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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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Eastern Time, New York, USA
Our goal here is to return to the essence of Focusing and ourselves as living process. I ask that participants are Focusing weekly with a partner at least one month before class begins and throughout our time together. There is a lot of reading, often more than you might choose to do. We touch on a variety of approaches to learn and practice Focusing. We begin and end remembering that always that which has learned Focusing is Partiality, not Presence. My Part 4 is a great place to return to whenever you would like to go deeper with your process from wherever it is. Requires Part 3 or equivalent experience.
Meets eight times on Wednesdays, 7 – 9 pm New York time.
Meets eight times on Wednesdays, 7 – 9 pm New York time.
Online via Zoom
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
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Pacific
Let us show you a compassionate, effective process to help you experience your feelings without shutting down or getting overwhelmed. What happens when you can embrace your whole self? You're kinder to yourself, you're more confident, relaxed, and available for connection, which makes life more meaningful and enjoyable. To put it simply: Life gets better.
Join us and take a powerful first step toward connecting with your true self and creating more unconditional self-acceptance in your life.
Join us and take a powerful first step toward connecting with your true self and creating more unconditional self-acceptance in your life.
Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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CST
Leemos, dialogamos, vivenciamos, comentamos y compartimos en grupo el texto de Gendlin "The Obedience Patern". Haremos la versión al castellano del artículo, con las personas participantes en el grupo. Re-Creamos el texto y lo vinculamos experiencialmente con nuestras vidas cotidianas y nuestras prácticas profesionales.
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Pacific
The Urge to Indulge = a repetitive cycle of indulging in food, drink, internet, TV, or other behaviors, followed by guilt, shame, and self-blame. That cycle springs from something deeper, a war over the control of pain and painful emotions, and the avoidance of forward-moving action.
Join us and discover how you can change repetitive behaviors without evoking shame or inner critics so you can have a more peaceful, empowered life.
Join us and discover how you can change repetitive behaviors without evoking shame or inner critics so you can have a more peaceful, empowered life.
Online via Zoom
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
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New York time
The untold story relates to the story that lay beyond the words. It is the essence of the story, what we really want to convey, but often don’t quite manage to put into words, don’t quite get the listener to truly understand, to truly be with us.
In this workshop, we will create the conditions for felt conversation – the kind of conversation that enables us to connect through sensing and relating with each other. Using SOF, we will enter the inside and in-between of the storyteller and the listener, a place where the story can be held and contained, enabling deep connection and healing.
The workshop will include presentations, guided experiences, and time for practice, sharing and questions.
Live attendance is recommended. All registrants (
In this workshop, we will create the conditions for felt conversation – the kind of conversation that enables us to connect through sensing and relating with each other. Using SOF, we will enter the inside and in-between of the storyteller and the listener, a place where the story can be held and contained, enabling deep connection and healing.
The workshop will include presentations, guided experiences, and time for practice, sharing and questions.
Live attendance is recommended. All registrants (
Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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PDT
We're excited to announce an exciting opportunity for those who already have an established baseline knowledge of Focusing-Oriented Therapy. We are opening the doors to a few people interested in joining our current cohort.
Come January, we will begin our next module, FOT-3: Facilitating the Inner Relationship, where we begin developing the tools for companioning others in a way that supports the client to be with their experience at each stage of the focusing process. Those who complete this program are also given priority access to our second-year Focusing-Oriented Therapy and Complex Training Program.
Join us for this transformative opportunity to expand your skills and enhance your therapeutic practice. Elevate your ability to companion others
Come January, we will begin our next module, FOT-3: Facilitating the Inner Relationship, where we begin developing the tools for companioning others in a way that supports the client to be with their experience at each stage of the focusing process. Those who complete this program are also given priority access to our second-year Focusing-Oriented Therapy and Complex Training Program.
Join us for this transformative opportunity to expand your skills and enhance your therapeutic practice. Elevate your ability to companion others
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Eastern Time
Are painful experiences from your childhood continuing to hinder you from living more fully?
For many of us, we may have grown up in environments in which we had to hush our inner knowing and what I call our knowing no as a way of keeping the peace, staying connected and out of trouble. Understandably, needing to do that over and over again may have caused us to stray farther and farther away from ourselves ... not because we wanted to but because we had to.
