The Emergent Coaching Training® Program

Focusing

THE FOCUSING ORIENTED COACHING (FOC) MODEL

Earns 24 ICF Core Competency Units!

Course Cost: $1625
Currently only $1495
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COMMENCES SEPTEMBER 2025 - SCHEDULE BELOW

What is Focusing

"Focusing is an active receptivity to the vague inklings of what is just beyond the horizon of awareness. It is Gene Gendlin's name for the process of sensing into implicit experience - a felt sense of the complex intricacy under the surface of words and thoughts.
Like going fishing, focusing is a way of relaxing into the boat of oneself and waiting attentively for a nibble from below. Even though the fish might be out of sight we attune ourselves to its movements and hold gently but firmly to the line of connection with it. This kind of experiential responding joins the inner world and the relational world."

—Lynn Preston
Developed out of the largest outcomes study of its type at the time which set out to uncover the mechanisms of change in client conversations, researcher Eugene Gendlin articulated the phenomenal process called Focusing.

In this 8-part series, participants learn the six key elements of Focusing—how to engage with it as a self-guided process and to facilitate it within a coaching session. These sessions are taught by Rod Francis and scientist, therapist, coach and international teacher of Focusing Oriented approaches, Charlotte Howorth and supported by faculty. 

Gendlin has been feted for his work by the psychological community (including three awards from the American Psychological Association) for whom the importance of it to deep lasting behavioral change cannot be overstated. While Focusing-Oriented Therapy has been practiced since the 1990's, rather astonishingly, to our knowledge, ours is the first explicit model of Focusing-Oriented Coaching to emerge.

So here's your chance to get ahead of the curve!

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What our participants say

"The curriculum taught me the skills to access knowledge below the surface for the client. Since implementing these skills and awareness in my coaching, I have had clients reach out about the lasting impact our sessions have had on them, beyond just the topic for the session. Would highly recommend this program to anyone wanting to go deeper with their clients."
Bijal Choksi MA PCC,  Executive & Leadership Coach, Founder HuWork
"The module on Focusing made this certification particularly valuable to me. Learning how to tap into my embodied wisdom was a really meaningful experience for me. Charlotte's warmth and expertise really made this part of the program special."
Sean Hutchman, ACC

VIEW THE PROGRAM SCHEDULES

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