Focusing-Oriented Therapy

A Compassionate Path To Radical Change

23rd and 24th November 2024

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.  

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.