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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Please note time zones
In the Roundtable, we begin by examining areas of overlap between the two constructs of intuition and felt sensing, then move on to explore their key differences.
Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, Other, TAE/Philosophy, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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EST
These 2 hour groups are a place to ask questions, present cases and listen to other professionals talk about their work with clients, and use of somatics and Inner Relationship Focusing in professional practice.
Prerequisite: Completion of SIRF Parts 1 and 2 or IRF Path 1 and 2, Current, ongoing professional practice in psychotherapy, coaching, SE, FOT or similar practice is required.
Prerequisite: Completion of SIRF Parts 1 and 2 or IRF Path 1 and 2, Current, ongoing professional practice in psychotherapy, coaching, SE, FOT or similar practice is required.
Zoom
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
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Spain Time
Sesión gratuita online para conocer Focusing, un poderoso modelo que trabaja con la sabiduría que todos guardamos en nuestro cuerpo. En esta sesión podrás acercarte a una introducción al Focusing y conocer el programa de formación del centro Focusing Thus, que lleva más de 20 años formando en Focusing.
Topic: Introductory
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New York time
René and Frans have developed an art of getting lost (completely) in order to find possibilities and courage to help us move toward a truer version of ourselves. In this Focusing Highlight they will share discoveries from working with clients and others of all ages – how seemingly small, fresh entrances can be made when working with inner magnetism/gravity, and how listening in a certain way helps people find new, unexpected perspectives in their lives. Participants will be introduced to the practicable characteristics of Following the smiling thought.
Some experience with Focusing will be helpful though all are welcome to attend.
Some experience with Focusing will be helpful though all are welcome to attend.
Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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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?
Note new time
Note new time
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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CET - Central European Time
The primary purpose of the annual EFA gathering is for European Focusers to connect and inspire each other, and to create European work relationships. Those from other parts of the world are welcome to join.
• Daily meetings with the whole group
• A variety of happenings throughout the day, offered by those excited to share something
• Daily Focusing Partnerships
• Home Groups
• Daily meetings with the whole group
• A variety of happenings throughout the day, offered by those excited to share something
• Daily Focusing Partnerships
• Home Groups
BELGIUM – Retreat Center Koningsteen
Topic: Other
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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
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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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Irish Time
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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US Eastern Time
An ICF-Accredited Training | 26 CCE Units
Sept 16 – Dec 16, 2025 | Live on Zoom | Tuesdays at 9am PT / 12pm ET
This 8-part experiential training teaches coaches how to integrate the powerful somatic process of Focusing into ICF-aligned coaching. Participants learn to guide clients into embodied self-awareness and deep insight using subtle, client-led techniques. Taught by Rod Francis PCC and Charlotte Howorth LCSW ACC, this live course earns 26 Core Competency CCEs and is part of the ICF-accredited Emergent Coach Training Level 2 program.
Sept 16 – Dec 16, 2025 | Live on Zoom | Tuesdays at 9am PT / 12pm ET
This 8-part experiential training teaches coaches how to integrate the powerful somatic process of Focusing into ICF-aligned coaching. Participants learn to guide clients into embodied self-awareness and deep insight using subtle, client-led techniques. Taught by Rod Francis PCC and Charlotte Howorth LCSW ACC, this live course earns 26 Core Competency CCEs and is part of the ICF-accredited Emergent Coach Training Level 2 program.
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Pacific
You've discovered you love Focusing...and you also know there's so much more to learn about applying it to your life. Living a Focusing Life is an 18-meeting, live, online advanced Focusing course to help you gain more confidence as a Focusing partner and work with key issues like action blocks, decisions, longing, and more.
Taught by Ann Weiser Cornell, author of The Radical Acceptance of Everything
Includes live meetings on Zoom, readings, discussions, group exercises, and partnership practices.
Taught by Ann Weiser Cornell, author of The Radical Acceptance of Everything
Includes live meetings on Zoom, readings, discussions, group exercises, and partnership practices.
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
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PST
Topic: FOT
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New York Time
Six-Session Group taking a Fresh Look at Gendlin's "Small Steps"
led by Beatrice Blake
A Free Event for Members
Live (no recording)
Once a month on Fridays June - November
led by Beatrice Blake
A Free Event for Members
Live (no recording)
Once a month on Fridays June - November
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, Ongoing, Other, TAE/Philosophy, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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CET/Berlin
Das Modul ECC2 der Weiterbildung Erlebensbezogenes-Concept-Coaching vermittelt, wie Sie Suchprozesse nach Stimmigkeit unterstützend begleiten, ohne eine Lösung anzubieten. Mit Hilfe eigener Fallbeispielen reflektieren Sie, wie durch Focusing und Thinking at the Edge (TAE), eine kongruente Begleitung möglich wird.
