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• Men's Group

  • Start
    19 Apr 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM
  • End
    31 May 2025
  •  
    5:00 PM
  • Location
    In-Person 112 West 27th St., NYC

  Men’s Group
  In Person in NYC

  This committed container is for those who want to be in deep relationship and community with other men.

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  Sanjay K Evran, CPRA, ACCEP
  Mike Howell, CCEP

  Saturdays, 10am - 5pm (EST)

  Jan. 18th, Feb. 15th, Mar. 22nd, Apr. 19th, May 31st

  Being in this space offers a unique opportunity: giving and receiving the support that only men can share with each other.

  Using the body as our guide, with ample time for inquiry, individual and group process ~ we will walk towards our collective wisdom and leadership as men.

  Address: 112 West 27th St., NYC

  Sliding Scale $250-$350/session

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• Being Focusing Together

  • When
    21 May 2025
  •  
    11:00 AM
  • Location
    Online via Zoom

  Being Focusing Together

  Speaking and Being Heard in a Larger Group

  These Being Focusing Together gatherings will use Gendlin’s unpublished manuscript "Fitting In and Pouring Out, and Relating" to help us do just that. We will use our time together to experiment with new patterns and see if we find fresh ways to be Focusing in our group interactions.

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  Presented by The International Focusing Institute

  Wednesday, May 21, 2025
  11:00 - 1:00pm PST
  Location: Online via Zoom

  Cost: The host is volunteering her time in order that this program may be brought to members of TIFI at no charge.

  Six Sessions over 12 months; First Session - May 21, 2025

  Most of us know that being able to listen in a Focusing way usually requires lots of practice and reflection. Yet, when we speak with others, we often find we have nothing but our habits to guide us. We can’t expect ourselves to automatically be skilled at speaking up, speaking out, speaking to and from our felt sense. Especially when we speak in larger groups, our Focusing skills can disappear! We need a place to practice speaking and some guidance to find a new way.

  These Being Focusing Together gatherings will use Gendlin’s unpublished manuscript "Fitting In and Pouring Out, and Relating" to help us do just that. We will use our time together to experiment with new patterns and see if we find fresh ways to be Focusing in our group interactions.

  Rachel Hendron is a Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer Certified by TIFI, Accredited by BACP (UK), she helped to organise the most recent TIFI conference for Focusing Therapists and is studying Gendlin’s Philosophy of the Implicit with Rob Parker. She trained with Charlotte Howorth and has been following Lynn Preston’s work with groups for the last few years. She is interested building a new culture of Focusing-oriented togetherness.

  6 Sessions:
  
  May 21 - 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  July 16 - 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  Sept 17 - 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  Nov 19 - 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  Jan 21, 2026 - 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
  March 18 - 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

  Registration info: Contact The International Focusing Institute with any questions: Phone: (845) 480-5111 Email: elizabeth@focusing.org

  
  

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• Neurodiversity & Somatic Practice with B Lourenco MA LMHC

  • When
    24 May 2025
  • Location
    HYBRID & IN PERSON ATTENDANCE

  Somatic Practitioners of all backgrounds are invited to join us—either in person in Seattle or online—for an exploration of NeuroDiversity in Somatic Praxis beyond nervous system regulation.

  May 24-25, 2025
  $400. By April 16, $450.

  Click Here to Register

  13.5 CEU's 
  Includes 5 Cultural Competence, 5 Law and Ethics, and 3 Health Equity CEU's 

  
  

  

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• Bringing Radical Aliveness into the World

  • Start
    30 May 2025
  • End
    12 Dec 2025
  • Location
    In-Person,3095 21st Street San Francisco CA 94110

  Bringing Radical Aliveness into the World San Francisco 2025

  March 28th - 30th, 2025
  May 30th - June 1st, 2025
  August 15th - 17th, 2025
  November 7th - 9th, 2025
  December 12th - 14th, 2025

  This is an in-person event located Heartlab in San Francisco. 

  Cost: USD$4000 (sliding scale available)
  

  Space is limited to 18 Participants

  We believe the world needs your gifts! We have invited RA faculty to work with us over five modules to support you in expanding your impact in the world. Rather than focus on personal work, we are offering a series focused on developing our unique abilities to touch others and transform the world.

  Who is this for?

  • Leaders ready to step into the world fully and embody their gifts

  • People who are self-responsible, self-aware, and able to recognize personal biases

  • Humans willing to explore their impact in a co-created laboratory experience

  March 28th - 30th, 2025
  May 30th - June 1st, 2025
  August 15th - 17th, 2025
  November 7th - 9th, 2025
  December 12th - 14th, 2025

  Cost: USD$4000 (sliding scale available)

  If you are ready to DO YOUR PART, join us!

  Space is limited to 18 Participants

  - Our Invitation -

  We will meet for 5 weekends, each time for 3 days.

  The weekends will have opportunities for leadership, teaching, creativity, and support. Part of each Friday will be peer-led without faculty present as a way to step more courageously into individual leadership.

  Each participant will work on one "project" during this series, using the modules for feedback and support. The project is an opportunity for you to take the work into other contexts and develop your RA inspired skills. Your project is a way for you to do your part, drawing on your passion and willingness to welcome and bridge other perspectives, lenses, or frames. The modules will include time for you to lead activities, work on your project, and work through challenges with group and faculty support.

  We hope you will join us! If you have any questions or would like to register, please email BringingRAintotheworld@gmail.com.

  With Gratitude!

  Location:

  HeartLab in San Francisco

  www.heartlabsf.com

  www.RadicalAliveness.Org

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• Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy: An Experiential Introduction

  • When
    6 Jun 2025
  • Location
    Online

  Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy: An Experiential Introduction

  Hakomi is a body-centered (somatic) approach. The body is viewed as a “map of the psyche” – a door that can be opened to reveal the entire unconscious belief system of the individual. The body’s habitual patterns can become a powerful access route to deeply held core material.

  Date: June 7th & 8th, 2025

  Registration

  Faculty: Deah Baird, ND, LPC, Certified Hakomi Trainer

  Cost:Early Registration $295.00 by May 7th, 2025, afterwards $335

  Target Audience:

  This workshop is designed to provide experiential learning in the Hakomi Method and is also a prerequisite to the Hakomi Comprehensive Training.

  Objectives:

  Describe the qualities of mindfulness that Hakomi uses in therapeutic settings.

  Practice the Hakomi skills of Loving Presence and Contact to enhance the therapist’s self-regulation, embodiment, and therapeutic relationship.

  Name the 5 Hakomi principles, (unity, organicity, non-violence, mind-body holism, mindfulness) that form the foundation of the Hakomi Method

  Summarize the importance of the exploratory (experimental) attitude as a key component of the Hakomi Method.

  Provide examples of subtle somatic cues tracked by the therapist in Hakomi work.

  Describe the application of Hakomi skills and principles in the experiential process as a way to access unconscious core material.

  CE Information:

  12 NBCC CE’s: (ACEP #5476): Hakomi Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP No. 5476.) Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Hakomi Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.

  ASWB:

  Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy: An Experiential Introduction, Course #6027, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by Hakomi Institute as an individual course. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: 11/17/2024 – 11/17/2026. Social workers completing this course receive 1 General Social Work Practice, 7 Clinical, 1 Social and Cultural Competence & 3 Ethics continuing education credits.

  For more information contact: office@hakomi.org

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• Core Energetics for Clinicians

  • When
    6 Jun 2025
  •  
    4:00 PM
  • Location
    Wisdom House

  Core Energetics for Clinicians
  An Introductory Training Weekend Retreat

  Energy Theory & Somatic Techniques for Therapists

  We are pleased to offer an introductory weekend for Therapists who want to learn about the Body-Mind Connection through Core Energetics.

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  Friday, June 6th, 2025

  LAST DAY TO REGISTER IS May 29, 2025 by 9:00 pm EST, no registration can be made after this date and time.

  Energy Theory & Somatic Techniques for Therapists

  We are pleased to offer an introductory weekend for Therapists who want to learn about the Body-Mind Connection through Core Energetics.

  In this Integrative training you will learn:

  • Somatic approaches to grounding, releasing blocked energy, and attaining healthy energy.

  • Tools to access hidden emotions, utilizing breathing and movement, and decrease the effects of depression, anxiety, and trauma.

  • Core Energetics theory as an approach to reversing negative thinking and finding fulfillment• Soft and gentle techniques to heal wounding and fragmentation.

  • How to use the "Map of the Personality" to resolve emotional Issues.

  • The focus is on somatic practices to facilitate change, create energy flow, open the heart, honor emotions, and empower your clients.

  Join us for a training weekend in beautiful Litchfield, Connecticut at Wisdom House retreat center for a heart opening weekend.

  Discover how a somatic approach can enhance and expand your practice, benefit you as a therapist and as an individual.

  Friday
  CHECK-IN from 4:30pm EST
  Dinner 5:30pm-6:30pm EST
  7:00pm-9:00pm EST– Introduction

  Saturday
  9:00am- 12:00pm EST – Module 1
  Lunch–12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
  1:30pm - 5:30pm EST– Module 2
  Dinner–5:30pm-6:30pm EST
  7:00pm - 9:00pm EST – Community Gathering

  Sunday
  9:00am-9:45am EST- Sanctuary Service
  10:00am -1:00pm EST – Module 3
  Lunch–1:00pm-2:00pm EST
  2:00pm-4:00pm EST –Module 4

  LAST DAY TO REGISTER IS May 29, 2025 by 9:00 pm EST, no registration can be made after this date and time.

  Earn 12 CEU Credits by completing this workshop.

  Rates (At Checkout: Choose the Workshop Rate and an R+B Rate)

  WORKSHOP RATE—$497

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  R+B Costs: The Institute cooperates with retreat center Wisdom House where we hold our trainings. They are a separate non-profit entity and have their own policies and do not operate like a hotel. IMPORTANT: Wisdom House charges a commuter rate for those wishing to stay off campus and meals are included. All meals at Wisdom House are prepared on site and are sugar, dairy, gluten and egg free unless otherwise labeled.

  SHARED ROOM/SHARED BATH RATE – $280: Includes a 2 night stay in shared accommodation and includes 6 meals, Friday Dinner thru Sunday lunch.

  SINGLE ROOM/SHARED BATH – $330: Includes a 2 night stay in shared accommodation and includes 6 meals, Friday Dinner thru Sunday lunch.