I get it. I know what that's like and how confusing it feels when doing what's right feels wrong; whereas, doing what's wrong feels strangely ... right, more comfortable and less risky. It's disorienting isn't it? No wonder it's hard to make decisions, choose directions
For many of us, we may have grown up in environments in which we had to hush our inner knowing and what I call our knowing no as a way of keeping the peace, staying connected and out of trouble. Understandably, needing to do that over and over again may have caused us to stray farther and farther away from ourselves ... not because we wanted to but because we had to.
I get it. I know what that's like and how confusing it feels when doing what's right feels wrong; whereas, doing what's wrong feels strangely ... right, more comfortable and less risky. It's disorienting isn't it? No wonder it's hard to make decisions, choose directions
Online
Topic: Other
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New York time
Anchors and swimmers is based on the premise that when people connect through their vulnerability, micro change happens.
No matter how oppositional our beliefs may be, when we “go underneath” we discover our innate humanness and interconnectedness. How we hold our differences may be more important than being right if we want to build vibrant communities and create peace in our world.
Anchors and Swimmers applies the Focusing attitude to create a safely anchored environment where the power and grace of receptive listening and connective reflecting deepens the conversation, shifts mindsets, offers comfort, and changes lives. Community connection heals our sense of isolation and disconnection, as well as helps heal old traumas we may carry.
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No matter how oppositional our beliefs may be, when we “go underneath” we discover our innate humanness and interconnectedness. How we hold our differences may be more important than being right if we want to build vibrant communities and create peace in our world.
Anchors and Swimmers applies the Focusing attitude to create a safely anchored environment where the power and grace of receptive listening and connective reflecting deepens the conversation, shifts mindsets, offers comfort, and changes lives. Community connection heals our sense of isolation and disconnection, as well as helps heal old traumas we may carry.
Some
Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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Eastern Time
You are invited to continue learning and unpacking the depths of the Inner Relationship Focusing process. This live virtual nine-week course, gives you the necessary time and space to integrate and apply your skills and knowledge gained in Foundations Training Part 1 (Levels 1 & 2).
Online
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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Eastern Time
You are invited to become a part of our group as we learn the Inner Relationship Focusing process. In this live virtual nine-week course, you will acquire the skills necessary for cultivating radical lasting life change.
Online
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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Eastern NY Time
PAST EVENT (November 2 - 5, 2023 - REGISTRATION FOR RECORDINGS REMAIN OPEN THROUGH JAN 15, 2024.
RECORDINGS ACCESSIBLE THROUGH FEB 5, 2024.
At this critical time in our history, many of us are sensing a need for action. How does Focusing-Oriented Therapy help us meet the challenges of NOW? What is needed for us to hold the uncertainty of our future? We hope this conference will encourage an exploration of this urgency, how we hold the uncertainty and find ways of moving forward. Recordings of the live conference will be available through February 5, 2024
La fresca urgencia del ahora y el poder transformador de la terapia orientada al Focusing.
Traducción al español para la mayoría de las presentaciones
RECORDINGS ACCESSIBLE THROUGH FEB 5, 2024.
At this critical time in our history, many of us are sensing a need for action. How does Focusing-Oriented Therapy help us meet the challenges of NOW? What is needed for us to hold the uncertainty of our future? We hope this conference will encourage an exploration of this urgency, how we hold the uncertainty and find ways of moving forward. Recordings of the live conference will be available through February 5, 2024
La fresca urgencia del ahora y el poder transformador de la terapia orientada al Focusing.
Traducción al español para la mayoría de las presentaciones
Online
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, FOT, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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Eastern Time
For therapists, coaches, body workers, and anyone who wants to bring focusing more seamlessly into their conversations and who want to learn how to work with their felt sense of the client/focuser and of the relationship. This course is for those who are already certified, or who have trained in the fundamentals of focusing.
Gene was a psychotherapist and most of his focusing work was within the faster more improvisational style of therapeutic conversations.
This 1- year course teaches you how to:
- Bring the skills you have already learnt on other courses, such as resonant reflection of ‘somethings’, finding the right distance, Clearing a Space, the focusing attitude, reminders/invitation, the Critic and parts work seamlessly into a the
Gene was a psychotherapist and most of his focusing work was within the faster more improvisational style of therapeutic conversations.
This 1- year course teaches you how to:
- Bring the skills you have already learnt on other courses, such as resonant reflection of ‘somethings’, finding the right distance, Clearing a Space, the focusing attitude, reminders/invitation, the Critic and parts work seamlessly into a the
Online
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
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Eastern Time
One hour Q & A meeting with Charlotte Howorth. Charlotte will take you through the contents and format of her one-year course leaving time for your questions.