Zoom
Topic: TAE/Philosophy
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Eastern Time (US)
Join us for a heartfelt and inspiring meeting where Claire will share her vision and journey of creating a safe, nurturing community for children with special needs and those who have experienced childhood trauma.
Zoom
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, Children, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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Eastern Time
This international training program for Focusing-oriented group work came into being as an answer to the needs of many of us at a time when Focusing-oriented connectedness, collaboration and genuine relating are more urgent than ever; a time when cross-cultural, cross-generational and multigeographical gathering is technologically supported as never before. Although Focusing has deeply influenced individual therapy and inner work, its potential contributions to group life remain underexplored.
“Here is a new message... there is a different way forward, a further stage – relating – which we all really want…. it is part of the further development of the human being.”
-Eugene Gendlin from his unpublished manuscript, “Fitting In, Pouring Out and Relating”
“Here is a new message... there is a different way forward, a further stage – relating – which we all really want…. it is part of the further development of the human being.”
-Eugene Gendlin from his unpublished manuscript, “Fitting In, Pouring Out and Relating”
ONLINE
Topic: Ongoing
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For your time zone check the detailed listing
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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Hora de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Esta formación está dirigida a personas interesadas en el desarrollo personal y profesional, especialmente a quienes se desempeñan en ámbitos terapéuticos, educativos, de la salud, el acompañamiento o el trabajo comunitario, y desean incorporar herramientas vivenciales que favorezcan procesos de transformación profundos y sostenibles.
Aprender Focusing desde el ECP es mucho más que adquirir una técnica: es abrir un espacio de escucha y presencia que permite reconectar con la sabiduría del cuerpo y facilitar cambios significativos desde adentro hacia afuera. A través de un enfoque teórico-experiencial, la Diplomatura ofrece una propuesta de aprendizaje integral que articula fundamentos filosóficos con prácticas deliberadas y acompañadas, generando una vivencia
Aprender Focusing desde el ECP es mucho más que adquirir una técnica: es abrir un espacio de escucha y presencia que permite reconectar con la sabiduría del cuerpo y facilitar cambios significativos desde adentro hacia afuera. A través de un enfoque teórico-experiencial, la Diplomatura ofrece una propuesta de aprendizaje integral que articula fundamentos filosóficos con prácticas deliberadas y acompañadas, generando una vivencia
Formación on line a través de la plataforma Zoom
Topic: Introductory
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Hora de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Esta formación está dirigida a personas interesadas en el desarrollo personal y profesional, especialmente a quienes se desempeñan en ámbitos terapéuticos, educativos, de la salud, el acompañamiento o el trabajo comunitario, y desean incorporar herramientas vivenciales que favorezcan procesos de transformación profundos y sostenibles.
Aprender Focusing desde el ECP es mucho más que adquirir una técnica: es abrir un espacio de escucha y presencia que permite reconectar con la sabiduría del cuerpo y facilitar cambios significativos desde adentro hacia afuera. A través de un enfoque teórico-experiencial, la Diplomatura ofrece una propuesta de aprendizaje integral que articula fundamentos filosóficos con prácticas deliberadas y acompañadas, generando una vivencia
Aprender Focusing desde el ECP es mucho más que adquirir una técnica: es abrir un espacio de escucha y presencia que permite reconectar con la sabiduría del cuerpo y facilitar cambios significativos desde adentro hacia afuera. A través de un enfoque teórico-experiencial, la Diplomatura ofrece una propuesta de aprendizaje integral que articula fundamentos filosóficos con prácticas deliberadas y acompañadas, generando una vivencia
Formación on line a través de la plataforma Zoom
Topic: Introductory
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Eastern (New York) Time
In this group reading of Gendlin’s ground-breaking dreams book, we will study, experience and discuss his Focusing-oriented approach to dreams. We will also look at how embodied dreamwork has evolved in the four decades since the book was published.
Recordings of the weekly meetings with Leslie will be available to all registrants whether or not you attend live.
Recordings of the weekly meetings with Leslie will be available to all registrants whether or not you attend live.
Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events