Past Events
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.
Search Options
[ - ]
[ + ]
-
Irish Standard Time (UTC+1:00)
Our current model of understanding addiction as a brain disease is failing. Rates are soaring and people are dying in the streets. We desperately need a fresh approach. One that addresses addiction and other trauma responses where they live, in the body. In this workshop we will explore the intersection of trauma and addiction and how to address both with an embodied approach.
The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™ (FSPM) shifts the current pathologizing paradigm to a strength-based approach. Through the lens of Stephen Porges’ Polyvagal theory, addiction is seen as an adaptive stress response in our autonomic nervous system. Addictive behaviors are the body’s attempt to emotionally regulate by acting as propellers that facilitate neurophysiological shifts in our nervous system.
The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™ (FSPM) shifts the current pathologizing paradigm to a strength-based approach. Through the lens of Stephen Porges’ Polyvagal theory, addiction is seen as an adaptive stress response in our autonomic nervous system. Addictive behaviors are the body’s attempt to emotionally regulate by acting as propellers that facilitate neurophysiological shifts in our nervous system.
Online
Topic: FOT
-
GMT -3
Online
Topic: FOT, Intermediate/Advanced, Other
-
Spain (GMT +1)
ONLINE
Topic: FOT
-
Pacific Time
Setting boundaries is complex and likely to bring up a lot of mixed feelings! In this free mini-course, we'll address three specific issues that can come up with boundaries, including:
- Learning how to tell if your needs are getting pushed aside (which often happens when you say yes but mean no)
- Discovering what a healthy boundary looks like and how simple they can be (something you probably didn’t learn growing up)
- Understanding what you’re saying yes to when you say no (and why this tip helps you communicate better with the people in your life)
- Plus, we'll talk about what might be going on inside when someone says no to you.
No matter how challenging healthy boundaries might feel today…
You can get practical
- Learning how to tell if your needs are getting pushed aside (which often happens when you say yes but mean no)
- Discovering what a healthy boundary looks like and how simple they can be (something you probably didn’t learn growing up)
- Understanding what you’re saying yes to when you say no (and why this tip helps you communicate better with the people in your life)
- Plus, we'll talk about what might be going on inside when someone says no to you.
No matter how challenging healthy boundaries might feel today…
You can get practical
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
-
Eastern (New York) Time
Registration for this Rountable is now closed. In every dream there is a direction of growth. In this roundtable we will experience how even a nightmare indicates that direction of growth. Harriet will give us some cases from her practice of children suffering from nightmares and how she worked with them, using Focusing and Art.
Online
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Children, Intermediate/Advanced, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
-
Eastern Time
This group is a weekly gathering to empower, hearten and encourage therapists, counselors, teachers and helpers of all kinds. We will begin our week by accompanying each other, with embodied listening and connection, to meet the profound challenges of this time.
We will start the meetings with a brief reflection on how Focusing can nurture, inspire and steady us so that we can be present for others. A Focusing conversation will emerge from whatever is there for us in the moment.
We will start the meetings with a brief reflection on how Focusing can nurture, inspire and steady us so that we can be present for others. A Focusing conversation will emerge from whatever is there for us in the moment.
Online Zoom Event
Topic: Other
-
Eastern (New York) Time
Realization Process (RP) is a spiritual path of awakening to one’s fundamental nature through deep contact with the body. Being fully in the physical body provides a healthy, natural boundary between oneself and the world – While at the same time, it provides maximum contact with the environment.
One can start to release the artificial self-protective contractions that succeed mostly in cutting off full contact with oneself and one’s environment. Of course, this is immediately practical and useful from a Focusing point of view!
Jocelyn has been an Inner Relationship and Wholebody Focusing trainer and guide for 12 years who has been using mini-RP practices to help clients (and herself) come fully into their bodies at the beginning of a Focusing session.
One can start to release the artificial self-protective contractions that succeed mostly in cutting off full contact with oneself and one’s environment. Of course, this is immediately practical and useful from a Focusing point of view!
Jocelyn has been an Inner Relationship and Wholebody Focusing trainer and guide for 12 years who has been using mini-RP practices to help clients (and herself) come fully into their bodies at the beginning of a Focusing session.
Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
-
GMT -3
Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
This is a Course for Advanced Focusers, that you can choose to do as further practice and to go deeper into different topics, or as part of the whole Certification Program.
Thursdays at 10 am (Eastern time). You can still join!
Thursdays at 10 am (Eastern time). You can still join!
Zoom
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
-
Pacific Time
As these uncertain times continue to challenge us in unprecedented ways, our need for connection and emotional support is greater than ever.
This is a 30-minute free webinar (with Ann Weiser Cornell) with warm, positive tips for emotional self-care in these challenging times.
Our hope is that you’ll leave the webinar with a greater sense of resilience and some relief from the stressful feelings you might be having. And that you’ll know you are not alone.
This is a 30-minute free webinar (with Ann Weiser Cornell) with warm, positive tips for emotional self-care in these challenging times.
Our hope is that you’ll leave the webinar with a greater sense of resilience and some relief from the stressful feelings you might be having. And that you’ll know you are not alone.
Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
-
CET
Our workshop is an opportunity to reconsider something you aren't happy with, something you disagree with in your life. We aim at a coherent new understanding. You will be guided to develop fresh meanings and forms from your felt sense. This way you create the kind of "normality" that make you feel healthier, happier and empowered.
Topic: TAE/Philosophy
-
UK time
A small group weekend workshop.
