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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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- Madrid, España, Europa
Cristina Calle EIF: Tu escuela creativa de formación en Focusing
Para personas que quieren a acompañar sus propios procesos creativos, apoyándose en herramientas de escucha corporal.

Una forma original, humana y creativa de acceder a lo más auténtico de ti, como artista, como persona, y descubrir aquello que quiere ser contado a través de tu universo y tus símbolos. En cualquier tipo de lenguaje creativo.

Barcelona
Topic: Introductory
- Cd. de México time
Fotografía de Salvador Moreno López Fotografía de Helena Ortiz Cassaigne
Las personas participantes aprenderán a reconocer la Sabiduría y Creatividad que se generan cuando se escuchan y expresan desde su cuerpo vivido.
Topic: Introductory
- Eastern Time, New York, USA
Sandy Jahmi Burg 2024 Be Your Own Best Friend Series
For All Levels! If you curious about Focusing and looking for a gentle introduction, this space is for you! It’s also an ideal space for an experienced Focuser to work on these challenging tangles with the benefit of a weekly structure.

Meeting five weeks for 1.5 hours, we will become familiar with our own individual inner processes around what it means for us to be our own best friend around a topic. We are working individually, not partnering with others in the class. Classes will include time for sensing within yourself, mindfulness exercises to adapt into your daily life, opportunities to become more familiar with how to navigate your inner landscape, Presence language exercises, writing, art and body awareness/movement activities and a few Demonstrations of Focusing-

Online via Zoom
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
- New York Time
Reading Freshly logo The Internatinoal 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)
Ninth session November 4, 2025 - we will start the reading at THIRD MOVEMENT: FINDING A HANDLE in Chapter 5 The Six Focusing Movements and What They Mean
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, Ongoing, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
- New York time
TIFI Events logo Donata Schoeller Greg Madison Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir
Donata, Greg, and Sigga will have a broad-ranging conversation about the implications of Artificial Intelligence and our options for confronting it, using it, resisting it or embracing it, as we carry life and thought forward consistent with our Focusing values.

This is a "pay what you can" event. It will be recorded (except small group breakout rooms) for later viewing if you cannot attend live.

Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, TAE/Philosophy, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
- AEDT Australian Eastern Daylight Time
Woman in sunshine Woman on beach
We meet on Zoom on the first Saturday of each month, to share in a Focusing way, develop community with other Focusers and spend time in breakout rooms in Focusing partnerships.
Topic: Changes Groups
- Eastern
Ann Weiser Cornell and Barbara McGavin
Untangling® Retreats are 6-day residential retreats for people with Focusing experience who want to learn how to apply our Untangling® method to life’s most hard-to-change issues.

We’ve been teaching Untangling® Retreats in 15 countries over the past 25 years, helping thousands of people learn our method, getting responses like this one from Paul Fitzgerald: "The experience was like a dissolving of an old way of seeing life and having new eyes to engage life with more freedom. I'd highly encourage anyone interested in deepening their Focusing to take this course."

We believe that transformation occurs most readily in an atmosphere of respect, acceptance, openness, warmth, playfulness, and support. Our mission is to enable you to live from your

Wallingford, PA
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
- MEZ - CET / Mitteleuropäische Zeit - Central Europe Time
Focusing mit inneren Anteilen
Spezifische Praxis des freundlichen in Kontakt-tretens mit inneren Anteilen

Praxis Trollstrasse 20, 8400 Winterthur - Switzerland
- 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.

Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
- 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 4th Tuesday, 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
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, Ongoing
- Hora Nueva York
Cafecitos logo The International Focusing Institute Isabel Gascón Florenina Sassoli
En esta ocasión, Cafecitos nos ha brindado un espacio sobre Focusing y "Telón de Fondo."

Zoom
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
- HKT
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Online + 4 days in-person in Hong Kong
- Please be aware of time zones when choosing your class teacher
The International Focusing Institute Event Harriet Teeuw and Rene Veugelers Laura Bavalics Leonie Stewart
This online Children & Focusing Academy will allow you to immerse yourself in one introductory Children & Focusing Main Class, as well as experience other teachers through stand-alone Guided Felt Sensing sessions offered by teachers from around the world. This event is oriented toward beginners as well as experienced Focusers who would enjoy a chance to learn more about doing Focusing with children, with your inner child, or simply finding new options in your practice. Whether you are beginner, a seasoned Focuser, or even a Focusing teacher, this Academy is for you!

Focusing is an experiential, embodied and evidence-based practice of self-reflection developed by Eugene Gendlin. During Focusing, your attention opens up to multiple layers and aspects of living. It
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Children, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
- Hora de España, Madrid
Flora Osborne Maestre Focusing Crecimiento Personal
En el Nivel 1 de Focusing aprenderás y experimentarás:
La Actitud de Focusing
Despejar un Espacio
Formar la Sensación Sentida y simbolizarla
El Cambio Corporalmente Sentido




Nos reuniremos través de ZOOM.En el workspace virtual de Nivel 1 de Focusing podrás compartir tus insights y avances más significativos y practicar sin límites.
Topic: Introductory
- CET
Professional Focusing Training Trainer Amona Buechler
The training includes live online classes with instructional materials, supervised practice sessions, and personal projects based on your unique interests.
This blend of structured guidance and self-directed exploration allows you to shape the training around your learning style, passion, and life circumstances.
- Eastern Time
Facilitator Addie Van Der Kooy
At the heart of Whole Body Focusing (WBF) there is a dance of two, seemingly opposing, inner movements - the Embrace and the Stepping Back. In the Embrace you unconditionally accept your inner experience and in the Stepping Back you make room for an embodied sense of “Me” (Self in Presence), separate from your inner experience. The balance between these two movements is a fluid dance which creates a space inside your whole body in which Focusing can occur naturally.

This experiential webinar will give you an in-depth guidance in the practice of Unconditional Acceptance and in various ways of Stepping Back into the aliveness and vastness of “You” – described by Gendlin as the “different self that can be discovered …under all the packages each of us carries”.
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
- Eastern Time, New York, USA
Sandy Jahmi Burg 2024 Navigate the World Within, Creating Space for Lasting Change Part 1
This online entry level Focusing skills class prepares you to begin a Focusing partnership. Utilizing Inner Relationship Focusing and Neuroscience based exercises spread out over a few months, this is a great opportunity to ground yourself in the basics of Self-in-Presence as a way of being that creates space for lasting change. You are encouraged to practice both in partnerships and with brief pauses during your day.

For coaches, bodyworkers, therapists, teachers and anyone interested in improving their inner and outer relational skills. Part 1 meets six times for two hours, usually every other week. This class can be your first step toward professional certification by completing Parts 1-4, then entering the ongoing Learning Community for Mastery in Guiding Change.

Online via Zoom
Topic: Introductory
- New York Time
Laura Storey The Internatinoal Focusing Institute event
Gendlin valued Clearing a Space very highly. How about you? Is Clearing a Space (CAS) a standard part of your own Focusing practice, or your teaching of Focusing? Or have you replaced it with something else – maybe an attunement? Join us to share what place CAS has in your Focusing practice – is it essential, optional, irrelevant or something else?
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
- New York time
highlights logo TIFI events logo Deborah Armstrong
Two approaches to working with Focusing and Sandtray will be presented, and participants will engage in an experiential process that will deepen the understanding of how valuable marrying these two approaches can be. 

Some experience with Focusing will be helpful. No experience in Sandtray is necessary. This class is intended for therapists though all are welcome to attend.

Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, FOT, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
- Hora Nueva York
Cafecitos logo The International Focusing Institute Victor Eloy Florentina Sassoli
En esta ocasión, Cafecitos nos ha brindado un espacio sobre “Focusing y voz sentida."

Zoom
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events