Upcoming Courses, and Ongoing Groups and Services
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Eastern (New York Time)
Understanding who we are in an embodied way is a powerful way to grow our emotional regulation and emotional intelligence. When we know what it feels like in our bodies when we get scared, or mad, or are happy—or when more complicated patterns or parts emerge—then we can more quickly notice these shifts in our autonomic nervous system. This clarity helps us know when we need to self-soothe or reach out to others for co-regulation.
The class spends the first three weeks in the grounded parts, building a “safe nest” to do the deeper Focusing on our wounded and protector parts in weeks four to seven. As we map our parts, we also map out our timeline. At first with the key memories, and then with the parts that are connected to the memories. We finish the class by completing
The class spends the first three weeks in the grounded parts, building a “safe nest” to do the deeper Focusing on our wounded and protector parts in weeks four to seven. As we map our parts, we also map out our timeline. At first with the key memories, and then with the parts that are connected to the memories. We finish the class by completing
Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
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Eastern Time
In this ten-week Focusing course, we learn to use self-regulation and co-regulation to affect the interactions in our relationships. You can explore any relationships, including those that include power (leaders and employees, teacher and students, parent(s) and children).
The goal is to use emotional regulation to create safe and connected relationships that allow for creativity and action to flow.
Next courses:
-Thursdays, 1:30-3:30 pm Eastern, May 1-July 3, 2025
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The goal is to use emotional regulation to create safe and connected relationships that allow for creativity and action to flow.
Next courses:
-Thursdays, 1:30-3:30 pm Eastern, May 1-July 3, 2025
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Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
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EST
This two-year training program for healers will create a sacred space where we open to our embodied, wildish nature as the ground for developing our capacity to midwife soul healing. Through focusing and the felt sense, together we will come into a deeper relationship with the wisdom of our bodies and the natural world, integrating focusing and the felt sense as we grow our medicine woman toolkits.
You will learn divine feminine ways of knowing and being to develop:
• deep, embodied, soulful connections with other healing artists
• capacity to engage with focusing therapeutically for yourself, your clients and your community
• ability to become ensouled and bring more soul forward with your clients and communities using a focusing approach
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You will learn divine feminine ways of knowing and being to develop:
• deep, embodied, soulful connections with other healing artists
• capacity to engage with focusing therapeutically for yourself, your clients and your community
• ability to become ensouled and bring more soul forward with your clients and communities using a focusing approach
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Tennessee
Topic: FOT
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Eastern Daylight Time
Online
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US Eastern Time
While Focusing has long had a home in psychotherapy and also as a powerful modality for personal development, professional coaching has lagged behind in ways to work with the implicit aspects of cognition.
Topic: Certification
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Third session May 6, 2025
Reading Freshly
An opportunity to read Gendlin’s seminal book Focusing with others
A Free Event for Members
Live (no recording)
Second session April 1, 2025 - Starting with Chapter 2
An opportunity to read Gendlin’s seminal book Focusing with others
A Free Event for Members
Live (no recording)
Second session April 1, 2025 - Starting with Chapter 2
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, Ongoing, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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Pacific
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.
Includes videos, demos, readings, discussion, group exercises, and individual sessions. Partnership Proficiency Recognition awarded on completion.
Online via Zoom
Topic: Intermediate/Advanced
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Eastern Time
This eight-week course is an opportunity to strengthen your listening skills and deepen your Focusing experiences. In improving your listening skills with empathy and compassion, you create and even stronger container for the felt sense and Focusing process, the motor of change.
You will also learn to better sense your own needs while Focusing, in listening to the nuances from your felt sense (self-empathy) and then meet those needs, either by giving that to yourself or asking your listener for what it needs (self-compassion).
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You will also learn to better sense your own needs while Focusing, in listening to the nuances from your felt sense (self-empathy) and then meet those needs, either by giving that to yourself or asking your listener for what it needs (self-compassion).
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Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
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CET
Formación de prácticas online
Facilitadora: Macarena LópezAnadón, trainer focusing
Facilitadora: Macarena LópezAnadón, trainer focusing
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Eastern Time
The way we work with our clients reflects the relational and embodied nature of our mind process.
In this course, you study how the bodily felt sense emerges in the context of interaction and explore the physicality of our relational patterns.
You do this experientially as you practice creatively using embodied experience to harness the transformative power of Integrative Focusing.
In this course, you study how the bodily felt sense emerges in the context of interaction and explore the physicality of our relational patterns.
You do this experientially as you practice creatively using embodied experience to harness the transformative power of Integrative Focusing.
Online (Zoom)
Topic: FOT
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Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)
This presentation is open to those new and experienced in Focusing, Expressive Arts, and FOAT!
Join us in welcoming Focusing Pioneer and Master Teacher, Akira Ikemi, Ph.D. for this special 2-hour program! Akira will share about his development of different Focusing methods that stem from Eugene Gendlin’s teachings. He will demonstrate two of those methods– Kansoh Focusing and Kanga Focusing. This enriching presentation will also include experiential exercises for participants to practice both methods in partners, along wtih time for Q&A!
