Online Year Long Course
January 8, 2026 4:00 pm
2026-2027
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Integrating Community Wellness and MHPSS
What is Community Wellness Focusing?
Community wellness is essential to healing. “Focusing In Community” fosters healing and brings connection, resilience, and shared problem-solving in you, your professional life and in your communities.
What is Integrative MHPSS?
MHPSS (Mental Health and Psychosocial Support) is about more than just medical care—it includes taking care of yourself and supporting your community. With one in three people facing serious mental health (MH) challenges in their lifetime, there simply aren’t enough trained professionals to help everyone. That’s why your role in the community is so important.
Our course goes beyond the traditional mental health model, focusing on the power of community, resilience, and cultural understanding. You’ll learn how to build a strong foundation in Psychosocial Support (PSS), helping yourself and others in meaningful, effective ways.
If you are curious about this process you can get started with our one-month Psychological First Aid module—perfect if you’ve ever wondered how to support a friend in crisis but weren’t sure what to do.
The Curriculum Path
Our 2026-2027 Community Wellness Focusing: An Integrative Approach to MHPSS Professional Certification program is designed to support personal, professional, and community growth and healing. The curriculum is divided into three foundational courses in 2026 and a culminating certification/ training of trainers course in 2026 with a total of more than 128 hours with expert instructors. If you are signing up for either the one year package or the full two year course, you can choose which PFA start date suits you after you have registered.
Year 1 (2026 Courses):
- Psychological First Aid (PFA): Learn deep listening and peer-based support techniques to help individuals and communities in crisis. This is a 5 week course. Select the start date that works best for you. Each class runs for 2.5 hours and meets weekly from 8AM Pacific time.
- Psychosocial Support (PSS): Build on PFA skills to facilitate wellness through culturally sensitive approaches that promote local agency and problem-solving. This is a 9 week course beginning on May 7, 2026. Each class runs for 2.5 hours and meets weekly from 8AM Pacific time.
- Focusing in Community (FIC): Strengthen Focusing as both a personal and community-based practice. This is an 11 week course beginning on September 10, 2026. Each class runs for 2.5 hours and meets weekly from 8AM Pacific time.
Year 2 (2027 Certification / Training of Trainers Course):
- Community Wellness Focusing Professional Certification: Apply Focusing skills in diverse contexts. Participants will develop a Focusing Project—a real-world application of Focusing principles tailored to their community or professional practice. This class meets every other week starting on January 7, 2027 (with June-August free to work on your project).
Certification available upon successful completion each module. Also, participants may qualify for certification as Community Wellness Focusing Trainers through Focusing Initiatives International and as Focusing Professionals through The International Focusing Institute (TIFI).