  COMMUTER RATE: $190: Includes meals: Friday Dinner, Saturday Lunch and Dinner, Sunday Lunch. (meals cannot be adjusted)

  This training is being facilitated by seasoned Core Energetics Practitioners.

  Dr. Karyne Wilner PsyD, ACCEP

  is a licensed psychologist with a private practice in Newport, RI. She currently directs the Core Energetics Academy in Newtown, CT, and was formerly assistant director of the International Institute for Core Energetics, senior director of the Brazilian Institute, and associate director in Australia. She has traveled widely giving lectures, workshops, and seminars, and has written numerous journal articles about somatic therapy and psychology. In addition to her training programs, she is presently teaching master’s level holistic counseling courses at Salve Regina University in Newport, RI. Her joy lies in helping people become more authentic and lead richer, fuller lives.

  Aimee Falchuk MPH, M.ED., ACCEP

  Aimee is a Master’s level clinician and currently pursuing a Master of Divinity (M.Div). She is a member of the Board of Directors at Mental Health America and is on faculty at the Institute of Core Energetics.

  IMPORTANT: Refunds are NOT available for retreats. However, if you cancel, we can transfer your workshop fee only, toward a different workshop for an additional fee of $100.00. To receive a refund for your Room and Board at Wisdom House, your cancellation must be received 7 days prior to the workshop.

  
  

  For information:
  Lindsay Ngidiwe: 212-982-9637/ info@coreenergetics.org
  Organization Name: Institute of Core Energetics

  
  

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• Philosophizing with Gendlin

  • When
    12 Jun 2025
  •  
    9:00 AM
  • Location
    Online via Zoom

  Philosophizing with Gendlin
  James G. Hart and Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir in Conversation
  

  James G. Hart was a student at the University of Chicago in the 1960s, where he encountered Eugene Gendlin and his philosophy. He took courses taught by Gene for a couple of years. Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir discovered Gendlin’s philosophy a little over a decade ago. For both philosophers, encountering Gendlin sparked a deep connection—something just "clicked." Their openness to taking a leap into philosophical practice and its underlying process philosophy allowed them to engage with his ideas in a transformative way. Both have drawn inspiration from Gendlin to further develop their own philosophical work, in theory and practice.

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  Presented by The International Focusing Institute

  Thursday, June 12, 2025
  9:00 - 10:30am PST
  Location: Online via Zoom

  Cost: Sigga and Jim are offering this live online gathering which is pay-what-you-can. The suggested payment for US residents is $30.

  James G. Hart was a student at the University of Chicago in the 1960s, where he encountered Eugene Gendlin and his philosophy. He took courses taught by Gene for a couple of years. Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir discovered Gendlin’s philosophy a little over a decade ago. For both philosophers, encountering Gendlin sparked a deep connection—something just "clicked." Their openness to taking a leap into philosophical practice and its underlying process philosophy allowed them to engage with his ideas in a transformative way. Both have drawn inspiration from Gendlin to further develop their own philosophical work, in theory and practice.

  James G. Hart is professor emeritus at Indiana University, where he was a professor in the Department of Religious Studies. He has specialized in phenomenology, particularly in the philosophy of religion, as well as in social ethics and political theory.

  Sigridur Thorgeirsdóttir (Sigga) is a professor of philosophy at the University of Iceland. She specializes in the philosophy of embodiment and feminist philosophy and is dedicated to integrating Gendlin’s methodology of embodied philosophizing into international research and training projects. See www.trainingect.com and www.makesense.hi.is.

  Registration info: Contact The International Focusing Institute with any questions: Phone: (845) 480-5111 Email: elizabeth@focusing.org

  
  

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• Philosophizing with Gendlin

  • When
    12 Jun 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM
  • Location
    Online via Zoom

  Philosophizing with Gendlin
  James G. Hart and Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir in Conversation
  

  James G. Hart was a student at the University of Chicago in the 1960s, where he encountered Eugene Gendlin and his philosophy. He took courses taught by Gene for a couple of years. Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir discovered Gendlin’s philosophy a little over a decade ago. For both philosophers, encountering Gendlin sparked a deep connection—something just "clicked." Their openness to taking a leap into philosophical practice and its underlying process philosophy allowed them to engage with his ideas in a transformative way. Both have drawn inspiration from Gendlin to further develop their own philosophical work, in theory and practice.

  Register

  Presented by The International Focusing Institute

  Thursday, June 12, 2025
  10:00 - 11:30am PST
  Location: Online via Zoom

  Cost: Sigga and Jim are offering this live online gathering which is pay-what-you-can. The suggested payment for US residents is $30.

  James G. Hart was a student at the University of Chicago in the 1960s, where he encountered Eugene Gendlin and his philosophy. He took courses taught by Gene for a couple of years. Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir discovered Gendlin’s philosophy a little over a decade ago. For both philosophers, encountering Gendlin sparked a deep connection—something just "clicked." Their openness to taking a leap into philosophical practice and its underlying process philosophy allowed them to engage with his ideas in a transformative way. Both have drawn inspiration from Gendlin to further develop their own philosophical work, in theory and practice.

  James G. Hart is professor emeritus at Indiana University, where he was a professor in the Department of Religious Studies. He has specialized in phenomenology, particularly in the philosophy of religion, as well as in social ethics and political theory.

