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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.
Focusing enables me to live my life and to counsel clients with a deeper level of self-awareness.
Focusing has transformed my life
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!
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.
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!
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
Focusing has helped me feel more alive
Focusing, for me, is a doorway to an open, kindly, wise and profound connection to Life.
Courses & events
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29th April 2024 Zoom Meeting (Video Conference)
Levels/Modules 3,4,5 of Basic Focusing Skills Course Level 1-5
Focusing Skills Certificate
Deepen your Focusing Partnerships Relate to yourself and others with freshness, emotional intelligence, and an open heart. If you have done a basic Focusing course, you can join: Levels/Modules 3, 4, 5 of my Level…
Amona Buechler -
2nd May 2024
Deepen Your Life Through Focusing
Introductory
4-day Online Beginner Focusing Course Focusing has a tremendously gentle, often meditative quality. It is a process in which the heart and the intellect meet. With a kind of felt inner listening that is friendly,…
Amona Buechler -
2nd May 2024
Focusing Practitioner Training
Professional Training
The British Focusing Association (BFA) Practitioner Training Programme enables you to work professionally with Focusing. You will learn how to integrate Focusing into your exising professional field, and you will also be able to offer…
Fiona Parr -
3rd May 2024
Focusing Level 2: Living Forward Energy
Focusing Skills Certificate
Level two is the second of five Focusing levels which form the British Focusing Association Certificate in Focusing Skills. You will need to complete level one before joining the level two training. During Level…
Paula Newman
Articles & Blogs
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13th Nov 2023
Wisdom at the edges
Introductory
Inside all of us lie uncharted territories, lands where everything we know fades and we enter another kind of realm. In this place, we are no longer in charge, and what approaches us seems mysterious…
Download BC483-Thresholds-October-2023_Gill.pdf (pdf)Peter Gill -
14th Oct 2023
Creative Compassion – Towards a Culture of Relational Empathy
Creative Compassion is a practice cultivating self-empathy and empathy for others through the arts. The Creative Compassion practice is designed for building basics of Relational Empathy within a safe framed setting. Relational Empathy (Maureen o’Hara)…
Download Creative-Compassion-Blog-©FOCUSZART-Freda-Blob.pdf (pdf)Freda Blob -
13th Oct 2023
Saying ‘no’ in presence: Setting limits through body sense. In Kypriotakis, N. and Moore J. (Eds), Senses of Focusing. Volume II. Athens: Eurasia Publications, pp.469-483.
Bodywork Decisions Philosophy Therapy Trauma
Any ‘no’ of a client can express a primary organismic No that has an implicit life enhancing target. The client tries to communicate that he or she is missing something that allows his or her…
Download Saying_no_in_presence_Setting_limits_thr.pdf (pdf)Freda Blob -
10th Apr 2023
Focusing and the Ego – A Personal Journey. From spiritual abuse to radical acceptance
Practitioner projects Spirituality Trauma
This is the essay I wrote as my main project for the Practitioner Training with Peter Gill. Training completed Nov 2022. It is a personal account of my journey with the ‘Ego’ and how that…
Download FOCUSING-AND-EGO-A-PERSONAL-JOURNEY-FROM-SPIRITUAL-ABUSE-TO-RADICAL-ACCEPTANCE-2-1.docx (vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document)Vicki Thomas
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