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water hugs earth Kati Singh
Kati Singh, CRC., LMHC
Join Cassava Bread and the EMDR Caribbean Community as we have a discussion with Linda Kocieniewski and Bruce Patterson as they discuss their work with NYC Trauma Recovery Network (NYCTRN) a subdivision of EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Program (EMDRHAP).
Together they will share beginnings, lessons learnt and next steps in their work on/around the attack on the Twin Towers in NY, Hurricanes and CoVID-19.

This event is free and open to the public and is presented in collaboration with Kati Singh and EMDR Caribbean Community: https://caricom.org/ a Focusing-Oriented EMDR Initiative.

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Rumi
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Naty Calviño. Certifying  Coordinator. Focusing Oriented Therapist.  Yogatherapist
Naty Calviño. Certifying Coordinator, Focusing Oriented Therapist, Yogatherapist
This Program is designed specifically for therapists and counselors who want to enrich and take their work with clients a step further with Focusing and get their FOT Certification from TIFI. Other people who work with clients in different ways and want to enhance their work are also welcome to attend. (Even though they would not apply for the Certification)
It is an ongoing course of 1 1/2 hours every other week, on Tuesdays, that  can be taken independently or as part of the whole Certification Program.
Online
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Ann Weiser Cornell
Ann Weiser Cornell
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. Each month is different as Ann responds to the present moment and whatever the group is bringing.

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
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Kati Singh
Kati Singh
Join us every Wednesday in 2024 for a contemplative meditation from the mind of Jiddu Krishnamurti. We meet on Wednesdays from 1pm to 2pm EST/NY where we pause to contemplate the truth.
We move slowly through these meditations leaving space for pauses, reflections and focusing partnership interactions - any language and any level of Focusing proficiency is welcome into this space, or none at all.

These events are open and free to the public - each meditation is taken from Krishnamurti's Book of Life.
Pre-register on zoom.
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Ombre et lumiere Alexandre Jacquelin - CFP & Focusing trainer
Alexandre Jacquelin - CFP & Focusing trainer
Venez puiser dans les ressources d’une médecine de l’âme ancestrale qu’est le chamanisme, associée à l’écoute en pleine conscience du ressenti corporel offerte par le Focusing, et cheminez de l’ombre à la Lumière.
France Payzac (24270)
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Head shot of Leslie Ellis
If you want to learn and experience an embodied, experiential focusing approach to working with dreams and nightmares, this course is for you. Although it is aimed at clinicians and focusing professionals, it is open to all with an interest in guiding deep dives into dreams.
Via Zoom. Link sent upon registration
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Beatrice Blake, TAE mentor TAE Proficiency Award Eligible
Beatrice Blake, Certifying Coordinator with TIFI
Thinking at the Edge grounds your ideas in your lived experience.
Is there something that you’d like to do or write about but you lack the confidence to begin? TAE helps you sense into the “more” behind your ideas so that you can write and act from what you know.

Do you long to contribute to the world from the richness of the insights life has given you? With TAE, you delve into your own experience so that your new direction follows from of all you have lived.

Maybe you need clarity and next steps about a persistent problem or a complex issue. Thinking at the Edge helps you find the unique gifts within the challenges you face.
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Ann Weiser Cornell Jinevra Howard
Ann Weiser Cornell & Jinevra Howard
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.
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Annette Dubreuil
Annette Dubreuil, Coordinator-in-Training & MBA
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):
-Tuesday, March 26th, 2:30-4:30 pm Eastern
-Monday, April 15, 10 am -12 pm Eastern
-Thursday, April 25, 1:30-3:30 pm Eastern
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Online via Zoom
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Alejandro Juroczko Florentina Sassoli
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Smartview Stories, Learning the language of Focusing based on Neuroscience Sandy Jahmi Burg, 2019
Sandy Jahmi Burg, Certified Focusing Coordinator
Smartview Conversations is a free monthly online gathering to explore application of our Focusing skills to daily life and interactions.

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. We hope educators using our Smartview Stories Facilitator Guide join us here. These webinars emphasize Gendlin's action step; how is it we bring Focusing concepts into our daily living.

Online via Zoom
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Therapist Roundtables The International Focusing Institute Susan Lennox and Julie Ramsey Mary Anne Schleinich and Randi Love
The International Focusing Institute - Susan Lennox, Julie Ramsey, Mary Anne Schleinich & Randi Love
TIFI recently held a Focusing-Oriented Therapist Conference which brought together therapists from all over the world to explore various aspects of Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy. Among the questions explicitly or implicitly addressed was, “What is Focusing Oriented Therapy”? We want this Roundtable to provide a forum in which to continue this conversation.
Online
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Yehudit First
Yehudit First
Social Oriented Focusing (SOF) is an organic, authentic, somatic way to be fully present, connected to ourselves, while interacting with others. We seek to identify the felt sense created within the mutual interaction occurring in the here and now, enabling a transformative process to take place within the mutual interpersonal space.
SOF teaches us to untie The KNOTS and NOTS that interfere with relating to others, enabling us to overcome blocks, fears, and automatic behaviors.
For therapists, coaches, and anyone interested in feeling free to be their authentic selves in their relationships. SOF Foundation Course Level 1 meets 8 times weekly for 2.5 hours. This class meets Thursdays 11:00 am – 13:30 pm ET New York time or your equivalent.
Online via Zoom
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Headshot of a woman with a business jacket and it's tinted gold Image with blue circles as a logo and the words Focusing With Laura
Laura Storey, Certified Focusing Professional and Trainer
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).
Save 10% if you successfully completed our Part 1 Course.
Online
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TIFI Events logo Rob Parker
The International Focusing Institute - Rob Parker
22 weekly meetings on Mondays
Audio recordings available after each live meeting

