Annette Dubreuil
Annette is a Certifying Coordinator with The International Focusing Institute and is the founder of PUPA Focusing.
She teaches individuals and groups, including future Focusing Teachers through her two-year certification program. Annette trains her students and clients to strengthen their access to their intuition—especially the intuitive knowing that whispers to us in our bodies via the felt sense. In learning to listen to our physical sensations, before they are emotions, images, concepts, or words, we open ourselves to creativity and transformation. Annette uses different tools to access this inner knowing, most notably Focusing. Through Focusing, we can also access our inner resources, to gain the confidence and courage to act on our new ideas.
Annette developed the PUPA process, a crossing of Gendlin’s Focusing and MIT’s Theory U to help support her students and clients as they undertake transformative change. Annette is especially passionate about working with people who want to transform themselves to change the world—to make it more sustainable and equitable. She has a special interest in climate change, and hosts Climate Circles that enable climate action.
She has an undergraduate degree in environmental science from the University of Waterloo and a MBA in sustainability from the Schulich School of Business. Her previous work was dedicated to sustainability and climate change research, most recently as communications director at Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission. She enjoys gardening, rock climbing, cycling, and cooking.
Learn Focusing from Annette in one of her recordings or videos. For example, our Empathy Circles Focusing on a Topic: