4-week live online course
with Ann Weiser Cornell & Peter Gill
Focusing on the Good
Cultivate positive feelings and enjoy more of life.
Learn how to discover joy, meaning, wonder,
and your body’s “yes”!
Cultivate positive feelings and enjoy more of life
Focusing on the Good
a 4-week live online course with Ann Weiser Cornell and Peter Gill
Learn how to discover joy, meaning, wonder, and your body’s “yes”
Enjoyment, nourishment, meaning, and joy are human needs.
How much of the time do you feel stressed, worried, pressured, or overwhelmed? And how much time do you spend feeling good?
It often seems that our negative feelings have to crowd out any positive feelings that might be there. If something is going wrong, it’s hard to feel good.
And yet, when you deliberately cultivate positive feelings, it increases your ability to process difficult feelings as well.
It is possible to tap into resources of strength, calm, and positive life energy, even when not all is well. In fact, that’s when we need those resources the most.
And you can learn simple processes to help you feel relaxed, at ease, calm, open even when you weren’t feeling that way at first.
“Once you’ve got a good experience going, really enjoy it. This is positive neuroplasticity.”
― Rick Hanson
Your Body is a Resource for Feeling Good
You might be used to thinking of your body as a place where you feel pain, anxiety, or overwhelming emotions.
But did you know your body can also give you feelings of calm, peace, ease, happiness, and joy?
When you cultivate enjoyable experiences, you are supporting your resilience, your self-care, and your affirmation that you are a worthwhile person.
Learn to give yourself the resources you need in order to handle the tough parts of life… by Focusing on the good feelings you naturally have.
When It’s Scary to Feel Good
I can remember being afraid to feel good. I had the illogical thought that feeling good was like a “jinx” — and it would inevitably lead to a crash. Probably in my ancestral line there were people who believed that enjoying good feelings would attract “negative spirits.”
But actually, enjoyment, nourishment, meaning, and joy are human needs. Positive experiences resource us, and make it easier for us to support others, to get good rest, and to go after our dreams.
“I’ve come to trust that my body’s aliveness is the most reliable compass towards a meaningful life.”
― Peter Gill
Join Ann and Peter for a Free Webinar
The Gift of Feeling Good: Cultivating Positive Feelings as a Resource
Neuroscience tells us it’s easier to feel bad than to feel good.
Yet we can cultivate our feelings of joy, happiness, and wonder, and have even more resources to deal with overwhelming feelings and challenging life situations. And have more energy for moving forward with what’s meaningful and fulfilling.
Tap into the gift of feeling good and discover:
Monday, January 6, 2025
10am – 11am Pacific time
Can’t join us live? Register to receive a replay.
Join us and we’ll show you how to:
This course is right for you if:
What You’ll Get:
The result: the opportunity to make Focusing on the Good a trusted and supportive part of your life from now on.
About Your Teachers
Ann Weiser Cornell is the co-developer (with Barbara McGavin) of Inner Relationship Focusing. Ann learned Focusing in 1972 from its developer, Eugene Gendlin, and was his close friend and colleague to the end of his life.
Ann has written several definitive books on
Focusing, including The Power of Focusing: A Practical Guide to Emotional Self-Healing, and Focusing in Clinical Practice: The Essence of Change
She has taught Inner Relationship Focusing around the world since 1980, and is a past president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology.
Peter Gill is one of the UK’s foremost Focusing Teachers, and has been teaching Focusing for over 20 years. Prior to this, he spent a decade practising and teaching meditation. Also trained in trauma healing, grief work and nature connection. Peter brings an embodied, accessible and honest approach to his writings and teaching.
Peter is qualified with the International Focusing Institute and the British Focusing Association. His first Book “The Way of Curiosity” was published in May 2024. He lives in South West England with his family and dog, and loves being in the woods and wild landscapes.
“It is always right to let life energy flow!”
― Gene Gendlin
Focusing isn’t just for problems!
Join us and learn to use this powerful practice to cultivate positive experiences
Registration Opens December 2nd. Class begins January 27th.
Additional Information
How Online Courses Work
We use Zoom, an online video conference platform, to connect you to other students and the teacher. Before the class starts you will receive a Zoom link to use each time the class meets. You can join us via your camera-equipped computer, tablet, or smart phone. Prefer not to be on video? You can turn off your camera. Don’t want to call via computer? You can call in by phone. Zoom is free and easy to use. You will be able to sign on in advance to make sure you can access it, but we’ve had very few problems with it. Students also receive access to a private webpage where course materials can be found.
Prerequisite
There is no prerequisite for participation in this group. All students are welcome.
Continuing Education Credit& Record of Completion
Course meets the qualifications for 8 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Focusing Resources, CAMFT Approved CE Provider #62524.
Focusing Resources is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs. Focusing Resources maintains responsibility for this course and its content.
There is a $25 administrative fee for CE Credits. Records of Completion are awarded at the end of the course upon completion of all requirements and the course evaluation. (If you don’t want CE Credits but would like a Record of Completion, the $25 fee does still apply.)
Eligibility for CE Credits requires at least 80% live attendance. Missed classes must be made up.
Program Cancellation Policy
Up to 14 days before the first day of class: Just let us know and we’ll refund your course fee. Or you can choose to apply the entire course fee towards a future class with us.
Cancellations received 13 days or fewer before class begins: No refund, sorry.
When Something Doesn’t Go As You’d Hoped…
We are always open to discussing experiences with our courses that didn’t work for you or didn’t go the way you expected. Depending on the circumstances, you may want to email your course instructor, the staff member in charge of your course, or Ann Weiser Cornell. Email addresses for all these people will be supplied on registration. We will work with you to find a way to meet your needs.
