Searching for more inner peace?
We’re here to help! We’ve created courses to help you:
- feel better about yourself,
- communicate more effectively with those you care about,
- figure out what’s best for your life,
- find relief from stress,
- find your calm when life gets sticky,
- and more!
Our programs are based on Inner Relationship Focusing.
If you’re brand new to IRF and are wondering how to get started, you can either click here to see how to start or click here to email our customer happiness specialist for assistance
Our On-Demand Academy
These full-length courses will help you with specific issues.
If you have previous Focusing training, your benefit from these courses will be even greater.
These courses are provided via our online student portal. You’ll have access to the course as soon as you register. You’ll be able to watch videos, download worksheets, and interact with the teacher as well as other students in a supportive environment.
Featured Course
Growing Closer:
21 Days to More Trust, Openness & Belonging
3 Weeks of Daily Content
Online Video Trainings + Community
Live Q&A Calls
Growing Closer is a gentle, guided course that helps you feel more connected—first to yourself, then to the people who matter most.
You’ll learn to communicate with more clarity, navigate hard moments with compassion, and show up more authentically in your relationships.
Whether you’re feeling disconnected, craving deeper conversations, or simply want to strengthen already-loving bonds, this course offers practical tools and heartfelt support. If you’ve ever sensed that something more is possible in your relationships, this is your invitation to begin.
Class begins May 13
$157.00Helps with: tuning in to your body’s wisdom | increasing self-compassion | relationships | Focusing in daily life
Courses Designed for Self-Acceptance, Authenticity, and Personal Growth
All of our courses will help you experience greater self-compassion, honor your truth, and create a calmer, happier life.
Each course is taught by Ann Weiser Cornell and was designed to build self-love and trust, while also addressing specific topics such as inner critics, relationships, and life-change. All of our offerings are grounded in the Inner Relationship Focusing (IRF) process, a powerful tool for deep personal transformation. Explore the courses below to find support for your unique journey.
- Relationships & Communication
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- Trauma Healing
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- Healthy Boundaries
21 Days to Healthier Boundaries
Is it hard to put your own needs first sometimes? In this 21-day course, you’ll receive practical support and guidance to help you finally set boundaries you can feel good about.- Life Transitions
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- Decision Making
At the Crossroads
This 3-module course helps you navigate tough decisions with warmth and clarity. You’ll discover how to honor your conflicting feelings and make more confident decisions in the process.- Burnout Recovery
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- Emotional Resilience
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- Life Transitions
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- Overwhelming Emotions
Burnout Be Gone
In this 21-day course, you’ll learn to recognize burnout, develop resources to turn it around, and reconnect with the magic of what you really want for your life.- Relationships & Communication
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- Healthy Boundaries
Growing Closer: 21 Days to More Trust, Openness & Belonging
Starts May 13! In this guided 21-day course, you’ll learn to communicate with more clarity, navigate hard moments with compassion, and show up more authentically in your relationships.- Life Transitions
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- Relationships & Communication
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- Overwhelming Emotions
It’s Not All Downhill: Finding the Gifts in Aging
A 21-day journey toward empowered aging. Learn how to face challenges like isolation and physical changes while finding joy and fulfillment in the next chapter of life.- Overwhelming Emotions
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- Healthy Boundaries
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- Emotional Resilience
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- Burnout Recovery
You Can’t Run on Empty – Create More Rest & Self-Care
In this 21-day guided journey, you’ll discover gentle, sustainable practices that restore your energy, help you listen inward with kindness, and support you in living a more well-rested, self-loving life.- Relationships & Communication
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- Overwhelming Emotions
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- Emotional Resilience
Self-in-Presence… and Parts
Feeling overwhelmed by daily stress? This 7-module course offers essential tools to cultivate calm. You’ll learn simple, supportive practices to meet stress with compassion, steadiness, and a deeper sense of resilience.- Emotional Resilience
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- Inner Critics
Finding Freedom From Inner Critics
In this 21-day course, you’ll learn a loving, life-enhancing way to change how you experience self-criticism so you can move forward with more confidence, self-compassion, and inner peace.- Life Transitions
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- Overwhelming Emotions
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- Grief & Loss
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- Emotional Resilience
Navigating Loss & Change
Feeling lost after a big change? This compassionate 3-module course helps you navigate loss, trust your inner self, and find resilience in difficult times.- Unhelpful Habits & Patterns
