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.
A Two-Year Focusing Training with Beth Mahler and Maria Skoufas develops a deep sense of awareness
needed to care for ourselves while caring for others and the world around us. By delving deeply into
Focusing over a period of two years in a safe, supportive and nurturing environment we can greatly
enhance our potential for change, ethically and with integrity for generations to come. A consistent
group dynamic forms over time providing a protected space that allows the process to experientially
expand and deepen. It’s a personal journey that will result in growth and evolution of self and possibly
reveal the emerging teacher from within.
This year’s scaled-down virtual Gathering will be held in 3 parts as indicated below (Note: All times listed in EASTERN):
10-11:30 am - Opening/Welcome/Extended Check-Ins
1-3 pm - Virtual Changes
4-5:30 pm - Focusing Fun-Ease/Closing
Sorry registration is closed because the event is full. This free online conversation is Part of the Focusing Roundtable series especially for TIFI members in Australia and New Zealand.
In this Roundtable we can explore and experience how a simple pause holds the potential to change the world inside and around us.
This free online conversation is Part of the Focusing Roundtable series for TIFI members. The TIFI Membership Committee is pleased to introduce Therapists’ Circles, a new Roundtable series, designed especially for members who work with clients in therapeutic settings.
Te invito a conocer qué es focusing...Aprender a escuchar la sabuduría de nuestro cuerpo y a partir de allí lograr pasos de cambio hacia el desarrollo integral de nuestro ser (físico, emocional y espiritual), tanto para nuestras vidas como para facilitarlo en las vidas de otros.
Focusing es un modo de conectar con nosotros mismos desde el cuerpo, sintonizando “de dentro hacia afuera".
Es una invitación a pensar sobre nosotros mismos, sintonizando con el “de dentro hacia afuera”.
En vez de intentar decir o pensar cual es el problema, cual es la respuesta, debemos mantenernos en silencio y atender la versión corporalmente sentida del problema.
Así es como al dejarla formase, un cierto desarrollo, una masa aperceptible moldea u crea todo lo que ves, lo que conoces – todo lo que sos!!! Entonces entendemos que es algo de un proceso-de-vida-posterior.
A six week online course: Thursdays 6:30-8:30pm EDT
Now available in a time-delayed blended learning format for international Focusers
Via Zoom
Writing is a powerful source of embodied wisdom when we give the process time to unfold in our Focusing Practice.We will explore language that forms from implicit experiencing. Through evocative writing practices words are invited to come from Felt Sense memories.
The first hour of the course will be a workshop format that will be recorded. The second hour will be in break out rooms with smaller groups led by Jan and Ann. For those new to Focusing, Trainer Jenna Chevalier will lead a group in learning the basic six steps of Focusing practice.
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.
An online entry level Focusing class that prepares you to begin a Focusing partnership. And a great opportunity to review the basics of Self-in-Presence as a way of being that creates space for lasting change.
Meets six times on Mondays for two hours, 7 – 9pm EDT.
Thinking at the Edge (TAE) fertilizes your ideas by grounding them in your lived experience. For example:
Is there something that you'd like to do or write about but you lack the confidence to begin? Thinking at the Edge 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 Thinking at the Edge, you delve into your own experience so that your new direction in life 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.
Are you faced with a changed world you never planned for?
It’s natural to be stunned by a loss, and unable to move forward.
It could be the loss of a person, or of a job, or of a whole way of life.
Big change, as well as big loss, can leave you feeling confused and anchorless.
How do you find your way when you’ve lost all your familiar landmarks? You still have a reliable guide. You have a place in you that knows your way forward, even if you’ve never been there before.
Navigating loss and change means learning how to trust your inner sense of rightness.
Hard as it is, a time of loss can be a huge teacher about how to trust yourself. Because no one else knows what you need to get through this time… and
Life is hard right now. Are your emotions making it even harder?
Most of us are feeling the weight of current events…We're trying to manage difficult emotions in challenging times. It isn't easy. Even when you know what to do to help your feelings (and so many of us don't).
If you'd like to find a new way to respond to triggered emotions - one that brings relief (and not more pain), join me for my newest free video and email series, Living a Less Triggered Life.
You'll learn how to come back to calm when life is hard to handle.
Classes are once a month on Sundays, in addition monthly small group meetings with coaches, and weekly dyad practice.
Charlotte has been TIFI's teacher and trainer for certification for the past 12 years.
Experience the Vitality of Wholeness of Self in Connection with the Client who may be Lost to Self: Connecting to Client Wholeness alongside their developmental deficits
Model and Entrain, for the Client, our Natural Living Moving Sensory-Kinetic Bodily Self of the Adult Present Moment Situation, in Connection with the Environment and our We Space
Recognize and Make Explicit Client and Therapist’s Similar and Contrasting Inner Working Models Underlying Developmental Attachment Styles and Inter-personal History
Connect to and Integrate the Primary Inner Directed Movements of the Baby, Child and Adolescent Bodies into an Expanded Adult Relational Wisdom Body
Find Inner and Outer Safety inside of Living Moving and Co-Emerging
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.
Taught by Ann Weiser Cornell (author of The Power of Focusing) and Carol Nickerson.
Includes videos, demos, readings, discussion, group exercises, and individual sessions. Partnership Proficiency Recognition awarded on completion.
Focusing is an approach to access your own bodily felt experience through deep listening in presence, openness, not-knowing, curiosity, interest and gentleness. It is a tool to be more coherent and connected to yourself and others and more present and grounded in your daily life. It is also an approach in your work as a therapist with your clients. If you offer an open space, without theoretical filter and therapeutic agenda, it will facilitate for your clients to feel safe and connected. Then the clients more easily could get access to their bodily felt experience, explore it, gain awareness and find words which facilitate growth.
The workshop is experience-based and we will work individually, in pair and in the group.