves as living process and find it easier to give ourselves space when we need it to transform patterns that no longer serve us.
Meeting five weeks for 1.5 hours, this series is for All Levels! This space is for those curious about Focusing and looking for a gentle introduction. It's also ideal for an experienced Focuser to explore these challenging tangles with the benefit of a weekly structure. Our time is primarily experiential. We work individually, not partnering
Online via Zoom
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
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Central European Time
Inmitten von Felsen, Fluss, Bäumen und Pferden –
in einem Schloss zwischen Elsass und Burgund, nahe Langres in Frankreich.
Dieser Workshop lädt dich ein, dich in Beziehung zu erleben – mit deinem Körper und deiner Mitwelt. In der Begegnung mit Menschen, Tieren und Natur werden persönliche Bedürfnisse sowie zwischenmenschliche Dynamiken sichtbar.
in einem Schloss zwischen Elsass und Burgund, nahe Langres in Frankreich.
Dieser Workshop lädt dich ein, dich in Beziehung zu erleben – mit deinem Körper und deiner Mitwelt. In der Begegnung mit Menschen, Tieren und Natur werden persönliche Bedürfnisse sowie zwischenmenschliche Dynamiken sichtbar.
Château Faverolles, nahe Langres in Frankreich.
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate
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Central European Time
This workshop invites you to experience yourself in relationship — with your body and the world around you. Encounters with other people, animals, and nature reveal personal needs and interpersonal dynamics.
Château Faverolles, a castle between Alsace and Burgundy, near Langres in France
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
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AEST
This workshop outlines the essence and main elements of Focusing-Oriented Therapy (FOT) and its distinct approach to clients’ change process. FOT is a form of client-centred, process-oriented, experiential therapy with a humanistic spirit and a relational heart. It works with immediate experience by using the felt sensing method—directly felt bodily experience of one’s lived reality.
You will learn about:
- FOT view of personality, philosophy of change, psychotherapy process and interventions
- Assessment process from the FOT perspective
- Balancing the internal (deep inner work), relational (relational dynamic between the client and the therapist), and external (present-day life’s problem-focused) focus and work, with the awareness of the
You will learn about:
- FOT view of personality, philosophy of change, psychotherapy process and interventions
- Assessment process from the FOT perspective
- Balancing the internal (deep inner work), relational (relational dynamic between the client and the therapist), and external (present-day life’s problem-focused) focus and work, with the awareness of the
Canterbury Community Precinct 2 Kendall Street Canterbury, VIC Australia
Topic: FOT
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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. Utilizing exercises from the Facilitator Guide for Smartview Stories, 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 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 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.
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, Ongoing
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Eastern
Untangling® Retreats are 6-day residential retreats for people with Focusing experience who want to learn how to apply our Untangling® method to life’s most hard-to-change issues.
We’ve been teaching Untangling® Retreats in 15 countries over the past 25 years, helping thousands of people learn our method, getting responses like this one from Paul Fitzgerald: "The experience was like a dissolving of an old way of seeing life and having new eyes to engage life with more freedom. I'd highly encourage anyone interested in deepening their Focusing to take this course."
We believe that transformation occurs most readily in an atmosphere of respect, acceptance, openness, warmth, playfulness, and support. Our mission is to enable you to live from your
We’ve been teaching Untangling® Retreats in 15 countries over the past 25 years, helping thousands of people learn our method, getting responses like this one from Paul Fitzgerald: "The experience was like a dissolving of an old way of seeing life and having new eyes to engage life with more freedom. I'd highly encourage anyone interested in deepening their Focusing to take this course."
We believe that transformation occurs most readily in an atmosphere of respect, acceptance, openness, warmth, playfulness, and support. Our mission is to enable you to live from your
Wallingford, PA
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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Eastern Time
This eight-week course is an opportunity to strengthen your listening skills and deepen your Focusing experiences. In improving your listening skills with empathy and compassion, you create an even stronger container for the felt sense and Focusing process, the motor of change.
The course uses inspiration from Eugene Gendlin, Carl Rogers, Interactive Focusing (Janet Klein, Mary McGuire, and Masumi Maeda), Tomeu Barceló, Glen Fleisch, Allan Rohlfs, as well as a host of empathy researchers.
