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.
If you grew up in an environment where being authentically you felt unsafe, then it makes sense that it’s hard to trust yourself and value your feelings.
Eugene Gendlin would often say, "Life wants to live." I agree and would extend that by saying: Life wants to live AND it will do what it has to do to live.
Just like plants and animals, our bodies will also adapt and be shaped by the environment in which we find ourselves. And while those strategies may have kept us safe, they often came at a cost.
You are invited to participate in our Taking Care of Your Community Through Focusing webinars. This is a valuable opportunity to explore how the practice of Focusing can become a tool for well-being that is not only as an individual, but as a collective.
In addition to exploring Focusing through a lens of Community Wellness, you will get the chance to meet Pat Omidian, PhD. and other facilitators and students who have experienced firsthand the value and depth of this approach.
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
Le Cabinet Public Focusing est un atelier pratique mensuel de Focusing en groupe et en ligne qui permet à la fois de découvrir, d'entretenir et d'approfondir la pratique du Focusing en présence.
Una propuesta vivencial donde el Focusing se convierte en la brújula para explorar la rueda zodiacal como un mapa energético y simbólico encarnado en la experiencia humana. A lo largo del año, exploramos cada fase del ciclo —desde el nacimiento hasta la disolución— escuchando y acompañando lo que emerge en el cuerpo. No se trata de aprender astrología, sino de habitar sus arquetipos como movimientos vivos que ya existen dentro de nosotros desde hace siglos, reconociendo cómo cada vuelta de la Tierra alrededor del Sol refleja estos procesos cósmicos en los movimientos orgánicos internos de nacimiento, maduración, muerte y renovación.
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.
The Older Women’s Self Appreciation Society is an online course of 8 live classes, over 10 weeks, for women over 50 who want to deepen self trust, embody their worth, and reconnect with inner knowing through Focusing. Participants learn Levels 1 and 2 BFA Focusing skills, through a blend of teaching, guided exercises, and partnership practices. Meet your experience with curiosity, soften inner critics, and access the wise inner guidance that becomes clearer through sensing in the body. A small group setting offers spacious, supportive community for learning Focusing skills and cultivating an embodied sense of value and ease.
Note change of dates from original listing.
ALL are welcome to attend -- whether you are an experienced Focuser or are brand new and would like to experience a new way to listen and be with yourself.
These 90-minute interactive Zoom-based gatherings are designed to create an atmosphere of safety and mutual respect for both experienced and less-experienced Focusers.
And - there's NO FEE to attend.
In this 2-hour experiential workshop for Focusers, we will invite our attention to go through and beyond the individual Felt Sense, and into the relational field that unfolds when presence is shared.
All are welcome to attend. Familiarity with Focusing will be helpful.
Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
Part 2 of your Focusing Course supports you in deepening your experience with this method and learning how to deal with the most typical blocks to Focusing: the inner conflicts, interruptions, doubts, distractions, feeling too much or not feeling at all. As you deepen the process for yourself, you will learn how to support the process and practice of others.
This online workshop offers a concise, compassionate introduction to the psychology of cultic relationships, and introduces Focusing as a path for cult recovery.
You practice ways to foster a mindful, proactive space in which clients will organically tap into their inner ability to heal and grow.
You develop a quality of presence that allows clients to face what might otherwise feel uncomfortable or even unbearable and allows new possibilities to emerge.
In this ten-week Focusing course, we learn to use self-regulation and co-regulation to affect the interactions in our relationships. You can explore any relationships, including those that include power (leaders and employees, teacher and students, parent(s) and children).
The goal is to use emotional regulation to create safe and connected relationships that allow for creativity and action to flow.
You are invited to participate in our Taking Care of Your Community Through Focusing webinars. This is a valuable opportunity to explore how the practice of Focusing can become a tool for well-being that is not only as an individual, but as a collective.
In addition to exploring Focusing through a lens of Community Wellness, you will get the chance to meet Pat Omidian, PhD. and other facilitators and students who have experienced firsthand the value and depth of this approach.
Please join me on a unique learning journey of the power of the healing relatedness of the therapeutic ‘us’. The larger unfolding relational process that Gendlin called “the big therapy process”. Designed for therapists, healers, and helpers of all kinds who have some familiarity with Focusing guiding &/or Focusing-Oriented Therapy (FOT) and are ready to explore the larger, unfolding process that Eugene Gendlin called "the big therapy process."
By exploring both the similarities and the differences between two process-oriented approaches— Focusing and Feldenkrais—we can deepen our appreciation of the learning conditions already cultivated in Focusing and discover fresh perspectives offered by the Feldenkrais lens. This can make Focusing even more effective.
Amona's presentation is especially relevant for those who already practice or teach Focusing or other experiential, process-based approaches. It is also for anyone curious about learning, in parenting, in teaching. Some prior experience with Focusing will be helpful but is not necessary.
Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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. This class can be your first step toward professional certification by completing Parts 1-4, then entering the ongoing Learning Community for Mastery in Guiding Change.