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"I wanted to tell you that I am having GREAT success using Focusing in my psychotherapy practice – thanks so much for teaching me well. It’s so gentle, which I like, and I seem to be able to use it easily.”
– Marie Giannetti, Brewster, MA

”I also wanted to thank you again for your wonderful guide books. They are the best! So clear. I really ‘got’ Focusing from them and have been using it almost every day on myself and with great success with my friends and bodywork clients. I have been many times moved to tears at the relief I have seen in people’s faces when they ‘grok’ the simplicity and power of this process that you have so beautifully articulated. Just today I worked with someone for the first time who had been under such enormous stress that her family had forced her into a mental hospital for almost a week some months back. She is a very intelligent woman and that was just a horrible experience for her. When she looked up after her first Focusing experience there was such peace on her face. She said, ‘If I had known about this before I would never have had to experience that hospital.’ Understanding this work is one of the greatest gifts I have ever received.”
– Linda Hedquist, Fairfield, IA

“Ann, thank you so much for facilitating this conversation. I felt immediately at home with the types of issues that each person brought. This forum will be very helpful for me as I start my coaching practice. It was very validating to me to see how much I actually have integrated Focusing from a conceptual standpoint. I want to push it even further and explore how and when to actually have the client do a little bit of Focusing with me, such as sensing into a feeling. I feel excited by the potential by all of this and also validated by the comments of the others in the group that this is a fertile area to explore and develop. It is also helpful to hear the struggles, doubts, fears, issues of other professionals and I don't feel so alone or that something is wrong with me. Hearing their comments helped me (that scared part of me) to feel more confident as I stretch out my own wings and contemplate flying!”
– Nelle Moffett

• For Healing Professionals

• For Focusing Teachers

“Healing Professionals” = psychotherapists, counselors, coaches, body-workers, anyone who works with others in a healing way;

“Focusing Teachers” = those who are certified to teach Focusing (by the Focusing Institute) or are in training to do so.

Trainings for Healing Professionals

Three-Day Training in Focusing-Oriented Therapy

with Glenn Fleisch and Ann Weiser Cornell
This retreat in Northern California covers the fundamentals of Focusing Oriented Therapy, and includes an overview of theory, practice, and basic concepts. Discover how a Focusing orientation experientalizes any other method of therapy, and how to smoothly integrate Focusing-oriented moves into what you do, using facilitative language that supports and empowers the client. | more |

Two-Year Training Program in Focusing-Oriented Therapy

with Glenn Fleisch and Ann Weiser Cornell
This program is for therapists who want to incorporate a Focusing orientation in the work they do with clients. In-depth training and supervision in applying Focusing to areas such as trauma, anxiety, depression, stress, addictions and habit patterns, and much more. Primarily done by phone seminar with one four-day retreat in California each year. | more |

The Theoretical Foundations of Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy Discussion Group

Have you ever wondered what really brings change? Gene Gendlin has thought and written about this, but his writings can be hard to read and apply. Join Glenn Fleisch and Ann Weiser Cornell in reading and understanding Gene Gendlin at a whole new level. | more |

Level Five: Guiding New People

For anyone who has completed the four levels of Focusing training and wants to learn how to guide a person through a first Focusing session. Appropriate both for healing professionals wanting to incorporate Focusing into sessions and for Focusing teachers (in training) wanting supervised practice in teaching Focusing one-to-one. | more |

Demonstration Phone Group

This is now a group for those who want to "watch" Ann Weiser Cornell facilitate Focusing for a new (or otherwise "interesting") person. No amount of words about the process of facilitating a Focuser can match actually being there when an experienced guide is working with someone new to Focusing. | more |

Home Study

A home study course earning 10 hours of CE credits for reading The Power of Focusing and having a guided Focusing session with Ann Weiser Cornell. In this session, you can work on any area of your life, and very possibly experience insight and transformation. After you read the book and have the session, you’ll fill out an Evaluation of Learning and receive your CE certificate. | more |

CEUs for MFTs and LCSWs

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.

One weekend workshop = 12 hours. Demo Group = 4.5 hours. Three-day workshop = 18 hours. One five-week phone class = 12.5 hours.

For CEUs for acupuncture practitioners scroll down.

Trainings for Focusing Teachers

The Theoretical Foundations of Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy Discussion Group

see above

Level 5

see above

Demonstration Phone Group

see above

The Teacher's Manual

This extensive and comprehensive manual offers in-depth guidance in all aspects of creating and mainting a one-to-one Focusing practice, marketing your Focusing services, and leading Focusing workshops and programs. | more |

Teaching Focusing

This three-part workshop series offers a solid foundation in everything Ann has learned over the years about teaching Focusing: creating a one-to-one professional practice, structuring your classes, marketing your work.
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Teacher Certification

Becoming a Certified Focusing Professional is a possibility for someone from any walk of life. Certification training is in two stages: first, Focusing training (which includes Focusing/listening partnerships); second, Trainer training. | more |

Recommended Resources

Click here for recommendations for some of Ann’s most respected non-Focusing “gurus” in areas that can support bringing your own work and your own voice into the world.

>> Focusing Resources is an approved provider for the Acupuncture Board of the California Consumer Services Agency (CEP 714). Courses need to be approved separately, so if you would like to receive CEU credit for a course from the Acupuncture Board, we need at least 6 weeks notice before the start of the course, and a fee of $35 per course.

Focusing Trainer Certification

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