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.
As all of us scramble to find ways to keep ourselves, our families, and our communities safe from the coronavirus, our need for connection and emotional support is higher than ever.
This is a 30-minute webinar includes warm, positive tips for emotional self-care in these challenging times.
Our hope is that you’ll leave the webinar with a greater sense of resilience and some relief from the stressful feelings you might be having. And that you’ll know you are not alone.
Focusing Highlights is a series of interactive, online pay-what-you-can classes.
In this experiential webinar, Matanel will be sharing several ways that we can create a daily ritual using the Clearing a Space step of the Focusing method.
This class will be in English. Matanel will also be offering this Highlight in Hebrew on February 25th.
Focusing is an approach to access your own bodily felt experience through deep listening in presence, openness, not-knowing, curiosity, interest and gentleness. It is a tool to be more coherent and connected to yourself and others and more present and grounded in your daily life. It is also an approach in your work as a therapist with your clients. If you offer an open space, without theoretical filter and therapeutic agenda, it will facilitate for your clients to feel safe and connected. Then they more easily could get access to bodily felt experience, explore it, gain awareness which facilitates growth.
The workshop is experience-based and we will work individually, in pair and in the group.
A warm nourishing retreat is the optimal environment to melt the season’s outer experiences with soul refreshing inner and inter-relational experiences. Join us at the beach house at South Seaside Park, NJ (Easy access from NYC to Bayhead Train Terminal) , Friday evening 6pm to Sunday at 2 pm
Beach House on the South Jersey Shore, 235 23rd Ave, South Seaside Park, NJ
An online entry level Focusing class that prepares you to begin a Focusing partnership. And a great opportunity to review the basics of Self-in-Presence as a way of being that creates space for lasting change.
Class meets six times on Tuesdays 7-9pm EST beginning March 10.
In this class you will become part of a group of people who are using Focusing to turn toward the problems in their lives and in the world. Focusing helps you find the unique gifts in the challenges you face, and Thinking at the Edge allows you to deepen and broaden your understanding of these issues over time through the innovative practice of "crossing".
An online, interactive workshop facilitated by Serge Prengel.
Participants will experience ways to enrich their current Focusing process in a small group meeting format. This workshop will take place online over two sessions of 90 minutes each, and will include breakout sessions.
All registrants must attend live; this workshop will NOT be recorded.
Online. Because of the interactive nature of this workshop, registrants must attend live.
This free online conversation is Part of the Focusing Roundtable series especially for TIFI members in Australia and New Zealand.
Welcome to the second Down Under Focusers Roundtable. Even if you were unable to attend the first Roundtable held in November 2019, we invite you to join in part two of the discussion on Deep Listening.
This free online conversation (live, no recording) is Part of the Focusing Roundtable series for TIFI members. In this Roundtable, we will reflect on simple practices that can naturally bring a person to attend to what is present, stopping for a moment the “‘noise” that is produced through the movement of time -from the past to the future - and letting one sense the deeper “felt” of the whole situation. The Roundtable will offer participants the opportunity to check for themselves the power of moving beyond descriptions and wordiness, to observation without words, where lies the base of the Focusing process and sustainable well-being. Class size is limited. Please note: This program will be in English but Spanish members who understand some English are encouraged to attend. We will have
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) and Lucinda Hayden.
Includes videos, demos, readings, discussion, group exercises, and individual sessions. One 50-minute pre-class Focusing session with Lucinda Hayden is included in the course fee.
This two-day workshop will provide a theoretical and experiential understanding of different emotional states (fear, anger, guilt, shame), anxious and depressed mood and social insecurities. Participants will gain knowledge about working with these experiences from Focusing-Oriented Therapy's point of view.
Do you get pulled off center by stress, negativity, too much going on? It's easy to feel at the mercy of the tough things in life, especially these days. Join me for a three-week course designed to help you nourish your ability to be resilient and calm no matter what life throws at you.
LEVEL 2 is about deepening into the Focusing and Listening process by looking more at the role of the Companion. A companion to ourselves as well as others. I introduce neuroscience here. We develop further our personal concept of creating an inner space that welcomes it all and adapting that space as we follow our process.
Class meets six times on Mondays 7-9pm EST beginning Feb 3.
Focusing Highlights is a series of interactive, online pay-what-you-can classes.
TIFI's Executive Director Catherine Torpey will be giving us an introduction to Focusing that is informed by a wide range of Focusing approaches. The class will include several guided experiential exercises and time for questions.
Deepen and explore your listening to a Focusing partner, a client, or in your life, as a way of deepening your listening to yourself and to your surroundings. Increase your presence and your “mindfulness” in your life through getting to know more about listening in a Felt Sensing kind of way.
This free online conversation is Part of the Focusing Roundtable series for TIFI members. Our sense of purpose has been emerging within us since our birth. We may be in touch with a purpose we have inherited from our parents, a purpose that is projected on us by society, or with our own inner purpose that has been unfolding in our hearts throughout our lives. Class size is limited.