Past Workshops

Community Wellness Focusing – 12 Month In-Person Training

Join us for this year-long Community Wellness Focusing (CWF) Certification course. We will meet on the first Saturday of each month in Corvallis, OR, USA How do you know if this course is right for you?  This certification course is for you if you want […]

Yearlong Online Community Wellness Focusing-2024

Please join us for this webinar-based 12 month Community Wellness Focusing (CWF) Certification course. We will meet twice a month over Zoom from January through December How do you know if this course is right for you?  This certification course is for you if you […]

Sunflower Mind: The embodied & relational edge of Focusing-oriented therapy

Focusing is based on our ability to experience and process a bodily felt sense. This course describes what makes this possible, how it relates to fostering therapeutic change, and how to apply it effectively in therapy. The Sunflower Mind metaphor reflects a focus on interaction, as opposed […]

The DNA of Change: An experiential process group for therapists Copy

This process group fosters experiential integration of what you know about yourself and what you know about therapy. It works at several levels: One level is to integrate what happens clinically with clients and what it brings up for you personally. Our exploration straddles personal […]

Psychological First Aid (PFA) – A Webinar Series

What do you do when you don’t know what to do? How do you be with someone who has suffered from a traumatic event? Maybe they just lost everything in a fire or earthquake or other traumatic event? Maybe you could use some extra emotional […]

Psychological First Aid – PFA (Our Self-Paced Online Course)

Past Event

Psychological first aid (PFA)  is a peer based process. Professionals can use PFA, but it really is designed for use by anyone who knows how to listen well. Whether we’re professionals or not, it is what to do when you’re in the midst of a […]

Interactive Focusing: an online workshop

Interactive Focusing was developed by Janet Klein and Mary McGuire. It is a wonderful tool to enhance empathic understanding of yourself and others, and create deep connections with yourself and others. You can also work in a safe way with conflict, misunderstanding or disagreement between […]

Psychosocial Support, Community Wellness and Focusing (Our Self-Paced On-line Course)

Psychosocial Support and Community Wellness (PSSCW): We, at Focusing Initiatives International, believe that each of us is intimately connected to our community and that our own wellness is reflected in and responds to the wellness of the community as a whole. That is what psychosocial […]

Indigenous Tools for Living

Contact Us for the information about the next session.  An 8-session integrative therapy workshop exploring indigenous tools for living on how to work and sit with complex trauma without burnout. This workshop is for professionals at all levels, who are working with marginalized people. We […]