Ann Weiser Cornell’s Newest On-Demand Course

Growing Closer:
21 Days to More Trust, Openness & Belonging

A gentle, guided journey to feeling safe, seen, and connected in your relationships.

Create Deeper Relationships Now
Class Starts May 13
Includes 3 live Q&A calls

Ann Weiser Cornell’s Newest On-Demand Course

Growing Closer: 21 Days to More Trust, Openness & Belonging

A gentle, guided journey to feeling safe, seen, and connected in your relationships.

Create Deeper Relationships Now
Class Starts May 13
Includes 3 live Q&A calls

In a world of surface-level interactions, something feels missing.

You crave relationships where you’re truly seen and valued, but past hurts, fears, and self-doubt keep deeper connections just beyond reach.

“Growing Closer” isn’t about forcing connection. It’s about discovering what’s already inside you: the capacity to trust yourself, show up authentically, and create the relationships your heart longs for.

This course will help you improve all of your relationships: with friends, family, romantic partners, colleagues… and best of all, the relationship you have with yourself.

If You:

Give so much to others…

but struggle to receive the same care in return…

Crave deeper conversations…

but often find relationships stay on the surface…

Have “good” relationships…

but secretly long for something more meaningful

Have loving relationships…

and are ready to experience even greater intimacy…

This course provides practical skills and compassionate guidance to transform your relationships into spaces of trust, belonging, and true closeness. Your new story of connection begins today.

Deepen Your Relationships in Just 21 Days

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow — this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.


—Elizabeth Gilbert

Relationships: Your Greatest Challenge—And Opportunity

Every relationship struggle you face today contains the seed of something extraordinary. You sense there’s more possible—deeper connection, authentic expression, real intimacy—but the path there isn’t always clear.

Growing Closer: 21 Days to More Trust, Openness & Belonging was created to help you feel more at home in your relationships, so you can be fully yourself.

A group of friends embrace while enjoying a breathtaking sunrise over the Brazilian highlands.

Where You May Be Now:

  • Hiding your true self, fearing rejection if you’re fully seen
  • Exhausted from trying to “fix” others instead of understanding them
  • Searching for depth in friendships that stay disappointingly surface-level
  • Feeling stuck in relationship patterns that keep reopening old wounds

Where You’ll Be After 21 Days:

  • Expressing your authentic self with more confidence and without apology
  • Navigating difficult conversations with clarity and compassion
  • Creating space for true intimacy—emotional and physical
  • Standing on a foundation of self-trust that transforms every relationship
A senior couple enjoys a romantic dance in their cozy living room, embracing love and joy.

That intuition you feel—the whisper saying deeper connection is possible? It’s right. And it’s worth honoring.

This is your invitation to create the honesty, depth, and acceptance your relationships are waiting for.

Deepen Your Relationships in Just 21 Days

Our Approach:

Growing Closer isn’t just a course; it’s a gentle, guided journey to transform how you connect with yourself and everyone else in your life. Through guided practices and insightful lessons, you’ll explore the challenges and joys of relationships with the same curiosity and openheartedness that defines everything we do in IRF.

Each day for 21 days, you’ll receive simple, easy-to-follow lessons designed to guide you through the emotional and practical aspects of cultivating closer relationships (starting with how you relate to yourself). Every lesson is created to take up less than 10 minutes of your day.

You won’t be doing this alone. I’ll be here to answer your questions. And from the moment you join, you’ll be part of a like-minded community of heart-centered learners, walking this path alongside you. You can engage as much or as little as feels right. Support is here when you need it.

Deepen Your Relationships in Just 21 Days

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.


—Oscar Wilde


Growing Closer At A Glance

Daily Practices

Every day for 21 days you get one new practice to explore

Online Video Support

Daily videos to help you put the practices to work. Easy-to-use online course you can access from anywhere.

Supportive Community

A forum where you and other people in the course can share and connect

3 Live Q&A Calls

Get help when you feel stuck. Together, let’s deepen the conversation around self-trust and relationships and all that brings up. (The calls will be recorded, so you can get the support even if you can’t join live.)

3 Thursdays, May 15, 22 & 29 from 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM Pacific Time.



Get Support Cultivating More Closeness, Trust & Belonging


Some of the Topics We’ll Cover

  • Your most important relationship – with yourself
  • Can I be me when I’m with you?
  • Love Them As They Are: The Power of Mutual Respect
  • How the long shadow of the past affects relationships now
  • Your body always knew what would be right
  • When the other person gets defensive
  • Sexual intimacy, trust, and communication
  • Love and death
  • Meeting in the space beyond good and bad
  • Honoring you, honoring the other, open to flow and change
Deepen Your Relationships in Just 21 Days

About Your Teacher

Ann once struggled with the same relationship challenges you face now. Through decades of work with thousands of students, she discovered that authentic connection isn’t taught in any classroom—it’s unlocked through a radical acceptance of yourself first. Ann doesn’t just teach connection—she lives it, creating spaces where people feel truly seen, often for the first time.

For over 35 years now, Ann’s been teaching the practical, revolutionary process of Inner Relationship Focusing to people all over the world. With this course, you get the benefit of Ann’s expertise and the chance to practice the simple, yet life-changing process of IRF with her gentle, compassionate guidance.

Ann is the author of 21 Days to Better Boundaries, Focusing in Clinical Practice: The Essence of Change, The Power of Focusing, The Radical Acceptance of Everything, and Untangling: How You Can Transform What’s Impossibly Stuck. Today she is internationally recognized as one of the leading innovators and theoreticians of Focusing.

Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.

—Robert Holden


Experience the honest, deep, accepting relationships you long for

Enroll for Your Course Here

Registration Closes When Class Begins on May 13th
Growing Closer: 21 Days to More Trust, Openness & Belonging

Growing Closer: 21 Days to More Trust, Openness & Belonging

$157.00

21-day video course to help you transform the way you relate to other people. Growing Closer helps you break through barriers to trust, connection, and belonging—starting with yourself.


Get Even More Support with Helpful Program Bonuses!


Available as soon as you sign up.

The Connection Toolkit: Essential Resources for Closer, More Fulfilling Relationships

Deep, meaningful relationships don’t just happen—they’re built with care, understanding, and intention. The Connection Toolkit is a curated list of books and online resources to help you strengthen trust, improve communication, and nurture deeper connections with the people who matter most. Whether you’re looking to repair, grow, or simply enrich your relationships, these resources will support you every step of the way.

Rooted in Presence: Guided Practices to Stay Strong & Steady in Relationships

Close relationships can bring joy—but also moments of stress, triggers, and emotional overwhelm. Rooted in Presence offers guided IRF practices to help you stay calm, grounded, and confident, even in difficult interactions. These practices will help you respond instead of react in tense moments, stay connected to yourself, and cultivate emotional resilience and self-trust. When you’re steady within, your relationships become stronger too.

Breaking Free from Assumptions & Confusion

Misunderstandings can turn even the best conversations into moments of frustration and distance. The Pause Principle is a simple, powerful guide to slowing down conversations, asking for clarification, and recognizing when assumptions—yours or someone else’s—are making communication harder than it needs to be. You’ll learn how to pause before reacting to perceived meaning, ask thoughtful questions to get clarity, and keep conversations open instead of shutting down. When you replace assumptions with curiosity, your relationships transform.

It isn’t blood that makes you my sister, it’s how you understand my heart as though you carry it in your body.


—Rupi Kaur

How This Course Works

Learn Wherever You Like

This course is accessible by computer, tablet, or smart phone. If you can connect to the internet, you can connect to this course!

Be Supported In Your Process!

You won’t be going it alone! You’ll have access to a forum to chat with other students, plus access to Ann for parts where you might feel stuck.

Available at Your Convenience!

Access new content (delivered daily) whenever it works for you. You get lifetime access, so you can revisit the material anytime

Interactive Materials

This course includes a beautiful PDF workbook to help you integrate your learning. There will also be checkpoints during the course to check-in on your progress.

Got Questions? We’ve Got Your Answers…

Most relationship advice focuses on communication techniques or conflict resolution (external stuff). Our approach is fundamentally different. We begin with your relationship with yourself, then explore how that affects every connection in your life.

Rather than quick fixes, we guide you through a transformative process that addresses the root causes of relationship challenges. Many of our students say our approach is the missing piece they’ve been searching for, especially for day-to-day life issues

Absolutely. While having both people in a relationship engage in growth is wonderful, it’s not necessary for profound change. When you start showing up with more authenticity, clearer boundaries, and deeper acceptance, the dynamics naturally shift.

A lot of people are amazed to discover that when they stop trying to change others and focus on their own growth, their relationships improve dramatically—even with people who aren’t on a personal development path.

Yes! This course is for all types of relationships—friendships, family, work, and yes, romantic ones (whether current, past, or future). In fact, I believe you’ll find tremendous value exploring these concepts when you’re single, as it creates a strong foundation for future relationships.

The most important relationship you’ll ever have is with yourself—and that’s where we begin.

The course includes 21 daily practices, plus three 1-hour live Q&A sessions. The daily practices are designed to fit easily into your daily life and interactions. Each practice takes about 5-7 minutes. We recommend keeping them in mind as you go about your day.

We’ve created a structure that respects your busy life while providing enough engagement for real change. Past participants in our 21-day courses have told us that rather than adding stress to their schedule, these courses actually create more spaciousness in their lives.

If you’ve read this far, something in you is recognizing a call toward deeper, more authentic connection. The simple desire for more meaningful relationships is often the only readiness required.

This course meets you exactly where you are. Whether you’re healing from relationship wounds or simply yearning for more depth in your connections, you’ll find a welcoming space to grow at your own pace.

3 Thursdays, May 15, 22 & 29 from 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM Pacific Time.

Being present at the live calls is nice, but it’s not essential for the course. It’s the 21 daily practices presented in short, pre-recorded videos that are the heart of the course. The live calls will all be recorded, so if you have to miss them, you can still hear what was shared.

Your access will be one practice per day, one day at a time. This approach gives you the greatest support in growing your skills. You can go through the new lesson each day, or if a different timeline works for you, take all the time you want. There’s no pressure to complete the course on any schedule.

The practice each day will arrive by email AND it will also appear on our online course platform. So if your email delivery is spotty, you can bookmark the course page and go there every day to get your new practice.

If you have trouble with the technical aspects, please contact Isabella, our customer happiness specialist at isabella@focusingresources.com. 

If you have questions about the daily practice or what it brings up, I’ll be checking the forum in our online class platform often and responding to all questions. You can also bring your questions to the three live calls (by Zoom).

After registering for the course, you’ll receive a link to our online course platform. You can access our online learning environment using any browser (Safari, Chrome, etc.). You can watch the day’s video exercise there or download it as an audio file. There’s a forum to help you connect with other participants and be part of a dynamic learning community. You get lifetime access to the materials. Go through it once and come back anytime you need some extra support to handle life!

Thanks for asking. Each course is licensed to a single user – you! While we can’t authorize you to share the materials, we’d love to have your friend participate too. Please feel free to invite them to sign up too!

No, we’re sorry. Continuing Education Units (CE Credits) are not available for this course. If you need CE Credits, please check out our upcoming live online courses here.

Your course comes with a 100% money-back guarantee. If you let us know within 60 days of your purchase that we didn’t deliver what we said we would, just ask and we’ll cheerfully refund the full course fee.

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