The pandemic brought so many challenges back in 2020, but there were also some gifts. It was during this time that some of us began to explore online courses and workshops offered by the International Focusing Institute.
During the isolation of Covid restrictions, these were an opportunity to connect, as well as providing wonderful learning opportunities. Among the offerings from the Institute are the “Roundtables”.
Unlike courses and workshops, each Focusing Roundtable is designed to promote informal peer-to-peer conversation. Rather than acting as expert presenters, the Hosts serve as conversation moderators to encourage sharing and exploration of the topics from the participants’ own perspectives. All participants’ sharings are welcome and valuable, no matter what level of experience or knowledge you have on the topic. There is, at least one Roundtable every month and attendance is free for members of the Institute.
Over the past year alone, Roundtables have brought people together to talk about:
- Focusing and Children
- Bringing Focusing to Therapeutic practices. This series has included titles such as: Psychotherapy in this time of existential threat – How can FOTs meet today’s challenges?
- Let’s talk about Interactive Focusing
- Building Community for Focusers
- The Coracle on the High Seas – Focusing as a Navigational Guide
- Felt Sensing and Spacious Listening in Everyday Life
- Clearing a Space – Gendlin’s First Step
- Discovering the ‘Felt sense’ of YOUR ‘Wise SELF.’
If you would like to attend some of the upcoming Roundtables, you can become a “friend” of the Institute for $25 annually. Members are notified of upcoming events by email and the Roundtables are also posted on the TIFI website here. We would love to see some of our IFN friends join us for these relaxed and friendly global Focusing community events.
Mary Jennings, Elaine Goggin, Margaret Quinn
(Roundtable Team, TIFI)
Roundtable on Focusing and Sport with Rafael Villeta
Children and Focusing Roundtable on Love and Boundaries with John Keane
Roundtable on Focusing and Poetry with Marie McGuigan and Mary Jennings
Roundtable on "On Setting Up a Reading Group to Explore Gendlin's Philosophy" with Margaret Quinn and Mary Jennings