Join us in welcoming Focusing Pioneer and Master Teacher, Akira Ikemi, Ph.D. for this special 2-hour program! Akira will share about his development of different Focusing methods that stem from Eugene Gendlin’s teachings. He will demonstrate two of those methods– Kansoh Focusing and Kanga Focusing. This enriching presentation will also include experiential exercises for participants to practice both methods in partners, along wtih time for Q&A!
Online
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
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Jerusalem Time
Social Oriented Focusing (SOF) invites us into an embodied practice to untie the KNOTS and NOTS that interfere with relating to others, enabling us to overcome blocks, fears, and automatic behaviors. Imagine being fully present in the here-and-now in a Focusing way, enjoying interpersonal moments with the freedom to be yourself, instead of repeating stressful patterns of separation.
In SOF Course Level 1, we will set out on an SOF journey of discovery from separation to connection. In a safe group setting, we will explore the steps from feeling alone to feeling together, while being our authentic selves.
SOF expands our Focusing awareness allowing us to meet others while remaining intimate with ourselves and our present moment experience, facilitating
In SOF Course Level 1, we will set out on an SOF journey of discovery from separation to connection. In a safe group setting, we will explore the steps from feeling alone to feeling together, while being our authentic selves.
SOF expands our Focusing awareness allowing us to meet others while remaining intimate with ourselves and our present moment experience, facilitating
Online via Zoom
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
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Central European Time
In deze live 2-daagse BasisTraining gaan we door met verdieping en het oefenen van focussen met een focus maatje. We geven we ook aandacht aan problemen die zich kunnen voordoen tijdens een Focusing proces.
Als je wat meer wilt weten over Focusing, bekijk dan hier mijn video: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMvftGO_x4WQ3W7GdyAPkSA
Als je wat meer wilt weten over Focusing, bekijk dan hier mijn video: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMvftGO_x4WQ3W7GdyAPkSA
Live, Laren NH, the Netherlands
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate
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（English Course)The course will start when we have received four applications.（Japanese Course) The second Sunday of every month.1pm-5pm (JST）
TAE（Thinking At the Edge）, developed by Eugene Gendlin, was designed for people who are tracking something they sense but have been unable to say. The 14 steps of TAE help you to speak from that something in creative ways. Learning TAE gives you new tools to help you meet yourself more deeply. This is because the something you sense implies and suggests the way you are and will be.
In this workshop, you will learn the TAE steps more easily using the 'TAE Form' created by your teacher. You will find that it guides your TAE process naturally as you write your words into it. You will also see the relationship between the TAE steps and Gendlin's philosophy.
Learning with other participants and "Crossing" with them through felt sense will open up
In this workshop, you will learn the TAE steps more easily using the 'TAE Form' created by your teacher. You will find that it guides your TAE process naturally as you write your words into it. You will also see the relationship between the TAE steps and Gendlin's philosophy.
Learning with other participants and "Crossing" with them through felt sense will open up
Topic: TAE/Philosophy
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Eastern Time
ALL are welcome to attend -- whether you are an experienced Focuser or are brand new and would like to experience a new way to listen and be with yourself.
These 90-minute interactive Zoom-based gatherings are designed to create an atmosphere of safety and mutual respect for both experienced and less-experienced Focusers.
And - there's NO FEE to attend.
These 90-minute interactive Zoom-based gatherings are designed to create an atmosphere of safety and mutual respect for both experienced and less-experienced Focusers.
And - there's NO FEE to attend.
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Eastern Time
This eight-week Focusing course will create a gathering place for professionals to learn to hold space for the complex interplay of climate emotions in their work and simultaneously, to also show up as individuals. Combining current neuroscience, trauma praxis, and embodied practices we will develop an understanding of our patterned threat responses and explore new ways of showing up in the world with the power of our embodied intuition, and a fresh sense of connection to the cosmos and our community.
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Zoom
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced
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Eastern Time (US)
Join us for the Children Roundtable Series.
Online
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, Children, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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Reading Freshly - Asia Pacific
An opportunity to read Gendlin’s seminal book Focusing with others
A Free Event for Members
Live (no recording)
Once a month on Wednesdays
An opportunity to read Gendlin’s seminal book Focusing with others
A Free Event for Members
Live (no recording)
Once a month on Wednesdays
Topic: Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, Free, Ongoing, Other, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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New York time
We are beings-in-the-world in relationship with others. How we feel colors our experiences of the social contexts, moments, and places in each situation. This is where voices, gestures and silences become valuable means both to be aware of how the other person feels, and to express our understanding as companions who listen in an empathic way.
In this webinar, we will explore some ways to connect with our bodily felt senses which guide us to an experiential empathic listening and understanding.
In this webinar, we will explore some ways to connect with our bodily felt senses which guide us to an experiential empathic listening and understanding.
Online (Class will also be recorded)
Topic: Introductory, Beginners-Intermediate, Intermediate/Advanced, The Focusing Institute (TIFI) Events
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Pacific
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.
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.
Online via Zoom
Topic: Free, Certification