Past Events
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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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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Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)
This presentation is open to those new and experienced in Focusing, Expressive Arts, and FOAT!
Join us in welcoming Focusing Pioneer and Master Teacher, Akira Ikemi, Ph.D. for this special 2-hour program! Akira will share about his development of different Focusing methods that stem from Eugene Gendlin’s teachings. He will demonstrate two of those methods– Kansoh Focusing and Kanga Focusing. This enriching presentation will also include experiential exercises for participants to practice both methods in partners, along wtih time for Q&A!
Join us in welcoming Focusing Pioneer and Master Teacher, Akira Ikemi, Ph.D. for this special 2-hour program! Akira will share about his development of different Focusing methods that stem from Eugene Gendlin’s teachings. He will demonstrate two of those methods– Kansoh Focusing and Kanga Focusing. This enriching presentation will also include experiential exercises for participants to practice both methods in partners, along wtih time for Q&A!
Online
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
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Hora Buenos Aires, Argentina- Zona horaria: UTC-3
Un entrenamiento para TODA persona comprometido en transformar su VIDA, en lograr vínculos conectados, coherentes, auténticos, creativos y singulares, y en potenciar su libertad, su autonomía y su disfrute en cualquier área de la VIDA.
Es para toda persona con y sin experiencia en Focusing.
Qué te llevarás de este entrenamiento:
☑️ recursos que facilitarán el despliegue y el movimiento en procesos detenidos,
☑️ habilidades que apoyarán y profundizarán la conexión,
☑️ calidad en la escucha,
☑️ acceso y contacto a la información "no conciente" del cuerpo,
☑️ las condiciones para crear un espacio seguro en todo tipo de relación,
☑️ la posibiliidad de crear una buena relación con las
Es para toda persona con y sin experiencia en Focusing.
Qué te llevarás de este entrenamiento:
☑️ recursos que facilitarán el despliegue y el movimiento en procesos detenidos,
☑️ habilidades que apoyarán y profundizarán la conexión,
☑️ calidad en la escucha,
☑️ acceso y contacto a la información "no conciente" del cuerpo,
☑️ las condiciones para crear un espacio seguro en todo tipo de relación,
☑️ la posibiliidad de crear una buena relación con las
En línea
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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 Integrative Focusing.
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 Integrative Focusing.
Online (Zoom)
Topic: FOT
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Pacific Time
When we let ourselves play something out, we are inviting and allowing the energy of an inner being to awaken and to body forth, to live it out further and more fully than was possible in the situation. This active, dynamic process enables us to awaken and more fully live (play) something out from within its own spirit-energy without interference. As we connect with our whole body, as well as the larger body of our group, we activate a larger awareness and sensitive attuning to the movement of spirit through the living body, flowing within us, between us and around us. This transformational process enables us to participate in the healing of ourselves, the healing of each other and the healing of the world.
Online
Topic: Spirituality
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CET
Formación de prácticas online
Facilitadora: Macarena LópezAnadón, trainer focusing
Facilitadora: Macarena LópezAnadón, trainer focusing
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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.
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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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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Pacific
Take the second half of the Inner Relationship Focusing Training Program developed by Ann Weiser Cornell. Go deeper into Focusing and Focusing partnership. Learn the skill of guiding with sensitivity and awareness. Interactive advanced Focusing training by Zoom for 9 weeks, includes partnership practice.
Includes videos, demos, readings, discussion, group exercises, and individual sessions. Partnership Proficiency Recognition awarded on completion.
Includes videos, demos, readings, discussion, group exercises, and individual sessions. Partnership Proficiency Recognition awarded on completion.
Online via Zoom
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
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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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US Eastern Time
While Focusing has long had a home in psychotherapy and also as a powerful modality for personal development, professional coaching has lagged behind in ways to work with the implicit aspects of cognition.
Topic: Certification
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Third session May 6, 2025
Reading Freshly
An opportunity to read Gendlin’s seminal book Focusing with others
A Free Event for Members
Live (no recording)
Second session April 1, 2025 - Starting with Chapter 2
An opportunity to read Gendlin’s seminal book Focusing with others
A Free Event for Members
Live (no recording)
Second session April 1, 2025 - Starting with Chapter 2
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, Ongoing, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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Eastern (Hora Nueva York)
En esta ocasión Cafecitos nos habilita un espacio donde “El paradigma experiencial en la educación”
Zoom
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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Eastern Time (New York Time)
Learn Gendlin's classic 6 steps of Focusing in this interactive 2-hour workshop. There will be a Focusing demonstration. And you will have the opportunity to experience Focusing for a 20-minute turn, as well as a listening turn in breakout groups.