  Sigridur Thorgeirsdóttir (Sigga) is a professor of philosophy at the University of Iceland. She specializes in the philosophy of embodiment and feminist philosophy and is dedicated to integrating Gendlin’s methodology of embodied philosophizing into international research and training projects. See www.trainingect.com and www.makesense.hi.is.

  Registration info: Contact The International Focusing Institute with any questions: Phone: (845) 480-5111 Email: elizabeth@focusing.org

  
  

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• Community of Care Outreach

  • When
    13 Jun 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
  • Location
    Zoom
  • Registered
    Be the first

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  What: Please join us in an ongoing conversation to make the USABP more welcoming and supportive to folx from marginalized backgrounds and identities.

  Who: We will be meeting in affinity groups to share and reflect what is needed to co-create a truly welcoming membership and specialization. When the groups are ready, they’ll merge to share and listen to recommended actions.

  When: This event will happen on the 2nd Friday of each month from January to June 2025, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM PT

  (June 13) 

  Upcoming Event: Friday, June 13, 2025

  Registration: Complimentary 

  Questions: Please contact Karen Roller: kroller@paloaltou.edu

  
  

  This event will not be recorded for this event. This course will not include CEs.

  
  

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  Karen Roller, PhD, MFT, FAAETS, DNCCM, CT, CFT, CSCR

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  

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• A Focusing Oriented Coaching Model

  • When
    17 Jun 2025
  •  
    9:00 AM
  • Location
    Online via Zoom

  A Focusing Oriented Coaching Model
  Focusing Highlights is a series of interactive, online pay-what-you-can classes.

  This Highlight explores what a Focusing-Oriented Coaching approach can look like. Many coaches have trained in Focusing but often struggle with therapeutic language and examples that don’t fully align with a coaching framework. By bridging this gap, Rod and Charlotte's approach offers a path for coaches to integrate Focusing into their practice in a way that honors both its depth and the distinct nature of coaching. 

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  Presented by The International Focusing Institute

  Tuesday, June 17, 2025
  9:00 - 12:00pm PST
  Location: Online via Zoom

  Cost: This live online class is pay-what-you-can. The suggested payment for US residents is $30.

  This Highlight explores what a Focusing-Oriented Coaching approach can look like. Many coaches have trained in Focusing but often struggle with therapeutic language and examples that don’t fully align with a coaching framework. By bridging this gap, Rod and Charlotte's approach offers a path for coaches to integrate Focusing into their practice in a way that honors both its depth and the distinct nature of coaching.

  Focusing has long found a natural home within the therapeutic profession, given its origins in Eugene Gendlin’s collaboration with Carl Rogers on a landmark study of therapeutic outcomes. Gendlin’s 1996 Focusing-Oriented Therapy (FOT) provided a clear framework for integrating Focusing into professional practice, leading to a thriving international network of FOT practitioners.

  Curiously, the modern coaching field emerged largely from the same humanistic psychology movement that Rogers helped shape. His person-centered approach influenced both Gendlin and the foundational principles of coaching. Yet, despite these shared roots, Focusing has remained largely absent from mainstream coaching methodologies, which tend to favor strengths-based approaches and personality assessments over implicit process work.

  Intended for coaches, therapists and any others involved in client-facing work. Some experience with Focusing will be helpful though all are welcome to attend.

  Rod Francis is a US-based, ICF PCC coach, coach educator, Certified Focusing Professional & Trainer, storyteller and speaker who has led professional coach training programs in Europe and the USA over the past decade and a half. He’s the founder and creator of the ICF- Accredited Emergent Coach Training program where he’s integrated a Focusing-Oriented Coaching approach with Charlotte Howorth. A former professional dancer, performer and entrepreneur, Rod is keenly interested in the integration of ancient wisdom traditions, nature-based practices and cutting-edge science with professional coaching competencies to support human change and the ease of ecological and social suffering.

  Charlotte Howorth is an ICF credentialed organizational coach. She is also a psychotherapist in private practice in NYC working with individuals, couples, families and groups. Charlotte has taught the Focusing 2-year certification program for therapists and coaches for the past 12 years and has facilitated Focusing retreats and workshops internationally. She is on the faculty of The Relational Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy program in NYC where she teaches and supervises. She is a Clinical consultant at CHDFS (Center For Human Development and Family Services) in NYC and is also a Certified C-IQ Coach.

  Registration info: Contact The International Focusing Institute with any questions: Phone: (845) 480-5111 Email: elizabeth@focusing.org

  
  

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• A Focusing-Oriented Coaching Model

  • When
    17 Jun 2025
  •  
    9:00 AM
  • Location
    Online via Zoom

  A Focusing-Oriented Coaching Model

  Focusing Highlights is a series of interactive, online pay-what-you-can classes.

  This Highlight explores what a Focusing-Oriented Coaching approach can look like. Many coaches have trained in Focusing but often struggle with therapeutic language and examples that don’t fully align with a coaching framework. By bridging this gap, Rod and Charlotte's approach offers a path for coaches to integrate Focusing into their practice in a way that honors both its depth and the distinct nature of coaching.

  Register

  Presented by The International Focusing Institute

  Tuesday, June 17, 2025
  9:00 - 11:00am PST
  Location: Online via Zoom

  Cost: This live online class is pay-what-you-can. The suggested payment for US residents is $30.

