Women's Soul Midwifery Focusing Training

You will learn divine feminine ways of knowing and being to develop:

deep, embodied, soulful connections with other healing artists

capacity to engage with focusing therapeutically for yourself, your clients and your community

ability to become ensouled and bring more soul forward with your clients and communities using a focusing approach

skills to engage the wisdom of the felt sense and its interaction with nature, dreams, art, movement, song, poetry, storytelling, ancestor work, ritual, ceremony, and the healing power of beauty

Trainer Biography

Angie Hensley, PhD, LMFT, is the Program Chair of the Counseling Psychology department at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California and Tennessee, specializing in somatic and eco-approaches to psychotherapy, clinical supervision, pedagogy, research, community building, and social change. Dr. Hensley lives at Terre Madre Retreat, on the original homelands of the ᏣᎳᎫᏪᏘᏱ Tsalaguwetiyi (Cherokee, East) people, stewarding 20 acres of land and hosting circles, workshops, and retreats. She believes in the power of circle-based, participatory, and empowered learning spaces. She facilitates deep academic inquiry that engages bodily knowing, heart, the natural world, expressive arts, dreams, and ritual. As a somatic and nature-based psychotherapist, she is interested in researching mind-body-spirit approaches to wellness and using the felt sense in research methodology.

Dr. Hensley is a certified Focusing-Oriented Therapist and Certifying Coordinator in training with the International Focusing Institute. Her Coordinating Mentors are Doralee Grindler-Katonah, M.Div, PsyD, Jan Winhall, MSW and Glenn Fleisch, PhD, LMFT.