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Beth Mahler is an internationally recognized Certifying Coordinator for The International Focusing Institute & a practicing Licensed Clinical Social Worker based in New Jersey, U.S.A. Beth integrates her 30 years of training & development in the Psychology field to provide high quality teaching, training, & therapeutic services. She is best known for her compassionate care while providing trauma informed resilience practices to effect change. These changes carry forwar...

Rafael Villeta is a Focusing trainer and Focusing-orientedtherapist, these two disciplines define his current professionaldedication. He previously worked in graphic design and paintingand was also a tennis coach for twenty-eight years, especially in theMadrid Tennis Federation. Creator of the Organic Tennis methodwhere he integrates Focusing and somatic dance with the teachingof academic tennis. He has a Bachelor and postgraduate studies inFine Arts, allowing him to integrate creativity as a...

Pat Duffy is a Passionist priest. He trained as a marriage counsellor with Accord and later was awarded a Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy by Middlesex University with the Personal Counselling Institute, Dublin. He is accredited with I.A.C.P. He is also a Certified Focusing Coordinator with the Focusing Institute, New York, qualified to teach focusing and to train others to teach it. He works as a therapist with Daneo Human and Spiritual Development Services and Cancer Lifeline in Bel...

Mary Jennings is a Coordinator and Focusing Trainer with The International Focusing Institute and has been involved with Focusing in Ireland for almost thirty years.She is a facilitator of the Institute's Roundtable series aimed at encouraging conversation and connection. In this episode Mary shares the many paths of her Focusing journey with Therese . You can find out more about the monthly Reading Freshly online event which Mary hosts and which is free for members of the International Focus...

John first discovered Focusing while recovering from a chronic illness that left him hospitalised for six months. Focusing had such an impact on his life that he changed career from working in the Health Insurance Industry, to studying the philosophy and practice of the Focusing Process. John took a BA in Philosophy in the Jesuit University, Milltown Park in Dublin and obtained his certification as a Focusing Professional through the Focusing Institute in New York. Inspired by the work ...

In June 2023 Elaine met Josine van Noord from Holland at the Focusing Weeklong in Dublin. They recorded this impromptu interview in which Josine describes how she learned Focusing from Marta Stapert who is renowned for her work on Focusing with children. Josine's story of her very early years in a prisoner-of-war camp in Indonesia and the healing Focusing brought to her adult life is both touching and inspiring.Focusing with Children: The art of communicating with children at school and...