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- Inner Critics
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- Overwhelming Emotions
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- Emotional Resilience
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- Decision Making
SHIFT
This 6-module program will teach you the Inner Relationship Focusing process and how to apply the IRF process to decisions, releasing blocks, inner critics, and more.- Overwhelming Emotions
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- Emotional Resilience
Focusing Alone
A 4-module course for those with Focusing experience who’d like to Focus on their own more easily. Learn a diverse set of processes designed to help you stay engaged with your Focusing practice.- Overwhelming Emotions
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- Relationships & Communication
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- Trauma Healing
Healing Trauma: Moving Beyond the Hurt of the Past
If past pain still echoes in your present, this gentle 6-module course offers a compassionate path to healing. Experience how self-compassion can release past hurts so you can live more fully.- Emotional Resilience
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- Overwhelming Emotions
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- Inner Critics
Loving the Unlovable: Transforming Shame and Self-Blame
This 3-module course shows you how to love yourself just as you are. You’ll learn a gentle way to turn toward parts you wish you could ignore and find they’re not barriers to peace—they’re the way to it.- Overwhelming Emotions
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- Emotional Resilience
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- Life Transitions
The Rock and the Hard Place: Exploring the Gifts of Pain
This 3-module course gently guides you to shift how you relate to pain—offering support, self-compassion, and the chance to uncover strength and meaning in what you’re feeling.- Decision Making
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- Overwhelming Emotions
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- Inner Critics
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- Unhelpful Habits & Patterns
The Urge to Indulge Course
A 3-module course for changing unwanted behavior without evoking shame or inner critics. Break free from unhelpful habits by learning how to pause, tune in, and respond with care.- Unhelpful Habits & Patterns
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- Inner Critics
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- Overwhelming Emotions
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- Decision Making
Releasing Blocks to Action
Feeling stuck? This 3-module course helps you explore what’s blocking you and shows how to turn action blocks into progress. Get unstuck and find your flow!
The Doorway in a Moment:
Inviting Your Clients to the Edge of Change
3-Module Interactive Video Course + Community
For psychotherapists and other healing professionals who want to help more clients move beyond stuck repetitive patterns and into new possibilities.
Beyond Trauma:
Helping Your Clients Cultivate Inner Presence
3-Module Interactive Video Course + Community
Learn powerful and practical ways to help your therapy clients heal from trauma by supporting the client in cultivating the strong inner self, Self-in-Presence.
Brief On-Demand Video Seminars
Focusing is a simple, powerful way to move from feeling stuck to finding ease and balance. But it’s not always clear how to use it with the challenges of everyday life.
That’s why we created the Focusing and Daily Life seminar series. Each 90-minute session addresses a common struggle, like anger, anxiety, loneliness, or perfectionism, offering practical tips and insights to make life easier.
When you register, you get instant, lifetime access to the full course. Learn at your own pace, with no pressure and no falling behind.
Finding the Gift in Anger Without Losing Your Head
90-minute on-demand seminar + downloadable slide presentation
Learn how to use Focusing when your anger flares up or despair knocks you down and shift from powerlessness to empowerment, and from inner suffering to inner strength.
$29.00
Get It Out of My Head: Obsessive Thoughts and How to Change Them
90-minute on-demand seminar + downloadable slide presentation
Discover the surprising reason why trying to replace negative obsessive thoughts with something positive usually doesn’t work very well and practice what does work instead.
Listening to Your Body Through Health Challenges
90-minute on-demand seminar + downloadable slide presentation
An online seminar where you’ll learn how to tap into your body’s wisdom and gain resources to feel confident about handling the health challenges you’re facing now or in the future.
$29.00
Regret
90-minute on-demand seminar + downloadable slide presentation
Shift your relationship with regret. We can’t change the past, but we can change what it means to us. And in a way that is forgiving and loving toward ourselves as well.
$29.00
What is Your Exhaustion Telling You?
90-minute on-demand seminar + downloadable slide presentation
Learn ways of listening to exhaustion, tiredness, weariness, and physical aches and pains so that you feel better, not worse.
$29.00
Working Through Anxiety
90-minute on-demand seminar + downloadable slide presentation
How to use fast, “first-aid” Focusing when you feel overtaken by anxiety in the midst of life. You’ll come away with tools you can use to feel more at ease, more balanced, more clear.
$29.00Downloadable Audio Courses
Our downloadable audio courses are great options if you want to benefit from Inner Relationship Focusing, whether you’re curled up on your couch or out and about with some headphones.
Our collection includes a number of seminars co-taught by Eugene Gendlin and Ann Weiser Cornell.
Learning Focusing
2-Part Downloadable Audio Course
Great for beginners. Focusing can help you start to cultivate more calm in your life. It’s easier than you might think.
With this audio set, you’ll have a process that helps you listen in a Focusing way so that stuck emotions and thoughts start to loosen their grip with less effort on your part.
$18.95Helps with: stress | overwhelming feelings
Holding On and Letting Go
5-Module Downloadable Audio Course
A Focusing course to explore the many aspects of simplifying our lives: sorting through clutter, deciding what to keep and what to let go, sensing when it’s right to forge ahead and when it’s right to go slowly, and of course spending time with the parts of us that don’t want to do it at all!
$49.00Helps with: blocks to action, making decisions
Radical Gentleness
5-Module Downloadable Audio Course
When your mind is a battleground and you’ve become your own worst bully, it can be hard to find peace… Are you ready to take it easier on yourself? Make your move from self-blame to inner acceptance with the Radical Gentleness audio course!
$49.00Helps with: increasing self-compassion | healing emotional pain from the past | shame
Reading A Process Model
5-Module Downloadable Audio Course
with Eugene Gendlin & Ann Weiser Cornell
An audio course where Eugene Gendlin and Ann guided the group in reading and discussing selections from A Process Model.
The intention is to support you in reading and thinking from the whole book after the course is over. Included are “Guidelines for Reading Partnerships” to support you in reading with a friend.
$49.00Helps with: Gendlin’s philosophy
Sitting with Gene at His Leading Edge
5-Module Downloadable Audio Course
with Eugene Gendlin & Ann Weiser Cornell
Sitting with Gene at his Leading Edge is a close reading of Gendlin’s 2012 paper “Implicit Precision,” and is for anyone interested in seeing our world as having living process at its center, a world we belong in and which we participate in re-making. With Eugene Gendlin and Ann Weiser Cornell.
$49.00Helps with: Gendlin’s philosophy
Philosophy, Focusing & Dreams
5-Module Downloadable Audio Course
with Eugene Gendlin & Ann Weiser Cornell
Philosophy, Focusing & Dreams is for anyone who wants to discover the richness in dreams. Even dreams that seem only negative turn out to have gifts of forward life energy waiting to be tapped into, using the methods taught in this seminar.
$49.00Helps with: blocks to action, making decisions
Philosophy, Focusing & Changing the World
5-Module Downloadable Audio Course
with Eugene Gendlin & Ann Weiser Cornell
In the Philosophy, Focusing & Changing the World audio course, Eugene Gendlin brings insights from Focusing and the Philosophy of the Implicit to bear on an understanding of societal change, offering a hopeful yet incisive analysis of economics, finance, government, and more.
$49.00Helps with: Gendlin’s philosophy
New Ways to Go Forward with Focusing
5-Module Downloadable Audio Course
with Eugene Gendlin & Ann Weiser Cornell
An audio course created out of new practices Gene developed to help people get past stuck places. In this course, Gene and Ann explore four new ways in which Focusing can carry life forward. These are exciting new twists on the usual ways of approaching decisions, actions, therapy, meditation… and they can get us moving and expanding.
$49.00Helps with: Gendlin’s philosophy | making decisions
How the New Can Come
5-Module Downloadable Audio Course
with Eugene Gendlin & Ann Weiser Cornell
How the New Can Come is for anyone interested in how something new emerges in us – and what kind of concepts we need to grasp the emergence of originality. In this audio course, we explore this question: How does one make a space where something new can come? Gene and Ann visit philosophy, art, and therapy as examples.
$49.00Helps with: Gendlin’s philosophy
Focusing, Therapy, and the Implicit
5-Module Downloadable Audio Course
with Eugene Gendlin & Ann Weiser Cornell
An audio course to support psychotherapists and other healing professionals in being with their clients in a Focusing-oriented way. This is a slightly edited version of a live, interactive, 5-week phone course with Gene and Ann.
$49.00Helps with: Gendlin’s philosophy | Focusing and psychotherapy
On Relating – In and Out of Therapy
5-Module Downloadable Audio Course
with Eugene Gendlin & Ann Weiser Cornell
On Relating — In & Out of Therapy is an audio course for anyone who wants to explore different ways of relating with other people. We discuss each topic first in therapy settings and then in the more complex realm of close personal relationships.
$49.00Helps with: Gendlin’s philosophy | relationships | Focusing and psychotherapy
