Foundations in Focusing Level One, Two, Three & Four

Course Layout and Content

Block one: 10 Weeks.

10 weekly sessions, 2hours 15 mins.

Block 1- Level One and Two 

Location: Online through Zoom

Cost: $500 AUD

Dates: 31 May - 02 Aug 2023 (10 weekly sessions)

Time: 7-9PM (AEST) - 10-12:15 noon (GMT)

Level one and Level two

In Level one and two trainees gain the ability Focus and Listen inside a Focusing partnership. They learn the basics of the Focusing process and how to be a nurturing companion to both your own and your partners process. Focusers are taught to guide themselves through the process of being with what they are sensing on the inside. The Focuser learns to be in charge of their own Focusing process and to ask for what they need from their companion. We spend time with developing the qualities of presence and how we can support these qualities when we are companioning our Focusing partner. Advanced listening skills are taught such as reflecting our understanding of what the Focuser means to convey and using the word something as an empathic prompt to stay a bit longer with what is not yet clear or know. Companions are also given a script for a “Leading-In,” and ask the Focuser before the session starts if s/he would like to be led in.

Block 2

10 weekly sessions, 2hours 15mins.

Level three and Level four.

Block 2- Level Three and Four

Location: Online through Zoom

Cost: $500 AUD

Dates: 30 Aug - 01 Nov 2023 (10 weekly sessions)

Time: To Be Decided

In level three and four trainees learn how to guide the Focusing process from a place of empathic attunement. They learn how to follow the information that is emerging from the Felt-Sense so that it can lead the way. Trainees learn how to guide the beginning of a sessions so that the Focusing process can find what it needs to move forward and to guide the ending so that it has time to integrate and consolidate and not feel too abrupt. Advanced companioning skills are taught such as, offering suggestions, how to intervene in a Focusers silence and how to take back what they suggested if it wasn’t helpful. Companions are receptive to the needs of the Focuser including guidance or reflection or silence. They learn how to help with conflicting parts, exiled parts, painful parts and an inner criticizing process. They learn and share ways of responding when the Focusing process seems blocked, including when the Focuser feels nothing, “resistance,” when the Focuser feels overwhelmed, when the Focuser tells stories or is “in the head.” Focuser and Companion practice trusting the inner sense of rightness that is deeper than any rule or guideline. The Focuser is still in charge of the session, and can request from the Companion silence, only reflecting, reflecting plus “reminders,” or “trust your instincts.”