Children & Focusing Roundtable Series - Worldwide Connections

Tuesday, October 24, 2023  8:00-10:00 am EDT (New York - US)
2:00-4:00 pm Central European Time

Times worldwide: convert to your time zone

Please note early registration closing date: Friday October 20 at 9:00 am (New York time)

We live in a technological world and especially in the last few years there have been many unique forms of online connections, through all kinds of media. In our international Children and Focusing Community the ‘life’ connections are special and essential! But we know this is not always possible. Through TIFI we are able to provide possibilities to connect with each other online, such as the Roundtable, Highlights, online discussions, workshops and conferences. and maybe there are more and other ways too.

In this roundtable, Harriet Teeuw and Rene Veugelers want to explore together with you, fresh ways to connect, to share and how to deepen our Children & Focusing experience.

• How to explore online ways to (re) connect with other CF community.
• Would it be possible to create a space where people can share their practices and support each other

Who is this Roundtable for? Anyone who is interested to explore ways to connect with each other in the Children and Focusing community.

Format: After our attunement, we will create space, a living room, for all of our experiences, our wishes, our needs, our boundaries to be present. And through the open sharing we’ll create a space for ideas to unfold about the ways to connect with each other in the future.

Who might be particularly interested in attending this Roundtable?

Parents, grandparents, caregivers or anyone who interacts with children and would like to understand and communicate with a child and their needs. Also someone who would like to develop a stronger and more understanding connection with their own inner child.

CONNECTION>CONVERSATION>COMMUNITY

What to expect from Focusing Roundtables: Each Focusing Roundtable is designed to promote informal peer-to-peer conversation. Rather than acting as expert presenters, the Hosts will serve as conversation moderators to encourage sharing and exploration of the topics from the participants’ own perspectives.  All participants’ sharings are welcome and valuable, no matter what level of experience or knowledge you have on the topic. To preserve the nature of informal conversation, the program will be offered live only and no recordings will be available. Registration is limited and on a first-come, first served basis. Participants are encouraged to create follow up opportunities for connection among themselves after the Roundtable.

The TIFI Membership Committee is pleased to offer this series of Focusing Roundtables designed especially for members of the Institute. If you are not a member, please join at http://www.focusing.org/membership, then return to this page to register. This program will afford members a valuable opportunity to engage in casual peer-to-peer conversation with other members who share Focusing-related interests.

Hosts and Children Advisory Members

Hosts for this Roundtable
Harriet Teeuw and Rene Veugelers are TIFI registered FOT, Focusing Coordinators and Art therapists for Adults and Children. They have many years experiencing the richness of FOT, Art therapy, Nonverbal communication and Focusing. They integrate these approaches and methods into their work and their international trainings and they both are a member of TIFI Children Focusing Advisory group. www.childrenfocusing.org

Children Advisory Members

Laura Bavalics is an early childhood educator, play mentor, and drama teacher. She is a Certified Focusing Professional and a Focusing-oriented educator, who has been working with young children, parents, and professionals for over twenty-five years. She is a professional director of the Pendula inclusive kindergarten program for children in foster care and with special needs at the Világszép Foundation in Hungary. She is also teaching at ELTE University, Hungary, in their College of Education. Laura is a member of the International Leadership Council and the Children & Focusing Advisory Group.

René Veugelers is a Coordinator specializing in Children’s Focusing, with an emphasis on the non-verbal world. René teaches parents, therapists, teachers and others how to be with children in a Focusing way, how to (re)connect to their own inner child experiences and how to integrate creativity and flexibility into their life and work. His work and experiences as a psychiatric nurse and as an art therapist with children, of any age, embraces an expanded richness of creative elements and supports a natural unfolding of creative process. René lives and works in the Netherlands, where he teaches Children Focusing and specializes in working with children with ADHD, ADD, trauma and attachment disorder. 

Harriet Teeuw is a Focusing Coordinator and Focusing Oriented Art Therapist, working in her private practice with children and adults in The Netherlands. Teaching “Dynamic Expressive Focusing” and Focusing International Online Certification Program for Focusing Practitioners. https://www.childrenfocusing.org/; www.deruimte-info.nl;  [email protected]  

Joke Van Hoeck has been a child psychologist and psychotherapist for more than 18 years. A  mother of three children (ages 3, 13 and 16), she can’t imagine a life without Focusing. She is a certified Focusing Professional and Focusing oriented therapist. Joke lives and works in Belgium and has a special interest in bringing Focusing to parents who are looking for a new way of dealing with the daily life struggles in raising children.