“Resilience Initiatives” You can receive a FREE PDF COPY of our new journal, Resilience Initiatives – with a donation of any size through the end of September.  Focusing Initiatives International recognizes that many people are doing wonderful, healing work in communities around the world and […]

Just outside of the city of Peshawar in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan is an orphanage, actually a residential boarding school with 180 boys, ages 5-12, who had lost their fathers and were street beggars. The facility, called Zamung Kor, Pukhtu for ‘Our […]

Being aware of our internal signals is the core of Focusing. It’s also the key to handling our difficult emotions or just feeling better. Usually, to sense our felt wisdom inside requires a slower pace than we can find in our hectic lives. Using the […]

Nasser ben Hassen discusses who Focusing Initiatives International helped him learn focusing and how he has shared those skills with his community. He talks about how the teaching and learning of focusing is organic and not linear. #Community Wellness #

As an anthropologist, I am trained to listen to people and understand their point of view. In Liberia, I and my team of local researchers went into communities and said, “We are from WHO (the World Health Organization) and we need to know what you […]

COMMUNITY WELLNESS – building resiliency through mutual support At FII, our team meetings begin with a pause during which we check inside to sense what is going on for us at that moment, and then share what comes. In the first meeting after Pat returned […]