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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Eastern Time
Social Oriented Focusing (SOF) is an organic, authentic, somatic way to be fully present, connected to ourselves, while interacting with others. We seek to identify the felt sense created within the mutual interaction occurring in the here and now, enabling a transformative process to take place within the mutual interpersonal space.
SOF teaches us to untie The KNOTS and NOTS that interfere with relating to others, enabling us to overcome blocks, fears, and automatic behaviors.
For therapists, coaches, and anyone interested in feeling free to be their authentic selves in their relationships. SOF Foundation Course Level 1 meets 8 times weekly for 2.5 hours. This class meets Thursdays 11:00 am – 13:30 pm ET New York time or your equivalent.
SOF teaches us to untie The KNOTS and NOTS that interfere with relating to others, enabling us to overcome blocks, fears, and automatic behaviors.
For therapists, coaches, and anyone interested in feeling free to be their authentic selves in their relationships. SOF Foundation Course Level 1 meets 8 times weekly for 2.5 hours. This class meets Thursdays 11:00 am – 13:30 pm ET New York time or your equivalent.
Online via Zoom
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Eastern Time
TIFI recently held a Focusing-Oriented Therapist Conference which brought together therapists from all over the world to explore various aspects of Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy. Among the questions explicitly or implicitly addressed was, “What is Focusing Oriented Therapy”? We want this Roundtable to provide a forum in which to continue this conversation.
Online
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, FOT, Intermediate/Advanced, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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Pacific
Let us show you a compassionate, effective process to help you experience your feelings without shutting down or getting overwhelmed. What happens when you can embrace your whole self? You're kinder to yourself, you're more confident, relaxed, and available for connection, which makes life more meaningful and enjoyable. To put it simply: Life gets better.
Join us and take a powerful first step toward connecting with your true self and creating more unconditional self-acceptance in your life.
Join us and take a powerful first step toward connecting with your true self and creating more unconditional self-acceptance in your life.
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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US Eastern
Thinking at the Edge grounds your ideas in your lived experience.
Is there something that you’d like to do or write about but you lack the confidence to begin? TAE helps you sense into the “more” behind your ideas so that you can write and act from what you know.
Do you long to contribute to the world from the richness of the insights life has given you? With TAE, you delve into your own experience so that your new direction follows from of all you have lived.
Maybe you need clarity and next steps about a persistent problem or a complex issue. Thinking at the Edge helps you find the unique gifts within the challenges you face.
Is there something that you’d like to do or write about but you lack the confidence to begin? TAE helps you sense into the “more” behind your ideas so that you can write and act from what you know.
Do you long to contribute to the world from the richness of the insights life has given you? With TAE, you delve into your own experience so that your new direction follows from of all you have lived.
Maybe you need clarity and next steps about a persistent problem or a complex issue. Thinking at the Edge helps you find the unique gifts within the challenges you face.
Topic: TAE/Philosophy
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Pacific Daylight Time
If you want to learn and experience an embodied, experiential focusing approach to working with dreams and nightmares, this course is for you. Although it is aimed at clinicians and focusing professionals, it is open to all with an interest in guiding deep dives into dreams.
Via Zoom. Link sent upon registration
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France
Venez puiser dans les ressources d’une médecine de l’âme ancestrale qu’est le chamanisme, associée à l’écoute en pleine conscience du ressenti corporel offerte par le Focusing, et cheminez de l’ombre à la Lumière.
France Payzac (24270)
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EST
Join Cassava Bread and the EMDR Caribbean Community as we have a discussion with Linda Kocieniewski and Bruce Patterson as they discuss their work with NYC Trauma Recovery Network (NYCTRN) a subdivision of EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Program (EMDRHAP).
Together they will share beginnings, lessons learnt and next steps in their work on/around the attack on the Twin Towers in NY, Hurricanes and CoVID-19.
This event is free and open to the public and is presented in collaboration with Kati Singh and EMDR Caribbean Community: https://caricom.org/ a Focusing-Oriented EMDR Initiative.
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Rumi
Together they will share beginnings, lessons learnt and next steps in their work on/around the attack on the Twin Towers in NY, Hurricanes and CoVID-19.
This event is free and open to the public and is presented in collaboration with Kati Singh and EMDR Caribbean Community: https://caricom.org/ a Focusing-Oriented EMDR Initiative.
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Rumi
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New York time
In this webinar, we will explore how to integrate Focusing and deeply related transformative emotion-focused processes into meditation and into sharing meditation experience together. The webinar will include a talk with slides, silent meditation and journaling, the opportunity for a couple of people to share their meditation experience, and questions and answers.
Some familiarity with Focusing may be helpful but no prior experience with Focusing is required. All are welcome to attend and participate.
Some familiarity with Focusing may be helpful but no prior experience with Focusing is required. All are welcome to attend and participate.
Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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Eastern time
Topics Covered. Working with creative expression and non-verbal communication. we will learn the basic listening skills of Children’s Focusing.
The central goal is to achieve authentic contact and open connection through simple, structured exercises designed to support the process of re-connection with yourself and to articulate ways to transfer this authenticity into your everyday life with children and your roles as a parent, grandparent, therapist, or teacher.