  Focusing has long found a natural home within the therapeutic profession, given its origins in Eugene Gendlin’s collaboration with Carl Rogers on a landmark study of therapeutic outcomes. Gendlin’s 1996 Focusing-Oriented Therapy (FOT) provided a clear framework for integrating Focusing into professional practice, leading to a thriving international network of FOT practitioners.

  This Highlight explores what a Focusing-Oriented Coaching approach can look like. Many coaches have trained in Focusing but often struggle with therapeutic language and examples that don’t fully align with a coaching framework. By bridging this gap, Rod and Charlotte's approach offers a path for coaches to integrate Focusing into their practice in a way that honors both its depth and the distinct nature of coaching.

  Rod Francis is a US-based, ICF PCC coach, coach educator, Certified Focusing Professional & Trainer, storyteller and speaker who has led professional coach training programs in Europe and the USA over the past decade and a half. He’s the founder and creator of the ICF- Accredited Emergent Coach Training program where he’s integrated a Focusing-Oriented Coaching approach with Charlotte Howorth. A former professional dancer, performer and entrepreneur, Rod is keenly interested in the integration of ancient wisdom traditions, nature-based practices and cutting-edge science with professional coaching competencies to support human change and the ease of ecological and social suffering.

  Charlotte Howorth is an ICF credentialed organizational coach. She is also a psychotherapist in private practice in NYC working with individuals, couples, families and groups. Charlotte has taught the Focusing 2-year certification program for therapists and coaches for the past 12 years and has facilitated Focusing retreats and workshops internationally. She is on the faculty of The Relational Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy program in NYC where she teaches and supervises. She is a Clinical consultant at CHDFS (Center For Human Development and Family Services) in NYC and is also a Certified C-IQ Coach

  Registration info: Contact The International Focusing Institute with any questions: Phone: (845) 480-5111 Email: elizabeth@focusing.org

  
  

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• Spotlight Event | Clinical Applications of Embodiment and Oneness

  • When
    19 Jun 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom
  • Registered
    3 registrants

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  This Spotlight Series Event is brought to you in partnership with The Realization Process - an official member of the USABP Educator Alliance.

  

  Presented by Judith Blackstone, PhD
  

  The founder of the Realization Process, a method of embodied psychological and relational healing and nondual spiritual awakening. She teaches workshops and teacher certification trainings world-wide and online. Judith was a psychotherapist in private practice for thirty-five years and before that, a professional dancer with a modern dance company in NYC.

  
  

  This event will be recorded and available for members and non-members who register for this event.
  
  CE credits to be determined. 

  
  

  This event will include our special Overtime! 
  

  Overtime allows attendees to continue to ask questions and invite conversation on the event material, other related inquiries, or cases after the formal event ends. 
  
  Description

  This presentation will be both experiential and didactic. Judith will teach the two main Realization Process practices for inhabiting one’s body and attuning to a subtle ground of consciousness pervading one’s body and environment as a unity. She will explain how these practices can be applied to helping our clients feel safe and steady within themselves and, at the same time, deeply connected with others even in the midst of our present chaotic and divisive times.

  When we live within our body we have a tangible experience of our own existence, the potency of our aliveness. We uncover the actual feel of our love, intelligence, sexuality and personal power within our body.

  When we attune to unified consciousness pervading our body and environment, we have a tangible experience of our essential oneness with other people. This can give us the safety to explore our differences with other people, and the courage to appreciate our own differentness, our own uniqueness, without feeling estranged from other people. We can more easily respect and support each other’s differences when we know (and feel) that they emerge from a foundation of basic human kinship. Inhabiting our body and attuning to unified consciousness can give us a sense of belonging, within our own body, and within the world.

  Unified consciousness is spiritual only in the sense that it is subtle. As a subtle attunement to ourselves, it is readily available to anyone who wants to experience it. It is a resource within ourselves that has never been injured, that is unbreakable and whole. Accessing it can help counter the discouragement and despair that many of our clients feel in their healing process. As a deep level of contact with ourselves and our surroundings, it can contribute to healing the dissociation, fragmentation and the many forms of bodily defense and dysregulation that often result from trauma.
  
  Presenter Information

  Judith Blackstone, PhD is the founder of the Realization Process, a method of embodied psychological and relational healing and nondual spiritual awakening. Her approach differs from many other nonduality teachers in that she views the realization of self-other oneness as maturing and enriching our experience of our individual existence, rather than eradicating it. Judith teaches workshops and teacher certification trainings world-wide and online. There are now many hundreds of Realization Process teachers throughout the world. She was a psychotherapist in private practice for thirty-five years and before that, a professional dancer. The Realization Process includes practices for stabilizing in nondual realization, as well as a method of recovering from trauma called Healing Ground, a method of embodied movement called Stillness Moving and a method of relational healing called Empathic Ground. She is the author of seven books, including Trauma and the Unbound Body: the Healing Power of Fundamental Consciousness; The Empathic Ground: Intersubjectivity and Nonduality in the Psychotherapeutic Process; The Intimate Life; and Belonging Here. Her latest book is The Fullness of the Ground: A Guide to Embodied Spiritual Awakening. www.realizationprocess.org.

