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, New York, USA
Our goal here is to return to the essence of Focusing and ourselves as living process. I ask that participants are Focusing weekly with a partner at least one month before class begins and throughout our time together. There is a lot of reading, often more than you might choose to do. We touch on a variety of approaches to learn and practice Focusing. My Part 4 is a great place to return to whenever you would like to go deeper with your process from wherever it is. Requires Part 3 or equivalent experience.
Meets eight times on Wednesdays, 7 – 9 pm New York time.
Meets eight times on Wednesdays, 7 – 9 pm New York time.
Online via Zoom
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
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Eastern Time, New York, USA
This online entry level Focusing skills class prepares you to begin a Focusing partnership. Utilizing Inner Relationship Focusing and Neuroscience based exercises spread out over a few months, this is a great opportunity to ground yourself in the basics of Self-in-Presence as a way of being that creates space for lasting change. You are encouraged to practice both in partnerships and with brief pauses during your day.
For coaches, bodyworkers, therapists, teachers and anyone interested in improving their inner and outer relational skills. Part 1 meets six times for two hours, usually every other week. 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. Meets
For coaches, bodyworkers, therapists, teachers and anyone interested in improving their inner and outer relational skills. Part 1 meets six times for two hours, usually every other week. 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. Meets
Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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Pacific Time
Want to watch as Ann Weiser Cornell guides someone through their very first Focusing session?
Focusing can be puzzling to talk about. It can be hard to learn from a book or a video. But when someone is actually taken through the process, you get it! Be present to observe as Ann guides three first-time Focusers (one each week) - and then comment afterward. The guest Focusers are volunteers who understand that their session will be witnessed by a safe and respectful group of people.
Focusing can be puzzling to talk about. It can be hard to learn from a book or a video. But when someone is actually taken through the process, you get it! Be present to observe as Ann guides three first-time Focusers (one each week) - and then comment afterward. The guest Focusers are volunteers who understand that their session will be witnessed by a safe and respectful group of people.
Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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Online & in person options in Dublin Ireland and Madison CT (US)
The Weeklong is the flagship event of The International Focusing Institute (TIFI), begun in 1979. It is intended for all those certified by TIFI. It is a warm and intimate event, and features a certification ceremony.
This year the Weeklong will be offered in a wonderful new way! It will again be online but will have an in person option in two places in Dublin, Ireland and in the US in Madison CT (approximately 2 hours outside of New York City).
October 16 - 21, 2022
El Weeklong es el evento insignia del Instituto Internacional de Focusing (TIFI), iniciado en 1979. Está destinado a todos aquellos certificados por TIFI. Es un evento cálido e íntimo, y cuenta con una ceremonia de certificación.
¡Este año, Weeklong se ofrecerá
This year the Weeklong will be offered in a wonderful new way! It will again be online but will have an in person option in two places in Dublin, Ireland and in the US in Madison CT (approximately 2 hours outside of New York City).
October 16 - 21, 2022
El Weeklong es el evento insignia del Instituto Internacional de Focusing (TIFI), iniciado en 1979. Está destinado a todos aquellos certificados por TIFI. Es un evento cálido e íntimo, y cuenta con una ceremonia de certificación.
¡Este año, Weeklong se ofrecerá
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced, TAE/Philosophy, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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CET
The Art of Relating
“Relationships & Interaffecting”
We invite you to contribute your offerings: workshops, talks, lectures, discussion groups. All offerings are welcome.
Even if you are not sure yet if you will join, please feel free to post what you would like and need, or what you migh offer at the gathering by posting it on the communication platform:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yPOLKH7vBfyZwK-y5KGsP7-2VTRqZ4y9QOn5OwndPYU/edit
“Relationships & Interaffecting”
We invite you to contribute your offerings: workshops, talks, lectures, discussion groups. All offerings are welcome.
Even if you are not sure yet if you will join, please feel free to post what you would like and need, or what you migh offer at the gathering by posting it on the communication platform:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yPOLKH7vBfyZwK-y5KGsP7-2VTRqZ4y9QOn5OwndPYU/edit
Bassano del Grappa – in northern Italy
Topic: Other
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CET
Each day there is space for offerings, discussions and workshops, as well as relaxation and social times.
