Focusing Pathways

Francis Fung began practicing Focusing in 2019 when working with a Focusing-Oriented Art Therapist, around the same time that he realized he was autistic. He trained with Jeffrey Morrison and became a Certified Focusing Professional/Trainer in 2023. He is interested in exploring how Focusing can support neurodivergent individuals contend with their life challenges. He has a PhD in mathematics from Princeton University and works as a software engineer at Google. He is also quite interested in world languages, particularly Bulgarian, and enjoys listening to various genres of music, including Taylor Swift, electronic dance music, Balkan pop, and classical.https://www.attachmentnewengland.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/THE-INVISIBLE-REALITIES-OF-ADOPTION.pdfhttps://www.attachmentnewengland.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Shame-and-Attachment-by-Larry-Smith.pdfHere is the Reddit post on "non-flowery terminology": https://www.reddit.com/r/CPTSD/s/932TbGAuKGEmail Francis at [email protected] to Francis's presentation in Vienna: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHDspEuLGV0Find us on Instagram

Laura Bavalics is an early childhood educator, specialist in the science of play, and a drama teacher. She is a Certified Focusing Professional, Coordinator and a Focusing-oriented educator, who has been working with young children, parents, and professionals for over twenty-five years. She is a professional director of the Pendula inclusive kindergarten program at the Világszép  Foundation for Children in State Care in Hungary. She is also teaching at ELTE University, Hungary, at the College of Education. Laura was a member of the International Leadership Council at TIFI and currently is a member of the Board of Directors and the Children's Focusing Advisory Group at The International Focusing Institute.Find us on Instagram

About Rob by Rob:When I was three years old, a lodger from Egypt came to stay with my family for a year. He was warm, kind and playful. I was left with a strong feeling of friendliness for people from other backgrounds and cultures.By the time I was four I had come to find reading stories a big improvement on life. Music came a little later. I studied 'cello and piano playing, singing, conducting and composing music. Eventually I had a degree in music from the University of Cambridge. Since then I have taught music for fifty years, mostly by giving piano lessons. I read 'Dibs in Search of Self' in 1972 and met the Person Centred Approach in 1975. In 1981, during a lesson in the Alexander Technique with Patrick Macdonald, suddenly all my trouble and sadness fell utterly away. I found myself for a few hours just simply happy.I began to explore meditation when I was in Australia in 1983, met focusing in 1987, had one to one focusing sessions with Gene Gendlin in 1988, had personal guidance in meditation from Akong Rinpoche in 1993, and completed a training in spiritual accompaniment with Brian Thorne in 2012. I have been a Focusing Coordinator for many years and have trained many people. In 2018 I published a book about empathic listening: 'Feeling Heard, Hearing Others'. Now I'm writing a little book about meditation. I hope to go on teaching for another twenty years. Maybe longer. My teenagers tell their friends: 'He's really old. But he has a very strong inner child.'  You can buy my book by writing directly to me:  https://www.meditativelistening.com/or by going to my publishing house (now doesn't that sound GRAND!!!): ANTONINE BOOKS – Rob Foxcroft  Find us on Instagram

Dr Tony Bates is a Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist and Adjunct Professor of Psychology at University College Dublin. He was the Head of the Department of Psychology at St James’s Hospital, Dublin, for 30 years. Following psychotherapy training at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Oxford, he established and directed the MSc in Cognitive Psychotherapy at TCD. In 2006, he established Jigsaw (The National Centre for Youth Mental Health) to address the mental health needs of young people. He is patron of the Mindfulness Teachers Association of Ireland (MTAI) and currently works with Focus Ireland to provide trauma-informed care in homeless settings.  Tony is the author of Breaking the Heart Open: Shaping the Life of a Psychologist, andComing through Depression: A Mindful Path to Recovery Find us on Instagram

