Learn Focusing

Our *LIVE* online courses offer a unique interactive and small group experience where participants have an opportunity to share the embodied process of Focusing practice. All courses include some teaching and breakout rooms to practice in Focusing partnerships. In addition, you can opt to practice with a focusing partner weekly for the duration of the course.

Upcoming Focusing offerings with Annette, colleagues and trainees. Workshops and courses have sliding scale pricing. The PUPA Journey courses follow the PUPA process that combines Focusing with other embodied creativity tools for clear and doable action steps. You can also become certified in Focusing or have 1:1 private Focusing sessions with Annette or trainees.

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Focusing for Beginners—for advanced listeners with Annette
Aug 10
Focusing for Beginners—for advanced listeners with Annette

In this four-week Focusing course, we delve deeply into each of the 6 steps. Each class includes a teaching of step(s) and listening skills, a small experiential exercise, and then practice.

Fees: sliding scale pricing up to $240 US

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Changes Group & Empathy Circle
Aug 16
Changes Group & Empathy Circle

A Changes Group is a free-of-charge, peer-led group that meets so people can exchange Focusing and listening turns in an atmosphere of safety and mutual respect. It's a group for continuing your Focusing practice; no teaching will be done.

Breakout rooms are used after a brief group centering and grounding practice. You can choose to be in a group of two, three, or join the empathy circle.

Fees: No cost, this event is free.

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Focusing for Beginners (8 weeks) with Annette Dubreuil
Sep 1
Focusing for Beginners (8 weeks) with Annette Dubreuil

In this eight-week Focusing course, we dig into each of the 6 steps. Each class includes either a teaching of step(s) and/or listening skills, a small experiential exercise, a demonstration and then breakout room practice.

Fees: sliding scale pricing up to $320 US

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APM Discussion Group
Sep 30
APM Discussion Group

In this weekly discussion group, we will unpack readings from Gendlin’s major work of philosophy over the course of five months.

Fees: sliding scale pricing up to $500 US

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Deepening your Focusing and Listening with Empathy and Compassion (8 weeks) with Annette
Nov 10
Deepening your Focusing and Listening with Empathy and Compassion (8 weeks) with Annette

This eight-week course is an opportunity to strengthen your listening skills and deepen your Focusing experiences. In improving your listening skills with empathy and compassion, you create an even stronger container for the felt sense and Focusing process, the motor of change.

Fees: sliding scale pricing up to $320 US

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Enough with the Process Skipping: Using Focusing to Shift Something Big
Jan 19
Enough with the Process Skipping: Using Focusing to Shift Something Big

This ten-week course is an opportunity to unpack a bad habit or addiction with Focusing. In doing so, we get to hear the “body’s as yet unheard story” that is underneath our process skipping. By being with the felt sense of our experience, something new can emerge.

Fees: sliding scale pricing up to $320 US

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Focusing Process Group (8 weeks)
Apr 20
Focusing Process Group (8 weeks)

This process group is an opportunity to meet in a group to allow the process of Focusing to carry you forward, while deepening both your Focusing and listening skills. There is a strong emphasis on building self-compassion through common humanity in this group, and we utilize the practice of empathy circles and empathic listening each class to help achieve this goal.

Fees: sliding scale pricing, prices vary by group

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Understanding who you are: mapping your nervous system, parts and timeline (8 weeks)
Sep 7
Understanding who you are: mapping your nervous system, parts and timeline (8 weeks)

The class spends the first three weeks connecting to our grounded Self, building a “safe nest” to do the deeper Focusing on our wounded and protector parts in weeks four to seven. As we map our experiences with felt sense body cards, we learn about our nervous system and our history. We finish the class by retelling our stories.

Fees: sliding scale pricing up to $480 US

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Creating your Special Project: a TAE exploration of Focusing and You (8 weeks)
Nov 16
Creating your Special Project: a TAE exploration of Focusing and You (8 weeks)

Who do you want to be? What is it you want to bring into the world? In this 8-week course you will have a safe space, guidance and companionship to discover something about yourself. You’ll receive support to connect with your inner knowing, a kind of certainty you feel in your body but that you are not yet able to express.

Fees: sliding scale pricing up to $480 US

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Transform Yourself with the 8Cs of Self-Leadership (8 weeks)
Feb 8
Transform Yourself with the 8Cs of Self-Leadership (8 weeks)

In this 8-week group, you will use Focusing to transform a significant issue in your life, in part by deepening your access to Self through the 8Cs of Self-Leadership. This can be working towards a personal or professional goal (could be your special project developed in the Thinking At the Edge course). However, the course is designed in such a way that you can also bring a different topic each week to your Focusing, and concentrate on building your 8Cs which help you live as your Self more often.

Fees: sliding scale pricing up to $480 US

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Embodied Leadership for Creative Action
Apr 18
Embodied Leadership for Creative Action

In this ten-week Focusing course, we learn to use self-regulation and co-regulation to affect the interactions in our relationships. You can explore any relationships, including those of teams that are pursuing a creative purpose. Either way, the course is designed to get you into action in a more emotionally regulated way.

Fees: sliding scale pricing up to $480 US

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Testimonial: Focusing Process Group
Testimonial: Focusing Process Group

Focusing provides a readily accessible path to understanding yourself by connecting to the deeper wisdom in your body and subconscious--a source of wisdom that we are usually too busy, distracted and lost in our thoughts to hear. If you wish to know yourself and those around you better, focusing is perhaps the most direct way of doing that. And I can think of no one better able to teach this valuable practice than Annette. She is both skillful and compassionate, and she does an exemplary job of making the process easy to understand and experience. Most importantly, she has the ability to create a safe and welcoming space for people to begin to explore deeper aspects of themselves in the company of others.

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Testimonial: Focusing 101 Workshop
Testimonial: Focusing 101 Workshop

“Great! This two-hour workshop gave me exactly what I wanted, which was a deeper understanding of the process and more importantly seeing it in action. Nothing beats having a direct experience. Thank you, Annette, for your knowledge, patience and kindness.” Alan Ross, Psychotherapist, UK

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Testimonial: Focusing for Beginners for Advanced Listeners (4 weeks)
Testimonial: Focusing for Beginners for Advanced Listeners (4 weeks)

“As a newcomer to focusing, I very much appreciated Annette’s ability to hold an open and nurturing space. In addition, her teachings seamlessly built on one another over the span of the course. Presentations were clear, accessible and engaging. Finally, Annette patiently encouraged exploration of the focusing process, an ability that allowed me to grow in my practice—as a person, artist and coach.” Steve J.

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