YongWei Xu discusses the impact of Wholebody Focusing and Heartfelt Conversation in her life and the lives of her focusing partners. She also describes her work with focusers in a small village outside of Shanghai.

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 […]

Elizabeth Morana and Donna Blank in Heartfelt Conversation regarding experiencing waking up in a new way.

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 […]

Focusing Initiatives International is excited to announce the first International Wholebody Focusing (WBF) Retreat, from August 16-20, 2018. We will be bringing together Wholebody Focusers from around the globe to meet each other in our own “we” space, as well as to honor Kevin McEvenue […]

FII’s newly published Reaching Resilience is rich with fresh, living stories and activities, such as ‘dry stick green stick’, ‘inner guests’, and ‘the story listener’.  As people have used these activities, they have adapted them to different cultures and situations around the world. Here is […]