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.
Estem molt contents d’anunciar-vos que fem la 2a Escola d’Estiu de Focusing Montserrat, del 17 al 22 de juliol de 2025.
Són 5 dies de convivència i aprenentatge al Monestir de St. Benet de Montserrat. Aquest intensiu és un mitjà per aprofundir i incorporar el Focusing en nosaltres, recolzant-nos en el camí que fem en grup. Amb l’entorn del monestir i la muntanya com a marc, i els cicles de la natura com a diapasó.
És oberta als qui coneixeu el Focusing de fa temps o esteu aprenent-lo al vostre ritme (cal tenir uns coneixements bàsics). Per descomptat, hi podeu participar si esteu cursant 1r any o 2n any.
Escoltarem la veu que ens parla en el cor, gaudint del regal de la mútua presència. Per això combinarem la pràctica diària dels enfocaments,
Monestir de St. Benet de Montserrat. Barcelona, Catalunya. Espanya.
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.
Gendlin valued Clearing a Space very highly. How about you? Is Clearing a Space (CAS) a standard part of your own Focusing practice, or your teaching of Focusing? Or have you replaced it with something else – maybe an attunement? Join us to share what place CAS has in your Focusing practice – is it essential, optional, irrelevant or something else?
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
Most of us know that being able to listen in a Focusing way usually requires lots of practice and reflection. Yet, when we speak with others, we often find we have nothing but our habits to guide us. We can’t expect ourselves to automatically be skilled at speaking up, speaking out, speaking to and from our felt sense. Especially when we speak in larger groups, our Focusing skills can disappear! We need a place to practice speaking and some guidance to find a new way.
These Being Focusing Together gatherings will use Gendlin’s little known unpublished manuscript "Fitting In and Pouring Out, and Relating" to help us do just that. We will use our time together to experiment with new patterns and see if we find fresh ways to be Focusing in our group interactions.
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, Ongoing, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
Has Focusing changed your life in a profound way? Do you feel called to help facilitate that kind of powerful change for other people? Join us for a free open house and find out how you can become a Certified Professional in Inner Relationship Focusing. Our next program starts in October.
In this FREE webinar, you'll get to meet and interact with many of the program teachers. Discover the different components of the program and how they integrate. Share your goals and ask your questions. Familiarize yourself with the program prerequisites, requirements, and application process. Understand how you (and your future clients) benefit from our comprehensive training program.
A four-day retreat (July 9-13, 2025, France)for those wishing to deepen their Focusing practice and explore constellations as an expanded form of Felt Sense work.
Focusing and person-centered constellations meet in a way that opens fresh pathways into inner experience.
Set within a powerful river landscape framed by meadows and ancient trees, nature accompanies the process as a quiet, living dialogue partner. Nestled in a beautiful French château, this setting offers a special container for profound presence and growth.
Château Faverolles, 2 Route de château, 52260 Faverolles, France.
In June 2025, Professor Akira Ikemi will lead a three-day workshop for intermediate-level focusers in Warsaw, Poland. The workshop will cover Professor Ikemi’s current interests: Focusing Alpha and Focusing Beta, introduce Asian Focusing, and explore experiential scales. It is a great opportunity to practice in an international Focusing community and to visit the beautiful city of Warsaw at this lovely time of year. The workshop will be conducted in English.
Join us for Part 2 of the live, virtual 9-week training in Inner Relationship Focusing. This next step in your journey deepens your practice, equipping you with the skills to foster profound, lasting change in both your personal and professional life.
This is a space for those who have completed Year 1 of Focusing or its equivalent of Proficiency in Focusing listening, or are currently on the path to becoming Focusing Practitioners. And also a space for those who want to sensed their way into Focusing through monthly monographics with a Focusing Community. It’s a place to deepen your practice, month by month, held in the company of others, and guided by the richness of life themes we all meet in ourselves, like Shame, Anger, Inner Critic, Pleasure, and the Inner Child.
Focusing invites us to listen deeply, gently turning toward what lives in us with care and curiosity. Through this process, we connect more fully with our emotional and relational landscapes, both personally and collectively.
An opportunity to read Gendlin’s seminal book Focusing with others
A Free Event for Members
Live (no recording)
Fifth session July 1, 2025 - We will start Chapter 3.
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, Ongoing, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
If you’re drawn to inner exploration, this course offers a gentle, structured way to stay with what’s not yet clear. Based on Thinking at the Edge, Thetaland® – The Game of Inquiry invites you into creative dialogue with your felt sense. Over six months, you'll receive videos, weekly inspirations, live sessions, and a supportive community. Thetaland® becomes a steady companion—playful, profound, and attuned to your unique inner process.
The course starts on July 1st. Pre-registration ends on June 15.
At some time or another, all of us have been in conflict with someone that we love or that is significant in our lives. Perhaps it was a parent, a child, a partner, a friend, a colleague…whoever it was, something happened, something got in the way of the relationship.
In Social Oriented Focusing ׂׂ(SOFׁ) there is an understanding that the relationship is more important than the conflict, and from this perspective, we can use SOF tools to stop our automatic patterns of reacting and actually manage the conflict.
Thematic workshops: throughout the 4 days, a number of workshops on the theme of the inner path will be offered by various IFEF-certified trainers. They form the core of the seminar.
Introductory workshops on the practice of focusing: a “red thread” of discovery over 4 days: the stages of the focusing process, “bodily sense” and the experiential dimension, “bodily movement” and the emergence process, listening and internal location, etc...
Small groups: These are daily places of exchange, listening and sharing, where everyone meets up with the same participants in a more intimate space throughout the seminar.
Les Jardins intérieurs Quartier le buis – 07200 St Privat FRANCE – tél +33 (0)9 70 40 82 15 Coordonnées G.P.S : L.N.44°37'31'' l. E.4° 24' 38''
Gendlin valued Clearing a Space very highly. How about you? Is Clearing a Space (CAS) a standard part of your own Focusing practice, or your teaching of Focusing? Or have you replaced it with something else – maybe an attunement? Join us to share what place CAS has in your Focusing practice – is it essential, optional, irrelevant or something else?
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events