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Upcoming Courses, and Ongoing Groups and Services

Please note: Listings on this page are either events organized by The International Focusing Institute (TIFI), or are offered independently by Certified Focusing Professionals.  Those organized by TIFI will have one of TIFI’s logos.

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- Eastern Time
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ALL are welcome to attend -- whether you are an experienced Focuser or are brand new and would like to experience a new way to listen and be with yourself.
These 90-minute interactive Zoom-based gatherings are designed to create an atmosphere of safety and mutual respect for both experienced and less-experienced Focusers.
And - there's NO FEE to attend.

Online
Topic: Free, Changes Groups
- New York time
highlights logo TIFI events logo Orit Parnafes
In his book “A Process Model”, Gendlin develops a powerful model for describing and explaining the living process. In this webinar, Orit aims to demonstrate how some of the model’s concepts provide an enlightening perspective on life processes, specifically on learning processes.

All are welcome to attend and participate, with or without prior knowledge of Gendlin’s Philosophy. No affiliation with Education or learning is needed. 

Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, TAE/Philosophy, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
- Eastern Time, New York, USA
Sandy Jahmi Burg 2024 Smartview Conversations
Smartview Conversations is a monthly online gathering to explore the application of our Focusing skills to daily life and interactions. Our skill emphasis for 2025 is being our own Self-Mentor. We will explore and build the resourcing qualities life is asking of us now.
We will model how to create a safe, playful environment that facilitates neural plasticity. These webinars are FREE to attend. Both experienced Focusers and people new to Focusing are welcome. These webinars emphasize Gendlin's action step; how is it we bring Focusing concepts into our daily living.
We meet on the 5th Tuesday for April, twice in the same day for different time zones. The times are 11:30am - 12:30pm ET New York time and 7:30 - 8:30pm ET New York time.

Online via Zoom
- Eastern (New York Time)
Annette Dubreuil timeline
Understanding who we are in an embodied way is a powerful way to grow our emotional regulation and emotional intelligence. When we know what it feels like in our bodies when we get scared, or mad, or are happy—or when more complicated patterns or parts emerge—then we can more quickly notice these shifts in our autonomic nervous system. This clarity helps us know when we need to self-soothe or reach out to others for co-regulation.

The class spends the first three weeks in the grounded parts, building a “safe nest” to do the deeper Focusing on our wounded and protector parts in weeks four to seven. As we map our parts, we also map out our timeline. At first with the key memories, and then with the parts that are connected to the memories. We finish the class by completing

Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
- Eastern Time
Annette Dubreuil leadership
In this ten-week Focusing course, we learn to use self-regulation and co-regulation to affect the interactions in our relationships. You can explore any relationships, including those that include power (leaders and employees, teacher and students, parent(s) and children).

The goal is to use emotional regulation to create safe and connected relationships that allow for creativity and action to flow.

Next courses:
-Thursdays, 1:30-3:30 pm Eastern, May 1-July 3, 2025
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Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
- Pacific
Ann Weiser Cornell
Relationships are important — whether they're with friends, family, or one special partner. They nurture us — and we can nurture them.

Trusting yourself and what you know is key to healthy relationships. When you trust yourself, you can be open to others, speak your truth, and feel truly seen (exactly as you are). All that creates more space for joy and discovery in your connections.

Let’s explore how to build more self-trust (and richer relationships) together!

Online via Zoom
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
- EST
Angie Hensley, PhD, LMFT
This two-year training program for healers will create a sacred space where we open to our embodied, wildish nature as the ground for developing our capacity to midwife soul healing. Through focusing and the felt sense, together we will come into a deeper relationship with the wisdom of our bodies and the natural world, integrating focusing and the felt sense as we grow our medicine woman toolkits.

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

Tennessee
Topic: FOT
- Eastern Time (New York Time)
Annette Dubreuil circle of chairs picture
A Changes Group is a free-of-charge, peer-led group that meets so people can exchange Focusing and listening turns in an atmosphere of safety and mutual respect. It's a group for continuing your Focusing practice; no teaching will be done.

We meet on zoom twice per month. We have a centering/grounding practice to begin followed by a check in (usually in breakout rooms), followed by time for practice in groups of two or three. You can also chose to join an empathy circle if you'd like to observe or practice in a bigger group.

Our next Changes Groups are:
-Friday, May 2nd, 12:30-2 pm Eastern (see your local time)
-Sunday, May 18th, 6:30-8 pm Eastern
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Online via Zoom
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Changes Groups
- Eastern Daylight Time
A Day of Relating, May 3, 2025

Online
- Eastern Time (New York Time)
Annette Dubreuil
Learn Gendlin's classic 6 steps of Focusing in this interactive 2-hour workshop. There will be a Focusing demonstration. And you will have the opportunity to experience Focusing for a 20-minute turn, as well as a listening turn in breakout groups.

