Women’s Soul Midwifery Focusing Training

This two-year training program for healers is a sacred space where we open to our embodied, wildish nature. Through focusing and the felt sense, together we will come into a deeper relationship with the wisdom of our bodies and the natural world, integrating focusing and the felt sense as we grow our medicine woman toolkits.

You will learn divine feminine ways of knowing and being to develop:

• deep, embodied, soulful connections with other healing artists
• capacity to engage with focusing therapeutically for yourself, your clients and your community
• ability to become ensouled and bring more soul forward with your clients and communities using a focusing approach
• skills to engage the wisdom of the felt sense and its interaction with nature, dreams, art, movement, song, poetry, storytelling, ancestor work, ritual, ceremony, and the healing power of beauty

If you identify as a woman and are a licensed mental health therapist looking to incorporate somatic body wisdom and sacred feminine arts into your practice, this training is for you!

Program Components

Three in-person weekend retreats at Terre Madre

Biweekly 90 min training online

Focusing partnership learning

Readings and reflection

Ongoing consult group

Co-leading groups, assist facilitation of trainings & retreats

Expressive arts integration project

Prerequisites:

Must be a licensed mental health clinician

The ability to focus/ basic training in focusing (reach out for opportunities to learn)

Certification:

We offer certification as a Certified Focusing-Oriented Therapist specializing in soul midwifery through the International Focusing Institute. Continuing Education hours are available.

Cost:

Total $3,000 ($1,500/ year), including retreat accommodations, meals and TIFI membership fee.

Payment plans and a limited number of work trade opportunities are available. Reach out to angiehensleymft@gmail.com for payment options.

Logistics:

The training begins on the first weekend in May, with the opening retreat. 5/1/25- 5/4/25

The online trainings will be held every other week via Zoom beginning Friday 5/16 12-1:30 pm PST

Focusing partnership meetings can be scheduled as is convenient to each pair.

Topics

Year 1 Topics:

Steps of Focusing

Clearing a space

Using focusing as a therapeutic approach

Avenues

The client-therapist relationship

Engaging the felt sense in assessment & treatment planning

Trauma, addiction, anxiety and depression

Holistic health and mind-body medicine

Year 2 Topics:

Spirituality, ceremony & ritual

Sourcing and tending to the knowing field

Working with dreams

Engaging expressive arts and the mythopoetic

Ancestor and lineage work

Psyche and the natural world

Facilitating community-led soul recovery