Focusing-Oriented Therapy

A Compassionate Path To Radical Change

Dates - TBA

This workshop outlines the essence and main elements of Focusing-Oriented Therapy (FOT) and its distinct approach to clients’ change process. FOT is a form of client-centred, process-oriented, experiential therapy with a humanistic spirit and a relational heart. It works with immediate experience by using the felt sensing method—directly felt bodily experience of one’s lived reality.  

"Focusing is based on the very positive expectation of change. It doesn't envision a human being as a fixed structure whose shape can be analysed once and for all. It envisions a person as a process, capable of continual change and forward movement. The 'problems' inside you are only those parts of the process that have been stopped, and the aim of focusing is to unstop them and get the process moving again. When you are focusing correctly, you not only expect change; you create it in the very act of focusing." - Eugene Gendlin

You will learn about:

• FOT view of personality, philosophy of change, psychotherapy process and interventions

• Assessment process from the FOT perspective

• Balancing the internal (deep inner work), relational (relational dynamic between the client and the therapist), and external (present-day life’s problem-focus) focus and work, with the awareness of the phases of the therapy process

• Therapeutic responses and interventions that help the clients stay in an empathic relationship with their inner experiencing and complete the healing process

• Important variations and some limitations in applying FOT in working with different clients’ presentations

• FOT - clinical applications, research, and challenges

This workshop is a part of the advanced training in Focusing and FOT, and the previous completion of the Focusing Course (parts 1 and 2) is required.