JOCELYN JACKS KAHN
Certified Focusing Trainer
Work With Me
What happens in a guided session?
Sessions are one full hour.
We take some time to gently bring our awareness to what's already here supporting us.
This includes our human selves, our physical bodies, supportive energies such as our breath and the sensations of aliveness in our bodies, our environment, and our mutual human relating.
We’ve opened up to this greater field that holds us.
So now we give an invitation to our bodily wisdom to show us something helpful about the problematic situation you’ve brought to the session.
Your body has been with you since birth.
It holds a tremendous amount of experiential knowledge around every aspect of your life. And so I will guide you throughout the session in noticing where your issues are showing up in your body as well as in your everyday life, and in being with those places with kindness, patience, and friendly curiosity.
The key is staying in touch with our actual bodily experiencing of our story. In a way, it’s very simple. But our habitual way of being with ourselves involves primal survival strategies that involve jumping away from actually experiencing our painful situations.
This is where I come in. Essentially, my job is to guide you into staying with your own felt experience long enough to allow it to unfold and open up into the larger flow of your life.
All you need to bring to the session is yourself.
I will be your guide through it all.
One-to-One Guided Sessions
A Single Guided Session: $120
A great way to experience the work or get clarity on a specific situation.
4-Session Package: $440 (The "In Your Own Time" Package)
For ongoing support as things arise, or a steady monthly rhythm.
12-Session Package: $1,200 (The "Let’s Do It!" Package)
For deeper, consistent work around a meaningful life issue.
This container allows for a natural arc of beginning, middle, and integration, while building real momentum.
Classes & Groups
A 2-Day Relational Wholebody Focusing Retreat
May 30-31, 2026 | Frenchtown, New Jersey
Facilitated by Jocelyn Kahn, CFT & The New Jersey Focusing Trainers Team.
This is an in-person retreat for both beginners and experienced Focusers. We will be using experiential practices from Relational Wholebody Focusing to expand our capacity to ground, settle and rest into the relational field that is already here, supporting us, right now.
A key part of this experiential retreat will be Focusing partnerships throughout our time together.
This will be a spacious time of building our capacity to trust our bodily felt knowing, which is really about trusting ourselves.
This workshop has been designed to benefit both beginners and experienced Focusers.
NJFT Monthly Changes Group:
Ongoing Focusing Partnership Practice
Group is Free | 2nd Sundays
2nd Sunday of Each Month (Unless Otherwise Noted)
9:00-10:30 am Eastern Time (check the time for your area here).
On the 2nd Sunday of each month (unless otherwise noted), North Jersey Focusing Trainers (NJFT) offers a Changes Group. This is an opportunity to be paired up with another Focuser to practice your Focusing partnership skills in a friendly and supportive space.
NJFT members take turns facilitating the sessions. I am one of the rotating NJFT facilitators. The facilitator for the morning’s session will choose an aspect of Focusing or a life theme, give a brief talk and attunement, and then send us into breakout rooms for our Focusing partnerships.
Who is this Group for?
This is a practice group for the benefit of beginning, intermediate and advanced Focusers. Beginning Focusers should have learned the basics of Focusing.
How did Changes Groups come to be?
Eugene Gendlin, the founder of Focusing, was a Professor at the University of Chicago when National Guard members killed four students and wounded nine at Kent State University protests against the Vietnam war in 1970. He had already begun developing Focusing - he began his Changes Groups to give students an opportunity to get together and process their feelings around what was happening at the time. The name is based on Bob Dylan’s song, "The Times They Are A-Changin' ".
Would you like more details on our Changes Groups?
Go to the Events page by following this link here.
Would you like to sign up to be notified of NJFT Changes Groups each month?
(1) Click the link below to go to the NJFT website Events page; (2) Scroll to the bottom; and (3) Fill in the simple form and click Submit to receive monthly notification of upcoming Changes groups (as well as occasional notice of other events).
"When a part of me is able to feel loved,
it awakens to its own healing."
