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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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31st August 2026 Online, Snugsboro
Monday 31 August Meet the teacher: Felt sensing your way to rightness
Introductory
You are warmly invited to an exchange of Q&A for upcoming Part 1 skills training 10 week online BFA/TIFI approved. Thursdays 7 pm -9.15 pm starting September 10 th
Deirdre Kennedy -
1st September 2026 Zoom
Professional Training – Share Focusing with the World
Professional Training
This training is open to anyone who wants to deepen and refine their Focusing skills beyond the basic Levels 1–5. The intention to work professionally with Focusing is not a requirement, though the training supports…
Amona Buechler -
1st September 2026
Free Event -Taste of Focusing – Is Focusing for me 01 September
Introductory
Chances are that you have come across Focusing and maybe read Gendlin or other books and Videos that are available. This can alert us to something which we feel might be very helpful to us.…
Paula Charnley -
3rd September 2026 Zoom
1.5-hour Taster: Nervous System Reset Online Course
Specialist
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
Articles & Blogs
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28th Aug 2026
We are Interaction
Focusing in the Space Between What a fox taught me about presence One of the gifts Focusing has given me is a deeper, embodied way of listening — to myself and, at the same time, to my interaction…
Deirdre Kennedy -
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
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