Psychotherapists and Other Healing Professionals:
You Can Be Effective and Empower Your Clients

Does this sound like you?

You’re passionate about your work – but sometimes you question whether you’re working with clients in a way that really helps them.

You can see your clients circling around and around where they need to be but never getting there – and you long to be able to help them more.

You wonder if you need to take training in EMDR or SE or IFS but you don’t want to just start all over again with a new modality… or maybe you already have taken a training like that, and something is still missing…

Perhaps you’ve tried going to your supervisor or mentor with your doubts or you talked it over with colleagues, but got no satisfying answers. You’ve tried going to more trainings, some of which really stretched your comfort zone, but none of them clicked. You’re left feeling dissatisfied, knowing there had to be something that really helps, something that would be effective, that would really work, but that would also feel comfortable and fit with the methods you already know, that wouldn’t require you to throw everything away and start over.

You wish you had more ways to be helpful to clients who:

don't know what they feel or feel “nothing”
struggle with self-criticism and confusion
feel stuck in their lives
talk about feelings rather than having them
get overwhelmed by intense emotions
struggle with depression, addictions, and other effects of trauma

It’s painful to have clients who aren’t getting helped… you even wonder what’s wrong with you…

Wouldn’t it be great to have a way of being with clients that can be blended with what you already do, that’s body-oriented yet also verbal and relational, that empowers your clients and takes them right to the source of change inside themselves?

A process that enables your clients to experience real change needs to include the following components:

You have a way to give your clients immediate support if they feel overwhelmed
Your clients feel more empowered, stronger, more able to give themselves support in between sessions
Your clients start to open up to a fuller life, more connections with others, more peace with old issues, a greater sense of life being on track
And you’re experiencing those expansions for yourself as well!

In addition:

You’ll feel more comfortable and confident during psychotherapy sessions
You’ll feel you are showing up in sessions as yourself, genuine and real
You’ll have a way to process feelings and reactions that come up in your work with clients

For an article about Inner Relationship Focusing by Carol Nickerson that includes a story about how she used IR Focusing to process feelings about a client, click here.

Inner Relationship Focusing is a powerful and natural process for positive life change… and psychotherapists around the world are finding it an effective support for the therapy they’re already doing.

Hi, I’m Ann Weiser Cornell, and I’ve been teaching and developing IR Focusing training programs since 1985. I created these programs because I saw people struggling with procrastination and action blocks, sinking under low self-esteem and severe inner criticism, having a hard time feeling grounded and making confident decisions, and most of all longing to live the fulfilling lives they knew they could live but never quite getting there.

At first my programs were designed for individuals themselves but more and more psychotherapists kept asking me to create trainings for bringing this work into therapy. I agreed – but with one very important proviso. Healing professionals who want to use this work with clients have to learn it for themselves. How can we take other people to a place we don’t know how to go ourselves? Plus, your ability to be in a Focusing kind of contact with yourself is contagious – your very presence, even without words, becomes a healing containing space for your clients.

Our Focusing Training Program for Healing Professionals follows the same curriculum as our regular Focusing Training Program with two important differences:

(1) We will pause from time to time to talk about how to integrate the learning into your sessions with clients, and

(2) All the other participants will be healing professionals, so the conversations in the course and the practice sessions outside the course will all be with fellow professionals. It does make a difference!

And since we now teach the Focusing Training Program by phone seminar, you don’t have to leave the comfort of your home or office in order to take courses that used to be offered only in a few locations in the world.

How phone seminars work.

What will you receive from taking the IR Focusing Training Program for Healing Professionals?

a practical, step-by-step method for starting with any problem or stuck situation and finding relief, insight, and new steps of action, so you feel bigger than your problems and in control of your life – and ways to help your clients do this too
a process that lets you help your clients be in touch with the very place in them with the potential to open up into flow, change, and new possibilities
facilitative language that enables you to be supportive of your clients – and yourself – without pushing (and so without bringing up resistance)
a sense of greater confidence and ease that you can be available for what your clients are bringing and at the same time able to guide them to be present and available to themselves

A Not-Very-Well-Kept Secret: As you’ve long suspected, it’s not just about helping your clients. It’s about you… your life, your goals, your healing and wholeness. Imagine the possibility that life could feel wonderful – a steady feeling of ease, aliveness, spaciousness… that it feels good to be you. Wouldn’t that be great?