Next sessions (pick one 2-hour session to attend):
-Monday, May 5, 8:30 -10:30 am Eastern
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Next sessions (pick one 2-hour session to attend):
-Monday, May 5, 8:30 -10:30 am Eastern
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Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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Eastern Daylight Time
Online
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Eastern Time (New York Time)
A Changes Group is a free-of-charge, peer-led group that meets so people can exchange Focusing and listening turns in an atmosphere of safety and mutual respect. It's a group for continuing your Focusing practice; no teaching will be done.
We meet on zoom twice per month. We have a centering/grounding practice to begin followed by a check in (usually in breakout rooms), followed by time for practice in groups of two or three. You can also chose to join an empathy circle if you'd like to observe or practice in a bigger group.
Our next Changes Groups are:
-Friday, May 2nd, 12:30-2 pm Eastern (see your local time)
-Sunday, May 18th, 6:30-8 pm Eastern
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We meet on zoom twice per month. We have a centering/grounding practice to begin followed by a check in (usually in breakout rooms), followed by time for practice in groups of two or three. You can also chose to join an empathy circle if you'd like to observe or practice in a bigger group.
Our next Changes Groups are:
-Friday, May 2nd, 12:30-2 pm Eastern (see your local time)
-Sunday, May 18th, 6:30-8 pm Eastern
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Online via Zoom
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Changes Groups
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EST
This two-year training program for healers will create a sacred space where we open to our embodied, wildish nature as the ground for developing our capacity to midwife soul healing. Through focusing and the felt sense, together we will come into a deeper relationship with the wisdom of our bodies and the natural world, integrating focusing and the felt sense as we grow our medicine woman toolkits.
You will learn divine feminine ways of knowing and being to develop:
• deep, embodied, soulful connections with other healing artists
• capacity to engage with focusing therapeutically for yourself, your clients and your community
• ability to become ensouled and bring more soul forward with your clients and communities using a focusing approach
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You will learn divine feminine ways of knowing and being to develop:
• deep, embodied, soulful connections with other healing artists
• capacity to engage with focusing therapeutically for yourself, your clients and your community
• ability to become ensouled and bring more soul forward with your clients and communities using a focusing approach
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Tennessee
Topic: FOT
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Pacific
Relationships are important — whether they're with friends, family, or one special partner. They nurture us — and we can nurture them.
Trusting yourself and what you know is key to healthy relationships. When you trust yourself, you can be open to others, speak your truth, and feel truly seen (exactly as you are). All that creates more space for joy and discovery in your connections.
Let’s explore how to build more self-trust (and richer relationships) together!
Trusting yourself and what you know is key to healthy relationships. When you trust yourself, you can be open to others, speak your truth, and feel truly seen (exactly as you are). All that creates more space for joy and discovery in your connections.
Let’s explore how to build more self-trust (and richer relationships) together!
Online via Zoom
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
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Eastern Time
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.
Next courses:
-Thursdays, 1:30-3:30 pm Eastern, May 1-July 3, 2025
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The goal is to use emotional regulation to create safe and connected relationships that allow for creativity and action to flow.
Next courses:
-Thursdays, 1:30-3:30 pm Eastern, May 1-July 3, 2025
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Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
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Eastern Time
As a way to offer care to our body and psyche in this time, this 1- hour 10 minute class will begin with a few moments of quiet and centering, pre-sensing a state of Wise Self. Bringing alignment to the body, we will move through a series of postures for stretching and strengthening. Yoga lets us massage stiff places, make more space in our spine and joints, and bring flexibility to our attitudes. We will draw inspiration from nature and from being together.
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Eastern (New York Time)
Understanding who we are in an embodied way is a powerful way to grow our emotional regulation and emotional intelligence. When we know what it feels like in our bodies when we get scared, or mad, or are happy—or when more complicated patterns or parts emerge—then we can more quickly notice these shifts in our autonomic nervous system. This clarity helps us know when we need to self-soothe or reach out to others for co-regulation.
The class spends the first three weeks in the grounded parts, building a “safe nest” to do the deeper Focusing on our wounded and protector parts in weeks four to seven. As we map our parts, we also map out our timeline. At first with the key memories, and then with the parts that are connected to the memories. We finish the class by completing
The class spends the first three weeks in the grounded parts, building a “safe nest” to do the deeper Focusing on our wounded and protector parts in weeks four to seven. As we map our parts, we also map out our timeline. At first with the key memories, and then with the parts that are connected to the memories. We finish the class by completing
Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced