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Tuesday, December 10, 2024 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm New York time
Class will be recorded for all registrants and available for viewing for one month.
Barbara McGavin and Ann Weiser Cornell were already experienced Focusing teachers when they found themselves facing the painful fact that there were issues in their lives that just weren’t getting any better. Ann was drinking too much—more and more often. Barbara sometimes felt so worthless that she wanted to disappear—permanently.
Something had to change. From Focusing and Gendlin’s Philosophy of the Implicit, they created a method for engaging with those seemingly unchangeable life issues. They discovered how to create the kind of inner environment that enables profound change—and how to teach it to others.
For thirty years, Barbara and Ann have been developing and refining their theories and methods in in-person retreats, online workshops and with individuals. This year they published Untangling: How You Can Transform What’s Impossibly Stuck which shares their story and method with the world.
In this Highlight, Barbara and Ann will share the fundamentals of their method: the five Powers of Presence and the way that developing these Powers enables the transformation of what’s impossibly stuck.
Some familiarity with Focusing is helpful, but no prior experience is required. All are welcome to attend and participate.
Format
We use Zoom videoconferencing for our online classes. In this webinar format, you will see the presenter and host, but you will not be seen. You will be able to ask questions during the webinar by typing them. Highlights presenters may at times invite a small number of participants to unmute or join them onscreen during the webinar (optional).
You will need to have a computer/mobile device. Calling in by phone is also possible but not preferred. All registered participants will be sent a link to the video recording approximately two weeks following the class. So if you are unable to attend the live webinar, you will still be able to view it for one month.
Bios
Barbara McGavin is the co-creator (with Ann Weiser Cornell) of Inner Relationship Focusing and Untangling®. She has a background in humanistic psychology, teaching, fine art, and graphic design. Besides her work with Ann Weiser Cornell, she has developed a Focusing-based creativity practice called From Spark to Beacon. She has also created a decision-making process (Spectrum Decision-making) which seeks to generate consensus through actively valuing conflicting viewpoints. She was one of the founders of The British Focusing Network (BFN) and The British Focusing Teachers’ Association (BFTA). She is also an Accrediting Mentor for the British Focusing Association (formerly BFTA).
Ann Weiser Cornell is an author, educator, and worldwide authority on Focusing, the emotional self-healing method developed by her close colleague, Eugene Gendlin. She has taught Inner Relationship Focusing in twenty countries around the world for more than thirty-five years, as well as online. Her books include: The Radical Acceptance of Everything and Focusing in Clinical Practice: The Essence of Change. She is a Past President of the Association for Humanistic Psychology.
Barbara and Ann are the co-authors of the new book Untangling: How You Can Transform What’s Impossibly Stuck, available on Amazon worldwide or from https://focusingresources.com/learning/untangling
Registration Information and Price
Barbara and Ann are offering this class to support The International Focusing Institute. This live online class is pay-what-you-can. The suggested payment for US residents is $30.
If you need to give less, that's fine, but we do require each participant to give something. Please give extra if you can! Thank you for supporting the Institute.
Refunds: A full refund minus a $15 administrative fee (regardless of the registration fee paid) for cancellations 14 days before the start date. Cancellations less than 14 days before the start date are nonrefundable.
Registration Policies: TIFI reserves the right to cancel, change and alter the program if necessary. Participants authorize TIFI to use their name, statements and likeness without charge, for promotional purposes in publications, advertising, video, web, new media, or other formats. Please note that the class will be recorded and may be distributed to a wider audience. By registering for this course with the Institute, and in consideration of the right and opportunity to participate in and contribute to the Institute’s classes, for the purposes of its control of all video and/or audio recordings thereof pertaining to uses serving our purposes and goals, in enrolling in this session you acknowledge and agree to the Institute’s ownership of all rights in such classes, including all rights under copyright therein. In no circumstance shall any portion or clip posted or displayed exceed 3 minutes in duration. If you plan to use, post or display any portion or clips of these recordings, including posting these to a website or to a social media platform or portal, you agree that you will seek and obtain the prior approval of the Institute.
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Registration Information and Price
This live online class is pay-what-you-can. The suggested payment for US residents is $30. If you need to give less, that's fine, but we do require each participant to give something.