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.
Nie ma drogi do pokoju.To pokój jest drogą. - Mahatma Gandhi
Focusing jest taką pokojową drogą … praktyką sztuki zatrzymywania się, pauzą, zwalnianiem w całym momentum zabiegania i wymagań dnia … nieustannym powracaniem do odczuwania siebie … i to pomaga nam uczyć się wracać do obecności, otwartości … odnawiać z ufnością świadomość, że dookoła nas …i wewnątrz nas ... w skupieniu, w tym specjalnym czasie, który na to przeznaczamy …jesteśmy bliżej pokoju. Pokoju ze sobą samą, samym i pokoju ze światem…i tyle możemy zrobić … tylko … albo aż …
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):
-Sunday, April 28, 6:30-8:30 pm Eastern
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Relate to yourself and others with freshness, emotional intelligence, and an open heart. Deepen your Focusing Partnership skills.
ONLINE
April 29 to Aug 12, 2024, Mondays
United States-PDT West Coast: 7:00 am to 10:00 am
United States-EST East Coast: 10:00 am to 1:00 pm
England–GMT: 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Central Europe-CET Central European Time 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm
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.
This online Academy will allow you to immerse yourself in one introductory Focusing 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. The Academy is also a great opportunity for new Focusing teachers or those returning to teaching looking for a fresh perspective.
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
Topic: Beginners, Intermediate/Advanced, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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.
A Changes Group is a free-of-charge, peer-led group that meets so people can exchange Focusing and listening turns in an atmosphere of safety and mutual respect. It's a group for continuing your Focusing practice; no teaching will be done.
We meet on zoom twice per month. We have a centering/grounding practice to begin followed by a check in (usually in breakout rooms), followed by time for practice in groups of two or three. You can also chose to join an empathy circle if you'd like to observe or practice in a bigger group.
Our next Changes Groups are:
-Wednesday, May 1st, 12:30-2 pm Eastern
-Sunday, May 19th, 6:30-8 pm Eastern
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.
Are you overwhelmed by the demands of your daily life?
You’re not alone. In today’s fast-paced world, burnout has become all too common, leaving many of us feeling exhausted, disconnected, and lost.
Burnout Be Gone helps you use Inner Relationship Focusing skills and practices to recognize burnout, develop resources to turn it around, and reconnect with the magic of what you really want for your life.
If you'd like to transform your relationship with stress, burnout, and overwhelm so you can reclaim a sense of peace, purpose, and joy in your life, we can help. Join us for Burnout Be Gone and begin a journey of self-discovery and empowered change.
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
First 50 people to register receive $100 off
with code: FIRST50
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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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
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.
At our core, we are dedicated to cultivating close-knit classroom settings that prioritise 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.
Discover a somatically-based, relational, research-proven tool for lasting change. Learn how Focusing can facilitate personal growth and strengthen your professional healing practice at this free live intro with Certified Focusing-Oriented Therapist Jeffrey Morrison
Entrenamiento de dia completo , en las bases de la filosofía y practica de Focusing.
Este modulo puede ser tomado de manera individual, o bien formar parte de tu entrenamiento en los 4 niveles de Focusing, con opcion a certificacion como Focusing Trainer, Focusing Oriented Therapy, o Focusing Professional.
Impedible.
Lográ cambios poderosos en tu vida, en la de tus consultantes y/o en tu profesión, a través de una práctica simple y profunda de escucha interna, y acompañamiento.
Topic: Beginners, Certification, FOT, Intermediate/Advanced, Other
While Focusing has long had a home in psychotherapy and also as a powerful modality for personal development, professional coaching has lagged behind in tools which work with the implicit aspects of cognition. Over 8, 2 hour classes supplemented with supportive content on our learning platform, we teach how Focusing can be powerfully integrated into coaching interactions.
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.
Reading Freshly
This 8th session starts at Chapter 8, If You Can't Find a Felt Sense
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 - 8th session May 7, 2024
Topic: Beginners, Intermediate/Advanced, Ongoing, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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.
Through demonstrations of good listening and unhelpful listening, as well as through experiential exercises, Evelyn and Catherine will share strategies for overcoming the obstacle of not being listened to.
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)
Topic: Beginners, Intermediate/Advanced, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
This Roundtable will invite an interactive exploration of how we might live in a Focusing way within the “real world” of everyday life, especially in those circumstances where Focusing is not already an explicitly shared cultural value and/or practice.
Online
Topic: Beginners, Intermediate/Advanced, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
What if we had a way of opening more possibilities for ourselves in the world?
What if enriching our Focusing practice helped us open this ‘possibility space’ in a way that we may have not yet encountered?
This workshop is both an invitation and an opportunity for Focusers to explore anew your experience and understanding of Focusing
Dominican Retreat Centre, Tallaght, Dublin, Ireland
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.
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.
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
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
Has Focusing changed your life in a profound way? Do you feel called to help facilitate that kind of powerful change for other people? Join us for a free open house and find out how you can become a Certified Professional in Inner Relationship Focusing. Our next program starts in October.
In this FREE webinar, you'll get to meet and interact with many of the program teachers. Discover the different components of the program and how they integrate. Share your goals and ask your questions. Familiarize yourself with the program prerequisites, requirements, and application process. Understand how you (and your future clients) benefit from our comprehensive training program.
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.
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).
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
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.
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.
Esta serie brinda un espacio para conectar miembros hispanohablantes del Instituto Internacional de Focusing (TIFI). Es un espacio para aprender y expandir el conocimiento sobre Focusing y temas relacionados. El concepto de "Cafecitos" viene de la idea de estar en la casa de un amigo/a y conversar tomándose un café.
Online
Topic: Beginners, Children, Intermediate/Advanced, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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)
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
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
Residential in the Catholic retreat centre of Porziano, Assisi, Italy.
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.
A felt sense is a bodily feel of a situation that includes the problem and the way forward. Felt sensing facilitates right and left hemisphere integration, unwinds trauma, and taps into our innate wholeness, meaning, and purpose. Learn to facilitate embodiment, presence, and the felt sensing through guided exercises, video, demos, and discussion.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Discover a somatically-based, relational, research-proven tool for lasting change. Learn how Focusing can facilitate personal growth and strengthen your professional healing practice at this free live intro with Certified Focusing-Oriented Therapist Jeffrey Morrison
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
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.
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.
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.
Have you been curious about taking a Focusing-Oriented Therapy Training Program?
Would you like to see if this training program is for you and how you might apply it to your field?
Are you looking for something to help bring you closer to yourself and others?
If so, we invite you to join our *free* upcoming open house filled with previous graduates sharing their experiences and answering questions about Jeffrey Morrison's Focusing Oriented Therapy Training Program.
We will also be sharing how this work is being applied to various professions (and how it might be applied to yours!) and what personal shifts we have noticed since deep diving into this work with Jeffrey. Open to therapists, healing professionals, and
Join us for an open house filled with previous graduates to learn more about Jeffrey's 60 CEU Focusing-Oriented Therapy Training program. We will answer any questions you have and share how this work is being applied in a variety of professions. Open to therapists, healing professionals, and spiritual seekers alike!
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
*********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)
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.
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.
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.
At our core, we are dedicated to cultivating close-knit classroom settings that prioritise 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.
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.
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.
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.
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).