The Focusing Training Program for Healing Professionals

Are you convinced that bringing Focusing into your therapy (or other healing practice) is what you want to do? The Focusing Training Program for Healing Professionals is a thorough, complete, 20-week program meeting by phone seminar, led by Ann Weiser Cornell, author of The Power of Focusing, and Lucinda Hayden, her longtime colleague. You'll learn the Focusing process for yourself in the company of other professionals, including partnership exchanges (by phone) with a different colleague each week. You'll build skills in accompanying a Focusing process, from the art of reflecting to the facilitative language of skilled guiding.

Who is a Healing Professional?

We consider a healing professional to be anyone who works one-to-one with clients or patients in a healing capacity. So this includes: psychotherapists, counselors, spiritual directors, physicians and nurses, massage therapists and other bodyworkers, and life coaches. If you’re not sure, just ask.

"I'm so glad to have discovered this work. Over the years I've been dissatisfied with how I'm doing therapy with my clients. I've gone out and learned various therapeutic techniques and approaches and found that they're good in certain ways, but something was still missing for me. So I just kept looking for something more effective. Inner Relationship Focusing just clicks with me; it allows me to focus with the client on whatever is most present for them, and at the same time teach them a way of being with their inner experiences that will help them be emotionally and psychologically wiser and more astute. And learning this approach from Ann was wonderful; she is a great teacher, and I think her attention to facilitative language is wonderful."

–Carol Ivan, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist, Newton, Massachusetts.

The Fee

$1170 for Levels One through Four (save $110 over the cost of the courses separately) includes a one-to-one session with Lucinda Hayden ($160 value), all four courses, all course materials, and quite a bit more.

The Schedule

To find the next scheduled series for Healing Professionals, go to our workshop calendar and select “Level One for Healing Professionals” from the drop-down menu at the top of the page. You can click “Show Full Series” to show the rest of the courses in the series.

The full Focusing Training Program is made up of Levels One, Two, Three and Four. If you don’t see a Level Three or Four associated with the Level One you chose, that just means we don’t have it on the schedule yet – it will be offered at the same time and day of week, in the succeeding term.

