Starting March 2023

ONE YEAR ONLINE
FOCUSING
COURSE & PFP Award

EARN UP TO 43 CEUs
To register or arrange a time to speak with Charlotte,
email ch(@)howortherapy.com
Please remove the brackets when pasting the email address

THIS CLASS IS ALSO THE FIRST YEAR OF THE TWO YEAR CERTIFICATION COURSE
AND IS REQUIRED FOR CERTIFICATION




Introduction to Charlotte's
ONLINE
FOCUSING
TRAINING
With International Teachers
Starting March 12, 2023

 Taught by Charlotte Howorth, LCSW
Longtime certification teacher for the Focusing Institute
 
 
Mary Hendricks, Eugene Gendlin’s wife and former teacher of TFI’s certification course, and director of TFI, handed the role of teaching and responsibility for certifying focusing professionals for the Institute to Charlotte several years ago. Charlotte led the Institute’s certification program for over 12 years and has a wealth of experience as a focusing teacher and has worked as a focusing oriented therapist herself for 27 years.
 

Who is this course for?
 
•     Therapists, Counselors, Health Care Workers and other therapeutic practitioners interested in incorporating Focusing into their professional work.
 
•     Individuals who want to become Certified Focusing Professionals
 
•     Individuals who want to become ‘Focusing Teacher/Trainer’ (optional)
 
 
Who is eligible to take this course?
 
Applicants need to have had some introductory training/experience with focusing.  If you haven’t, we can arrange for you to take some preliminary training with one of our experienced coaches.
 
 

Course Schedule
Sunday March 12th, 2023,
10am-2pm EST – January 2025

first 5 classes:
March 12th, April 2nd, May 7th, June 11th, July 9th, Aug no class
Remaining dates to be determined as a class.

 
 
 
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

    This course utilizes an extensive and comprehensive library of demonstrations and session videos, with transcripts, as well as a wealth of additional resources (audio, video, written).
     This course will include:
-        Individual session with Charlotte
-        Focusing listening, the 5 dimensions of reflection
-        The Focusing Attitude and The Critic
-        Finding the right distance in sessions and how to practice and use Clearing A Space
-        How to reflect the crux of an issue, find a ‘spot’ to go in, and working with the deeper point of a session.
-        How to work with different types of Focusers in sessions.
-        How to spot and work with forward movement in session
-        How to work with Reminders and invitations in sessions (Ann Weiser Cornell)
-        Working with shift questions and working from ‘its’ perspective
-        The 3 phases of a focusing session and how to work with them (Dr. Jim Iberg)
-        Working with parts (Dr. Jim Strohl)
-        How to spot and work with ‘younger places’ in a session.
 
    You also have the choice of going on to take the second year of this course which takes these teachings further and also works with how to bring Focusing seamlessly into therapeutic conversations and how to work with the relationship in Focusing sessions.
    

 
 
 In the one-year course (first-year for those doing the two years), students learn the core essentials of focusing guiding and how to help their client’s ‘go inside’ to find, open, and move forward a felt sense, leading to transformation and lasting change.
    Topics include

  • presence,
  • focusing attitude
  • resonant reflection
  • fire engine words
  • making a something
  • acknowledging and keeping company
  • clearing a Space
  • right distance
  • Critic
  • how to use reminders/cushions
  • finding the ‘spot’ to go in
  • working with different levels of experiencing in clients
  • avenues into the felt sense
  • shift questions
  • working with the leading edge
  • working with resonance
  • the different phases of a focusing session and how to work with them
  • working with parts
  • working with younger places.

One Individual 1-hour session with Charlotte before starting classes (to be transcribed by student).

Twelve 3.5-to-4-hour classes with teachers and often including coaches (approximately monthly)

Ten 2-2.5-hour online meetings in smaller groups of approximately 4 students often with a coach. Here, students will do experiential exercises.
 
 
OPTIONAL YEAR TWO for Certification
    In the second-year students learn how to weave the guiding they learnt in the first year seamlessly into the more fluid and improvisational style of a therapeutic conversation.  In addition, we learn how to work with the ‘one interaction’ that we are together by using the felt sense of the relationship (the felt sense of the ‘I’, of the ‘You’, & of the ‘Us’) to move the interaction and the client forward.  We further learn how to be ‘the interaction that makes it better’ which is the concept and practice that Eugene Gendlin talked about being the center of his work with clients.
    Topics include – facilitating the ‘deeper point’ of a session, working with trauma, teaching projects, organizing principles and conflicts and dilemmas, focusing conversations and ‘one interaction’, expressive relating using the felt sense of the ‘I’ and ‘you’, expressive relating using the felt sense of the ‘us’, being the interaction that makes it better, being on ‘its’ side in the therapist and in the client, the end of the second year culminates in several practice weekend sessions together.

Eight 3.5-to-4-hour classes with teachers and often with coaches (approximately monthly)

Four (or more - depending on numbers) 4-hour practice sessions with Charlotte over at least 2 full weekends.  Here students practice the skills they have learnt over their training together and receive support and feedback.  These practice weekends help students develop their skills working in therapeutic conversations to another level.

Nine 2-2.5-hour online meetings in smaller groups of approximately 4 students. Here students will do experiential exercises often with a coach.

Six sessions with a certified focusing supervisor to be paid for in addition to course fees (we have a list of experienced supervisors who work on a sliding scale).

One Individual 50 min session at the end of your second year with Charlotte to get feedback on your final video tape with a client.
 
 
International teachers include
Lynn Preston, Jim Iberg, James Strohl, Isabel Adon, Akira Ikemi and Ann Weiser Cornell.
 
Additional requirements over the course period:
      Students will maintain a weekly Focusing Partnership during training. Partners will be rotated approximately every three months.
      Assignments:
        1) Video-taped session with a client in second year.
        2) Option to teach Focusing to two or more students over three or more sessions and write it up in second year.
        3) Various readings, videos, audio between classes (when assigned, approximately 3 hours per month) both years.
        4) Weekly partnership Focusing in dyads (1-hour per week) both years.
 
There will be opportunities for experiential supervision of work with clients, or problematic relationships in your life, demonstrations, and opportunities to practice with both coaches and together in class.
 
 
Attendance
 
All training and supervision sessions are required.
If you miss a practice session either in class or with your monthly small group, you will need to do a make-up session with a coach for a fee.
 
Course Completion and Certification:
1.    Completion of the requirements does not automatically lead to certification. Charlotte Howorth and the Trainee must agree on readiness.
2.    6 Individual supervision sessions with a certified focusing professional to be paid for separately (list of practitioners with a sliding scale for fees will be provided.)
3.    Upon recommendation for certification, the student is required to pay an additional one-time certification fee to the Focusing Institute.
4.    Attendance at the annual Advanced Certification Program is encouraged (but not required) and tuition to the Weeklong includes the above-referenced certification fee. If students are unable to attend the Weeklong, the certification fee may be applied to the Weeklong tuition for up to two years following certification.
5.    Completed payments for the course.
 
Certification titles:
If you are a psychotherapist licensed in your country then you will be given the title of certified ‘Focusing Oriented Psychotherapist’, and if not then you will earn the title of certified ‘Focusing Professional’.  If you decide to also complete the teaching project and it meets the standards required, then you will receive the additional certification title of certified ‘Focusing Teacher/Trainer’.
 
 

Program Instructor:
 
CHARLOTTE HOWORTH, LCSW (www.howortherapy.com)
 
•   The International Focusing Institute’s teacher and trainer for their 2-year certification program for over 12 years.
•   Facilitated numerous focusing retreats and workshops internationally.
•   Teaches and supervises psychotherapists in how to use Focusing in their practice internationally.
•   Is on the faculty of The Relational Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy program headed by Lynn Preston in New York City, where she teaches and supervises psychotherapists taking the program.
•   Has 27 years’ experience teaching, counseling, supervising and writing.
•   Lecturer in Social Work, Columbia University, NY.
•   Clinical Consultant, CHDFS (Center for Human Development and Family Services)
•   Private Practice for adults, children, couples and families in NY.
 
 

REGISTRATION:
 
To register or arrange a time to speak with Charlotte email
ch(@)howortherapy.com
Please remove the brackets when pasting the email address
 

 
FEES
 
2-year program       US $5,800 Paid in full
Registration Fee $200 (US) to hold a place in class. Applicable toward Course payment.
                                        
Installment Options:
2 installments of 2,900 or
8 Installments of $745 or
12 Installments of $500
(Installments include cost of transaction management.
Payment schedule will be spread out evenly thru the course term unless otherwise agreed).
 
Full Payment or First payment Due by Jan 2, 2023.
                               
Students are welcome to attend only the first year to learn the foundations of Focusing partnerships and guiding, then decide if they want to take the second year and complete their certification.
 
Year 1 US $2,900 or 4 Installments of $745
 
Year 2 US $2,900 for the second-year students who would like to earn their certification in Focusing.
 
Certification US $500, Europe $375, South America (and developing countries) $250.
Fee to be paid to The Focusing Institute.
 Requires an additional 6 sessions with a certified Focusing professional (fee not included in this course).
 
 Payment We accept payments by check, ACH transfers, PayPal, Venmo and Credit Cards (3.5% fee). We encourage no fee services. Transaction fees are not included in the course fees and are the responsibility of the student.
 
EARN UP TO 63 CEUs
Please call or email with further questions.
 
 

TESTIMONIALS
 

I have done several trainings and this program is the one I have gained the most from.
Beata Dana, Psychotherapist, Switzerland

I truly cannot put into words what this course has and continues to mean to me. For myself, I can just begin to feel, to taste, to sense that something that is beyond all words and concepts - in this course, I have had brushes with something immense and vast and I am grateful for this. For me as a therapist, this course has illumined this subtle but powerful “felt sense” that is present and available to both me and the client that has only deepened my reverence for the beauty of being and interaction. As I close, what comes to me is the last few lines of an E.E. Cummings poem “now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.” 
Jeff Evans, Psychotherapist

Charlotte is a masterful therapist, coach and teacher. Charlotte offers a fabulous course on Focusing for coaches and therapists where she teaches a nuanced approach to supporting clients in accessing their own wisdom. And working with her 1:1 is truly transformational.
Heather Corcoran, Coach supporting mission-driven leaders

I highly recommend Charlotte’s 2- year Focusing Certification Course. Charlotte’s Course provides a thoughtful and rich curriculum wit a structure that enables individual, small and large group learning and growth. She fully embodies a focusing attitude and is an expert at the art of Focusing. She is a powerful listener with a compassionate quality; she reflects thoughts and feelings of others with gentle provocations that lead to deeper self understanding and insight. Charlotte creates the space for learners to grow and develop, enabling forward movement in each interaction and her very being and presence. She creates a connection and space fostering learning within individuals and groups…..I am forever grateful for the profound experience of Charlotte’s class, and I feel empowered by what might be as I continue with the never ending practice of focusing.
Jeanie Fay-Snow, Leadership Coach
 
I cherished every part of my training. I liked the structure of the course, from simple listening to more complex interactive Focusing conversation, each stage has corresponding teaching materials and targeted exercises which really built competence and confidence for me. Charlotte's feedback and constructive advice during sessions and practices have been invaluable. Thank you so much for this course, platform and community, which have made my dream come true.
Sicong Cao, Psychotherapist, China
 
I want to say that my expectations from the course were not only fulfilled, but also exceeded itself. I got much more than I expected. I thought that the course will mainly contain some demonstration video materials and discussions of these materials. I didn’t really believe that focusing can be done online. But despite my doubts, I got so many hours of focusing practice. Not because I was active and immediately took two focusing partners, but because this course was designed this way. This course can be called practice-oriented for sure. The theoretical part is presented in the course in a very balanced way, it complements and guides the practice in the right direction. But still practice, as it seems to me, is having as a leading position. And this is really great. So, I may say that practice worked well for me. And of course, I’m really happy to know so many wonderful people.
Maria Vetuzhskih, Psychotherapist, Russia

Charlotte is a very empathic and skilled teacher who has honed a rich and organized training program. She skillfully weaves the theory and application of focusing through a step by step process of live and video demonstrations, selected readings, focusing partnerships and individual and group coaching. I had the pleasure of seeing incredible growth in the international group of students of all orientations, who now have a skill base to bring to their personal and professional lives, be it as a psychotherapist, coach, or bodyworker.
Jude Cobb PhD, Psychologist in Private Practice
 
The course exceeded my expectations, and my inner world has shifted, and I have grown so much through the process and the two-year program.  I loved the combination of guest teachers, the online platform, weekly partnerships, monthly small group sessions, didactic sections and demonstrations. All guest teachers were incredible.  I feel very lucky that I was able to do this course with Charlotte. Her many years of experience, both in teaching this course and in her work brought such depth and insight into the process and the way she was able to be so present with each student and teach to everyone individually was wonderful.
Christina Hatgis, Acupuncturist and Yoga therapist

Charlotte’s teaching was excellent. I loved the range of guest teachers who are innovators and masters of their craft—this was a huge highlight. Getting to practice with a variety of other participants was also very helpful. The reading and video materials invaluable and convenience of the online course was a big plus.  
Simon Spire, Contemplative teacher and human development facilitator
 
This course with Charlotte changed my life on both a personal and professional level.

Charlotte’s course felt to me like a discovery, where I am invited to not only discover the different ingredients of Focusing, but a discovery process of my inner most intimate self. 
It kept unfolding from one class to another in an organic way, allowing me not only to learn but to experience it as a very authentic process. 

As an architect, my original purpose was to strengthen my listening skills and get my clients, their needs and wishes, so that will allow them to feel aligned with their space.
However, this course has showed me that I can and need to give more to the world. That I can be more than an architect but also a facilitator. 

Charlotte’s class is very rich and her way of being is felt through it. Her presence showed me how I can bring everything that I am out there, as she does. She has her very unique way to create a learning environment where we feel safe, heard and united. 
It’s the best gift I offered my self! I encourage you to offer that to yourself as well, no matter for what reason, if for personal or professional growing - I assure you will grow in ways you even don’t know you can! 
Daphna Daily, Architect

As a result of Charlotte's 2 year Focusing training, I listen differently to my clients, and myself, and I respond differently, as well. I have come to trust much more (still a work in progress!) in the unfolding and forward movement that comes in the body. Focusing is now embedded in all of my work - for me, it is a way of being and working, rather than a technique or modality. Charlotte is a fantastic teacher
Linda Furness, Leadership Coach

Charlotte is a masterful teacher and psychotherapist. I have been a professional coach for over a decade and enrolled in Charlotte's 2-year Focusing Training to further my coaching skills. Charlotte's teaching is deeply experiential, emphasizes practice and individualized feedback, and creates a rich learning container for becoming a more masterful coach/therapist …. If you have the chance to experience Charlotte's work, you will find a lovely mix of insight, empathy, and skillfulness.
Derick Deal, Coach Helping High Performers and Entrepreneurs