ON-DEMAND COURSE

Focusing: Accessing the Body’s Wisdom

Jungian Psychology
TEACHER
Leslie Ellis
TOPIC
Deep Insights
Format
4 Class Course
DURATION
6 Hrs

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Learn the gentle art of inner sensing and listening to others

Focusing is a method of getting a sense of yourself from the inside. Dr. Leslie Ellis has decades of clinical experience using this gentle way to access the body’s wisdom.

Focusing is a method of inner exploration that emphasizes each person’s directly-felt experience. What you feel bodily is the most important guide to a focusing session. In this 4 class course Leslie will teach us how to focus and find what our body already knows about situations that confuse us.

Leslie will share the steps that guide us to our “inner sense of rightness.” Join her and take a step in the right

Course Description

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Focusing is a deeply embodied listening practice that can lead to living with greater immediacy. It can be applied both in the practice of psychotherapy and in deepening connection with oneself. This method of inner inquiry is gentle and safe, yet goes deep and is often helpful in surprising ways.

Focusing has its roots in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Dr. Eugene Gendlin studied thousands of patients and therapists to determine what made the therapeutic experience successful or not. He discovered that the technique of the therapist was not relevant. What made the difference was the patients’ ability to enter their own experience during the session. Gendlin evaluated what successful patients were already doing and broke that process down into 5 steps. He called this process “Focusing” and dedicated his life to helping people learn this softly penetrating skill.

The atmosphere of focusing is collaborative, respectful, supportive and nurturing of what your actual experience is. This acceptance of what is makes exploring safe and fruitful. With Leslie’s guidance you will feel more empathy for your predicament and more resourcefulness about how to move within it.

All four class sessions will begin with a group experiential practice of a focusing session or will offer an experience of a relevant aspect of focusing. This highly experiential method is best learned by doing, and this will be followed by information about theory and technique. There will also be demonstrations of 1:1 focusing sessions with class participants.

While focusing can be a lifelong study, this course with master teacher Dr. Leslie Ellis, is a powerfully deep introduction to listening to the body’s wisdom.

This program is ideal if you want to be able to

  • Deepen your ability to access your body’s wisdom.
  • Gain a practical tool for addressing the challenges on your journey.
  • Learn about Focusing from a recognized teacher.
  • Add a profound dimension of listening to the body to your work with clients, being a coach or mental health practitioner.
  • Understand the influence of Eugene Gendlin in modern psychotherapy.

Course overview

What you will receive

*You will receive a certificate of completion, but it’s not from an official accrediting body. Please check if it will be accepted by the organization you wish to use it with.
4 videos & 4 audio recordings
Companion Guide, Reading List
Accurate Subtitles
Certificate of completion*
Available in English

ABout the teacher

Leslie Ellis

Dr. Leslie Ellis, PhD, is an author, teacher, speaker and clinical dreamworker. Her book, A Clinician’s Guide to Dream Therapy (Routledge, 2019) offers therapists a primer in modern, experiential dreamwork.

Scholarships

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