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Eastern Time
You are invited to continue learning and unpacking the depths of the Inner Relationship Focusing process. This live virtual nine-week course, gives you the necessary time and space to integrate and apply your skills and knowledge gained in Foundations Training Part 1 (Levels 1 & 2).
Online
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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Eastern Time / Eastern Daylight Saving Time for May meeting (New York time)
The course will help you to use Thetaland® as an inspiration for you and the people you work with to think at the edge without getting lost. It will also provide a space for companions to enjoy and enhance creative thinking together. You will experience how to deepen your thoughts and go beyond your usual ways of thinking without being stuck by the uncertainty that comes with it.
The Thetaland® Toolbox is at the heart of the course. You will get to know its full capacity and make it your steady companion in 2024 while sticking with a topic you are currently working on.
The course starts on January 11 with introductory sessions. The early bird rate will end on December 31!
The Thetaland® Toolbox is at the heart of the course. You will get to know its full capacity and make it your steady companion in 2024 while sticking with a topic you are currently working on.
The course starts on January 11 with introductory sessions. The early bird rate will end on December 31!
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Changes Groups, TAE/Philosophy
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USA Eastern Time (New York)
The IFT training program is a two-year online training program leading to certification as a Focusing-oriented therapist (FOT). We train therapists to help clients discover their way forward through an embodied experiential process that flows naturally.
The program is built on an underlying theory of the centrality of interaction and how we integrate experience, under ideal situations as well as traumatic circumstances. It consists of four modules:
– You train in three different ways to practice Focusing-oriented therapy (FOT).
– You integrate personal and professional growth in a stimulating process group.
This program offers a lot of flexibility:
– You do not have to commit to the whole training program upfront. You can commit to one
The program is built on an underlying theory of the centrality of interaction and how we integrate experience, under ideal situations as well as traumatic circumstances. It consists of four modules:
– You train in three different ways to practice Focusing-oriented therapy (FOT).
– You integrate personal and professional growth in a stimulating process group.
This program offers a lot of flexibility:
– You do not have to commit to the whole training program upfront. You can commit to one
Online via Zoom
Topic: FOT
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EST
This module of our “Therapeutic Us” seminar will broaden our concept of the “US.”
We have explored how each person has many “parts” and yet is a unique whole, as each dyad is a unique system. Now we will enter the realm of larger systems and discuss theworkings of groups and communities. We each are a kind of group, live in groups and are formed by groups. Yet, there has not been much attention to Focusing-oriented approaches to group facilitation.
We have explored how each person has many “parts” and yet is a unique whole, as each dyad is a unique system. Now we will enter the realm of larger systems and discuss theworkings of groups and communities. We each are a kind of group, live in groups and are formed by groups. Yet, there has not been much attention to Focusing-oriented approaches to group facilitation.
ONLINE-ALL SESSIONS WILL BE RECORDED
Topic: FOT
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New York time
Welcoming new registrants to join us for Chapters V - VI.
25 weekly meetings on Wednesdays
Audio recordings available after each live meeting
Optional discussion groups are available with teaching assistants in various time zones.
25 weekly meetings on Wednesdays
Audio recordings available after each live meeting
Optional discussion groups are available with teaching assistants in various time zones.
Online (Class will also be audio recorded)
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, TAE/Philosophy, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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PDT
As the year winds down, we invite you to join us in tuning inward, away from distractions, and re-engage with your inner self more profoundly. We will explore clearing a space, background feelings, and how we might bring this awareness into the new year and beyond.
Open to all healing professionals and anyone who wishes to deepen their understanding and application of Clearing a Space.
Open to all healing professionals and anyone who wishes to deepen their understanding and application of Clearing a Space.
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Eastern (New York) Time
Reading Freshly
This month starting at Chapter 3: What the Body Knows
Newcomers welcome each month!
An opportunity to read Gendlin’s seminal book Focusing with others
A Free Event for Members
Live (no recording)
Once a month on Tuesday - fourth session January 9, 2023
This month starting at Chapter 3: What the Body Knows
Newcomers welcome each month!
An opportunity to read Gendlin’s seminal book Focusing with others
A Free Event for Members
Live (no recording)
Once a month on Tuesday - fourth session January 9, 2023
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events