We will gather for supper at 7pm on Thursday 13 October, and meet each other informally after supper. On Friday, we can have an option for Focusing partnerships and then meet as a whole group in the meeting room. That is when we can plan our time together. Time slots for offerings could be 2 hours; more or less. It’s a gathering, not a conference, and it’s shared and created by those of us who attend. We will finish after lunch on Sunday, at 2pm. You can also arrive a couple of days earlier and leave later if you wish. Informal self-organized meetings are possible for those who arrive earlier.
The theme of our gathering is:
The Art of Relating
We will gather for supper at 7pm on Thursday 13 October, and meet each other informally after supper. On Friday, we can have an option for Focusing partnerships and then meet as a whole group in the meeting room. That is when we can plan our time together. Time slots for offerings could be 2 hours; more or less. It’s a gathering, not a conference, and it’s shared and created by those of us who attend. We will finish after lunch on Sunday, at 2pm. You can also arrive a couple of days earlier and leave later if you wish. Informal self-organized meetings are possible for those who arrive earlier.
The theme of our gathering is:
The Art of Relating
Bassano del Grappa – in northern Italy
Topic: Other
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Eastern (New York) Time
This Therapist Roundtable will draw from the chapter 22 entitled “It fills itself in” from Gendlin’s book, Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy: A Manual of the Experiential Method (1996), pp.276--282. A copy of that chapter will be sent to you after you register.
Online
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, FOT, Intermediate/Advanced, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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Pacific Time
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 Ann Weiser Cornell (author of The Power of Focusing), Jinevra Howard, and Carol Nickerson.
Includes videos, demos, readings, discussion, group exercises, and individual sessions.
Taught by Ann Weiser Cornell (author of The Power of Focusing), Jinevra Howard, and Carol Nickerson.
Includes videos, demos, readings, discussion, group exercises, and individual sessions.
Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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Eastern (New York) Time
Focusing on the Focuser adds another dimension of depth to the Focusing process.
Focusing on the way a person focuses is an approach to discerning underlying patterns that keep the transformative possibilities of felt-shift within an unnecessarily restricted range. When deep-seated patterns are more consciously felt, they become raw material for a greater artistry of self-sculpting. This opens the way for further innovations we will begin to explore about bringing variations of Focusing into ever-expanding recesses and dimensions of the being.
While at the University of Chicago, Marty and Gendlin became Focusing partners, alternating doing Focusing sessions with each other every week. In this Highlight, Marty will share some anecdotes from his time with
Focusing on the way a person focuses is an approach to discerning underlying patterns that keep the transformative possibilities of felt-shift within an unnecessarily restricted range. When deep-seated patterns are more consciously felt, they become raw material for a greater artistry of self-sculpting. This opens the way for further innovations we will begin to explore about bringing variations of Focusing into ever-expanding recesses and dimensions of the being.
While at the University of Chicago, Marty and Gendlin became Focusing partners, alternating doing Focusing sessions with each other every week. In this Highlight, Marty will share some anecdotes from his time with
Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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Uk Time zone
Focusing Retreat
Tenerife, Canary Islands
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)
In this enriching 4-session Zoom series, we will introduce FOAT tools to support those wishing to face life's challenges with greater kindness, strength, and self-compassion. Together we will co-create a supportive community to learn and practice these tools for deepening into our authenticity, presence, and creative wisdom– and identify steps toward growth, healing, and change. There will be opportunities to support our connection and deepen our skills of compassionate presence and listening through small and large group sharing.
Zoom Online
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
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CET
Introduction to Focusing and my Basic Focusing Skills Course
Relate to yourself and others with freshness, emotional intelligence, and an open heart.
Focusing offers a way for coming into loving contact with yourself and others. When you are in contact with your body, with your inner sense of something, letting your expressions arise from there, you are accessing insights that are much deeper and vaster than the emotional or mental dimensions alone can offer.
With this foundation, the way in which your life unfolds is experienced as deeply meaningful; sometimes it’s easy, sometimes it’s difficult, but there is always an undercurrent sense of rightness, of following a natural flow.
The full course will take place: November 28, 2022 to June 12,
Relate to yourself and others with freshness, emotional intelligence, and an open heart.
Focusing offers a way for coming into loving contact with yourself and others. When you are in contact with your body, with your inner sense of something, letting your expressions arise from there, you are accessing insights that are much deeper and vaster than the emotional or mental dimensions alone can offer.
With this foundation, the way in which your life unfolds is experienced as deeply meaningful; sometimes it’s easy, sometimes it’s difficult, but there is always an undercurrent sense of rightness, of following a natural flow.
The full course will take place: November 28, 2022 to June 12,
Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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EDT
Gendlin says our primary job as therapists is to “BE THE INTERACTION” that makes change possible. I have pondered the implications and applications of this statement for many years. Now, amid global uncertainty and upheaval, this radical injunction takes on new meaning, complexity and challenge. What is this way of being that has the power to ignite transformation, even in times of stress?
In this module, we will enter the realm of the “US,” finding respite in the understanding that we are fundamentally and inextricably interconnected--WE ARE INTERACTION! We will explore both the ideas and skills of being the healing interaction and empowering the forces of connectedness and forward movement.
In this module, we will enter the realm of the “US,” finding respite in the understanding that we are fundamentally and inextricably interconnected--WE ARE INTERACTION! We will explore both the ideas and skills of being the healing interaction and empowering the forces of connectedness and forward movement.
Online
Topic: FOT
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CST, México City time
Webinar de 30 minutos de duración. Posteriormente compartiremos información sobre nuestros programas de certificación como Instructor(a) de Focusing y en Terapia Orientada por el Focusing que inician en el 2023.
Online desde Zapopan, México
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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Pacific Standard Time
You will leave with
• The ability to guide your own Focusing process
• The ability to support another person’s Focusing process
• An experience of listening to yourself and others that brings a closer connection
• A simple process for being with deep and complex feelings
• The ability to hold big and difficult life situations with spacious awareness
• The resource of Awake Awareness: how to access it, how to be in it, and how to return to it so that what wants to emerge can do so in an environment of safety
• The ability to maintain connection with yourself while in connection with another
• A process that can help you let go of habitual unwanted
• The ability to guide your own Focusing process
• The ability to support another person’s Focusing process
• An experience of listening to yourself and others that brings a closer connection
• A simple process for being with deep and complex feelings
• The ability to hold big and difficult life situations with spacious awareness
• The resource of Awake Awareness: how to access it, how to be in it, and how to return to it so that what wants to emerge can do so in an environment of safety
• The ability to maintain connection with yourself while in connection with another
• A process that can help you let go of habitual unwanted
Online
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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EST
We will briefly touch on and experiment with some basic aspects of Nonviolent Communication, a systematic pathway for recognizing and communicating our feelings, needs, and wishes (in a conflict situation). Combined with the Focusing way of aimless inner listening into what’s initially vague and fuzzy, the NVC process for fruitful communication attains a greater depth.
This practice can release us from stuck places in which both parties might not have felt heard and respected. Instead of pointing fingers, at others in blame, or at ourselves causing shame, this conscious form of communication - clear, honest, and warmhearted - can magically open doors for meeting everybody's needs.
This reflection offered as part of Lynn Preston's group "help
This practice can release us from stuck places in which both parties might not have felt heard and respected. Instead of pointing fingers, at others in blame, or at ourselves causing shame, this conscious form of communication - clear, honest, and warmhearted - can magically open doors for meeting everybody's needs.
This reflection offered as part of Lynn Preston's group "help
Zoom
Topic: Other
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GMT -3
Holos -Sede Pilar, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Changes Groups, Other
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CET
There is something you would love to realize and make it part of your life or contribute it to the world? Develop your ideas with the movements of TAE.
Bernried am Starnberger See
Topic: TAE/Philosophy
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Eastern (New York) Time
Questa conversazione online gratuita fa parte della serie Focusing Roundtable specialmente per i membri di TIFI.
Questa serie offre ai membri un'opportunità preziosa per instaurare una conversazione tra pari con altri membri che parlano italiano e che condividono interessi relazionati al Focusing. Ci auguriamo inoltre che questo programma incoraggi altri a promuovere ulteriori tavole rotonde in Italiano,nel futuro, per continuare la serie.
19:00-21:00 Europa Centrale (Italia)
Questa serie offre ai membri un'opportunità preziosa per instaurare una conversazione tra pari con altri membri che parlano italiano e che condividono interessi relazionati al Focusing. Ci auguriamo inoltre che questo programma incoraggi altri a promuovere ulteriori tavole rotonde in Italiano,nel futuro, per continuare la serie.
19:00-21:00 Europa Centrale (Italia)
Online
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
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Eastern Time
Ten-workshop Zoom course on Recovery Focusing.
Zoom Webinar