Focusing Roundtable: Focusing & Our Mindfulness Practices

Focusing & Our Mindfulness Practices

Thursday, December 4, 2025 - 12:00 pm-2:00 pm New York Time

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Free for members.

Live attendance required - no recording.

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 this link and 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.

Roundtable Topic:

This is a gathering of Focusers who are interested in mindfulness. This includes people who consider Focusing to be their mindfulness practice and people who have another mindfulness or meditation practice as well. We will talk about the way we approach our practices, trying to express the felt sense we each get from these experiences. We will be paying attention to the similarities as well as the differences among us. Our hope is that this will give us all a larger context that will enrich our respective practices.

Who might be interested in this Roundtables

Focusers who have a mindfulness practice and/or consider Focusing to be their mindfulness practice.

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What to expect from Focusing Roundtables:  

We warmly encourage you to register and settle down with us to join other Focusers passionate to explore topics of interest and get to know each other better. If you have an area of interest, curiosity or passion you would like to see opened up in a future Roundtable, please let us know.

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. 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. Roundtables will afford members a valuable opportunity to engage in casual peer-to-peer conversation with other members who share Focusing-related interests.  If you are not a member, please join at http://www.focusing.org/membership, then return to this page to register.

About your host:

Serge Prengel is a Focusing-oriented therapist, coordinator, and a co-founder of the Integrative Focusing Therapy online training program. He explores creative approaches to mindfulness at ProactiveMindfulness.com.

Bill Gayner is a focusing-oriented therapist and certified focusing trainer with a TAE Proficiency Award. He developed emotion-focused mindfulness therapy and a mindfulness community approach, Touching the Earth, that integrate focusing into meditation. He is President of TIFI’s board, and Founding President, Touching the Earth Mindfulness Ontario (ttemo.ca).