Focusing training voor Luiza

Afgelopen juli vond het symposium ‘Being Seriously Playful’, een 5-daagse training in ervaringsgericht luisteren en kinderenfocussen, plaats in Nijholtepade. Luiza Stefan uit Roemenie wilde hier graag aan deelnemen en heeft Stichting Lichtstraal gevraagd om een financiële bijdrage in haar reis- en verblijfskosten.

Luiza: “I have worked in Bucharest (Romania) with children, parents and teachers as a School Counselor between 2007 and 2016 and now I am a psychotherapist in private practice. I discovered Focusing when being trained as a Person-Centered Psychotherapist between 2010-2014, but fell in love with it at the International Focusing Conference in Cambridge (UK) in 2016, when I attended the Children Focusing group lead by Rene and Harriet. Since then, I worked with both, attending the two parts of Being Seriously Playful in 2018 and 2019 and the two years online certification as a Focusing trainer, being certified by TIFI in 2021. Since last year I have been a coordinator in training.  I use Focusing in my practice as a psychotherapist with adults and children and love this approach because I find trust, deep connection and creativity in it.

My aim is to raise in my country the awareness of both specialists and parents regarding the gift of Focusing for themselves and for the children. In the future I want to teach focusing and to contribute to its spreading here. 

Being an assistant in the team with Harriet and Rene in the BSP training in July was a wonderful new opportunity to develop my skills as a trainer and to get new ideas about how to continue my work here in Romania. But more than ideas, it was an attitude that was very helpful when working with the group: a combination between the theoretical level and the deep trust in the process of focusers. I could experience this attitude observing the team of trainers, their delicate guidance and their ability to offer space to the focusers and I got a lot of inspiration from our work together. 

Also, it was precious for me to have the opportunity to offer some activities in the programme of the group and to discuss with Rene and Harriet what worked and what could be improved or changed. 

I am grateful I had this chance to be their assistant and to feel their trust in me. I left at the end of the BSP programme with a hope that our collaboration would nourish my work of spreading Focusing here in Romania. Thank you for having this support from the Foundation!