Learn Focusing – Levels 1 through 4

Learn Focusing - Levels 1 and 2

Bringing awareness to the present moment, being able to sense the subtle feeling of right now, in your body –  this is an accessible and potent doorway opening to and deepening in embodied awakening.

As Trillium teachers we often use expressions such as inquiry, radical embrace, whole body listening, being with the mystery of not knowing. Do you want to better support your students in bringing these concepts into a living reality in their path of awakening? I have learned a tool that effortlessly assists with all this and much more. That tool is Focusing.
 
Focusing is a simple awareness process that helps students to greenlight and embrace what is arising in the present moment. This opens a door to whole body listening that allows a deep inner knowing. You may find that including elements of this process into your sessions with students is easy and effective.  And you may also find personal benefits from this process in your own awakened life.  Focusing also effortlessly allows your students to abide in an internal ground of presence that is always accessible.
 
If you are interested in my Focusing Levels 1 and 2 for Trillium Teachers,  please email me at cielle.cindy@gmail.com
 
Focusing course for Trillium Teachers, Level 1 and Level 2
During the Focusing Level 1 and 2 live online course you will learn tools to bring a Focusing orientation into your life and into your work with students.  Join me in this series. I will teach Focusing Level 1 and 2 via a single series of 6 meetings, each lasting 2.5 hours.
 
The course will also include a one-on-one session where I will gently guide you in a Focusing session using this process.
 
When
Starting in January 2019, our meetings will take place approximately every 2 weeks.  I will email a doodle poll to interested teachers to help find the best times and dates for us to meet.

Connection platform
We will use Zoom as our connection platform for the meetings.  You may connect by computer and webcam or telephone or a hybrid of the two.  It is possible to connect by audio only.
 
Class commitments:
For participating in this focusing series, I request these things:
 
  • attending meetings: that you attend all (or most of) the 6 meetings
  • practice sessions: that you participate in a practice session between each meeting, with partners in a rotation schedule that I will arrange
  • reading: see information on the Focusing manual below

Gift economy:

I suggest a donation of your choice that reflects the time I will be investing in your training.  This includes a private session as well as six 2.5 hour meetings.

 
Payment options:
Check:  to Stepping into Freedom, 1307 S. Main, Fairfield, IA 52556
 
 
Readings
Please purchase this manual:

The Focusing Student’s & Companion’s Manual, Part One

 The printed manual (or a digital download) can be purchased at:
 
There is no need to purchase the "practice cards" available on-line. I will provide those via email.
 
I will provide other supplementary reading materials.
 
15-30 minutes of reading will be assigned before each meeting. The reading is easy and enjoyable.
 
Practice sessions with partners
In between each meeting, you will be asked to have a paired partner practice session.
 
Please allow a minimum of 30 minutes for your paired practice sessions following the first 2 meetings. As the course progresses that time is likely to extend to an hour between meetings.
 
We will rotate partners after each meeting so that you will have the benefit of practicing with a variety of partners. I will  set up the rotation.
 
 
Meetings 
Each meeting will have a theme as well as an experiential exercise or a demonstration of Focusing.
 
Some of the the themes that will be covered are
  • Presence - a foundational aspect of Focusing is familiarity with Presence.
  • The Felt Sense - getting in touch with a holistic, present moment sense of a complex situation. This is the heart of Focusing
  • The Role of the Focuser - learning to be empowered in the practice
  • The Role of the Companion - learning to help the Focuser's process in an effective and relaxed way
  • Focusing Partnerships -  what works best including agreements and safety
  • Stages of a Focusing session - growing in understanding of the stages of a Focusing session facilitates ease in the practice

If you are interested in learning Inner Relationship Focusing,  please email me at cielle.cindy@gmail.com

I completed a two-year certification course to become a Focusing teacher and guide in 2013. I use the principles of Focusing daily.  It has allowed me to find an inner navigation based on bodily felt senses. Focusing helps me move forward in practical everyday ways and in my awakening. Read more ...

Margit Bantowski writes, "Focusing is an efficient and elegant way to engage the body's profound wisdom and natural movement towards wholeness, and has become central to how I work with Trillium students. It is deceptively simple yet offers radical transformation in a relatively short amount of time. Cielle is an excellent teacher of Focusing - she is highly skilled in the method itself, and is also gifted in explaining concepts, supporting practice, and giving examples. Wholeheartedly recommended!"

Ann Weiser Cornell, world famous Focusing guide and teacher writes, "Focusing is an awareness process – something you do internally – that is based on the idea that a certain kind of body sense called a “felt sense” can help us discover and follow the best next steps of our life. Most of us pay more attention to the shouts all around us than to those little whispers within. Yet the inner whispers have huge importance for getting calm, clear, centered… and moving forward."