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Focusing Oriented Therapy Training
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”This is a wonderful class! Ann and Glenn provide excellent teaching and modeling of Focusing. Together they have developed a unique way of leading us all to engage with their brilliant thinking on Gene Gendlin's writings. I was inspired, delighted, heartened and enthralled all through the first two courses and am much looking forward to the third module of this series! If you are new to this course, Glenn, Ann, and the whole group will welcome you with open arms. Highly recommended!”
“The experience of doing Focusing with Ann Weiser Cornell provides a rare and delightful combination: an effective method and a highly competent and caring practitioner. Ann is very warm and easy to be with, and she knows exactly what to do to help her clients achieve the quality of self-awareness that results in transformative insights.”
“That’s what I like in this class – that Ann holds a clear inner vision of Focusing. The intention of Focusing is clear.” |
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The retreat starts with dinner Thursday evening, September 25, and runs until 3:00 PM Sunday, September 28, 2008. San Rafael is easily accessible from the San Francisco airport (take the Marin Airporter) and close to Highway 101. Further directions will be given after registration.
The cost of the three-day residential retreat is $450 for the workshop plus room and board fees at Santa Sabina Center, which vary:
Prerequisite: You need to be licensed or certified to see clients, or in the process of training to become licensed or certified to see clients, in accordance with the laws of the state or country in which you live. Participation in this retreat can lead to enrollment in the Two-Year Training in Focusing-Oriented Therapy that is starting this Fall.
Commitment to the Focusing-Oriented Training program is not required for registration in the retreat, but participation in the three-day retreat IS required for registration in the rest of the program.
To register for the retreat, use the online workshop calendar to add it to your shopping cart.
To apply to the training program and register for the retreat at the same time, see below. • • • • • • •
A Two-Year Training Program in with Glenn Fleisch, Ph.D. and Ann Weiser Cornell, Ph.D.
This two-year training program is for therapists (psychotherapists, psychologists, counselors, spiritual directors) who want to incorporate a Focusing orientation in the work they do with clients.
• Would you like to have greater confidence in bringing Focusing into your work with clients?
Focusing-oriented therapy offers a new and profound way of understanding and practicing psychotherapy. Much more than teaching formal steps of Focusing to clients, in Focusing-oriented therapy we learn how to be with people in a way that helps access and open up felt experiencing in the moment, including the body as felt from the inside as well as body expression through movement and gesture. Bringing a Focusing orientation to therapy enhances any form of therapy being practiced. Inner Relationship Focusing is a specific development of Focusing that supports the client’s relationship with his/her own experiencing process. Empathic responses are combined with supportive invitations that point the way to deeper process at every stage. Through subtle, empowering, respectful language, as well as the genuine presence of the therapist, the client is supported in being in relationship with their problem or issue rather than being caught up in it, in a way that that allows new meanings and steps forward to emerge.
Prerequisites: All participants must have completed Focusing Level One before starting the program. All four Levels of Focusing training are recommended. Levels 2, 3, and 4 can be taken concurrently with this program.
This program is limited to 20 participants per year.
To enroll in this program, you need to be licensed or certified to see clients, or in the process of training to become licensed or certified to see clients, in accordance with the laws of the state or country in which you live. You might also be a licensed or certified healing professional whose work is not done primarily in a talking type of session (for example: nurses, physicians, bodyworkers) and you could expect this program to enhance your process with your patients or clients. This is not training to become a therapist but to become a “Focusing-oriented” whatever-you-already-are.
For those who are therapists, successful completion of the program results in certification as “Focusing-Oriented Therapist” awarded through the Focusing Institute. Those in other professions can receive certification as “Focusing-Oriented Professional.” Those who are already certified through the Focusing Institute will also benefit from this training, which adds rigorous and in-depth experience to the training you have already had.
Tuition: Tuition for the two-year Focusing-Oriented Therapy training program is $1,775 per year (or pay $3,000 for two-year tuition at the time of registration for a savings of $550). Tuition fees include four telephone classes per year, but do not include the cost of the annual residential retreats (required).
