Past Events
Schede primarie
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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Pacific Time
The 19th annual in-person Northwest Focusers Gathering is coming up! All Focusers from beginners to advanced are welcome to join.
We invite you to join us in this warm, inclusive co-creation where we can connect deeply with the Life in ourselves, in other people, and in the world around us.
We invite you to join us in this warm, inclusive co-creation where we can connect deeply with the Life in ourselves, in other people, and in the world around us.
Union, WA, USA
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
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Eastern Time (EDT)
This course provides an accessible way to think at the edge by starting from where you are, using TAE steps as flexible tools that can be rearranged, reversed, or changed as needed. We will address not only the prerequisite of having a felt sense but also other challenges, such as managing personal concerns, sustaining the emergence process over time, and integrating both new and existing ideas. Working with images, drawings, movements, and music keeps the course engaging. If you have a project you care about but haven’t yet found the starting point, or if you'd like to try TAE again, this course is for you.
Format: Four weekly classes beginning March 19, one individual session, prompts, and a handout.
Format: Four weekly classes beginning March 19, one individual session, prompts, and a handout.
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, TAE/Philosophy
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New York Time
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
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Irish Standard Time/British Standard Time
Inner Relationship Focusing Level 2 helps deepen your sense of yourself. You build trust in your felt sense, reduce inner conflict, and feel more grounded in daily life. You also strengthen your Companion skills and move toward professional qualification.
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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Eastern (New York) Time
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.
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
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.
Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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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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CST
Presentaré algunos sentipensares en relación con el acompañamiento a personas consultantes para que identifiquen, comprendan y transformen su emociones.
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Hora Argentina
Un espacio donde poder certificarte y/o profundizar en tu práctica de Focusing.
Incluye una supervisión individual por mes.
Incluye una supervisión individual por mes.
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Jerusalem Time
Social Oriented Focusing (SOF) invites us into an embodied practice to untie the KNOTS and NOTS that interfere with relating to others, enabling us to overcome blocks, fears, and automatic behaviors. Imagine being fully present in the here-and-now in a Focusing way, enjoying interpersonal moments with the freedom to be yourself, instead of repeating stressful patterns of separation.
In SOF Course Level 1, we will set out on an SOF journey of discovery from separation to connection. In a safe group setting, we will explore the steps from feeling alone to feeling together, while being our authentic selves.
SOF expands our Focusing awareness allowing us to meet others while remaining intimate with ourselves and our present moment experience, facilitating
In SOF Course Level 1, we will set out on an SOF journey of discovery from separation to connection. In a safe group setting, we will explore the steps from feeling alone to feeling together, while being our authentic selves.
SOF expands our Focusing awareness allowing us to meet others while remaining intimate with ourselves and our present moment experience, facilitating
Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
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Reading Freshly - Asia Pacific
An opportunity to read Gendlin’s seminal book Focusing with others
A Free Event for Members
Live (no recording)
Once a month on Wednesdays
An opportunity to read Gendlin’s seminal book Focusing with others
A Free Event for Members
Live (no recording)
Once a month on Wednesdays
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, Ongoing, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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Eastern (New York) Time
In this online four-part series, Dennis Windego blends Anishinaabe teachings and philosophies of natural healing methods which are aligned with the change of seasons steeped in traditional knowledge of the Anishinaabe peoples of Turtle Island. Participants will have the opportunity to learn from Dennis, and Indigenous elders.
Anyone seeking to experience these teachings is invited to register. No experience with Focusing, Focusing-Oriented Therapy, or Felt Sensing is required.
Anyone seeking to experience these teachings is invited to register. No experience with Focusing, Focusing-Oriented Therapy, or Felt Sensing is required.
Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, FOT, Spirituality, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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Hora Nueva York
En esta ocasión, Cafecitos nos ha brindado un espacio sobre “Focusing y las Artes Expresivas, FOAT, principios y experiencia.”
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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Eastern Daylight time- (international students please check your local time zone)
When was the last time you really felt heard? This 8 week Focusing exploration will offer a platform for developing our capacity to deeply listen- first & most importantly to ourselves. Later, as a greater capacity for spaciousness emerges, we will turn towards listening to others and to our authentic responses to the world. Each class meeting will include interactive practices & suggested real life practices to deepen the learning between sessions. Topics include: Listening without an agenda, Listening for your no & yes, Listening to your body’s wisdom about closeness and distance, & other topics as they emerge. Classes are highly interactive and experiential but may be recorded by request if you must miss a session. 8 Sunday evenings: 7- 8:30pm Eastern US time
Eastern US Time Zone
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CET, Germany
Auf dem Weg zu Deinem Kompass
Entdecke FOCUSING als praktische Methode, mithilfe achtsamer Körperwahrnehmung Deinem inneren Kompass zu folgen und Deine Intuition besser zu verstehen.
Focusing hilft bei der:
> Klärung persönlicher Probleme
> Entscheidungsfindung
> Frage nach dem nächsten Schritt in Ihrem Leben
Entdecke FOCUSING als praktische Methode, mithilfe achtsamer Körperwahrnehmung Deinem inneren Kompass zu folgen und Deine Intuition besser zu verstehen.
Focusing hilft bei der:
> Klärung persönlicher Probleme
> Entscheidungsfindung
> Frage nach dem nächsten Schritt in Ihrem Leben
Leipzig, Germany
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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Eastern STANDARD Time
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.
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.
Online
Topic: Free, Changes Groups
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Eastern (New York) Time
This four-session workshop is an opportunity to deepen the way that Focusing and meditation deepen each other. Serge and Bill hope to share their delight in experiencing the words “meditation” and “Focusing” as organic living changing meaning.
In addition to exploring in a full group when we are on Zoom together, this workshop includes the possibility of small group partnership between sessions. Participants do not need to be regular meditators to register.
In addition to exploring in a full group when we are on Zoom together, this workshop includes the possibility of small group partnership between sessions. Participants do not need to be regular meditators to register.
Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Spirituality, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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Pacific Time
Embark on your Community Wellness Focusing journey! Whether you're just starting out or looking to deepen your expertise, you'll gain the skills to build personal resilience, strengthen your professional foundation, and enhance community well-being and community care. We start this journey on March 5, 2026. This 2-year course includes: 1) psychological first aid; 2) psychosocial support; Focusing in Community; and Bringing Community Wellness back home.
Topic: Certification
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Pacific Time
This is a five-session Psychological First Aid (PFA) class for everyday people who find themselves listening to someone in distress. All of us encounter moments of crisis—not only after major events like fires or earthquakes, but also in situations that may seem ordinary: a job loss, illness, grief, or accumulated stress. In those moments, what matters most is often how we listen.
In this course, we welcome everyone, whether you are new to Focusing or already familiar with the practice. Through practice and reflection, we develop practical skills for responding to crisis with steadiness, compassion, and care—for others and for ourselves.
Register before February 21, 2026
In this course, we welcome everyone, whether you are new to Focusing or already familiar with the practice. Through practice and reflection, we develop practical skills for responding to crisis with steadiness, compassion, and care—for others and for ourselves.
Register before February 21, 2026
Zoom and course materials
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ET (Eastern Time)
This course includes 8 Group Meetings, partnerships, group and individual supervision, and more!
This training provides a solid foundation of Focusing-Oriented Expressive Arts (FOAT®) with an emphasis on deepening one’s embodied knowing of the main FOAT approaches– Focusing Attitude, Theme-Directed FOAT, Clearing a Space with Arts, FOAT Check-in, Working on an Issue, Self-Focusing, and Compassionate Listening. Trainees will also expand their understanding of FOAT theories and the philosophy of Focusing. The FOAT Partnership and small group practices open the doorway to learn about others’ processes and provides a foundation for facilitation skills that are continued in Level 2.
Eligible for 22 NBCC CE Hours
This training provides a solid foundation of Focusing-Oriented Expressive Arts (FOAT®) with an emphasis on deepening one’s embodied knowing of the main FOAT approaches– Focusing Attitude, Theme-Directed FOAT, Clearing a Space with Arts, FOAT Check-in, Working on an Issue, Self-Focusing, and Compassionate Listening. Trainees will also expand their understanding of FOAT theories and the philosophy of Focusing. The FOAT Partnership and small group practices open the doorway to learn about others’ processes and provides a foundation for facilitation skills that are continued in Level 2.
Eligible for 22 NBCC CE Hours
Online
Topic: Introductory