Upcoming Courses by Hong Kong Focusing Institute
12/2017 Children Focusing workshop by René Veugelers
15-19/11/2017 Wholebody Focusing (Module V) by Karen Whalen, Ph.D.
1-2/7/2017 Working with the Whole: Focusing and Buddhist Meditation by Campbell Purton, Ph.D.
17-21/5/2017 Wholebody Focusing (Module IV) by Karen Whalen, Ph.D.
Upcoming Courses by Centre on Behavioral Health, University of Hong Kong
5-6/3/2018 FOAT Level 1
8-9/3/2018 FOAT Level 2
Check in at http://cbh.hku.hk/ for more information.
Finished Courses
11/2016 Wholebody Focusing (Module III) by Karen Whalen, Ph.D.
05/2016 Wholebody Focusing (Module II) by Karen Whalen, Ph.D.
02/2016 Akira Ikemi on Basic Focusing and Blue Sky Meditation by Akira Ikemi, Ph.D.
11/2015 Wholebody Focusing (Module I) by Karen Whalen, Ph.D.
04/2015 Focusing with Trauma by Alexis and Shaun Philips
Trainers
Akira Ikemi, Ph.D. studied with Prof. Eugene Gendlin at the University of Chicago, Graduate Division. Currently Professor of Psychotherapy at Kansai University Graduate School of Psychology, he is a member of the International Leadership Council and has served on the Board of Directors of the International Focusing Institute (USA) and the World Association of Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counseling (UK). He has created several methods such as Experiential Collage Work, 漢字Focusing, and Blue Sky Focusing.
Campbell Purton, Ph.D. is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Counselling Studies at the University of East Anglia, and a counsellor at the University Counselling Service. He has been a lecturer in philosophy, a therapist in private practice, and a director of the UEA Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling. He has published many articles in the areas of counselling, philosophy and Buddhist studies, and is an author of counselling books.
Karen Whalen, Ph.D. is a person-centered clinical therapist specializing in complex trauma in private practice in Canada. She is a certifying coordinator of the International Focusing Institute in New York. She integrates energetic models of consciousness (Qi-Gong, Polarity Therapy, Quantum Consciousness) with the practice of Wholebody Focusing and WBF Oriented Therapy. She teaches extensively in North America, Europe, China, Mexico, New Zealand, and Australia.
René Veugelers’ specialty is Focusing with Children with an emphasis on the non-verbal world. He studied art therapy, psychiatric nursing and group social work. René teaches parents, therapists, teachers and others, internationally, how to be with children in a Focusing way, how to (re)connect to their own i
nner child experiences, and how to integrate creativity and flexibility into their life and work. His experiences as an art therapist embrace an expanded richness of creative elements and support a natural unfolding of creative process.
Shaun Phillips, M.Ed., R.C.C., S.F.T.T., is a Registered Clinical Counsellor and Supervising Focusing-Oriented Therapist and Trainer, and Focusing Coordinator.
Alexis Phillips, M.A., R.C.C., S.F.T.T., is a Registered Clinical Counsellor, Focusing-Oriented Therapist and Trainer, and Focusing Coordinator.
Shaun and Alexis specialize in working with complex trauma and have presented on this work at the 2014, 2011 and 2009 World Conferences on Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapies in New York.