site last updated April, 2012

What is Focusing?
Focusing is always inviting further definition. This question of how to define it, never goes away. As the practice of a new worldview, this is to be expected. In this section you will find a multi-dimensional approach to definition including: Focusing as listening, a list, Focusing sayings, history and research, Focusing partnership, a change in the way something is being lived, and 7 reasons why you need to learn Focusing.

Activities Calendar for Workshops, Retreats and New Programs
This gives dates and locations for workshops and retreats. It also notes training programs which are in the process of forming and their location as well as workshops for ongoing training programs.

Getting Started with Focusing
Whether you are primarily interested in training as a psychotherapist, or as some other professional, or for personal growth or for organizational transformation, there are various routes for getting started —phone or in-person sessions, demonstration sessions for your small group of colleagues or friends; initial workshops in your location for small, medium, or large groups...

Growing with Focusing
After a workshop or two and/or some phone sessions in Focusing, what can enable you to grow further in this practice? A 10 month program for certification in Focusing Partnership... a 9 month thesis/dissertation realization program... workshops from 4-12 hours on: Anxiety, Political Action, Advanced Listening, Quaker Process, overcoming special difficulty with felt sense formation or other specialty workshops...

Certification Training Programs
IFI offers a 2-2.5 year Certification program for psychotherapists or for other professionals as a Focusing Oriented Therapist or Focusing Trainer. We offer 10 month courses in Focusing Partnership.

About Robert L. Lee
A traditional bio and a long and a condensed list of his specialty and innovation areas in Focusing.

Our Mission
The Interamerican Focusing Institute (IFI) has its mission in bringing Focusing to, in elaborating Focusing in, and in interlinking Focusing development in north, central and south america. IFI offers its training to Psychotherapists, Professionals, Organizations, Students (especially in psychology), and to persons seeking personal growth. IFI is especially interested in supporting the further application of Focusing in various fields (Psychology, Self-Help Personal Growth, Spirituality, Education, Health, Creativity, Philosophy, Social/Political Change, Organizational Development, Cultural Diversity).