Focusing is a process of listening to the wisdom of your body

The British Focusing Association (BFA) is a community of Focusing practitioners, teachers and Focusing-oriented therapists. We are here to support your learning and deepening of Focusing and listening in all its forms. Here you can find practitioners, search for events, read articles and blog posts and more.

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Focusing has deepened my therapy practice, helping clients (and me) to understand and integrate unconscious parts.

Vajrasara Rankin. Therapist

Focusing enables me to live my life and to counsel clients with a deeper level of self-awareness.

Paula Newman – Counsellor.

Focusing has transformed my life

Cathy Rowan

What I love about Focusing is that it offers a practical way to develop self compassion, to meet all aspects of ourselves, the good, and especially the bad and the ugly!

Taravajra

Focusing has been for me a gentle process that can access to a bodily-felt sense from which meaning arises with intricate detail and empathy.

David

Learning focusing helped me feel more human – I had feelings too, the unwanted ones shifted when I paid attention to them, and I could empathise with other people’s feelings. Relief!

Peter Afford

Focusing has opened the door to my inner world, giving me greater confidence in myself, and a belief in the innate wisdom we all share, when we learn how to find it

Elizabeth English DPhil (Oxon)

Focusing has helped me feel more alive

Suzi Mackenzie

Focusing, for me, is a doorway to an open, kindly, wise and profound connection to Life.

Helen Bryant

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Courses & events

13th May 2024 Zoom Online

Focusing Foundation for Healing and Intuition 8wk Course on Zoom

Focusing Skills Certificate

Focusing Foundation for Healing and Intuition Course Embark on the adventure of focusing, where you’ll discover profound meaning and connection with yourself and others. This course offers Enhanced awareness through Embodied Relational Experience Experience depth…

Simon McKibbin
16th May 2024 May Hill, Gloucestershire, Gloucester

Forest Wisdom retreat

Specialist

It’s easy to look at the contours of a forest and feel a bone deep love for nature. It’s less easy to remember that the contours of your own body represent the exact same nature.…

Peter Gill
16th May 2024 Olympos Village House / Antalya, Arafo

The Path of the sensing Being

FOCUSING RETREAT TURKEY SENSED ECOLOGY RETREAT – AN INITIATION TO FOCUSING IN NATURE May 16th – May 19th, 2024 Olympos Village House / Antalya South Turkey The Path of the…

Marta Fabregat
18th May 2024 Online – Zoom, South East

Creativity and Values into Action

Focusing Skills Certificate

These two Saturdays will include more opportunity to nurture creativity and intuition. We will look at how Focusing may relate to your values or spirituality and how we can work with action steps. If you…

Suzi Mackenzie