by Iqra Sohail, Sema Çiçekli, Jess Griths, Oleksandr Bazhenov, Jérôme Desquilbet (Oct. 2025) DiscomfortIf you attend a Focusing training course, you can expect to practice in pairs or groups of three. If the course is taught in English and has an international audience, English will […]

Ascencion’s reflections highlight what many students discover: Community Wellness Focusing is not simply a method to learn but a way of being that reshapes how we listen and accompany others.

My fear kept me safe from Ebola. I worked in Liberia when Ebola was on the rise, then again when it was almost gone. As I sit here today thinking about these experiences and about the current warnings about a global pandemic from the coronavirus, […]

FII’s book, Reaching Resilience, is rich with fresh, living stories and activities, such as ‘dry stick green stick’, ‘inner guests’, and ‘the story listener’.  As people have used these activities, they have adapted them to different cultures and situations around the world. Here is a […]

The walled city of Multan, Pakistan,  is a warren of narrow streets where the rays of sun seldom reach. Yes, before 1947, when the city was inhabited by the Sikh and Hindu business community, it was thriving with merchants, shops and more spacious family homes. […]

Focusing International fosters social change by supporting community wellness and psychosocial wellness using a public health approach. One of the best description of the public health approach comes from The Public Health Agency of Canada, which describes this approach as follows: “Important values in public […]

This book, co-authored with Nina Papadopoulos,  documents the training of teacher trainers in the IRC’s Female Education Program (FEP) in psychosocial wellness models. and the development of teacher training materials for Pakistan-based Afghan refugee teachers in 2002. A reflective process was used to raise awareness, […]