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Saturday, June 20, 2026 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm New York time
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Live attendance is recommended. All registrants (whether or not you attend live) will receive an email to view the recording after the workshop. The recording will be available for one month after the workshop concludes. Breakout rooms are not recorded.
Sometimes being friendly towards our pain is surprisingly difficult. And yet, something tender and knowing lives within us, waiting to be met with care.
This workshop will be a gentle practice of creating rhythm, soothing one's nervous system, and safely connecting with pain through breathwork, awareness building, connecting mind and body, Focusing, journaling, reflecting, and integrating.
This practice can be helpful if pain feels overwhelming or hard to approach, if you're unsure how to "listen" to what it's telling you, or if you'd like to meet your pain with more compassion. Participants may find this practice to be soothing, grounding, tender, and clarifying.
Notes:
● This is a non-movement practice. We won't be doing yoga poses or big embodied movements.
● You know yourself better than anyone — all parts of practice are suggestions, and you may modify or stop at any time.
All are welcome to attend. Some familiarity with Focusing will be helpful.
Format
We use Zoom videoconferencing for our online classes. The session will be held in meeting format so that all participants can see the presenter and each other. You will need to have a computer/mobile device. Calling in by phone is also possible but not preferred as participation in breakout rooms will be limited.
All registrants (whether or not you attend live) can view the recording for one month. Breakout rooms are not recorded.
Bio
MacPherson Worobec MacPherson (she/they) is a counseling student, yoga therapist, former acupuncturist and massage therapist, and is also a Coordinator-In-Training. They believe that healing requires a safe connection, and when such connections are present, incredible life-forward movement emerges. A future Focusing Oriented Therapist, MacPherson currently works with clients living with chronic illness and chronic pain who are recovering their safe and trustworthy connection with themselves, and also trains body-based providers in the inherent trauma-informed nature of Gendlin’s process oriented approach.
For more information:
Contact Elizabeth at [email protected] or (845) 480-5111
Price: $35 Members, $45 Non-members
Registration Information and Price
MacPherson is volunteering to offer this workshop to support The International Focusing Institute.
Registration Policies
*Note: If the price is not affordable, please email [email protected] to check on scholarship funds.
DEI Scholarship. There are DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) Scholarship funds available for anyone in a group under-represented in TIFI's programs, including people aged 30 or younger, those in the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) community and others. For more about our DEI scholarship, please see focusing.org/board. To apply, email [email protected].
Refunds: A full refund minus a $25 administrative fee for cancellations 14 days before the start date. Cancellations less than 14 days before the start date are nonrefundable. The International Focusing Institute reserves the right to cancel or re-schedule for insufficient enrollment or for other unanticipated reasons. In such cases you will be given a choice of applying your tuition to future programs, or having the full enrollment fee returned to you.
TIFI reserves the right to cancel, change and alter the program if necessary. The opinions offered by presenters and participants are their own and do not necessarily represent the opinions of TIFI. Participants authorize TIFI to use their name, statements and likeness without charge, for promotional purposes in publications, advertising, video, web, new media, or other formats.
By registering for this course with the Institute, and in consideration of the right and opportunity to participate in and contribute to the Institute’s classes, for the purposes of its control of all video and/or audio recordings thereof pertaining to uses serving our purposes and goals, in enrolling in this session you acknowledge and agree to the Institute’s ownership of all rights in such classes, including all rights under copyright therein. If you plan to use, post or display any portion or clips of these recordings, including posting these to a website or to a social media platform or portal, you agree that you will seek and obtain the prior approval of the Institute. In no circumstance shall any portion or clip posted or displayed exceed 3 minutes in duration.
At many of our events, we will end class by taking a screenshot. All those who don't want to be included will have the chance to leave. Taking screenshots for sharing (such as on social media) are not allowed at other times during the class. Thanks for your cooperation.
$ 35.00
Paid-up Institute Members
$ 45.00
Non-members
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Questions? [email protected]
Registration Information and Price
Price: $35 Members, $45 Non-members
If the lowest price is not affordable, please email [email protected] to check on scholarship funds.