An intensive 60 hour online Training program in Dynamic Expressive Focusing for being and working with Children, Teenagers and Inner Child experiences.
In English, translated in Spanish! Divided in 3 modules.
We invite you to explore and experience Dynamic Expressive Focusing, to deepen your knowledge and practice about (re)connecting with children and adolescents and your own inner (preverbal) child world. “This training is designed Professionals, (grand)parents and teachers”
General description to become certified as a Children Focusing Companion (CFC)
What to learn and get from this training
- To build resilience and competence in self-care and empathy through developing an understanding of personal bodily felt life and inner child experience, from both an experiential and theoretical point of view.
- To learn and develop the practical skills, approaches and techniques required to build that same resilience and competence in the children and young people with whom you are working with or . . . being with.
- To learn and discover how to use the natural capacity of children and young people for imaginative play, drawing, storytelling and other forms of symbolisation to better manage their emotional experience while developing your own creativity and playfulness.
- In particular, to learn how to do all of the above in safe space ~ with clear boundaries, that respect the privacy and vulnerability of much of childhood and adolescent experience . . . and also for yourself as an adult.
- To learn and experience integrating a Focusing dimension into existing practices and activities you already use with children and young people, or in your work and training with adults.
Training topics include the following module-based topics:
Three different modules of each 7 meetings of 3 hour, divided over one year
Module 1 Basic attitude in working with Children Focusing
Attuning, Listening in three directions, non-verbal communication. Contact-contract, limits and structure, personal quality of containment, symbolization work (background, effect and own experience), creating space. How to stay in the basic attitude and deepen this.
Work with the inner child… How to contact the FS (Felt Sense) of the child/client through different portals, through art and movement/ gestures/ sounds. The children’s own inner strength, favoring the emergence of her vital energy supporting her towards the next step
Module 2 Deepening attitude for working with Children Focusing
How to contact the FS (Felt Sense) of the child/client through different portals, with collages, with nature, How to deepen the process by working with symbolizations, How to accompany when there are too many or when there are almost no words in the verbal expression. How to deepen a process when there is an internal critic affecting a child, for example: when they get stuck, when they block, when they feel nothing, when they become overwhelmed, when they become paralyzed, when they feel “too much”. Exploring your own inner critic and inner child world
Module 3 Working with Children Focusing special topics
How to take care of your own process Challenging behaviors (children or adolescents with depressive traits, with ADHD traits, with difficulty expressing anger, children stuck in mourning. Work with my own hypotheses, How to transfer the skills learned to parents, teachers and other people related to the child. Working with groups, Working with grieve, Dreams and nightmares. How to facilitate the process to move organically towards life. How to end a process.
For whom:
It is for YOU to support your personal Focusing process of anyone wanting to practice a great way of being more playful, flexible and explore different ways of unfolding your Focusing process in a more expressive way. Also for working and being with adults!
Module 1: 25 February, 4 18,March and 1, 15, 22 and 29 April
Module 2: 2, 16, 23 September,21 oktober en 4, 18 nov, 25 nov 2025, CET 7 PM
Module 3: winter 2025
Info: zoom link will be provided and a handout.
Cost: €345 for one module for Europeans or €190 for South Americans
Certification: This whole 60-hour training is accredited by TIFI to become a Children Focusing Companion. Participants will get an acknowledgement of each module, even in random order.
Questions: email rene@ftcz.nl (English) or jimecamon@gmail.com (Spanish)
Teachers: Harriet Teeuw & René Veugelers
International well known Children Focusing Coordinators and Focusing Oriented Therapist from The Netherlands. Both have many years’ experience in working with children, teenagers and parents. integrating Focusing; bodywork and art therapy into their develop method: Dynamic Expressive Focusing; more info at : https://www.childrenfocusing.org/
Supported team: Florentina Sassoli es Counselor especializada en Desarrollo Personal – Terapista orientada en Focusing (FOT) y Entrenadora de Focusing – Fundadora de la escuela de Focusing “Focusing para Todos” – Miembro de la Junta Directiva del “The International Focusing Institute”.
Jimena Camón es Counselor – Terapista orientada en Focusing (FOT) y Entrenadora de Focusing – Colaboradora de “The International Focusing Institute” – Maestra de niños.