  
  

  

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  Our events often include demonstrations, video and slide presentations, experiential exercises, Q & A discussions, insights from attendees, presenter shares about their personal journey and inspirations, and much more.

  These courses content levels serve introductory or beginning level; intermediate level; or advanced level.

  Please cancel prior to 24 hours before the course starts. For questions or concerns, phone 202-466-1619.

  Disability Access - If you require ADA accommodations please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification.

  

  DON’T FORGET! 

  REGISTRATION is in three steps:

  1) Register first on the USABP website (click the register button on this page), and then

  2) Register at Zoom too. Use the Zoom link that we will email to you after you register with USABP (click the register button on this page to begin registration).

  3) Once you register with Zoom.  Zoom will send you your login link.

  We look forward to seeing you at this premiere event.

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• Special Workshop: Money and the Force of Life

  • When
    21 Jun 2025
  •  
    7:30 AM
  • Location
    Zoom

  Special Workshop: Money and the Force of Life

  Saturday, June 21, 2025 9:30 AM  12:30 PM CT

  Sign up Here

  Money seems to make the world go round….it certainly causes us distress, and having it is something thought to be a good thing (is it?). But what is it really? More importantly, how do our body and psyche make sense of the invention of money? Does it understand it as real? I will argue, it doesn’t. Our bodies understand transacting a different “currency”, that of Life force and energy. Though some people say “money is energy”, I will argue that it really isn’t.

  In this 3 hour workshop we will consider the origin or money, the gender of money and how we can distinguish it from vitality, and what really helps us know we are alive.

  Cost $125. (If you are having difficulty with this amount let us know).

  Payment:

  In order to reduce costs we don’t have automated payment. When we get your registration we will send you a request for payment. Or just pay here and come: paypal.me/soullcommunity

  Workshop will be taught by Jeanne:

  Sign up Here

  Jeanne Denney / 845-598-1727 / soullcommunity@gmail.com

  Organization: SoULL

  
  

  
  

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• Sensory Awareness Retreat

  • Start
    22 Jun 2025
  • End
    29 Jun 2025
  • Location
    Cortes Island, B.C., Canada

  Sensory Awareness Workshop 
  Nature and our Nature 
  Cortes Island, B.C., Canada June 22-29, 2025

  Living Well In Challenging Times; 
  Basking in the Beauty of the World; 
  And Becoming More Fully Ourselves

  
  

  
  

  
  

  We are naturally born as vital, fully sensory beings. Traumas, tensions, even some education can diminish our vitality, creating unrest and insecurity in our lives. Sensory Awareness – the practice of deeply exploring our sensations, our actions and interactions, through practical sensing experiments – can guide us back to our natural resources and lead us to more authenticity and vitality. Through Sensory Awareness we can recover ways of living more fully in the world, rediscovering the wisdom and interconnection of our whole selves and reclaiming our natural being.

  In this workshop, participants will explore their sensations and responses internally and externally, in relationship with others, with nature and with our human nature. These explorations can bring a trust and security that may assist us in finding the ability and pleasure of responding more sensitively and authentically in our lives. As we find our natural vitality we can relate more fully with others, find peace and satisfaction in our selves, and the ability to extend it further into the world.

  Time to rest, swim, play, and enjoy beautiful Cortes Island will be an integral part of this workshop.

  Tuition: $650 US for the week. Early Bird Discount of $50.00 if payment is made by April 15th.

  Meals and accommodations are extra.

  Inexpensive camping & bunking possibilities are available on Judyth’s property. Please ask if you are interested. There are various B&Bs throughout the island. lodging at Hollyhock with full meals, hot tub, etc. may be possible www.hollyhock.ca Cortes Island has become very popular, it is wise to make reservations as soon as you can.

  Judyth O. Weaver, Ph.D.  began studying with Charlotte Selver in 1968, and has been offering the 

  work since 1985.   She gives workshops and individual classes around the world and online.

  For more information and registration please contact: judyth@judythweaver.com

  Cell phone: 415-548-0365: Phone on Cortes: 250-935-8500

  
  

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• Women's Empowerment Somatic Retreat and Firewalk Ceremony

  • When
    11 Jul 2025
  •  
    11:00 AM
  • Location
    5959 West Loop South, Ste. 430 Houston, Texas 77401

  Women's Empowerment Somatic Retreat and Firewalk Ceremony
  Women's Empowerment Somatic Retreat

  Warrior Goddess Women's Empowerment Somatic Retreat and Fire Walk Ceremony

  WHEN:
  Friday, April 11: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

  Saturday, April 12: 1:00 PM – 8:30 PM

  Ready to sign up!!

  Use discount code FIRE20 for 20% off!

  ANNOUNCEMENT !!!

  Women of all ages, colors, sizes, shapes, identity and orientation you are invited to learn more about the Warrior Goddess Women’s Empowerment Retreat and Fire Walk Ceremony

  Make 2025 the year that you start embracing the Women you were meant to be!

  Commit to you!

  Enter into a world of discovery, exploration and openness to claim the women you are destined to be, not what your told to be.

  To reclaim our wholeness, we need to heal all aspects of ourselves: our mind, energy, emotions, and physical body. Knowing the Impact that negative messages and behaviors has on our full self, giving yourself permission to Purge what no longer serves you, brings Freedom and connection to your true self.