London UK
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
-
AEST
Our usual practice is to open with an attunement that helps us set aside our busy lives and deliberately come into this protected space, where we can be with whatever is there in our inner world that needs our warm curious attention. Then we separate into pairs or triads to Focus, and come back together at the end for a time of closing.
Focusers of all levels of experience are welcome.
Focusers of all levels of experience are welcome.
Online
Topic: Changes Groups
-
Eastern (New York) Time
Post Event registration available. through August 1st because the recordings will be available until August 15, 2022.
That Eugene Gendlin had a special relationship with the medieval German mystic Meister Eckhart was already evident from the fact that he had his sermons and treatises on that nearby shelf next to his work-armchair, where otherwise only his own manuscripts were waiting for further processing. Meister Eckhart‘s book was literally close at hand.
In this experiential workshop, In this workshop, Donata intends to curiously explore edges and bridges between Gendlin’s process-thinking and Meister Eckharts' approaches.
Registrants should have familiarity with Focusing, but do not need experience with philosophy.
That Eugene Gendlin had a special relationship with the medieval German mystic Meister Eckhart was already evident from the fact that he had his sermons and treatises on that nearby shelf next to his work-armchair, where otherwise only his own manuscripts were waiting for further processing. Meister Eckhart‘s book was literally close at hand.
In this experiential workshop, In this workshop, Donata intends to curiously explore edges and bridges between Gendlin’s process-thinking and Meister Eckharts' approaches.
Registrants should have familiarity with Focusing, but do not need experience with philosophy.
Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, TAE/Philosophy, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
-
Central European Time (CEST)
Nysgjerrig på Focusing (Felt Sensing)? Har du lyst til å bli mer kjent med den visdommen som kroppen har om situasjonene dine, og som det logiske hodet ikke har direkte tilgang til?
Dette er det første kurset i Modul 1 av Grunnutdanning i Felt Sensing og Medsensing.
Kurset gir deg et første møte med denne selv-empatiske prosessen som gir deg tilgang til det du vet, til din egen indre stemme, og til mer medfølelse og selv-medfølelse, trygghet og romslighet i møte med egne og andres følelser.
Dette er det første kurset i Modul 1 av Grunnutdanning i Felt Sensing og Medsensing.
Kurset gir deg et første møte med denne selv-empatiske prosessen som gir deg tilgang til det du vet, til din egen indre stemme, og til mer medfølelse og selv-medfølelse, trygghet og romslighet i møte med egne og andres følelser.
Online på Zoom - du vil få tilsendt en link før kurset starter
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
-
Eastern Time (NY)
This conference has ended but post registrations are available through May 1, 2022. The recordings will be available through May 31, 2022.
The Third Felt Sense Conference
Honoring the work of Eugene T. Gendlin
"Embodied Liberation: the Felt Sense & Social Justice”
“We cannot be sure that Focusing will always undo imposed forms from society, but having a ‘political analysis’ can help us to see things and question things that we might not otherwise notice.”
-Eugene Gendlin
Let’s come together to explore the social change potency and potential of Focusing.
The Third Felt Sense Conference
Honoring the work of Eugene T. Gendlin
"Embodied Liberation: the Felt Sense & Social Justice”
“We cannot be sure that Focusing will always undo imposed forms from society, but having a ‘political analysis’ can help us to see things and question things that we might not otherwise notice.”
-Eugene Gendlin
Let’s come together to explore the social change potency and potential of Focusing.
Topic: FOT, TAE/Philosophy, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Changes Groups, Other
-
UK Time
An in-person course for just 6 participants. With two trainers and just six participants we are able to provide an exceptional holding experience that feels safe and supportive as you explore and deepen the practice of Focusing within your client work. The course explores Focusing and deep listening from the context of therapy and will give you the confidence to integrate it safely into your therapeutic work with clients. On passing the course, you will be eligible to receive a certificate in Focusing-Oriented Therapy from The International Focusing Institute, New York (TIFI).
Long Stratton, Norfolk, UK
Topic: FOT
-
Eastern Time
We invite you to join us for a 4-week workshop centered around the theme of self-discovery. In this workshop, you will be introduced to the creative and intuitive approach of Focusing-Oriented Expressive Arts. Focusing, a form of felt-sensing, is a practice of allowing our bodies to guide us to deeper self-knowledge and healing. Each week, you will be guided through a FOAT® invitation to delve into parts of your many-faceted self and illustrate your experience through the creation of a SoulCollage® card. The SoulCollage® process is highly conducive to awakening your intuition and empowering inner wisdom.
What you will gain:
• Access your inner wisdom
• Build self-awareness
• Develop self-compassion
• Practice self-care
What you will gain:
• Access your inner wisdom
• Build self-awareness
• Develop self-compassion
• Practice self-care
Online
-
Eastern Time (New York Time)
This two hour workshop with introduce you to a new way of understanding relationships that is outlined in my book Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™. I will teach you how to deepen your relationships with partners, family and friends, and your children, by practicing a 6 step process that facilitates powerful moments of change. By learning how to connect more intimately with your own bodily knowing, you can create safe interactions. An introduction to the model, and experiential exercises will be included, along with helpful handouts to guide you through the process.
The Felt Sense Polyvagal Dialogue integrates Imago therapy, the work of Harville Hendrix and Helen La Kelly Hunt, into the Felt sense Polyvagal Model. It will appeal to those who
The Felt Sense Polyvagal Dialogue integrates Imago therapy, the work of Harville Hendrix and Helen La Kelly Hunt, into the Felt sense Polyvagal Model. It will appeal to those who
Online
Topic: FOT, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced