Leading to Certification with the International Focusing Institute – TIFIThis training is for you if you want to refine and deepen your Focusing, listening, and teaching skills in order to share Focusing professionally, both to individuals and to groups. You are equally welcome if you simply want to enhance your Focusing Partnerships and enrich and beautify your daily living.
I will provide supportive conditions and a safe framework for you to explore Focusing areas that you are drawn to and feel passionate about. This will awaken your creativity to find your own style and niche. I offer my teaching to a small group of trainees so that I can optimally accompany each one in their own unique process.
The mentoring sessions and classes with me add up to 172 hours, taking place over a 2-year period. In addition, plan about half a day per week for your self-directed learning, which may take longer than two years. I recommend that trainees complete the training within two to three years.
If you would like to attend only the first year to learn how to offer Focusing to individuals, please ask.
If you have already trained with another Coordinator to offer Focusing one-on-one and would like to attend the second year of my training to learn how to teach Focusing to groups, please ask.
This training consists of online classes with instructional material, supervised practice, and your self-chosen topics and projects. The combination of a scheduled training structure and self-directed learning allows you to craft a training that best fits your learning style and your life situation.
During the classes, you will share your learning-journey with other trainees. Basic topics include the following: Revisiting Focusing basics, learning to accompany and guide those new to Focusing, learning how to teach Focusing to groups, and understanding practical aspects of working professionally such as finding words for advertising, insurance, accepting or referring clients… As the trainees grow in experience, the class content will increasingly be shaped according to their interests and input.
Training tools will include the following: Study materials, reading assignments, partner and group practices, discussions… Trainees will demonstrate and bring a recorded sample of working with people one-to-one in Focusing sessions and of teaching groups. Each participant will receive peer feedback and supervision support.
In these sessions, you will have the opportunity to share your experiences and progress and to sense for directions forward in what feels challenging. You can bring questions and issues for discussion, or ask for emotional support. You can ask for Focusing time or to receive feedback or information.
Outside the scheduled classes, you will set your own pace for your Focusing Partnership practices, your peer support meetings, your practice sessions with clients, your research and reading, your chosen theoretical and practical Focusing project, and your development and teaching of Focusing courses.
I encourage students to get involved in the international Focusing community by joining workshops, gatherings, and various Focusing partnerships. I am happy to review any journaling or creative work that comes from trainees’ research and from meetings with fellow Focusers.
I will discuss class times and days with all trainees to make it work for everyone. Participation in the classes is required, but if an aspect of the training does not fit or isn’t possible for you, we can find other options together.
Revisit the Focusing Skills Course Level 1-5: 20 classes @ 3h, followed by 20 x ½ h with trainees.
Each year, fourteen class meetings @ 3h each, for trainees only, scheduled as follows:
Class meetings add up to a total of 154 hours.
Sessions add up to a total of 18 hours, more can be booked at a discounted rate.
Plan about half a day per week.
Certification allows you to introduce and guide people who are new to Focusing one-to-one, and to teach Focusing to groups. You are eligible for certification by the International Focusing Institute when you have met all training requirements and when you and me, your mentor/Certifying Coordinator, feel that you are ready to offer Focusing the way you want to. You can then call yourself a Certified Focusing Professional or Trainer. You will be eligible to offer the TIFI ‘Proficiency in Focusing Partnership Award’ to students of your Focusing Courses.
The second year of my current training, Focusing Teacher Training, will be held from February 18, 2025, to February 18, 2026.
My next two-year Training to learn to teach Focusing to individuals and groups is envisioned to begin in February 2025.
Training times allow those in America and Europe to join.
The full training consists of 172 hours with me as your mentor plus your supervised self-directed learning, which is the larger part of the training.
The cost of the two-year training is:
€3.880 / $4,238
or per year:
€1.940 / $2,119
Pay a fee of €500/$550 quarterly, or pay the discounted annual fee in a lump sum.
Additional costs:
Additional sessions you may wish to book with me and/or a supporting mentor.
Workshops with other teachers (one workshop is required in the second year).
If you want to apply for certification, the TIFI certification fee is currently $375.
If you think you might be interested, here is the next step:
If you would like, schedule a free 20-minute informal meeting with me to address your questions.
Schedule a 1-hour Focusing session, the fee is offset against the training fee if you decide to join (required).
Register here €70 1-hour session
Register here $75 1-hour session
Pay a non-refundable registration fee of €50/$50. The remaining balance is due two months before the start of the training at the latest.
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Please contact me for more information and to schedule a free 20-minute informational meeting.
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I am a Certifying Coordinator in Training. My Mentor is Fiona Parr (England), and my Supporting Mentors are Ria van Hage (Holland) and Beth Mahler (United States).