A 6-month experiential course
This course is part of a professional training on FOT at the living edge of experience.
The training’s 2 courses can be taken independently or in combination.
They explore the same experiential process through different clinical emphases. If you take both, you will revisit the same underlying process from a different clinical angle, allowing the learning to deepen and integrate over time.
This course’s focus is on creating a healing ecosystem for clients. It pays particular attention to strengthen your capacity to:
- stay grounded and present in complex clinical moments
- recognize when a process is ready to move
- invite change without forcing or directing it
- support clients’ sense of agency and inner authority
The focus of this course is how to foster an ecosystem in which clients can tap into their inner ability to heal and grow.
This page describes what is specific to this course
See the curriculum of this course.
Practical info:Time commitment & homework | Dates | Pricing | How to apply |
To find out more about the experiential approach that is common to both courses, see Focusing-oriented therapy at the living edge of experience
Curriculum
1. What are the goals of therapy?
Conceptual learning: The memory reconsolidation model. Other possible goals.
Clinical skills: Recognizing change when it happens.
2. Creating an ecosystem that allows Focusing (and change) to emerge organically
Conceptual learning: Focusing as the moment-by-moment process of integrating experience.
Clinical skills: Slowing down. Tracking self and client.
3. The pause, in Focusing and in Peter Levine’s somatic approach to trauma.
Conceptual learning: Revolutionary pause, need for safety & connection (Levine’s short video)
Clinical skills: Prioritizing safety and connection without turning that into avoidance.
4. A mindful take on positive psychology
Conceptual learning: The dynamic power of positive psychology and intentionally building resources.
Clinical skills: Focusing as a way of “owning” what is working in your life and what you want to achieve.
5. Mindful Change: Assisted self-discovery
Conceptual learning: Fostering creativity in the client’s process of self-discovery and change.
Clinical skills: How to facilitate the client’s process, bringing mindful attention to the dance of therapy to find openings for transformation.
6. Life-enhancing anxiety
Conceptual learning: We tend to avoid symptomatic anxiety. In doing so, we miss out on the depth of experience that comes from facing it.
Clinical skills: Developing our ability to stay present with our clients’ anxiety (and our own).
Dates
Six sessions, starting February 12, 2026:
– Second Thursday of the month (2/12/26, 3/12/26, 4/9/26, 5/14/26, 6/10/26 and 7/9/26)
– At a time convenient for people in many time zones (12 noon to 2:30 pm New York time).
Pricing
The price of this course is US $800.
Payment via Zelle or wire transfer. Payment via credit card also accepted, with a 4% bank fee.
Some scholarships are available based on financial needs.
To find out more about the experiential approach that is common to both modules, see Focusing-oriented therapy at the living edge of experience
Apply here to join the next cohort
If this training speaks to the way you want to practice therapy, the next step is to apply.
The application is short (a few sentences, not an essay).
It helps ensure:
– that the course is a good fit for you
– that the cohort supports meaningful learning for everyone
Please use the Therapy Training Application form.