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Please note: Listings on this page are either events organized by The International Focusing Institute (TIFI), or are offered independently by Certified Focusing Professionals. Those organized by TIFI will have one of TIFI’s logos.
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Pacific
Not feeling good about yourself can be like living under a dark cloud that casts a gloomy shadow on whatever you say, do, think, feel… And that makes life harder than it has to be.
But it doesn’t have to be that way. You can learn how to handle emotional triggers, difficult habits, and inner critics in a way that leaves you feeling better about yourself. Let me help you get started (and share what you can do to keep going!).
But it doesn’t have to be that way. You can learn how to handle emotional triggers, difficult habits, and inner critics in a way that leaves you feeling better about yourself. Let me help you get started (and share what you can do to keep going!).
Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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Any time
Taught by Jan Winhall, this self-paced, six-hour course provides an introduction to Winhall’s Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™, a therapeutic strategy integrating Porges’ polyvagal theory with Gendlin’s felt-sense to de-pathologize trauma and addiction. The model provides a generic framework that can enrich many areas of study including education, health, and organizational development by integrating awareness of embodied processes and how vitally relevant that is to desired outcomes.
Online
Topic: Other
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Eastern (Hora Nueva York)
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. Queremos que estos Cafecitos se sientan acogedores y que tú te sientas en casa durante estas entrevistas. Cada Cafecito tiene a un nuevo entrevistado quien compartirá su conocimiento sobre algún tema en especial con la comunidad hispanohablante.
Online
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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Pacific
When you gaze up at the stars at night, do you have a sense of being a loved and cherished part of a larger compassionate system?
Or do you feel small and insignificant, and that the universe is cold, chaotic, and uncaring?
Here’s what I’ve learned: The difference between these two worldviews is not an intellectual decision. It’s something you can feel in the wisdom of your body.
Over my 49 years of listening inwardly using Focusing, I’ve made an astonishing discovery: The more I listen within, the more I feel connected to what is much bigger than me.
Join us and explore how inner awareness can connect you to the spiritual dimension.
Or do you feel small and insignificant, and that the universe is cold, chaotic, and uncaring?
Here’s what I’ve learned: The difference between these two worldviews is not an intellectual decision. It’s something you can feel in the wisdom of your body.
Over my 49 years of listening inwardly using Focusing, I’ve made an astonishing discovery: The more I listen within, the more I feel connected to what is much bigger than me.
Join us and explore how inner awareness can connect you to the spiritual dimension.
Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
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Eastern Time, New York, USA
What does it mean to GUIDE someone else in ways that bring life forward movement? This one-year course is for those wanting to dive deep into the intricacies of one-to-one relationships. This community is for those who often find themselves in situations of facilitating change for others, individuals and groups. It’s a great option for those who are looking for a community-based path toward certification, for those who do not need certification, and also works well if you are already certified or possibly alongside another certification program.
This Learning Community begins as a year-long program meeting twenty times every other week for 1.5 hours. We can choose to continue with regular gatherings providing ongoing support for your path of bringing Focusing into the world
This Learning Community begins as a year-long program meeting twenty times every other week for 1.5 hours. We can choose to continue with regular gatherings providing ongoing support for your path of bringing Focusing into the world
Online via Zoom
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
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Eastern Time
Join Jenna Chevalier and Annette Dubreuil for a Focusing mini-retreat in downtown Toronto. Held at Verity, a members-only womens’ club, our event is open to both men and women. Our mini-retreat will give you a taste of Eugene Gendlin's Focusing practice and provide some good energy to begin 2023.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Topic: FOT, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
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CET
Are you a person, a therapist, a coach, an accompanier, a Focusing facilitator with varied background/different certifications/diverse work experiences? a polymath?
Do you ask yourself what it is that differentiates you from your colleagues?
Do you want to merge Focusing with your whole knowledge?
This class is intended for anyone interested in merging Focusing with their other bodies of knowledge, for those who are looking for a way to communicate their way of being with clients and clarify the "unique product" they offer, creating your "niche" as an accompanier. Or simply anyone who is feeling the need to mold something out of everything they know and learned, and being able to bring it to the world.
Do you ask yourself what it is that differentiates you from your colleagues?
Do you want to merge Focusing with your whole knowledge?
This class is intended for anyone interested in merging Focusing with their other bodies of knowledge, for those who are looking for a way to communicate their way of being with clients and clarify the "unique product" they offer, creating your "niche" as an accompanier. Or simply anyone who is feeling the need to mold something out of everything they know and learned, and being able to bring it to the world.
online
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Eastern Time
This seminar is both didactic and experiential. We encourage spontaneous dialogue, and improvisational demos as well as reflecting on theoretical understandings and discussing readings. It is designed for therapists but does not exclude those in other helping professions. We have three modules a year. New participants are invited to join at the beginning of each module.
Topics include:
Exploring the organic “US-ness” we are made of.
Embodying the culture of a “connectedness sensibility.” (Richard Geist)
Cultivating “US” thinking and attitudes.
Bringing relational consciousness to conflict and disagreement.
Attending to the “I” of ourselves as well as the “YOU” of the client and the “US” of the
Topics include:
Exploring the organic “US-ness” we are made of.
Embodying the culture of a “connectedness sensibility.” (Richard Geist)
Cultivating “US” thinking and attitudes.
Bringing relational consciousness to conflict and disagreement.
Attending to the “I” of ourselves as well as the “YOU” of the client and the “US” of the
Online
Topic: FOT
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CET
Join me for your first steps into the Focusing.
We will dive into the basics of this technique in a gentle way, to get in touch with the felt sense and practicing a lot during the course. As Body Oriented Coach, I also use warm up exercises to release the tension in your body and be more open to feel and connect to yourself.