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	Psychotherapists and Other Healing Professionals: You Can Be Effective and Empower Your Clients *Does this sound like you?* You’re passionate about your work – but sometimes you question whether you’re working with clients in a way that really helps them. You can see your clients circling around and around where they need to be but never getting there – and you long to be able to help them more. You wonder if you need to take training in EMDR or SE or IFS but you don’t want to just start all over again with a new modality… or maybe you already have taken a training like that, and something is still missing… Perhaps you’ve tried going to your supervisor or mentor with your doubts or you talked it over with colleagues, but got no satisfying answers. You’ve tried going to more trainings, some of which really stretched your comfort zone, but none of them clicked. You’re left feeling dissatisfied, knowing there had to be something that really helps, something that would be effective, that would really work, but that would also feel comfortable and fit with the methods you already know, that wouldn’t require you to throw everything away and start over. You wish you had more ways to be helpful to clients who: don't know what they feel or feel “nothing” struggle with self-criticism and confusion feel stuck in their lives talk about feelings rather than having them get overwhelmed by intense emotions struggle with depression, addictions, and other effects of trauma It’s painful to have clients who aren’t getting helped… you even wonder what’s wrong with you… Wouldn’t it be great to have a way of being with clients that can be blended with what you already do, that’s body-oriented yet also verbal and relational, that empowers your clients and takes them right to the source of change inside themselves? A process that enables your clients to experience real change needs to include the following components: You have a way to give your clients immediate support if they feel overwhelmed Your clients feel more empowered, stronger, more able to give themselves support in between sessions Your clients start to open up to a fuller life, more connections with others, more peace with old issues, a greater sense of life being on track And you’re experiencing those expansions for yourself as well! In addition: You’ll feel more comfortable and confident during psychotherapy sessions You’ll feel you are showing up in sessions as yourself, genuine and real You’ll have a way to process feelings and reactions that come up in your work with clients For an article about Inner Relationship Focusing by Carol Nickerson that includes a story about how she used IR Focusing to process feelings about a client, click here. Inner Relationship Focusing is a powerful and natural process for positive life change… and psychotherapists around the world are finding it an effective support for the therapy they’re already doing. Hi, I’m Ann Weiser Cornell, and I’ve been teaching and developing IR Focusing training programs since 1985. I created these programs because I saw people struggling with procrastination and action blocks, sinking under low self-esteem and severe inner criticism, having a hard time feeling grounded and making confident decisions, and most of all longing to live the fulfilling lives they knew they could live but never quite getting there. At first my programs were designed for individuals themselves but more and more psychotherapists kept asking me to create trainings for bringing this work into therapy. I agreed – but with one very important proviso. Healing professionals who want to use this work with clients have to learn it for themselves. How can we take other people to a place we don’t know how to go ourselves? Plus, your ability to be in a Focusing kind of contact with yourself is contagious – your very presence, even without words, becomes a healing containing space for your clients. Our Focusing Training Program for Healing Professionals follows the same curriculum as our regular Focusing Training Program with two important differences: (1) We will pause from time to time to talk about how to integrate the learning into your sessions with clients, and (2) All the other participants will be healing professionals, so the conversations in the course and the practice sessions outside the course will all be with fellow professionals. It does make a difference! And since we now teach the Focusing Training Program by phone seminar, you don’t have to leave the comfort of your home or office in order to take courses that used to be offered only in a few locations in the world. How phone seminars work. All you need is a phone, no special equipment, though a hands-free headset is helpful. Yes, you can even call with a cell phone or Skype, as long as the line is reasonably clear. When you register, you’ll receive a special number to call, and your own PIN code. You’ll be on a conference call with the teacher, the assistants, and a group of friendly fellow students. The teacher will be able to moderate the call from a master control panel. There will be lectures, demonstrations, question periods, group exercises, and paired exercises. We’ve been doing phone seminars since 2003 and we’re old hands at it – and they work amazingly well. What will you receive from taking the IR Focusing Training Program for Healing Professionals? a practical, step-by-step method for starting with any problem or stuck situation and finding relief, insight, and new steps of action, so you feel bigger than your problems and in control of your life – and ways to help your clients do this too a process that lets you help your clients be in touch with the very place in them with the potential to open up into flow, change, and new possibilities facilitative language that enables you to be supportive of your clients – and yourself – without pushing (and so without bringing up resistance) a sense of greater confidence and ease that you can be available for what your clients are bringing and at the same time able to guide them to be present and available to themselves *A Not-Very-Well-Kept Secret:* As you’ve long suspected, it’s not just about helping your clients. It’s about you… your life, your goals, your healing and wholeness. Imagine the possibility that life could feel wonderful – a steady feeling of ease, aliveness, spaciousness… that it feels good to be you. Wouldn’t that be great? The Focusing Training Program for Healing Professionals Are you convinced that bringing Focusing into your therapy (or other healing practice) is what you want to do? The Focusing Training Program for Healing Professionals is a thorough, complete, 20-week program meeting by phone seminar, led by Ann Weiser Cornell, author of The Power of Focusing, and Lucinda Hayden, her longtime colleague. You'll learn the Focusing process for yourself in the company of other professionals, including partnership exchanges (by phone) with a different colleague each week. You'll build skills in accompanying a Focusing process, from the art of reflecting to the facilitative language of skilled guiding. Who is a Healing Professional? We consider a healing professional to be anyone who works one-to-one with clients or patients in a healing capacity. So this includes: psychotherapists, counselors, spiritual directors, physicians and nurses, massage therapists and other bodyworkers, and life coaches. If you’re not sure, just ask. "I'm so glad to have discovered this work. Over the years I've been dissatisfied with how I'm doing therapy with my clients. I've gone out and learned various therapeutic techniques and approaches and found that they're good in certain ways, but something was still missing for me. So I just kept looking for something more effective. Inner Relationship Focusing just clicks with me; it allows me to focus with the client on whatever is most present for them, and at the same time teach them a way of being with their inner experiences that will help them be emotionally and psychologically wiser and more astute. And learning this approach from Ann was wonderful; she is a great teacher, and I think her attention to facilitative language is wonderful." –Carol Ivan, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist, Newton, Massachusetts. The Fee $1170 for Levels One through Four (save $110 over the cost of the courses separately) includes a one-to-one session with Lucinda Hayden ($160 value), all four courses, all course materials, and quite a bit more. The Schedule To find the next scheduled series for Healing Professionals, go to our workshop calendar and select “Level One for Healing Professionals” from the drop-down menu at the top of the page. You can click “Show Full Series” to show the rest of the courses in the series. The full Focusing Training Program is made up of Levels One, Two, Three and Four. If you don’t see a Level Three or Four associated with the Level One you chose, that just means we don’t have it on the schedule yet – it will be offered at the same time and day of week, in the succeeding term. Read more about Focusing Level One Read more about Focusing Level Two Read more about Focusing Level Three Read more about Focusing Level Four
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Psychotherapists and Other Healing Professionals: You Can Be Effective and Empower Your Clients