Leading to Certification with the International Focusing Institute (TIFI)This training is for you if you want to refine and deepen your Focusing, listening, and teaching skills to share Focusing professionally, with individuals and with 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 the Focusing areas that you are drawn to and feel passionate about. This will awaken your creativity and help find your own style and niche. I offer my teaching to a small group of trainees so that I can accompany each person optimally in their own unique process.
The full two-year Training
The mentoring sessions and classes with me add up to 172 hours, taking place over two years. In addition, plan an average of half a day per week for your self-directed learning. This training may take longer than two years. I recommend that trainees complete the training within two to three years. (Focusing Facilitator & Teacher Training)
Focusing Facilitator Training (Year One)
If you would like to attend only the first year to learn how to offer Focusing to individuals, please ask. (122 hours if you join only one year of my training)
Focusing Trainer Training (Year Two)
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. (122 hours if you join only one year of my training)
This training includes online classes with instructional materials, supervised practice, and your self-chosen topics and projects. The combination of structured learning with other trainees and self-directed exploration allows you to craft an experience 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 clients, 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, and discussion. Trainees will demonstrate and bring a recorded sample their work with people one-to-one in Focusing sessions and while 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 directions forward when something feels challenging. You can bring questions and issues for discussion, or ask for emotional support. You can ask for Focusing time or for 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 different Focusing partnerships.
I am happy to review any journaling or creative work that comes from trainees’ research and meetings with fellow Focusers.
I 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.
Each year, fourteen trainee class meetings (3 h each), scheduled more or less as follows:
Revisit the Focusing Skills Course Level 1-5: 20 classes of 3 hours each, followed by 20 x ½ h debriefing with trainees.
The online group meetings add up to 154 hours during the two-year training.
Sessions add up to a total of 18 hours in the two-year training; more can be booked at a discounted rate.
On average, plan about half a day per week.
Please ask for my detailed training description.
Certification allows you to introduce and guide people who are new to Focusing one-to-one, as well as to teach Focusing to groups. You are eligible for certification by The International Focusing Institute (TIFI) when you have met all training requirements and when you and I—as your mentor/Certifying Coordinator—feel that you are ready to offer Focusing in a way that is authentic to you (The training is competency-based.)
You can then call yourself a Certified Focusing Facilitator (Practitioner) or Certified Focusing Trainer. As a trainer, you will be eligible to offer the TIFI ‘Proficiency in Focusing Partnership Award’ to students of your Focusing Courses.
My trainings begin when enough people have expressed interest and when we have found a day and time for the first class-meetings that works for everyone. Typically, the minimum number is 4 trainees, maximum 6 trainees. Contact me if you consider joining my training.
Focusing Teacher Training 2026-27 (Trainer/Teacher Certificate)
(For those who have completed the Facilitator (Practitioner) Training for working with people one-on-one.)
Starts in the spring of 2026
Focusing Facilitator (Practitioner) Training
Please contact me if you are interested. This training is envisioned to begin in fall 2026.
You are invited to join my Professional Training to deepen your Focusing skills, even if you do not plan to work with Focusing professionally.
My schedule is suitable for both American and European time zones.
The full two-year training consists of 172 hours with me as your mentor plus your supervised self-directed learning, which is the larger part of the training. If you join only one training year with me (Facilitator or Teacher Training) you will have 122 training hours with me.
The cost of the 1-year training is €2.372 / $2,858.
The cost of the 2-year training is €4.092 / $4,772.
If you join both training years with me, the fee for the second training year will be lower, because it involves fewer hours with me present.
Please ask for my detailed training description. To help you understand my system, we can also have a conversation.
Additional costs:
Register for the 1-hour session:
A Focusing session is required before you can sign up for the training. You pay for this session at my regular session rates, but it will be credited against the training fee if you decide to join. Pay the remaining balance to register for the training (for one quarter/for the whole year)
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Please ask for my detailed training description.
Feel free to contact me to ask questions or schedule your free 20-minute informational meeting.
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).
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Focusing Course for BeginnersThis course fits European and American time zones.
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2-month – basic course:
Mondays, Oct 5, 2026, to Nov 30, 2026
6-month – full course:
Mondays, Oct 5, 2026, to April 5, 2027
Relate to yourself and others with freshness, emotional intelligence, and an open heart.
Di. Abend 23. bis So. Mittag 28. Juni 2026
Lasse das Vertrauen in Deine authentischen Impulse wachsen.
Lebe mit innerer Ruhe und Gelassenheit –
mit einer Qualität von Leichtigkeit im Moment: kreativ, wach, verspielt.
Wage eine Reise nach innen –
getragen durch die Gruppe und die wunderschöne Umgebung.
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