Rob Parker will lead the group in weekly meetings reading the book together and pausing for questions and discussion. This offering covers approximately one third of the book, and the next segment will continue in October 2024. We estimate completing the book in three segments finishing up in Fall 2025.

Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning takes us on a profound exploration to the edge of awareness where our symboled world (attention, meaning, and language) arises from experiencing, where we discover ourselves and the world as a single creative experiencing, without the mind-body, subject-object dualisms that have characterized Western thinking. This changes how we experience ourselves and the world, and has important practical implications, not only for philosophy and the social sciences but for science and technology generally.

Rob Parker studied philosophy with Gene Gendlin for several hours a week from 2003 until Gene's passing in 2017. Rob has been leading Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning (ECM) reading groups for many years and we are delighted that Rob has now teamed up with the Institute to offer this.

Focusing experience is recommended but not required.
Philosophy experience is not required.
Online (Class will also be audio recorded)
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Ann Weiser Cornell
Ann Weiser Cornell
Want to watch as Ann Weiser Cornell guides someone through their very first Focusing session?

Focusing can be puzzling to talk about. It can be hard to learn from a book or a video. But when someone is actually taken through the process, you get it! Be present to observe as Ann guides three first-time Focusers (one each week) - and then comment afterward. The guest Focusers are volunteers who understand that their session will be witnessed by a safe and respectful group of people.
Online via Zoom
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Doorways 2 logo Paula Gamble-Grant headshot
Paula Gamble-Grant
Over 10 weeks, Doorways to the Soul 2 continues to build on the skills and concepts practiced in DW1. DW1 (or the equivalent of Focusing Levels 1&2 with another teacher) are a prerequisite to taking DW2.

In this course you’ll continue to grow in your Focusing and Companioning skills - dealing with the super power of empathy, inner critics, feelings about feelings, recognizing close and distant processes, sensing what a part is not wanting, and more!
Online on Zoom
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Annette Dubreuil Two butterflies, Focusing partnerships
Annette Dubreuil, Coordinator-in-Training & MBA
In this four-week beginner Focusing course for advanced listeners, we delve into each of the 6 steps, with each class including a teaching of one or two steps. Each class also includes listening skills, a small experiential exercise, a demonstration and then small group practice (typically in twos or threes).

Dates for the next groups:
-Tuesdays, 2:30-4:30 pm Eastern, April 2-23.
Zoom
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Doorways to the Soul: Befriending your Whole Self Paula Gamble-Grant headshot
Paula Gamble-Grant
A 10 week introductory course of learning the Art of Inner Relationship Focusing which will help Soul Centered Practitioners learn to feel more empowered with sensing into the untapped God-given wisdom of body, emotion, and soul in your own Spiritual and Personal Transformation.
Online via Zoom
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The Therapeutic US: Working with Groups and Communities
Lynn Preston
Online
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Yehudit First
Yehudit First
Moving from being against each other to being for us and for what is possible with SOF
Online via Zoom
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Florentina Sassoli Alejandro Juroczko
Florentina Sassoli & Alejandro Juroczko
Con una modalidad de 1 sabado al mes, brindamos este espacio para entrenarte en Focusing, con opción a certificarte.

MODULO 1 de 9 el sábado 6 de Abril.
Online
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tinted gold Headshot of a woman with brown hair wearing a business jacket logo of hand drawn circles and the text focusing with laura in blue beside it
Laura Storey, Certified Focusing Professional and Trainer
You are invited to become a part of our group as we learn the Inner Relationship Focusing process. In this live virtual four Saturday course, you will acquire the skills necessary for cultivating radical lasting life change.

At our core, we are dedicated to cultivating close-knit classroom settings that prioritize immersive, experiential education. Say goodbye to silently staring at screens! We'll methodically practice the art of Focusing together. Our curriculum includes informative lectures, illustrative demonstrations, interactive Q&As, thought-provoking activities, and collaborative partner exercises.
Online
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reves Alexandre
Alexandre Jacquelin - Christine Groscarret - Romain Mollard
Les rêves fascinent depuis la nuit des temps, ils sont mystérieux, messagers, et parfois nous laissent une sensation étrange au réveil. Dans une vidéo en ligne intitulée Dream open doors to focusing (les rêves ouvrent les portes du focusing), Gendlin dit qu’une manière d’apprendre le focusing consiste de partir des rêves, car chaque rêve vous donne un ou plusieurs sentiment bizarres”.
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Módulo teórico
Tomeu Barcelo, Juan José Mendinueta
Conoce la filosofía de Eugene Gendlin,
la filosofía experiencial y de lo implícito,
las bases sobre las que se establece Focusing.
España
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Focusing Roundtables The International Focusing Institute Events
The International Focusing Institute & ホスト: インタラクティブ・フォーカシング・ティーチャーの会
国際フォーカシング協会主催、日本語での
インタラクティブ・フォーカシング・ラウンドテーブルへのお誘い
国際フォーカシング研究所(TIFI)から、「日本語によるラウンドテーブル」を開催する機会を 提供していただきました。テーマは 「インタラクティブ・フォーカシング」です。TIFI会員は無料で参加できます。
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Smartview Conversations, Living a Focusing Way of Life Sandy Jahmi Burg, 2019
Sandy Jahmi Burg, Certified Focusing Coordinator
Smartview Conversations is a monthly online gathering to explore application of our Focusing skills to daily life and interactions.