The central goal is to achieve authentic contact and open connection through simple, structured exercises designed to support the process of re-connection with yourself and to articulate ways to transfer this authenticity into your everyday life with children and your roles as a parent, grandparent, therapist, or teacher.
from The Netherlands
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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Australia Eastern Standard Time
Focusing is a transformative process that stems from the philosophy of Eugene Gendlin. Gendlin believed that everything in life is constantly evolving and in motion, including ourselves. This understanding forms the foundation of focusing, which serves as a means of healing and personal growth. Focusing is a skill that anyone can acquire, allowing them to change their relationship with their inner experiences. By engaging in focusing, individuals learn to be present with themselves in a new and profound way. They come to realize that their experiences, no matter how challenging, do not define them. Rather, these experiences are merely sensations and emotions that can be acknowledged and embraced. Through focusing, individuals gain access to a deep sense of self-love and trust, cultivating
Online- Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
This is a learning community based on the ideas of Eugene Gendlin. Focusing will be the process that builds our community and deepens member's awareness of where they might be "stuck" in the process of working with their clients. Focusing is an embodied approach; it can also serve as a bridge to related ways of working such as relational psychotherapy.
Online
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
Mesas Redondas en Español - La frescura y la inmediatez de la psicoterapia orientada por el Focusing
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Hora del Este, Nueva York
Esta conversación en línea gratuita es parte de la serie Focusing Roundtable especialmente para miembros de TIFI.
Online
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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New York time
Social Oriented Focusing (SOF) teaches us to untie the KNOTS and NOTS that interfere with relating to others, enabling us to overcome blocks, fears, and automatic behaviors.
In this workshop, Yehudit will teach one of the basic tools of SOF: From shades of aloneness to shades of togetherness. We will sense how situations affect us and our openness, creating knots and nots in our relationships. Together, we will experience and explore the different internal positions and shifts that can take us from feeling alone to really feeling together, while sensing the freedom to be our authentic selves.
There will be a presentation, guided experiences, and time for sharing and questions. All are welcome to attend. Some familiarity with Focusing will be helpful but is
In this workshop, Yehudit will teach one of the basic tools of SOF: From shades of aloneness to shades of togetherness. We will sense how situations affect us and our openness, creating knots and nots in our relationships. Together, we will experience and explore the different internal positions and shifts that can take us from feeling alone to really feeling together, while sensing the freedom to be our authentic selves.
There will be a presentation, guided experiences, and time for sharing and questions. All are welcome to attend. Some familiarity with Focusing will be helpful but is
Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
This is a series of workshops, running once a month, with virtually open intake. Only the Introduction, "The Art of Focusing" (or equivalent) must be taken as a pre-req, the remaining modules are totally flexible. Students who complete 16 specific modules, along with additional practice and supervision criteria, may become certified as a Focusing Oriented Therapist. Program completion takes about 17 -20 months.
This is a unique program that offers foundational information about stress, wellbeing, mindfulness and FOCUSING as well as lots of practical exercises. These life skills for youth will build and enhance inner resources and the ability to connect and care for themselves and others.
Online
Topic: Children
I want to give you a a way to fast-track clients' progress by giving them specific tools and strategies to take back the control of their life using Focusing processes, Parts theory and Neuroscience. Clients can also do this course to enhance your work together.
Using targeted techniques from parts work and focusing, you can go directly to their wounded parts and begin to heal them.
Using targeted techniques from parts work and focusing, you can go directly to their wounded parts and begin to heal them.
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
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Eastern (New York) Time
Reading Freshly
This 6th session starts at Chapter 5, The Six Focusing Movements and What They Mean
Newcomers welcome each month!
An opportunity to read Gendlin’s seminal book Focusing with others
A Free Event for Members
Live (no recording)
Once a month on Tuesday - 6th session March 5, 2024
This 6th session starts at Chapter 5, The Six Focusing Movements and What They Mean
Newcomers welcome each month!
An opportunity to read Gendlin’s seminal book Focusing with others
A Free Event for Members
Live (no recording)
Once a month on Tuesday - 6th session March 5, 2024
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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EST
You are invited to become a part of our group as we learn the Inner Relationship Focusing process. In this live virtual nine-week course, you will acquire the skills necessary for cultivating radical lasting life change.
At our core, we are dedicated to cultivating close-knit classroom settings that prioritize immersive, experiential education. Say goodbye to silently staring at screens! We'll methodically practice the art of Focusing together. Our curriculum includes informative lectures, illustrative demonstrations, interactive Q&As, thought-provoking activities, and collaborative partner exercises.
At our core, we are dedicated to cultivating close-knit classroom settings that prioritize immersive, experiential education. Say goodbye to silently staring at screens! We'll methodically practice the art of Focusing together. Our curriculum includes informative lectures, illustrative demonstrations, interactive Q&As, thought-provoking activities, and collaborative partner exercises.
Online
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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Irish Standard Time/British Standard Time
Develop a new relationship with yourself using Ann Weiser Cornell and Barbara McGavin’s IRF approach in this 10 week course.
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate