Emotion-Focused Mindfulness Therapy

Free online Touching the Earth mindfulness workshop
Sunday, April 12, 2026, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Facilitated by Bill Gayner and other members

Touching the Earth Mindfulness Ontario invites psychotherapists and counsellors to a free workshop introducing our innovative community of practice. This practice integrates standard mindfulness and transformative experiential and emotion-focused processes into meditation and how we share and explore meditation experience together. The approach includes befriending and welcoming home old defences and vulnerabilities in ways that empower people to better navigate situations and cultivate fulfilling lives.

Upcoming Workshops Join us for an Introductory Workshop to learn more about Touching the Earth Mindfulness Ontario Introductory Workshop When: Free Online Workshop Sunday, April 12th, 2026 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (1-hour…

FREE Live Interview for Therapists & Mental Health Practitioners

Join us for an exclusive conversation with Dr. Antonio Pascual-Leone about his latest book, Everything I Know About Changing Emotions in Psychotherapy.

December 19, 2025
11:00AM – 12:00PM ET
Live Online
Hosted by Dr. Serine Warwar

In this special event, Dr. Pascual-Leone shares the story, ideas, and clinical insights behind his new book, offering practical tools to help therapists support deeper emotional change and deliver more effective interventions.

https://www.cpeh.ca/interview-changing-emotions-in-psychotherapy

I am looking forward to co-facilitating this Focusing Roundtable discussion with Serge Prengel for TIFI members this Thursday on Focusing and mindfulness practices. If you are not a member, consider joining, it is worthwhile and affordable.

Focusing Roundtable: Focusing & Our Mindfulness Practices This is a gathering of Focusers who are interested in mindfulness. This includes people who consider Focusing to be their mindfulness practice and people who have another mindfulness or meditation practice as well.

I'm looking forward to hearing what Judy Moore & Nikolaos Kypriotakis, editors of the wonderful two-volume Senses of Focusing, have to say.

The International Focusing Institute The International Focusing Institute. Focusing Is A Process Grounded In Experiential Listening As Developed By Eugene Gendlin. It Is A Powerful Way Of Interacting With Innate Body-Felt Knowing And Leads To Mutual Respect, Authenticity And Compassion.

Psychotherapists' and counsellors' work requires a continuous giving of oneself to others. For this reason, it is crucial to have a space to replenish and engage in meaningful self-care.

Psychotherapists, counsellors, and clinical students are invited to attend a FREE online Introduction to Touching the Earth Workshop on Sunday, April 13, 2025, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (with a one-hour lunch break) hosted by Touching the Earth Mindfulness Ontario. For more information or to register, go to https://ttemo.ca/upcoming-events/ or email me at [email protected]. Registration will be limited to 10 participants.

Touching the Earth is a way of practicing mindfulness in community that integrates all of EFT's transformational experiential and emotion-focused processes into meditation, journaling, and how we share, explore and reflect on meditation experience together. Touching the Earth adapts Emotion-Focused Mindfulness Therapy (Gayner, 2019, PCEP) for use by psychotherapists practicing mindfulness in community together.

Touching the Earth Mindfulness Ontario is a non-profit organization established in 2022. We are a group of regulated health professionals who have come together to meditate, heal, grow and support each other in our practice in empathic, responsive, compassionate, and appreciative ways.
https://ttemo.ca/upcoming-events/

Upcoming Workshops Join us for an Introductory Workshop to learn more about Touching the Earth Mindfulness Ontario Introductory Workshop When: Free Online Workshop Sunday, April 13th, 2025 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (1-hour…

Great article on highly sensitive people by Elaine Aron, the preeminent researcher on the topic. There's also a good documentary on the topic, Sensitive, with Elaine Aron and Alanis Morissette. High sensitivity is a wonderful trait, not a pathology, but comes with its own challenges.

What does it mean to be a highly sensitive person? | Aeon Essays Those with this little-known trait think more deeply and feel more empathy. But they also deal with significant challenges

It was an honour to be interviewed by the InFocus Newsletter of the International Focusing Institute. I am grateful to Natalie Fisher who interviewed me and to Sherrie Lynne who edited it. It was fun and deeply meaningful to reflect back on what led me to valuing focusing so deeply.

An Interview with Bill Gayner by Natalie Fisher | International Focusing Institute   In August 2024, Bill Gayner became the Vice President of the International Focusing Institute Board.  It was a pleasure to talk with Bill. For me, meaningful conversations are those in which both people are checking in with themselves as they speak, and Bill continued to do that throughout our c...

Free online workshop for professionals who provide psychotherapy or counselling on Sunday, November 17th, 2024,. Touching the Earth is an experientially open, emotion-focused way of meditating and sharing and exploring meditation experience in community.

Facilitated by Bill Gayner and other members of Touching the Earth Mindfulness Ontario. Enrolment is limited.

Upcoming Workshops Join us for an Introductory Workshop to learn more about Touching the Earth Mindfulness Ontario Introductory Workshop When: Free Online Workshop Sunday, November 17th, 2024 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (1-h…

Here is Roland Faber, the theologian, writing in a way that evokes what I imagine is something like the natives mean by "all our relations." Wonderful!

"Matter is spiritual; materia is the birth that the mater gives to life. It is the Mother Earth and the cosmic Matrix of becoming-Spirit. It is nothing fixed, as we might think if we were (still) limited by old categorizations imagining matter in terms of inert things or particles, operating like billiard balls in a universe of collisions. Rather, as newer physics has recognized, we live in a universe of touch, between forces, energetic potentials, and forms of fields that coalesce, that relate, that communicate, that mutually influence one another, become, or move into each other. We live in a universe where “things” are clouds of activities and potentials, of events and processes, of energies in exchange of characteristics. Everything moves, relates, is present in one another in dynamic ways. The spiritual connotations of this universe are endless, of course. But the one important connotation, at this point, is this: the cosmic Spirit indicates the vividness of these movements and exchanges, of these mutual ways of being immanent to one another beyond any abstract characterization in isolation, be it that of “matter” and “mind,” “form” and “content,” or “activity” and “potentiality.”"

Faber, Roland. The Cosmic Spirit: Awakenings at the Heart of All Religions, the Earth, and the Multiverse (pp. 20-21). Cascade Books. Kindle Edition.

I am thoroughly enjoying these conversations with the key note speakers for this conference, reflecting on their life work and how this grew out of their own struggles and exploration in life. So far, I have listened to the interviews with Les Greenberg and Ann Weiser Cornell, two people who have had a big influence on me. Looking forward to listening to the rest.

🎙️Emotion Revolution podcast series🎙️
Listen here: https://www.emotionrevolution.no/about
A new episode in our Emotion Revolution podcast series is out! This time, Axel S has a great conversation with Ann Weiser Cornell. In fact, here's what Ann herself said after previewing the episode: "I really enjoyed listening to this interview! I was freshly struck by what a great interviewer Axel is. I felt so understood, it was practically a therapy session itself! The conversation was a wonderful example of emotions and life carrying forward."