You Can Be Effective and Empower Your Clients
Focusing has been linked in over 80 research studies with positive
outcomes in therapy including greater emotional regulation, more
satisfying relationships, and increased self acceptance.
In the Focusing Training Program for Healing Professionals, you'll learn
an experiential, body-oriented process of self-awareness and emotional
healing that you can immediately bring into your work with clients.
What You'll Learn
• a practical, step-by-step method for taking 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
• a 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
Does this sound like you?
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 emotion
- • struggle with depression, addictions, and other effects of trauma
By bringing Focusing into your process, your clients will be able to experience real change.
With Focusing:
- • You have a way to give your clients immediate support
- • Your clients will feel more empowered and more able to give themselves support in between sessions
- • Your clients start to open up to a fuller life and will have better connections with others, more peace with old issues, a greater sense of life being on track
You'll Feel:
- • More comfortable and confident during psychotherapy sessions
- • That you are showing up in sessions as yourself, genuine and real
- • You 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.
The Program
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. All our workshops meet the qualifications for continuing education credits (CEUs) for MFTs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. PCE #1015.
The Fee
Courses can be taken individually ($375 for Level One, and $295 each for Levels Two - Four). We offer a discounted package rate of $1150 if you register for all four Levels (save $110 over the cost of the courses separately). This includes a one-to-one session with Lucinda Hayden ($160 value), all four courses, all course materials, and quite a bit more. To get this special package fee, register for any Level One course from the calendar below and you will see an option to pay for Levels 1-4 at this price. You don't need to know which Level Two, Three, and Four you would like to take. Choosing this option locks in your low fee for any future time that Levels Two, Three, and Four are offered by Focusing Resources.
The Schedule
To find the next scheduled series for Healing Professionals, check the calendar below. 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, 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.
More About The Levels
Some of what you'll learn:
- • a way to access your body's wisdom which allows you to get in touch with rich information about your life and your life's direction
- • a powerful listening process that lets you be supportive of other people – and yourself – in ways that will improve your relationships
- • a structured plan for taking these lessons beyond the course and into your daily life
Some of what you'll learn:
- • practice in cultivating Self-in-Presence
- • a supported process for coming into body awareness at the start of the session, called "Leading In,"
- • about the "edge," and how that is the key to transformation
- • support in getting the most out of your Focusing process, especially in the places where you're stuck
- • advanced listening skills that will improve your relationships
Some of what you'll learn:
- • more ways to start the Focusing process and deepen your inner connection
- • very specific and powerful ways to go beyond just "being with it," including the remarkable "not-wanting and wanting" process
- • new and useful ways to reap the benefits of the positive, enjoyable feelings in your Focusing process
- • how to be a more graceful Focusing Partner
Some of what you'll learn:
- • the most typical block to Focusing and how to help shift this experience
- • ways to manage your inner critic
- • more ways to help yourself (or a partner) when you are feeling overwhelmed by strong emotional states
- • wider understanding of the concept of "body" and what makes our bodies so wise
- • how to let go of "rules" and still do Focusing
A Testimonial
Carol Ivan, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist
Newton, Massachusetts
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 invaluable.
Calendar
| Date | Location | Workshop | Teacher | Registration Fee | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Eastern USA Garrison, New York In-person residential workshop | Taught by Ann Weiser Cornell | For prices and registration information, please visit The Focusing Institute website here: FISS 2013 | |||
Eastern USA Garrison, New York In-person residential workshop | Taught by Ann Weiser Cornell | For prices and registration information, please visit The Focusing Institute website here: FISS 2013 | |||
September 10 to October 15, 2013 (skip Sept 24) 5 Tuesdays; 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM Pacific Time (L3HP-903) convert to your time zone | Telephone Class | Focusing Training Program Level Three for Healing Professionals: The Guide's Journey Prerequisite: Level Two with an Inner Relationship Focusing teacher. This Level Three is for Healing Professionals only. Show Full Series | Taught by Ann Weiser Cornell and Carol Nickerson | Cost: $295 through end of day September 4, $345 after Doors Closing: The last day to register is September 7 Plan for: 2 1/2 hours in class each week and 1 hour additional partnership practice outside of class This link allows you to register whether you have pre-paid or not. An option to pay in 2 installments is available during early registration  | |
September 10 to October 8, 2013 5 Tuesdays; 11:00 AM - 1:30 PM Pacific Time (L1-507) convert to your time zone | Telephone Class | Taught by Lucinda Hayden | Cost: $375 through end of day September 4, $425 after Doors Closing: The last day to register is September 7 Includes: 50 minute Focusing session with course instructor, Lucinda Hayden Plan for: 2 1/2 hours in class each week and 1 hour additional partnership practice outside of class Options to pay in installments are available during early registration | ||
November 5 to December 10, 2013 (skip Nov 26) 5 Tuesdays; 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM Pacific Time (L1-508) convert to your time zone | Telephone Class | Taught by Lucinda Hayden | Cost: $375 through end of day October 30, $425 after Doors Closing: The last day to register is November 2 Includes: 50 minute Focusing session with course instructor, Lucinda Hayden Plan for: 2 1/2 hours in class each week and 1 hour additional partnership practice outside of class Options to pay in installments are available during early registration | ||
November 5 to December 10, 2013 (skip Nov 26) 5 Tuesdays; 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM Pacific Time (L4HP-903) convert to your time zone | Telephone Class | Focusing Training Program Level Four for Healing Professionals: The Center of the Maze Prerequisite: Level Three with any Inner Relationship Focusing Teacher Show Full Series | Taught by Ann Weiser Cornell and Carol Nickerson | Cost: $295 through end of day October 30, $345 after Doors Closing: The last day to register is November 2 Plan for: 2 1/2 hours in class each week and 1 hour additional partnership practice outside of class This link allows you to register whether you have pre-paid or not. An option to pay in 2 installments is available during early registration | |
More About the Program
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.