Finding the Way In:

The Fundamentals of Focusing-Oriented Therapy

Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy is one of the most universal and respectful ways to bring your clients into their felt experience and their bodies. It begins with mindfulness, but takes it several steps further, facilitating right brain communication and providing practical techniques that are supported by the latest research in the neurobiology of emotion and attachment. Focusing can be paired with other approaches to deepen and increase the immediacy of your therapy sessions regardless of the modality you use.

Focusing was developed by Eugene Gendlin in response to the question, why doesn't psychotherapy succeed more often? And when it does, what is it that sets that therapy apart? What Gendlin found was that the clients who naturally sensed inside in a particular way got the most from therapy. Focusing was developed as a methodical way to teach this inner sensing, and it can help your clients get the most from their therapy with you!

You will leave this workshop ready to try using focusing in your therapy practice. The course provides an overview of focusing methods, including Eugene Gendlin’s ‘discovery’ of focusing and a walk through the focusing steps, as well as an overview of how current focusing experts have adapted these methods. There will be lots of experiential practice focusing and leading sessions.

Instructor: Leslie Ellis