  Let this be the time you step into your fullness!!

  Be supported on your journey, by a matrix of Warrior Goddess women who have displayed full acceptance, love, and trust. We are here to be vulnerable and walk with you through a journey of change so you no longer feel isolated and alone. You are accepted unconditionally.

  Our time together will include many powerful experiential ways to come more into all aspects of the Warrior Goddess within us.

  Breakthrough areas of your life that are stopping you from being the women you are meant to be.

  Let the Maiden, Mother, Crone within you all coming together to guide you through the Arrow Breaking Ceremony, the Somatic plunge, The Fire Walk Ceremony, the elements of divine essence and more....

  Yes! I did say a Fire Walk Ceremony.

  Fire walking opens up the door of possibility in all areas of one’s life.

  Allow the element of Fire to take any fear, self-doubt, frustrations, and negative beliefs.

  By challenging our beliefs, we open up our perspective and begin to take responsibility for creating something more expanded and powerful with our lives. These ceremonies are an amazing experience you will not want to miss!

  Warrior Goddess Women's Empowerment Somatic Retreat and Fire Walk Ceremony

  WHEN: Friday/Saturday April 11-12, 2025

  Friday 10am-6pm Saturday 1pm-8:30pm

  The weekend of the Full Pink Moon. The first official moon of Spring time. We will be setting our intentions for our own blossoming into this season. This is a time of breakthroughs and manifesting change and evolution.

  Warrior Goddess sisters….Let’s howl at the moon together.

  Warrior Goddess Women's Empowerment Somatic Retreat and Firewalk presenter:

  Jeanna Gomez, LCSW, LADAC, CPC, SEP, BASE-P

  Warrior Goddess Leadership Team, Training Facilitator and Wild Soul Tribe Firewalk Instructor

  GCCS utilizes 24 plus years of trauma healing experience, and the teaching learned from various modalities including the Warrior Goddess training and mentorship of Heatherash Amara, the ground breaking Facing Codependence model of Pia Mellody, the Felt Sense rediscovery work of Somatic Experiencing by Peter Levine and the Wild Soul Tribe Firewalk training and Breakthrough coaching by Lottie Moore

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• Embodied Altruism: Connecting Brain to Heart. with Dr. Mark Brady

  • When
    13 Jul 2025
  •  
    7:00 AM
  • Location
    Zoom

  Embodied Altruism: Connecting Brain to Heart. with Dr. Mark Brady

  Sunday, July 13, 2025 6:00 PM CST

  Sign up Here

  Generosity feels so good, yet rarely becomes a solid cornerstone in people’s daily lives. What if generosity isn’t just a virtue, but an actual biological imperative? Come join us together with transpersonal neurobiologist, Mark Brady for a brain-body journey that will explore how our entire being can recover the natural flow of our generous heart – we’re all hard-wired for giving. Through pictures, words, story, and experiential learning, come discover how your neurobiology either regularly amplifies or constrains your deepest altruistic impulses.

  These three dynamic 90-minute presentations weave cutting-edge neuroscience with somatic research findings that will help us recognize and release the whole-body patterns that block authentic generosity. Through playful experiences, surprising revelations and captivating insights, we'll explore how subtle shifts in perspective, posture, breath, and awareness can transform our capacity for deep connection and joyful giving.

  Mark is generously offering this free program. It is an experience that may forever change how you carry your heart forward into the world. Space is limited so sign up early.

  Dates are: July 13, 20 and 27,

  7 AM Pacific Time. 8 MT, 9 A.M. CT. 10 A.M. EST

  As noted…No payment required. Program is FREE
  

  Sign up Here

  Jeanne Denney / 845-598-1727 / soullcommunity@gmail.com

  Organization: SoULL

  
  

  
  

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• T’ai Chi Ch’uan – An Exercise for Life

  • When
    14 Jul 2025
  • Location
    Cortes Island,B.C., Canada

  T’ai Chi Ch’uan – An Exercise for Life
  July 14-20, 2025 Cortes Island,B.C., Canada

  This workshop teaches and reviews the complete short Yang form of T’ai Chi Ch’uan as taught by Grandmaster Cheng Man-Ch’ing.

  This is a good chance to learn, learn more, brush up lapsed practices, deepen your understandings and meet and share playing T’ai Chi Ch’uan with others.

  Applications of the form and sensing hands (tui shou) will be introduced.

  Tuition: $650. US/Can equivalent.
  Meals and accommodations extra.
  (There are camping/lodging possibilities on Judyth’s property as well as B&B’s and a motel on the island.)

  Please register early: judyth@judythweaver.com

  Cortes Island: 250-935-8500.
  Cell phone: 415-548-0365

  Judyth received authorization to teach T’ai Chi Ch’uan from Grandmaster Cheng Man-Ch’ing’s Shr Jung Center for Culture and the Arts in 1971. She was the First Student of Benjamin Pang Jeng Lo in the U.S. She has taught throughout the world, always focusing on the authenticity, purity and simplicity of this short Yang form in order to promote self-help, relaxation, and coordination of body, mind and spirit. In 1974 Judyth created the T’ai Chi Ch’uan program at Naropa Institute. Her careful approach presents T’ai Chi as an integral way of life and as an essential exercise available to anyone.

