Are you searching for more inner peace?
Do you get overwhelmed by strong emotions? Do big decisions leave you unable to choose? Does miscommunication hurt your relationships?
Good news: it is possible to shift even the most challenging parts of your life. Even if you’ve tried before and it hasn’t worked.
Let us show you how to make the changes you long for. Our courses give you practical, revolutionary skills to help you find calm, have more clarity, and take the steps needed to move forward.
The best part? By finding and reclaiming your inner peace, you’ll be more peaceful in the world. And that will have positive effects for everyone!
If you’re brand new to Focusing 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 manager for assistance
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 On-Demand Academy
These full-length courses will help you with specific issues. The exercises in these programs are based on Inner Relationship Focusing.
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.
Healing Trauma: Moving Beyond the Hurt of the Past
6-Module Interactive Video Course + Community + 4 Live Q&A Calls with Ann Weiser Cornell
A course to help you gently transform painful cycles like: overreacting to present events because they trigger past hurts, repeating painful patterns in your relationships, or sometimes feeling like a small, hurt child is living your life. Join us to experience how self-compassion can release past hurts so you can live more fully.
Starting at $297 | Payment Plan Available
Registration Closes June 20th
Helps with: trauma | overwhelming feelings | increasing self-compassion
Focusing Alone
4-Module Interactive Video Course + Community
A course for those with Focusing experience who’d like to Focus on their own more easily. Join us to learn a diverse set of processes designed to help you stay engaged with your Focusing practice.
On Sale: $95
Helps with: stress | overwhelming feelings | increasing self-compassion
21 Days to Healthier Boundaries
21 Days of Online Video Trainings + Community
Is it hard to put your own needs first sometimes? With this course, you’ll receive practical support and guidance to help you finally set boundaries you can feel good about.
$97
Helps with: relationships | healing emotional pain from the past | healthy boundaries
Finding Freedom from Inner Critics
21 Days of Online Video Trainings + Community
Life is much harder when you have an inner critic telling you to feel bad about who you are. 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.
$97
Helps with: inner critic | increasing self-compassion | healing emotional pain from the past
The Urge to Indulge
3-Module Interactive Video Course + Community
A course for changing behaviors around the urge to indulge without evoking shame or inner critics so you can have a more peaceful, empowered life.
$95
Helps with: increasing self-compassion | shame
The Lonely Outsider:
Exploring Issues of Belonging and Identity
3-Module Interactive Video Course + Community
Discovering the compromises we made in order to belong and fit in allows us to heal the hurts and bring our unique talents and gifts more fully into the world.
$95
Helps with: increasing self-compassion | healing emotional pain from the past | shame
The Rock and the Hard Place:
Exploring the Gifts of Pain
3-Module Interactive Video Course + Community
Designed to help you shift your relationship with pain so pain stops dominating your life and you gain more access to your innate resilience and unquenchable spirit.
$95
Helps with: increasing self-compassion | pain and physical symptoms
Navigating Loss & Change
3-Module Interactive Video Course + Community
Learn how loss can open you up to change you didn’t know was possible as you trust your inner sense of rightness and allow something new to emerge.
$95
Helps with: increasing self-compassion | grief work | inner sense of rightness
Loving the Unlovable:
Transforming Shame and Self-Blame
3-Module Interactive Video Course + Community
If you suffer from shame or lack of self-love, even occasionally, this course can help you shift how you view (and how much you appreciate) the most “unlovable” parts of yourself.
$95
Helps with: increasing self-compassion | healing emotional pain from the past | shame
Self-in-Presence…and Parts
7-Module Interactive Video Course + Community
Nourish your ability to be resilient and calm no matter what life throws at you. Even when you get triggered, you can get bigger than your stressful feelings with the practices in this course.
$197
Helps with: stress | overwhelming feelings | increasing self-compassion
SHIFT
Interactive Video-based Training + Online Community
This program will teach you the Focusing process and how to apply it to your daily life.
In SHIFT, you step into Ann’s video classroom where she takes you through learning Focusing in simple steps. You learn how to pause and get a larger sense of what’s happening in the moment, bring acceptance to the things you experience throughout your day (feelings, thoughts, etc), and apply the process of Focusing to decisions, releasing blocks, inner critics, and more.
Available at your convenience as soon as you register, from anywhere you can connect to the internet.
$237
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Helps with: stress | overwhelming feelings | making decisions | blocks to action | inner critic
The Doorway in a Moment:
Inviting Your Clients to the Edge of Change
A Course for Healing Professionals
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.
$147
Helps with: Focusing and psychotherapy
Beyond Trauma:
Helping Your Clients Cultivate Inner Presence
A Course for Healing Professionals
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.
$147
Helps with: Focusing and psychotherapy
Brief On-Demand Video Seminars
Focusing is a powerful process that can shift emotional stuckness into ease and balance. But it’s not always clear how Focusing can help when we’re confronted with the struggles of daily life.
That’s why we created the Focusing and Daily Life series of 90-minute seminars. Each centers on a theme that many people are challenged by in daily life. From anger to anxiety, from loneliness to perfectionism, each one offers tips and insights that can change your daily life.
The moment you register, you get access to the entire course… forever. No wait for lessons, no “getting behind.” Go at your own pace, and revisit the inspiring content whenever you need it.
Finding the Gift in Anger without Losing Your Head
Focusing and Daily Life SeminarLearn 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. 90-minute on-demand seminar Includes download of presentation slides$29.00
Get It Out of My Head: Obsessive Thoughts and How to Change Them
Focusing and Daily Life Seminar$29.00Discover 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. 90-minute pre-recorded seminarIncludes download of presentation slides
Listening to Your Body Through Health Challenges
Focusing and Daily Life SeminarAn 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. 90-minute on-demand seminar Includes download of presentation slides$29.00
Regret
Focusing and Daily Life Seminar$29.00Shift 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.90-minute on-demand seminarIncludes download of presentation slides
What is Your Exhaustion Telling You?
Focusing and Daily Life SeminarLearn ways of listening to exhaustion, tiredness, weariness, and physical aches and pains so that you feel better, not worse. 90-minute on-demand seminar Includes download of presentation slides$29.00
Working Through Anxiety
Focusing and Daily Life SeminarHow 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. 90-minute on-demand seminar Includes download of presentation slides$29.00
Downloadable 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.
$18.95
Helps with: stress | overwhelming feelings
At the Crossroads
5-Module Downloadable Audio Course
When decisions seem to pull you apart, Focusing can help you come back together again. Discover the practical steps to making decisions with your whole self.
Get started with the At the Crossroads audio course!
$49
Helps with: making decisions
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
Helps 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
Helps with: increasing self-compassion | healing emotional pain from the past | shame
Releasing Blocks to Action
5-Module Downloadable Audio Course
Tired of telling yourself to ‘just do it’? Starting to notice how that gets you nowhere, and worse, leaves you full of shame and self-criticism? Want to find a blame-free way to move forward?
Discover a more compassionate source of self-motivation that really works. Find out how with the Releasing Blocks to Action audio course!
$49
Helps with: blocks to action
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
Helps 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
Helps 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
Helps with: Gendlin’s philosophy
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
Helps 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
Helps 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
Helps 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
Helps 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
Helps with: Gendlin’s philosophy | relationships |Focusing and psychotherapy