Ann Weiser Cornell, Ph.D. is an internationally known author and seminar leader who has been working with the Focusing process since she learned it from its originator, Eugene Gendlin, in 1972. She is perhaps the best-known Focusing teacher in the world, having taught in eighteen countries around the world for the past twenty-five years. With her colleague Barbara McGavin she has been developing Inner Relationship Focusing (IRF) since 1992, and today there is a flourishing worldwide network of therapists and practitioners of IR Focusing.
 
Ann has given presentations and trainings in Inner Relationship Focusing at the Esalen Institute, the Psychotherapy Networker Conference, the National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine, the American Psychological Association, and this coming summer will be doing a five-day training in IRF at the Cape Cod Institute.

Ann was a Woodrow Wilson scholar at the University of Chicago, where she received her Ph.D. in Linguistics in 1975. She puts her linguistics training to use with her fine attention to the language that facilitates inner process, which she calls “the art of facilitative language.”

Ann is the author of The Power of Focusing and The Radical Acceptance of Everything. She is the founder and CEO of Focusing Resources, which offers over 60 phone seminars on IR Focusing every year. You can learn more about Focusing Resources at www.focusingresources.com.