We will dive into the basics of this technique in a gentle way, to get in touch with the felt sense and practicing a lot during the course. As Body Oriented Coach, I also use warm up exercises to release the tension in your body and be more open to feel and connect to yourself.
Online
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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EST
This is an introduction to an online Focusing course in which you learn all the fundamentals for having Focusing Partnerships, and for Focusing alone or in a group. You will be eligible to join the International Focusing Partnership Network (for free, world-wide Focusing Partnerships).
What happens during this Taster:
> What is Focusing?
> A brief practice
> About my Focusing Course
> Q & A
Suitable for American and European time Zones
What happens during this Taster:
> What is Focusing?
> A brief practice
> About my Focusing Course
> Q & A
Suitable for American and European time Zones
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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Hong Kong Standard time UTC/GMT +8 hours (12 hours ahead of New York)
Format: Through classroom lectures, life demonstrations, role-playing and supervision of trainees’ videos to enhance participants’ sensitivity to bodily sensations, and learn how to create an environment without criticism, understanding, and acceptance, so that the focuser will be safe enough to explore self and internal resources.
Training focus: Practice and closely supervise participants' Focusing skills:
. Conduct in small groups to enrich learning
. Increase awareness of the body sensations
. Develop empathy listening skills through focusing practices
. Practice focusing skills in a safety containment
. Practicum supervision, after each level of training is
completed, there will be a team supervision response the
Training focus: Practice and closely supervise participants' Focusing skills:
. Conduct in small groups to enrich learning
. Increase awareness of the body sensations
. Develop empathy listening skills through focusing practices
. Practice focusing skills in a safety containment
. Practicum supervision, after each level of training is
completed, there will be a team supervision response the
Online from Hong Kong
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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Eastern Standard Time
Online
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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ECT
Changes-Groups sind Begegnungsorte, um Focusing und partnerschaftliches, erlebensbezogenes Zuhören kennenzulernen, zu üben und als individuelle Achtsamkeitspraxis zu etablieren.
Zoom meeting
Topic: Changes Groups
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EST (New York)
As we enter 2023, our plans and resolutions are taking shape. But that initial enthusiasm may be overshadowed by last year's experience of again not getting to your most valuable project. Maybe it's writing that one article or even a book, devising a new course, or reworking your website.
We can't start early enough to identify our challenges. In this session, you'll dive into what's holding you back from committing to your endeavor so you can overcome the first obstacle. Be surprised at how your hesitation can be a resource for your project.
We can't start early enough to identify our challenges. In this session, you'll dive into what's holding you back from committing to your endeavor so you can overcome the first obstacle. Be surprised at how your hesitation can be a resource for your project.
Online
Topic: TAE/Philosophy
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Eastern Time
Five-Week course for carrying forward a Focusing, creative, or work project using my H.O.W. We Heal model for groups.
Online
Topic: Other
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Recordings available through Jan 31, 2023.
Past Event but you may register for the recordings which are accessible through January 2023. The International Focusing Institute is thrilled to announce the first Thinking at the Edge (TAE) Academy! This 4-day 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. Live attendance required.
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Other, TAE/Philosophy, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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Central European Time (CEST)
Are you new to Focusing or want to refresh the process, or learn with a new teacher?
This small group course (max 8 people) gives you the first few steps into sensing the "more" of what you know, to get in touch with your inner voice, to get a feel for all that is there that does not yet have words or descriptions, but that is the source of next new steps forward in your life.
Felt Sensing (Focusing) will be introduced, and you get to try the process out in reciprocal partnership.
This small group course (max 8 people) gives you the first few steps into sensing the "more" of what you know, to get in touch with your inner voice, to get a feel for all that is there that does not yet have words or descriptions, but that is the source of next new steps forward in your life.
Felt Sensing (Focusing) will be introduced, and you get to try the process out in reciprocal partnership.
Online on Zoom - a link will be provided before the course starts
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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CET
6-month online course
January 9 to July 10, 2023
The schedule is most suitable for American and European time zones
Learn or refine the art of inner listening and listening to another. From that space, you come into loving contact with yourself and others.
With the Focusing way of being in contact with your body, with your inner sense of something, you are accessing insights that are much deeper and vaster than the emotional or mental dimensions alone can offer.
Mondays: January 9 to July 10, 2023
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
January 9 to July 10, 2023
The schedule is most suitable for American and European time zones
Learn or refine the art of inner listening and listening to another. From that space, you come into loving contact with yourself and others.
With the Focusing way of being in contact with your body, with your inner sense of something, you are accessing insights that are much deeper and vaster than the emotional or mental dimensions alone can offer.
Mondays: January 9 to July 10, 2023
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
Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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Eastern Time
Our human life is a co-created work of art, where the process of creation is enabled as we turn towards a different kind of order; towards an infinite order. TAE steps can support us in carrying forward this extraordinary creation.
In the first phase of the course we will concentrate on explicating the ‘knowing of our lives’. We will continue from there to explore how this inner knowing can manifest and direct us in our field of expertise or developing creative project.
In the first phase of the course we will concentrate on explicating the ‘knowing of our lives’. We will continue from there to explore how this inner knowing can manifest and direct us in our field of expertise or developing creative project.
Online
Topic: TAE/Philosophy
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EST
EARLY-BIRD UNTILTODAY, JANUARY 5, 2024
6-month Level 1 to 5 Focusing Skills Course for Focusing Partnerships
Mondays, Feb 19 to Aug 12, 2024
Suitable for American and European Time Zones
6-month Level 1 to 5 Focusing Skills Course for Focusing Partnerships
Mondays, Feb 19 to Aug 12, 2024
Suitable for American and European Time Zones
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate