Offering Focusing One-to-One

Creating a Professional Practice: Working with Focusing Clients One-to-One with Ann Weiser Cornell

This is Module One of the series of phone classes on Teaching Focusing. You must be a Focusing Trainer, or in training to become a Focusing Trainer, in order to take these courses. But even if you don’t meet that pre-requisite you can buy the manual for this course; click here to find out more.

The course on Offering Focusing One-to-One includes:

• How do you position yourself as a Focusing guide? How is that different from being a therapist or a coach who uses Focusing? What is your “contract” with your clients–what can they expect and what do you offer? How would you present this, even before someone comes in for a first session?
• How offering guided Focusing sessions is different from teaching Level One as a tutorial.
• Pricing your sessions, offering “packages” of three or six sessions. Talking about money to clients. Your own issues about money.
• What to say before someone’s first session to set up the conditions for their having the best possible Focusing experience.
• Special considerations for guiding someone’s first session of Focusing. How we work differently when someone doesn’t know Focusing already. Differences in: how to use reflection, emphasis on getting a felt sense, re-phrasing what they don’t understand, helping with blocks.
• Boundary issues: How to recognize and respond to people who are trying to use Focusing sessions to meet other needs.
• How to tell when someone has a process that isn’t appropriate for our type of work; how to refer to a therapist.
• What to say about your work to invite clients to work with you.

During this course you will have the opportunity to work with two “practice clients,” one who is already familiar with Focusing and one who is new to Focusing. These will be phone sessions; the practice clients will be provided from a list of volunteers.

Teaching Focusing is taught in three modules; each module is taught as a five-week telecourse. The modules may be taken separately from each other or in any order.

Module 1: Creating a Professional Practice: Working with Focusing Clients One-to-One

Module 2: Teaching Groups: Course Design & Group Process

Module 3: Empathy-Based Marketing: Finding People to Teach

Course Materials: The course manual is not included in the Teaching Focusing course fee. The manual for each Module is a section of the 3-part Focusing Teacher’s Manual. We ask you to buy the Manual, or at least the section of the Manual that applies to that Module, when you register for the Module. Many people will want to buy the complete Manual. Click here to buy.

You can register below using our secure on-line store, or call 510-666-9948.

Note: If you are a therapist already, and mainly want to use Focusing with clients rather than teaching Focusing, Module One is probably not what you’re looking for. See our offerings for healing professionals.