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Worldwide Focusing Events
What is Focusing?
What if...
~ you already have within yourself the answers to life's dilemmas and frustrations?
~ you had access to deep wisdom at all times, for the rest of your life?
"Focusing" is a process for helping your mind listen to the wisdom of your body.
In any situation, your body is sending you information. Many of us don't know how to open our minds to this information because it doesn't follow the same logic as our cognitive mind.
We have deeper wells of knowledge within us than we consciously know.
Focusing helps to give us access to all of it.
First time visiting? Learn more about Focusing.
Here is a video of a short Focusing Session with Certifying Coordinator Ruth Hirsch and our Executive Director Catherine Torpey.
Learn about our wide variety of Focusing workshops.
Visit our Youtube channel to see more videos.
Read a description of a Focusing session excerpted from "Don't Go It Alone: The Power of Focusing Partnerships" by Lynn Preston and Dr. Joan Klagsbrun.

The World Day of Listening, planned for October 21, 2016, is an event for those who have a commitment to practices of active listening and for anyone who sees the potential in Listening to help change our world. We are a diverse network of individuals and organisations from around the globe and we hope you will join us! Events will be organised locally - from street listening to more structured listening circles, how ever you see fit to organise as local Listeners.
The sole aim is to listen to people about their experience of the current world situation and of themselves living in this world are welcome. The event is non-partisan and non-promotional. Its only aim is to provide the healing and forward-moving experience that happens when one person listens openly, without agenda, to another. Anyone with listening skills (trainings can be offered in many locations) can participate: activists, counsellors, academics, facilitators, pastoral workers, group workers, youth workers, active listeners, NVC people, mindfulness practitioners, Focusing people, coaches, social change persons. Please feel free to join us from around the world! Guidelines in many languages are available on FaceBook
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We are in the midst of a strategic planning process. Learn more here. |
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Gene Gendlin Phone Seminar Conversations at the Edge with Gene and Ann led by Gene Gendlin and Ann Weiser Cornell.
September 15-October 20, 2016 Click here to register
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The September conversation is with Cynthia Callsen. It is a window into New York Metro Focusing (NYMF). This is part of the "Conversations" series hosted by Serge Prengel. |
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Gender Differences in Focusing–A shared exploration Part of the Focusing Roundtables series for TIFI members, this free online conversation is hosted by Bruce Nayowith and co-hosts Bruce Gibbs, Jocelyn Kahn, Andrew MacDonald and Karen Whalen on Monday, October 10, 2016. |
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Living the Dream... |
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Focusing Basics: An 8-week interactive online course Taught by Ruth Hirsch, MSW, MPH, CMP. A course for beginning Focusers starting October 26, 2016. Advanced Focusing Training Taught by Ruth Hirsch, MSW, MPH, CMP. An 8-week intermediate interactive online course starting January 18, 2017. |
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Embracing Mystery: Healing the Trauma Body and Restoring Connection |
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We have added a new section to the TFI website that has a sortable list of major International Focusing events. |
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Dr. Eugene Gendlin awarded two Lifetime Achievement Awards Dr. Eugene Gendlin, founder of Focusing and Focusing-Oriented Therapy was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 12th World Association for Person Centered & Experiential Psychotherapy & Counseling conference (WAPCEPC). He was also be awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy. |
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9th CHILDREN & FOCUSING CONFERENCE - New Horizons in Children & Focusing The 9th Children and Focusing Conference will take place in Athens, Greece on 26-30, October, 2016. Visit the Conference website |
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2017 International Focusing-Oriented Therapy Conference The fourth gathering of the international community of Focusing-Oriented therapists, from June 22-25, 2017 at the Garrison Institute in Garrison, New York. |
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Focusing by Eugene Gendlin, Ph.D.
500,000 copies in print in 17 languages. This is the original book that made Focusing available to the public. It breaks Focusing into six steps and has many examples. This is a good beginning introduction to the process. A great gift! |
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POTPOURRI PART 2
The second volume of a two-part series is literally a Potpourri - a mixture of articles covering innumerable topics that integrate various aspects of Focusing into very specific and enlightening subjects and themes. Now available as a free digital eFolio or or as a printed version which can be purchased in the TFI store |
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TFI Newsletter: In Focus
Recent editions now available online. |
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Carl Rogers
Dr. Carl Rogers was Gene Gendlin's colleague and friend at the University of Chicago. Watch this delightful talk that Rogers gave in 1974. |
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