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. We hope educators using our Smartview Stories Facilitator Guide join us here. These webinars emphasize Gendlin's action step; how is it we bring Focusing concepts into our daily living.
Online via Zoom
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Annette Dubreuil leadership
Annette Dubreuil, Trainer and MBA
An embodied leader is self-aware, informed by their body’s wisdom, and able to show up in ways that reflect their values and commitments, even under pressure. They also create team spaces that foster safety and creativtiy.

During this 10 week course, you'll use Focusing to unpack where you get in the way of the psychological safety for your team and/or relationships. And where you can build it up.

Whether you're a team leader or a team member, you can learn to lead in an embodied way in your relationships. And this will unleash creativity in your interactions.
Online via Zoom
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PUPA process Annette Dubreuil
Annette Dubreuil, Coordinator-in-Training & MBA
The next cohort of PUPA Focusing Trainees begins Thursdays, May 2nd. Courses will be Thursdays, from 1:30-3:30 pm Eastern time.

Join us on Thursday, April 18th for an Open House where the program will be discussed and you can get your questions answered.
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Zoom
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TAE Academy The International Focusing Institute Events
The International Focusing Institute
The 2024 TAE Academy took place in January. YOU MAY REGISTER FOR THE RECORDINGS which remain available through April 30, 2024.

This online Academy will allow you to both take a deep dive into TAE, and also to get a broad experience of outstanding teachers from all over the world.

TAE is a practice developed by Gene Gendlin and Mary Hendricks-Gendlin. It is related to Focusing but has a different emphasis. Both are grounded in the “felt sense,” that murky sense of something you know which is not yet in words. With TAE, we intentionally and systematically build upon that not-yet-articulated place to allow for something new to be brought into the world.

The Main Classes are intended as live experiences, so please block out the time for those in your schedule.
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FOAT Institute Freda Blob
Hosted by the FOAT Institute. Presented by Freda Blob.
Join us for the first 2024 presentation of our ongoing Roots, Branches, and Wings Series with Pioneers and Master Teachers in Focusing and Expressive Arts. Open to those new and experienced in Focusing, Expressive Arts, and FOAT.

Zoom Online
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Alexandre Ecoute
Alexandre Jacquelin - CFP & Focusing trainer
Je propose un stage de 2 jours pour expérimenter comment votre ressenti corporel vous permet de sentir, de décider et d’avancer dans la vie de manière sûr.
Le Focusing Expérientiel vous (ré)apprend à détecter et écouter votre sens corporel. Par son intermédiaire vous retrouvez confiance, intuition, et créativité.
La Roche sur Foron 74
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highlights logo TIFI events logo Veronica S. Urioste
The International Focusing Institute - Veronica S. Urioste
Veronica will be sharing her Focusing journey of learning to live life from a felt-sensing place of connecting deeply with oneself and others. She invites you to bring yourself fully to simply be with the art of experiencing and creating meaning moment by moment. An opportunity will be created to be a volunteer in a live demonstration.  

Some familiarity with Focusing may be helpful but no prior experience is required. All are welcome to attend and participate.
Online (Class will also be recorded)
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Barbara Dickinson Sandy Jahmi Burg
Barbara Dickinson, CFP and Certified Interactive Focusing Teacher and Sandy Jahmi Burg, Certified Focusing Coordinator
In the style of Gene Gendlin's FREE Changes Meetings in the earliest days of Focusing (continuing to this day!), LearnFocusing.org is delighted to offer a Monthly Exploring Interaction Changes Meeting -- Improving Relationships with Self and Others.

These monthly meetings will be held on third Sundays at both 11am ET and 7pm ET New York time, entirely online, using Zoom technology, for 90 minutes each meeting.

Facilitated by Barbara Dickinson, Certified teacher of Interactive Focusing and Certified Focusing Professional (TIFI), participants will have the opportunity to experience Demonstrations of Interactive Focusing (for beginners), as well as partner with more experienced Interactive Focusers (intermediate to advanced).
Online with Zoom
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Jinevra Howard Ann Weiser Cornell
Jinevra Howard and Ann Weiser Cornell
Discover powerful skills for life change based on self-acceptance and being present in the moment. Start to experience the process of Focusing and Focusing partnership. Learn how to cultivate an inner environment of calm, open, curious awareness which is the foundation from which lasting change emerges. Interactive beginning Focusing training by Zoom for 9 weeks, includes partnership practice.

Taught by Jinevra Howard and Ann Weiser Cornell (author of The Power of Focusing).

Includes videos, demos, readings, discussion, group exercises, and individual sessions.
Online via Zoom
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Listen to your body Marie Connors
Marie Connors
Focusing is a powerful method of self-discovery that places great significance on our own personal experiences. By tuning into our bodily sensations, we can gain valuable insights and guidance. Marie, will guide us through the process of Focusing and help us uncover the wisdom that our bodies already possess. Through this practice, we can better understand and navigate through situations that may leave us feeling confused or uncertain. By tapping into our inner resources, we can unlock a wealth of knowledge and clarity that resides within us.

Focusing is a process of allowing our bodies to show us the way to deeper self-knowledge and healing. It is a doorway to your true self. Our bodies have their own consciousness, aliveness, and intelligence. They carry wisdom and knowledge about what is happening in our lives, about where we are stuck or holding ourselves back, about what we need to heal from our past hurts and what are the right next steps to bring us more vitality and fulfillment in our lives. Focusing shows you how to form a trusting relationship with your body, to begin to turn towards your body as a place of goodness and intelligence and slow down enough to notice how you are on the inside. You learn to have a conversation with your body and listen to what it wants you to know. When you let your body speak to you, you are allowing yourself to open to the depth and truth of your whole self. It can feel like something held tight has come unstuck, providing more space and aliveness and sometimes a new sense of direction and fresh energy can emerge.

This course is suitable for complete beginners as well as a first step for health and healing professionals in bringing Focusing to their clinical practice.
Online- Zoom
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Annette Dubreuil Woman sitting on a bench looking at the sunrise
Annette Dubreuil, Trainer and MBA
In this 8-week group, you will use Focusing to transform a significant issue in your life, in part by deepening your access to Self through the 8Cs of Self-Leadership. The 8Cs are calmness, connectedness, curiosity, clarity, compassion, confidence, courage and creativity.

By crossing these qualities with our issue, we move through it by pausing, understanding the issue, transforming it, and then preparing for action, and finally taking action.

Your issue can be working towards a personal or professional goal. However, the course is designed in such a way that you can also bring a different topic each week to your Focusing, and concentrate on building your 8Cs which help you live as your Self more often.
Online via Zoom
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Focusing Academy May 2 - 5 2024 The International Focusing Institute Events
The International Focusing Institute
This online Academy will allow you to immerse yourself in one main class as well as experience other Focusing teachers through a variety of stand-alone workshops offered by teachers from around the world. This event is oriented toward beginners as well as experienced Focusers who would enjoy a chance to begin freshly.

Coming from the work of Eugene Gendlin, Focusing is an experiential, embodied and evidence-based practice of self-reflection. During Focusing, your attention will open up to multiple layers and aspects of living.

The Main Classes are intended as live experiences, so please block out the time for those in your schedule.

Recordings will be available through October 5, 2024.
This is an extraordinary chance – don’t miss it!
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Jinevra Howard
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.
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Amona Buechler, Coordinator in Training Focusing Academy TIFI
Amona Buechler
This course is part of a Focusing Academy hosted by the International Focusing Institute. The aim is to offer focusing courses for beginners all around the globe.

THURSDAY, MAY 2 to SUNDAY, MAY 5
3-hours each, 4-classes, 12-hours total

3:00am – 6:00am Eastern Time US
9:00am – 12:00pm Central Europe
3:00pm – 6:00pm China
5:00pm – 8:00pm Sydney

European Central Time (Zoom):
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Annette Dubreuil Focusing for beginners - image of two butterflies
Annette Dubreuil (Coordinator-in-training) and Marg Peck (Trainer-in-training)
In this eight-week Focusing course, we learn the practice, include being a listener. We slowly learn each of the 6 steps of Focusing, adding a new one every week or two. We also gradually learn new listening skills. Each class consists of a centering, a small experiential exercise, a demonstration and breakout room practice in groups twos or threes.

Dates for the next groups:
-Thursdays, May 2nd-June 27th, 1:30-3:30 pm Eastern (break week May 23rd)
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Zoom
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Annette Dubreuil A pupa, a chrysalis stage in the butterfly and the metaphor used for the safe space for transformation that Focusing creates
Annette Dubreuil, Coordinator-in-Training & MBA
A pupa is the safe place for transformation... in nature this is the cocoon or chrysalis. In Focusing, this is the safety of our Focusing attitude and listening partnerships. The use of felt sense body cards catalyze the process by capturing details and helping us notice our patterns and further explicate our process.

The base of the PUPA Focusing Certification Program consists of five courses that cover a journey using the PUPA process. They are designed to not only learn and teach Focusing, but also to get to know and transform yourself, while creating change in the world— by bringing more Focusing into the world.

The five core courses make a PUPA journey: learning Focusing (Pause), learning about who you are (Understanding), learning who you want to be and what you want to bring into the world using Thinking At the Edge (TAE, Gendlin’s second practice) (Permutation), transforming a large block using the 8Cs of self-leadership (Preparation), and finally a course on taking action with embodied leadership (Action).

The additional training requirements provide the skills to teach Focusing and/or guide someone professionally.
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Zoom
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Cercle de parole Alexandre Jacquelin - CFP & Focusing trainer
Alexandre Jacquelin - CFP & Focusing trainer
Qu'il s'agisse de vous écouter ou d'écouter les autres, dans un cadre privé ou professionnel, ce stage vous offre la possibilité de nourrir votre qualité de présence et d'interaction par la "Focusing attitude". Il se propose à toute personne qui aspire à nourrir une qualité de relation à soi-même et aux autres, qui soit source d’écoute, de compréhension empathique et respectivement d’émergence de soi. 
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Headshot of a woman with a business jacket and it's tinted gold Image with blue circles as a logo and the words Focusing With Laura
Laura Storey, Certified Focusing Professional and Trainor
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
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Sandy Jahmi Burg 2019 Creating Space for Lasting Change, Part 2, Expand your relational skills
Sandy Jahmi Burg, Certified Focusing Coordinator
PART 2 is about deepening into the Focusing and Listening process by looking more at the role of the Companion. A companion to ourselves as well as others. I introduce neuroscience here. We develop further our personal concept of creating an inner space that welcomes it all and adapting that space as we follow our process. Requires some previous partnership experience.

Class meets six times on Tuesdays 7-9pm EST beginning May 14.
Online via Zoom
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Bassano del Grappa
Robert L. Lee, Ph.D. Psychologist, TIFI Coordinator and Dr. Evelyn Fendler-Lee, M. Org. Psych., TIFI CNT, TAE leader
4 day workshop using Lee's theory/method on how to change something you have tried to change . . . without success. 3 focusing exchanges daily each with a lead in preparation. Dynamic Journaling. The Workshop is a strong beginning to a project to change your unchangeable. This workshop starts the journey and outlines major stages of the journey to come.
Villa Angaran San Giuseppe in Bassano del Grappa, Italy a charming center for Social Good at the foot of the southern Alps
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Marta Fabregat, Focusing Coordinator Olimpus Olimpus Nature
Marta Fabregat
The Path of the Sensing Being Retreat will be combining the process of Focusing and Contemplative Presence Practice in nature. This retreat invites a sense of living from an embodied sense of Presence. Coming back to remembering our true most natural and simple nature in community.

The retreat is open to all levels of Focusing practice. It might be specially interesting if you are considering moving forward into deepening your Focusing experience and if you are in the process of becoming a Focusing practitioner or Teacher or thinking about it.
Focusing shows us a radical and authentic way of listening to our bodies with gentle and generous compassion, without seeking results or solutions. This path also pursues what we cannot express in words. It supports individuals to find their own natural way for a healthy and meaningful inner relationship so they can find a deeper sense of who they truly are when meeting others and the environments they live in.
It is specially important more and more in our lives to access to what is there within our own inner knowing and wisdom so we can find ways together as we meet life as it is.
During this retreat we are going to enter into the depth of experiencing the living process as a whole body experiencing. Sensing and perceiving our ecology from within and how it changes in contact with the environment.
An opportunity to recover and remember how to listen to our body to connect with the deep wisdom it contains and dialogue with it.
We will create a space for sacred listening, unfolding the necessary attitudes to find a deeper way of relating to ourselves and to others.
Olimpus, Antalya, Turkey
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Gabrielle Hoffman, Charlotte Faris, David Mitchell, Rebecca Christensen, Sharon LeMire, Kara Hill, Nina Joy Lawrence
An in-person, co-created weekend of exploring Focusing as we nurture community
located at Dumas Bay Center on Dash Point, Federal Way Washington. Surrounded by 12 acres of natural beauty, the center is situated on a bluff that overlooks the Puget Sound.
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Sandy Jahmi Burg 2019 Guiding Skills to Go Deeper, Creating Space for Lasting Change Part 3
Sandy Jahmi Burg, Certified Focusing Coordinator
Join us for an online advanced Focusing class that helps you understand where you are within a process and then, to sense what is needed from you for this situation now. Utilizing Inner Relationship Focusing, Spatial Awareness and Neuroscience concepts, we learn to guide ourselves and others in ways that invite relational trust, lasting change and life forward flow. Valuable practices for healing professionals, teachers, etc. Discount for those repeating.
Meets for six times Sunday afternoons from 2 - 4 pm EDT.
Prerequisite: Level or Part 2 Focusing training
Online via Zoom
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TECTU Poster
Donata Schoeller, Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir, Ram Eisenberg and others.
This training program is supported by 6 European universities. It explores how theories of embodiment imply a leap into experiential and more embodied methods of research, teaching and learning. The course offers 12 webinars, and a summer school which will take place in Iceland this year. Gendlin's philosophy and practices are part of the theoretical and methodological cornerstones of this international program. Students can participate for free.
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Smartview Conversations, Living a Focusing Way of Life Sandy Jahmi Burg, 2019
Sandy Jahmi Burg, Certified Focusing Coordinator
Smartview Conversations is a monthly online gathering to explore application of our Focusing skills to daily life and interactions.

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. We hope educators using our Smartview Stories Facilitator Guide join us here. These webinars emphasize Gendlin's action step; how is it we bring Focusing concepts into our daily living.
Online via Zoom
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Full of lightness open up! Dynamic Expressive Focusing
Harriet Teeuw & Rene Veugelers; FOT, Art Therapist & CC for Adult and Children
Guiding the group and your experience is built from ou experiences in working with groups. 4 key elements are important;
1. Concrete experience (doing/ having an experience)
2. Reflective observation, (reviewing/ reflecting on the experience)
3. Active experimentation (planning, trying out what you have learned)
4. Abstract conceptualization (concluding, learning from the experience)

online
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Ann Weiser Cornell and Barbara McGavin
Ann Weiser Cornell and Barbara McGavin
Treasure Maps is a 6-day residential retreat, an intensive workshop for people with Focusing experience who want to apply our Untangling® method to life’s most hard-to-change issues.

We’ve been teaching Treasure Maps in 15 countries over the past 25 years, helping thousands of people learn our method, getting responses like this one from Paul Fitzgerald: "The Treasure Maps 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 vibrant, strong, authentic self so you can bring your gifts and your passion into the world. We teach in English and people attend from many countries.
Plön, Germany
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Alex Maunder Jennie St Clair Umbrian Landscape Mt Subasio
Alex Maunder, BSc, Dip STAT, Focusing Trainer & Co-ordinator in Training (TFI) and Jennie St Clair, Focusing Facilitator
A one week residential workshop in Assisi, the spiritual heart of Italy. (You can count the hours as part of your training with me, to be a Focusing Trainer with the TFI). This course is for couples, or singles.
In many relationships there may be a lot of compatibility and attraction but there are certain topics that just become taboo. They are simply too difficult to talk about because of the accumulated emotions and memories. Couples become emotionally reactive and cannot discuss reasonably, because they are fixing blame and inwardly nurturing resentment.
And yet, it is precisely by exploring these issues, using Focusing skills and having the courage to be authentic and vulnerable that fertile areas for love and intimacy are opened up. If couples can develop the courage to communicate with “Radical Authenticity” - exploring with curiosity, openness and compassion, something magical can start to happen. By being authentic and using Focusing tools to stay in an energetic connection something unexpected and perfect happens. A new insight comes that allows the Focuser to pause, to stop blaming self or others and then to take self-responsibility for the little bit that he/she is responsible for. This is the doorway into real growth and change that will transform the relationship.

Residential in the Catholic retreat centre of Porziano, Assisi, Italy.
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Amona & Uta Buechler Retreat Space The Location
Amona Buechler & Uta Buechler
Zu diesem Retreat laden wir dich ein, wenn du nach sanften, aber tiefgreifend transformierenden Wegen suchst, in dir selbst anzukommen… wenn du dich danach sehnst, entspannter und lebendiger im gegenwärtigen Moment zu leben…
wenn du neugierig darauf bist, dich dem Abenteuer des Nichtwissens zu öffnen und dein Vertrauen ins Leben zu vertiefen.

5-Tages-Retreat, 18. bis 23. Juni 2024

Deutschland, Siebengebirge (nahe Bonn)
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Smartview Conversations, Living a Focusing Way of Life Sandy Jahmi Burg, 2019
Sandy Jahmi Burg, Certified Focusing Coordinator
Smartview Conversations is a monthly online gathering to explore application of our Focusing skills to daily life and interactions.

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. We hope educators using our Smartview Stories Facilitator Guide join us here. These webinars emphasize Gendlin's action step; how is it we bring Focusing concepts into our daily living.
Online via Zoom
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Christine Groscarret & Bernadette Lamboy ; coordinatrices FRANCE Les Jardins Intérieurs
Christine Groscarret & Bernadette Lamboy coordinatrices France
Un lieu pour se ressourcer et pratiquer le focusing en profitant chaque jour de nouveaux ateliers animés par des thérapeutes certifiés.
Danse, groupes de paroles, conférences, intégration de pratiques avec le focusing...
Le séminaire d'été de focusing est ouvert à tous, débutants ou confirmés.

un parcours d'initiation structuré sur l'équivalent de 5 jours entiers, qui permet de découvrir les bases du focusing et de l'approche centrée sur la personne
des ateliers thématiques en résonance avec le sujet du séminaire pour les nouveaux comme pour les personnes ayant déjà eu une initiation, les étudiants de l'IFEF et les praticiens en exercice
des moments de rencontre et d'échanges, de partages de pratiques
Avec la présence des formateurs de l'IFEF et de nombreux praticiens Focusing !

Et bien sûr sans oublier les folies....
En résidentiel en Ardèche (France)
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Smartview Conversations, Living a Focusing Way of Life Sandy Jahmi Burg, 2019
Sandy Jahmi Burg, Certified Focusing Coordinator
Smartview Conversations is a monthly online gathering to explore application of our Focusing skills to daily life and interactions.

