Community Wellness Focusing: An Integrative Approach to MHPSS (Featuring PFA)
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Enroll now to embark on your Community Wellness Focusing – integrative MHPSS journey! Whether you’re just starting out or looking to deepen your expertise, you’ll gain the skills to build personal resilience, strengthen your professional foundation, and enhance community well-being.
In your first year, you’ll explore Psychological First Aid, Psychosocial Support, and Focusing in Community. In your second year, you’ll take part in our Training of Trainers (TOT) Community Wellness Focusing Professional Certification program, where you can practice your skills to foster healing on personal, professional, and community levels.
If you are curious about this process you can get started with our one-month Psychological First Aid module—perfect if you’ve ever wondered how to support a friend in crisis but weren’t sure what to do.
To enroll in our 2025-2026 Community Wellness Focusing: An Integrative Approach to MHPSS course
For a taste of our work, enroll here for the PFA Module that starts in April 2025
Why Community Wellness and MHPSS
What is Community Wellness Focusing?
Community wellness is essential to healing. “Focusing In Community” fosters healing and brings connection, resilience, and shared problem-solving in you, your professional life and in your communities.
What is Integrative MHPSS?
MHPSS (Mental Health and Psychosocial Support) is about more than just medical care—it includes taking care of yourself and supporting your community. With one in three people facing serious mental health (MH) challenges in their lifetime, there simply aren’t enough trained professionals to help everyone. That’s why your role in the community is so important.
Our course goes beyond the traditional mental health model, focusing on the power of community, resilience, and cultural understanding. You’ll learn how to build a strong foundation in Psychosocial Support (PSS), helping yourself and others in meaningful, effective ways. Click here to enroll.
What you will experience
Our 2025-2026 Community Wellness Focusing: An Integrative Approach to MHPSS Professional Certification program (enroll here) is designed to support personal, professional, and community growth and healing. The curriculum is divided into three foundational courses in 2025 and a culminating certification/ training of trainers course in 2026.
Year 1 (2025 Courses):
Psychological First Aid (PFA): Learn deep listening and peer-based support techniques to help individuals and communities in crisis. 1 April – 10 May 2025
Psychosocial Support (PSS): Build on PFA skills to facilitate wellness through culturally sensitive approaches that promote local agency and problem-solving. 3 June – 26 July 2025
Focusing in Community (FIC): Strengthen Focusing as both a personal and community-based practice. 6 September – 15 November 2025
Year 2 (2026 Certification / Training of Trainers Course):
Community Wellness Focusing Professional Certification: Apply Focusing skills in diverse contexts. Participants will develop a Focusing Project—a real-world application of Focusing principles tailored to their community or professional practice. 13 January – 10 November 2026
Certification available upon successful completion each module. Also, participants may qualify for certification as Community Wellness Focusing Trainers through Focusing Initiatives International and as Focusing Professionals through The International Focusing Institute (TIFI).
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Affiliated with Focusing Initiatives International (U.S.A.)
(Internationally Certified Course)
For Pakistani Audience the prices are different than for international audience.
We thank Pat Omidian and focusing initiatives international for allowing us to keep the prices as low as possible for our Pakistani Audience.
My journey of focusing was not very smooth. Focusing revealed itself to me after I have been trying it for a whole year, hence it made my belief stronger that our body never lets us go any deeper than it is ready. Pat had been an amazing companion through all that time and since then the wonders of focusing changed the way I listen to my body and the way I react to it.
The best part of focusing and focusers is kindness. Whenever I found myself struggling with my inner conflicts, Pat reminded me of being gentle and kind with myself with her amazingly beautiful focusing language.
Hira, Pakistan
I used FII’s mentoring program because I was looking to transition into international mental health work but felt completely lost in knowing where to begin, how to navigate the many international organizations, and with whom to speak.
I connected with Pat, co-founder of FII, who was simply wonderful. She had vast experience in global healing and emergency contexts. Not only was she a great resource, but she was professional, supportive, and instilled confidence in me to reach my goals.
Ashley Kies
