For any of these opportunities, please email contact: [email protected]
EDITOR NEEDED
We have an introductory course in Focusing, written by one of the people who worked closely with Gene Gendlin. The course was created as a series of emails. It is dense and rich, and we would like to make it available on our website. However, since it was written as emails, there is much in it that needs to be edited out to make it easier to read. We are looking for someone with excellent English language editing skills who would like to do this service, not only for TIFI, but for those who are searching for Focusing and who might benefit from having a short written course on Focusing. It is accompanied by some very helpful video content. If you think you'd be interested in taking on this project, please write us and we'll show it to you, to see if it's a good fit for your skills.
Committee secretary
We have a committee working on some exciting things with us, but we need secretarial assistance! This volunteer role is perfect for someone who loves to help other people to be organized. You need not have any particular knowledge of Gendlin or Focusing or TAE -- just a general knowledge of how we like to be with one another (respectful) and the basic vocabulary we use (like "felt sense"). The benefit of this role is that you'll be on the "inside" of great conversations with really special people.
Committee Secretary's tasks:
- Attend monthly committee meetings - daytime in the Americas - afternoon in Africa/Europe - late evening in Asia/Pacific
- Take minutes (we can give you access to a very good AI platform which does an excellent job of generating minutes, so that only some minor editing is needed)
- Internal committee communications (sending out minutes in a timely fashion and sending reminders of upcoming meetings)
- Some external e-mail communications (such as emailing specific people for specific purposes as needed)
If you are interested in being connected with some great people and have a few hours a month, and you have good organizational and English writing skills, please help us out in this way!
Native English speaker, fluent in German, for translation job
A German language Focusing text has been made available to us recently which we feel would be valuable to have in English. An AI translation has been made, but we would like a proper translation. Since it is a written text, fluency in written German is enough. You don't necessarily need to be able to speak German well, as long as you have a very high level of reading German, particularly in the realm of experiential or person-centered psychology and Focusing. This a big job and we would love a small team of two or three people to help out. Please contact us for more details. Danke schön!
Are you an accountant, a bookkeeper or someone with substantial skill with budgeting in non-profits?
We could use your skills as a resource to the Executive Director.
CO-MODERATOR FOR THE FOCUSING DISCUSSION LIST
We have a small team of people to share the responsibility of moderating our Focusing Discussion list, but we sometimes need new ones. The list is open to anyone in the world to ask questions or make comments. In order to keep it a friendly and inviting space, the moderator checks all messages coming in. If a message is inappropriate, the moderator writes to the individual to explain why, and invites them to re-word their message. This is usually a rare occurrence. This must be done each day, to ensure that messages don’t wait more than 24 hours to go through. Together the team of moderators decide how to divide up the responsibility (for instance, one week on, one week off). This is an ongoing volunteer role. We ask for a minimum one year commitment. To volunteer, you should be certified in Focusing by The International Focusing Institute, The best candidates for this role are those who have been on the list for at least a few months, so that they are already familiar with the kinds of conversations which normally take place. Estimated time per month: about 4-6 hours.
WATCH FULL VIDEOS
For our Focusing videos website (videos.focusing.org), we need volunteers to watch full videos before we upload them. The videos are usually one to two hours in length. You'll check for watchability and for whether the presenter makes reference to any materials which need to be included with the video. You'll also identify the most compelling moments and write a few words about why the video is valuable. Our Video Editor will use your notes to make a "teaser" video. This should be a fun assignment if you have time to watch carefully and take detailed notes. Your work assures us that those signing up for the Focusing Videos Monthly Subscription will have a great experience. We ask for a commitment to watch at least 3 videos. This is a short-term commitment. Estimated time commitment: 4 hours per video.
ZOOM HOST FOR ONLINE CONFERENCES AND CLASSES
Volunteers are part of TIFI's Zoom Team supporting presenters and participants by managing Zoom functions and helping to hold the virtual space. This includes starting/pausing cloud recording, managing designated Zoom meeting settings, creating breakout rooms, screensharing, and other tasks. Volunteers begin with a low level of responsibility (letting participants in from the waiting room, adding exercise instructions in chat), which can grow depending on your comfort and the needs of the team. We appreciate having volunteers in all timezones.
Our Zoom Host volunteers provide a vital service. They often express to us that they enjoy being part of a team and getting to know many of the "movers and shakers" of the Focusing world.
If interested, please complete this brief survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BT7FJV5
NEWS FEED INTERVIEWERS AND ARTICLE WRITERS
For our In Focus News Feed, we enjoy offering a variety of articles on topics relevant to Focusing, Thinking at the Edge and Gendlin’s philosophy. In particular, we love including interviews of people in our felt sensing community. We frequently have people whom we’d like to have interviewed, but we don’t always have volunteers available to conduct the interview and write a great article about it. (Making the interview available as a video is also possible, as long as it’s accompanied by an article). This is an enriching way to get to know others and to contribute to TIFI’s work. We could use interviewers/article writers who speak a variety of languages, as the interviewees speak a variety of languages. (We would then offer the article in the original language and also find someone to translate it for us.)
If you are interested in receiving assignments to conduct interviews and write up an article based on that interview, or if you have other contributions you’d like to make to the News Feed please write to us at [email protected].
Also, if you have an idea for an article, or something that you’ve already written which you think would interest others, we’d love that, too!
GO THROUGH OUR DISCUSSION LIST ARCHIVES
We are consolidating our discussion lists and eliminating ones that are outdated and/or get very little traffic.
We have archives of these lists, and we could use some people to take portions of the archived materials, look through them thoroughly and let us know what information in them is worth preserving.
You’ll be given a link to the various threads that were on that list at that time, and you’ll see all of the various emails which went back and forth. You’ll create a Word document where you cut and paste pieces of the discussion which we’d want preserved for our historical record. We’ll have a conversation with you in advance about what kinds of things we’d want to preserve, but we’ll also depend very much on your judgement.
To indicate interest, please write to [email protected]
Present a Focusing Highlight
For certified members of TIFI, this is a chance to support the Institute while also sharing your work with a wider audience. Having our support team working with you also makes it a great opportunity to try new ideas or ways of presenting. Read more here.
TWO KINDS OF VOLUNTEERS FOR READING FRESHLY
Reading Facilitators: We need a team of people who will share responsibility for:
- - convening the meetings
- - reading (or inviting others to read) specific sections
- - keeping the time
- - keeping the whole project under review (including getting feedback from participants and others who may be interested in participating), and
- - coordinating monthly with the TIFI office
Let us know if you'd like to be added to the team.
The idea of a team is that you would not have to attend each session, though you’d be welcome to. You must be a member of TIFI to fulfill this role.
Zoom volunteers: We can always use volunteers to help with the Zoom functionality such as opening the room and managing breakout rooms. The Zoom volunteer is welcome to participate in the conversation, but is not responsible for leading the discussion.
Note that this reading group is in English. If you'd like to offer a similar group to our members who speak your language, please let us know.
To indicate interest in volunteering as part of the Reading Facilitators team or the Zoom volunteers team for Reading Freshly, please email us at [email protected]
For any of these opportunities, please email contact: [email protected]