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. We hope educators using our Smartview Stories Facilitator Guide join us here. These webinars emphasize Gendlin's action step; how is it we bring Focusing concepts into our daily living.
Online via Zoom
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happy to meet you our space expressive inner child work
René Veugelers & Harriet Teeuw; FOT, Art Therapist & CC for Adult and Children
Invite yourself to come to an intensive 5 day Focusing training in July 2024 about “A unique possibility to experience ‘Dynamic Focusing”! It will be from wednesday 17th (18 pm) till the Monday the 22nd (13 pm) in Friesland. Several topics are essential and will be covered: Listening in three directions; The Emerging Body language Unconditional authentic empathy, Creating space, Safety and boundaries, Contact/ Contract; Selfcare; Working with symbolisations/ expression and of course (pre-verbal) inner child work. More information: look at https://www.childrenfocusing.org/being-seriously-playful-symposium/
The venue is “De Bron” a retreat and conference centre ;There are plenty of opportunities in the local area for canoeing, walking, biking and sight seeing.
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Alexandre lieu de stage Focusing
Alexandre Jacquelin - CFP & Focusing trainer
Je propose ce stage tout public comme un cheminement personnel vers soi et une formation à la pratique du Focusing. Même si vous l’avez déjà vécu, vous découvrez plus que ce que vous ne connaissez déjà à propos de vous-même et à propos de l’approche du Focusing. Le Focusing Expérientiel vous (ré)apprend à détecter et écouter votre sens corporel, votre 6ème sens. Par son intermédiaire vous retrouvez confiance, intuition, et créativité. Ce stage représente le premier volet d’une formation si votre intention est de vous former pleinement au Focusing.
Payzac 24270
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Ann Weiser Cornell and Barbara McGavin
Ann Weiser Cornell and Barbara McGavin
Treasure Maps is a 6-day residential retreat, an intensive workshop for people with Focusing experience who want to apply our Untangling® method to life’s most hard-to-change issues.

We’ve been teaching Treasure Maps in 15 countries over the past 25 years, helping thousands of people learn our method, getting responses like this one from Paul Fitzgerald: "The Treasure Maps 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 vibrant, strong, authentic self so you can bring your gifts and your passion into the world. We teach in English and people attend from many countries.
Loveland, Colorado
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Marie Connors Focusing Foundations Training Level 3 &4
Marie Connors
Focusing offers a rich potential for change. It opens a doorway to a space where it is possible to transform your life in a way that feels right for you. Focusing is a practice everyone can learn without undertaking years of professional development or going to see a therapist. With a little training, you can learn to access the space beyond your thoughts to find the "more" that is happening in any situation. When we are in contact with our direct experience of the “more”, small steps of change begin to emerge, and this can lead us on to fresh life-giving directions. The wonderful thing is that when you learn focusing you can use it whenever you need it for the rest of your life.

Foundations in Focusing Level 1 & 2 is a prerequisite to this course.
Online- Zoom
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Focusing Netzwerk Humnboldthaus auf dem Achberg
Trainer des Focusing Netzwerks
Die Focusing Wochen auf dem Achberg sind seit über drei Jahrzehnten ein alljährlicher Treffpunkt für Focusing-Interessierte aus Deutschland, der Schweiz und Österreich. Die Wochen beginnen mit einem Auftaktseminar, das in diesem Jahr von Teresa Dawson zu "Umweltzentriertes Erleben" gestaltet wird. Es schließen sich Tage mit mehreren parallel laufenden Focusing-Kursen und Themenseminaren an.
Humboldthaus auf dem Achberg
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Alexandre jacquelin Relation d'aide
Alexandre Jacquelin - CFP & Focusing trainer
Qu'il s'agisse de vous écouter ou d'écouter les autres, dans un cadre privé ou professionnel, ce stage vous offre la possibilité de nourrir votre qualité de présence et d'interaction par la "Focusing attitude". Il se propose à toute personne qui aspire à nourrir une qualité de relation à soi-même et aux autres, qui soit source d’écoute, de compréhension empathique et respectivement d’émergence de soi. 
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Beatrice Blake, TAE Mentor TAE Prociency Award eligible
Beatrice Blake, Certifying Coordinator with The International Focusing Institute, and TAE teacher since 2013.
Is there something that you’d like to do or write about but you lack the confidence to begin? TAE helps you sense into the “more” behind your ideas so that you can write and act from what you know.

Do you long to contribute to the world from the richness of the insights life has given you? With TAE, you delve into your own experience so that your new direction follows from of all you have lived.

Maybe you need clarity and next steps about a persistent problem or a complex issue. Thinking at the Edge helps you find the unique gifts within the challenges you face.
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Sandy Jahmi Burg 2019 Empowered to Trust, Creating Space for Lasting Change, Part 4
Sandy Jahmi Burg, Certified Focusing Coordinator
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 Sundays, 2 – 4 pm New York time.
Online via Zoom
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DNA of change Serge Prengel
Serge Prengel
This course trains you to deepen and integrate your conceptual and experiential understanding of the process of change at several levels. One level is to integrate what happens clinically with clients and what it brings up for you personally. Our exploration straddles personal process and supervision, based on the idea that what we encounter with our clients is a rich source of personal and professional growth. Another level is integrating this deeply personal process with conceptual learning about Focusing as the DNA of Change.
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Ann Weiser Cornell
Ann Weiser Cornell
You've discovered you love Focusing...and you also know there's so much more to learn about applying it to your life. Living a Focusing Life is an 18-meeting, live, online advanced Focusing course to help you gain more confidence as a Focusing partner and work with key issues like action blocks, decisions, longing, and more.