Carmel Heaney was born in Dublin on the 21st July, 1924, the eldest child of Rosanna and Timothy O'Leary. She was educated at the Holy Faith convent, Glasnevin and at University College Dublin from which she graduated with an M.A. in History. After some years as a junior Civil Servant and in radio programming, she entered the Department of External Affairs (later the Department of Foreign Affairs). Her foreign postings were in San Francisco, Geneva and Boston where she was Consul General. She was a delegate to several sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations in the 1970s. In 1970 Carmel married Henry Heaney, a Boston architect. She retired in 1989 and lives in Dublin. She leads a weekly philosophical discussion group, The Colloquy, and is an occasional contributor to the Irish Times. Find us on Instagram

Myriam el Kettani worked in the corporate world for over twenty years before training in humanistic psychotherapy and Focusing. She is a Focusing Oriented Therapist, and a person-centred practitioner. Myriam facilitates humanistic encounter groups for adults and/or adolescents. She also facilitates leadership support and collective intelligence development groups. Myriam lives in Morocco.Focusing Oriented Therapy by Neil Friedman is available on World of Books and Amazon.Find us on Instagram

Báirbre Meehan is a Focusing-Oriented Coach and Coach Supervisor.  Her practice is informed by 25 years in people management in roles such as CEO, organisational/leadership development and finance director.  Her coaching journey began 12 years ago, at a time when her personal-development journey led her to focusing and from there the integration of these powerful ways of working naturally emerged. Báirbre self-funded a research project measuring the impact of a Focusing-Oriented Coaching approach on people with Low Mental Well Being (MWB).  Referrals came from medical doctors, psychotherapists and word of mouth and quantitative measurements showed very significant MWB improvements, maintained over the longer term.Focusing-Oriented Coaching is Báirbre’s passion and she is devoted to developing and sharing it with others.  Báirbre regularly runs Focusing-Oriented Coaching programs, teaching coaches, therapists and helping professionals how to use Focusing in their work.  You can contact Báirbre at [email protected] understand more about Focusing-Oriented Coaching in practice, here is a link to an article Báirbre has written 'Life wants to live: Focusing-Oriented Coaching' www.pause.ie/news  This article first appeared in the July 2024 issue of Coaching Today, published by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.Find us on Instagram

Naty Calvino lives in Argentina and is a Certifying Coordinator with TIFI (The International Focusing Institute), a Focusing Oriented Therapist, Supervisor and a  Yogatherapist. She is also an FSPM Facilitator (Jan Winhall’s Felt Sense Polyvagal Model). Naty teaches the entire Focusing Certification Program and Focusing-Oriented Therapy (FOT), and especially enjoys training and supervising therapists, as well as her work with clients both individually and with groups. What Focusing means to Naty: "For me it is a way of BEING, and  my goal every day is to be connected with my Higher Self, my essence, my spirit/heart/soul... that place where I feel part of this "vast system": the earth, the sky and all the living beings in their true light, beyond conditioning, adopted patterns and survival behaviors... In love."Contact Naty at: [email protected] us on Instagram

Gordon Adam lives in Bristol, UK. He is passionate about Focusing and the supportive and transformative power of Focusing community. He has facilitated an open monthly ’changes’ type Focusing group for the last 15 years, and is co-creator of the BFA Focusing Community Camp.  Gordon runs 5-day Focusing retreats on Dartmoor and in the Southwest, combining Focusing with periods of silence, immersion in the natural world and temporary community. During the CV lockdowns he ran a series of very successful online workshops on ‘Focusing with Poetry’ which led to the formation of an ongoing ‘Focusing with Poetry’ group.Gordon is also a homeopath and supervisor and has been editor of the British Focusing Association newsletter since 2016. www.focusing.org.uk/Gordon-Adam   [email protected]  Find us on Instagram

Harriët Teeuw is a Focusing oriented therapist and an art therapist as well as a Focusing Coordinator with The International Focusing Institute (TIFI).  When she first learned Focusing in her native Netherlands in 2000, it inspired her to live a more authentic life. She began to integrate Focusing into her work with children, parents and adults.  She brings this rich experience into teaching Children and Focusing Programs and the Focusing International Online Certification Program for Focusing Practitioners. Harriet is a member of the Children and Focusing Advisory Group with TIFI.  Find out more about Harriet's work and details of her programs at:  https://www.childrenfocusing.org/  https://www.deruimte-info.nl/Find us on Instagram