The Focusing Teacher’s Manual
Now Available!!
The long-awaited extensive and comprehensive
3-part manual for teachers of Focusing
by Ann Weiser Cornell
• Do you wish you were better at marketing Focusing? Attracting people to your courses? Communicating Focusing to new clients?
• Would you like to feel confident that your Focusing message is reaching people and making their eyes light up?
• Would you like enjoy having a thriving one-to-one practice as a Focusing guide with as many clients as you want?
• Do you want every detail of how I’ve designed my courses, with all the course material, so you can pick and choose what you need for your own style and audience?
The manual is divided into 3 sections:
Section
1> ONE-TO-ONE: Creating a Focusing Practice/Working
with Focusing Clients One-to-One
Section 2> GROUPS:
Teaching Focusing/Course Design & Group Process
Section 3> MARKETING:
Finding People to Teach
Purchase the complete manual (all 3 sections) in an attractive 3-ring binder with colored section dividers and supporting CDs pre-inserted in binder pages. Individual modules may also be purchased separately. To order, click here.
Ann Weiser Cornell
Let me help and support you.
I've done thousands of first Focusing sessions, and I've worked to articulate the subtle art of showing someone Focusing by guiding them through it.
I have all the one-to-one clients I want, both first time and ongoing. It's such a pleasure to work with people and see their empowerment in Focusing grow. It's clear to me that "Focusing Guide" is a profession in itself; not therapy, not coaching.
I've also taught hundreds of Focusing courses all over the world, and I make my full time living from Focusing teaching.
Let me share with you what I've learned about guiding new people, guiding ongoing sessions, and the clarity about what we are doing in one-to-one Focusing sessions as a profession in itself.
And let me share with you the 'secrets' of marketing and teaching Focusing and creating as much Focusing teaching as you want in your life.
I look forward to helping you to spread Focusing further in the world!
(Note: Teaching Focusing, one-to-one and to groups, requires certification as “Focusing Professional” from the Focusing Institute. If you purchase these manuals without being certified or being in training, please be aware that ownership of the manuals does not qualify you to teach Focusing either to individuals or to groups. More information on certification.)
Section
1> ONE-TO-ONE
Creating a Professional Practice: Working with Focusing
Clients One-to-One
•
Would you like to earn more money offering Focusing sessions
one-to-one?
• Would you like to establish
or extend a practice as a Focusing professional?
• Are you unclear about
the difference between a professional guided Focusing session
vs. therapy or Focusing partnership?
• Do you want to feel confident
that you can guide someone through Focusing the very first
time and do a professional job of it?
• And do you want to feel
confident in offering something of value - and not therapy
or coaching - as you offer ongoing Focusing sessions after
the first 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?
• Time considerations,
why you could continue to work with someone without doing
therapy. How this 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 best conditions for their having
their best possible Focusing experience.
• 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.
And
more...
For the first time, within this manual, a complete manual
on guiding Focusing, including:
• 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.
Materials:
150 pages of in-depth information specifically written for
this manual
2 audio CDs with sample one-to-one sessions
1 audio CD with exercises
Full printed transcript of first-time Focusing session
Section
2> GROUPS
Teaching Focusing: Course Design & Group Process
•
Do you want to teach Focusing more... or get started teaching
Focusing?
• Are you unsure how to
create Focusing courses that turn beginners into confident
Focusers?
• Would you like to feel
comfortable about sitting in a group and finding the balance
between planning and Presence?
• Do you want a whole toolkit
of proven exercises that you can draw on for different levels
of Focusing, different sizes of group, different types of
people?
Includes:
• A walkthrough of how
I teach Levels One, Two, Three, and Four, with themes, guided
exercises, demonstrations, paired exercises, and reading
assignments for each week... a total of 20 weeks of course
material...
• The actual cards I give
to the participants for the paired exercises, and how to
adapt the exercises for different circumstances.
• The Six Overall Principles
of Focusing Teaching (and the Four No-No's)--and why they
make all the difference.
• How to use your felt
sense of the group to create group safety and a sense of
group support.
• Tips for guiding the
whole group, typical exercises, how to invent your own,
and how to keep people from falling asleep (very important!)
• How to teach listening
using your own Focusing ability and how to teach so that
people are already getting into partnerships after only
one course.
• How to adapt and change
any other teacher's methods – including mine –
so that they fit your style and temperament.
• How to use the Focusing
Student's and Companion's Manual and still teach the course
your own way.
• Tips for working with
larger groups - from 13 to 120 people.
• Tips for working with
smaller groups - 1 to 4 people.
• Weekly classes vs. weekends
vs. other formats.
• Why I recommend calling
it "Level One" even if it's the only course you're
teaching.
• A special way of scheduling
classes when you're just starting out.
• How you can support the
creation of ongoing Focusing community – Changes groups
– and Focusing partnerships.
Materials:
89 pages of in-depth information specifically written for
this manual
3 audio CDs with excerpts from Levels 1, 2, and 3 classes.
Full printed transcript of a five-week, 12 hour Level 1
Training
Full set of Level 1 Crib Cards
Section
3> MARKETING
Finding People to Teach
•
Do you want more Focusing income?
• Are you unsure how to
get started with teaching Focusing classes--or are your
current classes not working as well as you'd like?
• Would you like to feel
confident about having a one-to-one practice as a Focusing
guide--with as many clients as you want?
• Do you want a way of
talking about Focusing that makes people's eyes light up
and say, “That's for me!”?
Includes:
• A way of seeing marketing,
not as “sales,” but as communication, as empathy
for your potential clients, and even as the first stage
of your Focusing teaching mission.
• The surprising reason
why you do NOT want to start by telling people what Focusing
is... and what to say instead.
• Way to get clear about
who you want to reach out to and how your work will help
them, and how to say that clearly and attractively –
getting lots of feedback from the other participants.
• Why you might NOT want
to name your courses “Focusing” and what to
name them instead.
• How to write ads, brochures,
and web pages that stimulate people to call you and sign
up with you... and which one of the three is the best place
for your marketing funds.
• Giving talks to reach
people, how to set them up, what to call them, what to say,
and how to follow up afterwards.
• Introductory days? Free
phone seminars? How to make them effective for your goals.
• How to use email as a
low cost way to stay in touch with people who might want
to work with you sometime.
•
How to make all this work for the special circumstances
of your country, culture, professional situation...
Materials:
46 pages of in-depth information specifically written for
this manual
11 additional pages of written materials on Focusing
1 audio CD with guided exercises on making marketing your
own
1 audio CD of a promotional seminar
Order the Complete Manual
Order the complete manual, and you will receive all three sections in their entirety along with a colorful 3-ring binder with colored tab dividers and all the supporting materials, such as crib cards and audio CDs.
Cost: $197.00 (save $48 compared to buying the sections separately)
Or Order the Sections Separately
| With binder | Without binder | |
| First Section | $95.00 |
$75.00 |
| Second Section | $95.00 |
$75.00 |
| Third Section | $95.00 |
$75.00 |
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