– Kevin McEvenue
Founder of Wholebody Focusing
Coming in September 2026
Focusing for Spiritual Development (New!)
Live online class via Zoom
An experiential 9-month course
You will be learning how to work with your everyday struggles and longstanding patterns in a way that allows them to open into genuine spiritual growth.
What do I mean by "Spiritual"?
By “spiritual,” I mean a way of relating to your experience that brings you into deeper contact with the aliveness of your own body, and with the life you are living right here, right now. From here, you begin to sense your connection to something larger: the Life that holds us all ~ also referred to in Focusing as the MORE.
Focusing is known as a "change process." But what actually draws me to Focusing is what makes that change possible. What makes change possible in Focusing is learning how to escape the old patterns that we feel trapped by through repairing our access to the MORE.
These patterns aren't easy to "just let go" of because they really did help us survive at a crucial time in our lives. That context of survival imprints them deeply into our very being - physical, emotional, and spiritual - they aren't simply outdated ideas floating around in our heads.
To my mind, the deeper significance of Focusing is its capacity for spiritual repair - the repair of our connection to the depth of the Wholeness of which we are an integral part.
Why We Get Stuck
When something feels too painful or overwhelming, the body naturally shuts down. This response makes sense.
But over time, these patterns of shutdown limit our ability to feel, respond, and stay connected to what’s actually happening. We begin reacting from old patterns instead of meeting life as it unfolds in real time. It becomes hard to recognize that we’re trapped inside a kind of distorted mirror reflection of our own experience.
What You'll Learn
In this course, you’ll learn:
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Why the nature of the body is inherently spiritual
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How to escape the craving for spiritual "highs" and actually develop a spirituality profoundly and satisfyingly connected to your everyday self
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Build the foundational safety and inner stability needed for this work
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How to come back into direct contact with the wholeness of your situation through being with the painful piece of it you feel trapped in right now
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How to recognize and relate differently to reactive patterns
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How to stay present with difficult inner experience, without merging with it or pushing it away
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How to listen inwardly to that still small voice - which may otherwise get lost in the tumult of your life - in a way that allows something that feels fresh, brand-new and alive to emerge
At its heart, this course is about learning to relate to yourself and to others in a way that allows fresh possibility, real change and - most of all - a deepened and direct connection to the Life that holds us all.
And you will be learning and practicing in the context of peer partnerships.
This means that you will be able to continue to develop long after this course has concluded as you use these skills in partnership with each other and with the broader Focusing community as well.
Why Nine Months?
Most of us have spent years learning to turn away from parts of ourselves that we don’t like. This course offers the time and structure needed to develop new ways of being – ways that support self-acceptance – and over time, something closer to genuine self-love.
Real change unfolds more like cultivating a plant than flipping a switch.
First, the ground must be prepared. The soil of your inner life – often hardened by habit and judgment – needs time to soften so something new can take root.
Then seeds are planted: small moments of presence, subtle shifts in how you relate to what’s difficult in your life.
With ongoing attention, the seeds are watered and nourished. Growth happens through consistent contact, returning, noticing, and allowing what is there to unfold in its own timing.
With steady attention, what’s been planted is nourished and begins to grow. This can’t be rushed. You can’t pull on a seedling to make it grow faster.
Over time, what once felt stuck begins to open and move. What develops is a new way of relating to yourself and your experience.
The nine months of the course allows your process to root, grow, and become sustainable.
Who This Is For
This course may be a good fit for you if:
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You’ve done personal or spiritual work, but some difficult part of your life just won’t shift
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You're done with chasing spiritual highs, but don't want to give up spiritual exploration
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You suspect you may be "spiritually bypassing," but aren’t sure what else to do
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You feel disconnected from meaning or aliveness in your life
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You want a grounded, effective, body-based approach to real change
Your most difficult patterns are not just problems to solve. They can become entry points into a deeper, more connected way of being. In this course, you will learn how to work with these patterns in a way that actually allows this to happen.
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