Taught by Ann Weiser Cornell, author of The Power of Focusing

Includes live meetings on Zoom, readings, discussions, group exercises, and partnership practices.
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Sandy Jahmi Burg 2019 Guiding Skills to Go Deeper, Creating Space for Lasting Change Part 3
Sandy Jahmi Burg, Certified Focusing Coordinator
Join us for an online advanced Focusing class that helps you understand where you are within a process and then, to sense what is needed from you for this situation now. Utilizing Inner Relationship Focusing, Spatial Awareness and Neuroscience concepts, we learn to guide ourselves and others in ways that invite relational trust, lasting change and life forward flow. Valuable practices for healing professionals, teachers, etc. Discount for those repeating.
Meets for six times Tuesday evenings from 7 - 9 pm EDT.
Prerequisite: Level or Part 2 Focusing training
Online via Zoom
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Smartview Conversations, Living a Focusing Way of Life Sandy Jahmi Burg, 2019
Sandy Jahmi Burg, Certified Focusing Coordinator
Smartview Conversations is a monthly online gathering to explore application of our Focusing skills to daily life and interactions.

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. We hope educators using our Smartview Stories Facilitator Guide join us here. These webinars emphasize Gendlin's action step; how is it we bring Focusing concepts into our daily living.
Online via Zoom
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Sandy Jahmi Burg 2019 Navigate the World Within, Creating Space for Lasting Change Part 1
Sandy Jahmi Burg, Certified Focusing Coordinator
This online entry level Focusing skills class prepares you to begin a Focusing partnership. Utilizing Inner Relationship Focusing, Spatial Awareness 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. This class meets Tuesdays 7 - 9 pm ET New York time or your equivalent.
Online via Zoom
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Weeklong - The International Focusing Institute
SAVE THE DATE - Weeklong for Advanced Focusers 2024
Hybrid - Online or Online with in-person at Mercy by the Sea in Connecticut, US
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Ann Weiser Cornell Barbara McGavin
Ann Weiser Cornell, Barbara McGavin, and Additional Program Faculty
Has Focusing changed your life in a profound way? Do you feel called to help facilitate that kind of powerful change for other people? Our two-year live, online program will give you the skills you need to become a Certified Focusing Professional.

Build a profession teaching Focusing, add Focusing to your current profession, or bring Focusing to your family and community.

Our next program starts in October.
Taught by Ann Weiser Cornell, Barbara McGavin, and Additional Program Faculty.
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FOT
Facilitated by Akira Ikemi, Phd. Group Facilitator: Camille Li, EdD & Rachel Wong, MAPC. Host: Thou Art ltd.
*********Online real-time classes + 4 days face-to-face workshops, conducted in English. Limited to 12 participants (for maximum personal attention)*********

Training is over a two year period and will include instructional time, supervision, required reading and videos, Focusing partnerships, experiential exercises and practice sessions


Taught by Professor Akira Ikemi (conducted entirely in English).

Training location : 40 sessions (2.5 hours each) via Zoom; 4 days In-person meetings to meet Prof. Akira in Hong Kong on

2025 January 11th and 12th (Saturday & Sunday): Two Full-day workshops
2026 January 10th and 11th (Saturday & Sunday): Two Full-day workshops
Hybrid (Zoom, Twice a month and In-person, Yearly in Hong Kong)
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Smartview Conversations, Living a Focusing Way of Life Sandy Jahmi Burg, 2019
Sandy Jahmi Burg, Certified Focusing Coordinator
Smartview Conversations is a monthly online gathering to explore application of our Focusing skills to daily life and interactions.

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. We hope educators using our Smartview Stories Facilitator Guide join us here. These webinars emphasize Gendlin's action step; how is it we bring Focusing concepts into our daily living.
Online via Zoom
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Facilitated by Haik Petrossian
Facilitated by Haik Petrossian
Introductory weekend seminar as prerequisite to join a two- year training in 2025 with certification afterwards as Focusing Trainer, Focusing Professional or Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy due to the professional background and regulations.
Hamburg-Blankenese, Germany
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The International Focusing Institute
The International Focusing Institute
SAVE THE DATE - "Less is More" - Children & Focusing Online Conference 2024
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Smartview Conversations, Living a Focusing Way of Life Sandy Jahmi Burg, 2019
Sandy Jahmi Burg, Certified Focusing Coordinator
Smartview Conversations is a monthly online gathering to explore application of our Focusing skills to daily life and interactions.

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. We hope educators using our Smartview Stories Facilitator Guide join us here. These webinars emphasize Gendlin's action step; how is it we bring Focusing concepts into our daily living.
Online via Zoom
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Evelyn Fendler-Lee TAE Proficiency Award eligible
Evelyn Fendler-Lee
Thinking at the Edge (TAE) is a method for getting in touch with our felt meanings and articulating them with fresh and precise language.
You will learn TAE steps 1-12 while working on a project of your choice. The 3-person format accommodates different learning styles by placing participants in various roles and allows for adapting the teaching content and pace to individual needs during the exploration process.
Courses are starting in February.
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