You will also learn to better sense your own needs while Focusing, in listening to the nuances from your felt sense (self-empathy) and then meet those needs, either by giving that to yourself or asking your listener for what it needs (self-compassion).
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The course uses inspiration from Eugene Gendlin, Carl Rogers, Interactive Focusing (Janet Klein, Mary McGuire, and Masumi Maeda), Tomeu Barceló, Glen Fleisch, Allan Rohlfs, as well as a host of empathy researchers.
You will also learn to better sense your own needs while Focusing, in listening to the nuances from your felt sense (self-empathy) and then meet those needs, either by giving that to yourself or asking your listener for what it needs (self-compassion).
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Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
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Eastern Australian Daylight Time
Focusing Course and practice will help you access, regulate, and integrate your life experience. It will help you provide a safe sanctuary for all aspects of yourself to come home into your embodied awareness.
This is the place to start if you’re ready to learn this transformative self-awareness and healing practice in a guided and supported way.
This is the place to start if you’re ready to learn this transformative self-awareness and healing practice in a guided and supported way.
Canterbury Community Precinct 2 Kendall Street Canterbury, VIC Australia
Topic: Introductory
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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. Utilizing exercises from the Facilitator Guide for Smartview Stories, 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 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 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.
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, Ongoing
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Suitable for European & American Time Zones
You will experience and learn a variety of tools for regulating your nervous system. With this variety, you can find the ones that work best for you. Focusing exchanges will help you to hold and welcome your experiences and find your own unique way of incorporating neuro-regulating practices into your everyday life. Theoretical discourses will put everything in a larger context.
November 2026 through April 2027
20 weeks for learning and integration.
This course fits both European and American time zones.
November 2026 through April 2027
20 weeks for learning and integration.
This course fits both European and American time zones.
Topic: Other
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Eastern Time, New York, USA
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.
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.
Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Certification
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Eastern Time, New York, USA
Our goal here is to return to the essence of Focusing and ourselves as living process. I ask that participants are Focusing weekly with a partner at least one month before class begins and throughout our time together. There is a lot of reading, often more than you might choose to do. We touch on a variety of approaches to learn and practice Focusing. We begin and end remembering that always that which has learned Focusing is Partiality, not Presence. My Part 4 is a great place to return to whenever you would like to go deeper with your process from wherever it is. Requires Part 3 or equivalent experience.
Meets eight times on Wednesdays, 7 –9 pm New York time.
Meets eight times on Wednesdays, 7 –9 pm New York time.
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
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Eastern Time, New York, USA
Our goal here is to return to the essence of Focusing and ourselves as living process. We ask that participants are Focusing weekly with a partner at least one month before class begins and throughout our time together. There is a lot of reading, often more than you might choose to do. We touch on a variety of approaches to learn and practice Focusing. We begin and end remembering that always that which has learned Focusing is Partiality, not Presence. Our Part 4 is a great place to return to whenever you would like to go deeper with your process from wherever it is. Requires Part 3 or equivalent experience.
Our Professional Certification program includes Parts 1-4 and entering The Learning Community for Mastery in Guiding Change. Join our Learn Focusing community to share
Our Professional Certification program includes Parts 1-4 and entering The Learning Community for Mastery in Guiding Change. Join our Learn Focusing community to share
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced, Certification
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Eastern Time, New York, USA
Join us for an online intermediate Focusing class that helps you understand where you are within a process and then, to sense what is needed from you for this situation now. Utilizing Inner Relationship Focusing, Spatial Awareness and Neuroscience concepts, we learn to guide ourselves and others in ways that invite relational trust, lasting change and life forward flow. There is a lot of valuable relational practices here for coaches, bodyworkers, therapists, teachers and anyone interested in diving deeper with living life as process.
Our Professional Certification program includes Parts 1-4 and entering The Learning Community for Mastery in Guiding Change. Consider joining our Learn Focusing community to share Focusing with others.
Our Professional Certification program includes Parts 1-4 and entering The Learning Community for Mastery in Guiding Change. Consider joining our Learn Focusing community to share Focusing with others.
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Certification