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• Meditation Informed by Focusing

  • When
    30 Jul 2025
  •  
    9:30 AM
  • Location
    Online via Zoom

  Meditation Informed by Focusing

  An experiential workshop with Serge Prengel

  Traditionally, meditation is an individual practice with the focus being on concentration and awareness, not on connection with others. This approach led by Serge blends moments of meditation and moments of sharing our experiences of meditating. It works both for experienced meditators and those with little to no experience meditating. It helps you learn more about the process and yourself.

  Register

  Presented by The International Focusing Institute

  Wednesday, July 30, 2025
  9:30 - 11:00am PST
  Location: Online via Zoom

  Cost: $35 Members, $45 Non-members

  Traditionally, meditation is an individual practice with the focus being on concentration and awareness, not on connection with others. This approach led by Serge blends moments of meditation and moments of sharing our experiences of meditating. It works both for experienced meditators and those with little to no experience meditating. It helps you learn more about the process and yourself.

  After an introductory talk, we will meditate together in silence for 20 minutes. It is freestyle meditation. There will be some guidance to make everybody comfortable with this experience.

  Following the meditation, there will be a demonstration of sharing about our experiences in a Focusing way, and then we will practice it in breakout rooms. We conclude with lessons learned.

  All levels of experience (or inexperience) with meditation are welcome.

  Serge Prengel is a Focusing-oriented therapist, coordinator, and a co-founder of the Integrative Focusing Therapy online training program. He explores creative approaches to mindfulness at www.ActivePause.com

  Registration info: Contact The International Focusing Institute with any questions: Phone: (845) 480-5111 Email: elizabeth@focusing.org

  
  

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• MARROW

  • When
    17 Aug 2025
  •  
    6:00 PM
  • Location
    MARROW

  MARROW
  an emergent experience of aliveness and connection

  MARROW is a retreat program in somatics, embodiment and meditation offered by Sandrine Harris (SEP, GCFP, RSMT/E), at the OMEGA Institute.

  Come and unearth your aliveness, and reconnect with your whole self through creativity, nature connection, and community care. This program

  is for all adults (age 20+) and no prior experience with somatics or meditation is needed to attend.

  Register

  Sunday, August 17th @ 6pm eastern time
  through
  Friday, August 22nd @ 12pm eastern time

  Cost: $440.00 plus accommodations

  Sandrine Harris is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Pain Reprocessing Practitioner, Feldenkrais somatic educator, meditation facilitator, dancer, death doula and psychotherapist-in-training. Her private practice and group process are collectively named Emergent Nature. MARROW is her current signature program, focused into non-verbal expression and integration, through sensory learning and expressing through creativity and connection. To Learn More about Sandrine: sandrineharris.com/about-sandrine-harris

  Sunday, August 17th @ 6pm eastern time

  through

  Friday, August 22nd @ 12pm eastern time

  OMEGA Institute (Rhinebeck, NY)

  *There are several ways to join us: lodging at the retreat center, camping on site, and commuting.

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• Somatic resourcing + Process group

  • When
    1 Oct 2025
  • Location
    In Person - Boulder, CO

  Somatic resourcing + Process group

  5-week series

  Next series begins October 2025 - contact me for more info: kerry@kerrymaiorca.com

  In-person event in Boulder, CO

  Reconnect with yourself and others

  ​​​To live a life of purpose, meaning, and wellbeing, it's essential to have a variety of ways to resource yourself through life's ups and downs.

  ​You may have learned to tune out body sensations like pain or discomfort in order to better function in daily life, but this makes it hard to feel other things on a physical and emotional level too.

  How can you feel fully alive and know how to meet your changing needs when you've had to habitually numb yourself just to get by?

  ​If you feel lonely even when surrounded by people, or you're craving friend interactions that go beyond likes, pics, and reels, you're not alone.​ Authentic connections with others are hard to come by these days.

  And it's often even harder to access tools for tapping into your own experience of your body, mind, and emotions in the moment.

  Who has the time or patience for that when life is so busy?​

  This small group experience will give you an opportunity to slow down and experience spaciousness, ease, and rest. You'll practice reconnecting with your body and nervous system while fostering a supportive group connection.

  Explore your connection to your self and others with the tools of somatic resourcing.

  About the group

  ​​Drawing from yoga, mindfulness, and the principles of somatic therapy, this group will offer you experiential practices of movement, breath, and relaxation designed to resource and rejuvenate.

  You'll learn the basics of nervous system states and polyvagal theory to better understand how to self-regulate, whether that means calming or energizing.

  With guided experiences of group processing, you will explore your own patterns for how you show up within a group. Discover how first connecting with yourself and your present moment experience can enhance your ability to relate to others from a grounded place.

  ​​​​Each session will incorporate simple movement and mindfulness practices such as gentle yoga and breath techniques, restorative yoga poses, and a mini sound bath experience. These embodied practices are designed to help you connect with your body and better manage your nervous system state. In addition to experiential work, there will be ample time, space, and guidance in each session for processing and sharing your experience within the group.​

  Group is limited to a maximum of 10 participants.

  Cost: $275

  If the cost is prohibitive, please contact me for sliding scale pricing options.

  Register now for community and connection - https://www.kerrymaiorca.com/somaticgroup

  
  

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