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Focusing is a process of listening to the wisdom of your body
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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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1st November 2025
Exploring Focusing – Focusing Skills Module 2
Focusing Skills Certificate
This online workshop is the second module of a five-module Focusing Skills course. In it we will continue to practise Focusing ourselves and will also explore and practise more the skills of being a Focusing…
Susan Jordan -
6th November 2025 Zoom
1.5-hour Taster: Nervous System Reset Online Course
Introductory
relaxed – connected – creative 1.5-hour informal meeting to introduce my 20-week Nervous System Reset Online Course After accidents, certain neurological illnesses, or emotionally challenging incidences, the autonomic nervous system can get stuck in repetitive…
Amona Buechler -
10th November 2025 Sheldon Retreat centre, Devon.
Path of Freedom: Untangling® retreat
Specialist
Are you longing for change but keep repeating the same patterns? Do you sense that more freedom is possible but are totally stuck with how to get there? Maybe you have a tangle! The Untangling®…
Peter Gill -
15th November 2025 Germany, Wolfgang-Heinze-Str. 35, 04277 Leipzig
Wochenend-Workshop FOCUSING Dein Innerer Kompass
Focusing Skills Certificate
15. – 16. November 2025 in Leipzig Warum Focusing? Unser Leben ist ein ständiger Prozess des Wandels und Wachsens. Täglich stehen wir vor Wegkreuzungen und fragen uns: Was ist der nächste Schritt? Genau hier hilft…
Amona Buechler
Articles & Blogs
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21st Oct 2025
Staying Connected
Introductory Practitioner projects
Staying connected with one self traveling and teaching worldwide Children and Focusing a personal journey!
Download Staying-Connected.pdf (pdf)René Veugelers -
18th May 2025
Creative Compassion – Toward A Culture Of Relational Empathy. Training Social Skills Through Art-Based Focusing
Creative Compassion for Peacebuilding (CCP) is a Focusing-oriented, art-based approach that helps individuals understand and practice Relational Empathy (Maureen O’Hara) through receptive-active art activities. This article outlines the theoretical framework of the CCP approach, as…
Download Creative_Compassion©Freda-Blob.pdf (pdf)Freda Blob -
16th Jun 2024
The autistic wall of tears
The autistic wall of tears When I was first introduced to Focusing through training with Peter Gill, I very quickly realised that the inside world was a bit of a mystery. In my introductory Focusing…
Catherine Flynn -
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
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