To Apply: To apply to the two-year Focusing-Oriented Therapy training program, complete the 2-page application and return it with your tuition fee (payment instructions are included on the form along with an option to register for the September retreat, if you have not already done so). Space in the training program is limited to the first 20 applications accepted, and attendance at the September retreat is required.
To download the application, click here (PDF, 180K).
Curriculum: Section One: The fundamentals of Focusing-oriented therapy. An overview of theory, practice, basic concepts. How a Focusing orientation experientalizes any other method of therapy. Smoothly integrating Focusing-oriented moves into therapy. Creating safety. Demonstrations. Retreat: Santa Sabina Center, San Rafael, CA
Section Two: Methodology: the specific practices of FOT. Reflections. The experiential response, how responses “point,” listening for the life-forward energy in the client. Radical acceptance.
Section Three: The relational dimension of FOT. How FOT understands “transference” and “countertransference.” The client-therapist process. The therapist’s own felt sense of the client... and how to use it. Working with what is called “resistance.” Telephone class: Thursdays, 8:30 - 10:30 AM Pacific time,
Section Four: Blending Focusing with other methods. The application of FOT to specific client problem areas, part one. Working with trauma, anxiety, overwhelming emotion (dread, grief, anger), depression, stress.
Section Five: Focusing and... catharsis, EMDR, cognitive behavioral, psychoanalytic, attachment, affective... The application of FOT to specific client problem areas, part two. Working with detachment or disconnection from the body, addictions and habit patterns, sleep issues, blocks to action. Telephone class: Thursdays, 8:30 - 10:30 AM Pacific time,
The second year (Sections Six through Ten) involves going through the topics of the first year again at another level, being teaching assistants for a new first year of participants, bringing cases and examples from your own work with clients and receiving supervision/feedback.
Format: Sections One and Six (once each year) will be three-day residential workshops in California. All other sections will be taught as 5-week (two hours each week) phone classes. Students will pair up for presentation of client cases to each other. One case report or case study will be presented to the whole group each year. Also required: a 10+ page paper on either a blending of Focusing with another therapeutic method or the application of Focusing to a problem area, using examples from your own work with clients. The program fee includes two private supervision sessions with each teacher each year.
CEUs for MFCCs and LCSWs Each year of this course meets the qualifications for 58 hours of Continuing Education credits for LMFTs and/or LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. PCE #1015
Teachers:
Frequently Asked Questions About the Two-Year Training Program in Focusing-Oriented Therapy:
I took one or more of the phone classes on Gendlin called “Theoretical Foundations of Focusing-Oriented Therapy.” Will this two-year program duplicate those classes?
I didn’t take any of the phone classes on Gendlin called “Theoretical Foundations of Focusing-Oriented Therapy.” Is that OK?
I am not a therapist or a counselor, I don’t work with clients in any way except as a Focusing guide. May I enroll in the program?
I can’t come to California/attend the September retreat. Is there any way I can just audit the phone class portions of this program?
I don’t know yet if I’d want to take the whole two-year program. May I attend the September retreat while I make up my mind?
Questions: To ask questions or discuss whether this program is right for you, contact Glenn Fleish at 415-384-0144 or Ann Weiser Cornell at 510-666-9948.
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This three-day retreat in San Rafael, California covers the fundamentals of Focusing-oriented therapy including an overview of theory, practice, and basic concepts. In a warm, supportive group atmosphere, we'll discover and demonstrate how a Focusing orientation experientalizes any other method of therapy. We'll show how to smoothly integrate Focusing-oriented moves into what you do, using facilitative language that supports and empowers the client. Glenn Fleisch will demonstrate his method of incorporating client gestures as implicit leads to the life forward direction, and show us why he often invites his clients to work standing. Ann Weiser Cornell will share her ground-breaking work in facilitative language. The three days will be highly experiential and participatory.
Glenn Fleisch, PhD, MFT,
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