Next sessions (pick one 2-hour session to attend):
-Monday, May 5, 8:30 -10:30 am Eastern
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Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
- US Eastern Time
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While Focusing has long had a home in psychotherapy and also as a powerful modality for personal development, professional coaching has lagged behind in ways to work with the implicit aspects of cognition.
Topic: Certification
- Third session May 6, 2025
Reading Freshly The International Focusing Institute Event Member Benefit
Reading Freshly

An opportunity to read Gendlin’s seminal book Focusing with others
A Free Event for Members
Live (no recording)
Second session April 1, 2025 - Starting with Chapter 2
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, Ongoing, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
- Eastern Time, New York, USA
Sandy Jahmi Burg 2024 Creating Space for Lasting Change, Part 2, Expand your relational skills
PART 2 is about deepening into the Focusing and Listening process by looking more at the role of how we companion ourselves as well as others. We develop further our personal concept of creating an inner space that welcomes it all and adapting that space as we follow our process. I introduce relational neuroscience here.
Experience in a beginner partnership course is required. Discount for partnership courses or experience beyond that. A great place for advanced Focusers to return to.

Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Certification
- Pacific
Ann Weiser Cornell Jinevra Howard
Take the second half of the Inner Relationship Focusing Training Program developed by Ann Weiser Cornell. Go deeper into Focusing and Focusing partnership. Learn the skill of guiding with sensitivity and awareness. Interactive advanced Focusing training by Zoom for 9 weeks, includes partnership practice.

Includes videos, demos, readings, discussion, group exercises, and individual sessions. Partnership Proficiency Recognition awarded on completion.

Online via Zoom
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
- Eastern Time
Hands making the shape of two hearts, representing Focusing partnerships Annette Dubreuil
This eight-week course is an opportunity to strengthen your listening skills and deepen your Focusing experiences. In improving your listening skills with empathy and compassion, you create and even stronger container for the felt sense and Focusing process, the motor of change.

You will also learn to better sense your own needs while Focusing, in listening to the nuances from your felt sense (self-empathy) and then meet those needs, either by giving that to yourself or asking your listener for what it needs (self-compassion).
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Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
- CET
Prácticas tutorizadas.
Formación de prácticas online
Facilitadora: Macarena LópezAnadón, trainer focusing
- Eastern Time
serge prengel focusing-oriented therapy
The way we work with our clients reflects the relational and embodied nature of our mind process.
In this course, you study how the bodily felt sense emerges in the context of interaction and explore the physicality of our relational patterns.
You do this experientially as you practice creatively using embodied experience to harness the transformative power of Integrative Focusing. 

Online (Zoom)
Topic: FOT
- Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)
FOAT Institute Akira Ikemi, Ph.D.
This presentation is open to those new and experienced in Focusing, Expressive Arts, and FOAT!

Join us in welcoming Focusing Pioneer and Master Teacher, Akira Ikemi, Ph.D. for this special 2-hour program! Akira will share about his development of different Focusing methods that stem from Eugene Gendlin’s teachings. He will demonstrate two of those methods– Kansoh Focusing and Kanga Focusing. This enriching presentation will also include experiential exercises for participants to practice both methods in partners, along wtih time for Q&A!

Online
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
- Jerusalem Time
Yehudit First teaching Yehudit First
Social Oriented Focusing (SOF) invites us into an embodied practice to untie the KNOTS and NOTS that interfere with relating to others, enabling us to overcome blocks, fears, and automatic behaviors. Imagine being fully present in the here-and-now in a Focusing way, enjoying interpersonal moments with the freedom to be yourself, instead of repeating stressful patterns of separation.

In SOF Course Level 1, we will set out on an SOF journey of discovery from separation to connection. In a safe group setting, we will explore the steps from feeling alone to feeling together, while being our authentic selves.

SOF expands our Focusing awareness allowing us to meet others while remaining intimate with ourselves and our present moment experience, facilitating

Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
- Central European Time
Focusing Praktijk Hester Wijenberg Hester Wijenberg BasisTraining Focusing Hester Wijenberg
In deze live 2-daagse BasisTraining gaan we door met verdieping en het oefenen van focussen met een focus maatje. We geven we ook aandacht aan problemen die zich kunnen voordoen tijdens een Focusing proces.

Als je wat meer wilt weten over Focusing, bekijk dan hier mijn video: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMvftGO_x4WQ3W7GdyAPkSA

Live, Laren NH, the Netherlands
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate