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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.
We are excited to announce the opening of the registration for the Focusing School 2025 which will take place in the West Midlands on 20th-24th August 2025.
Courses & events
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22nd April 2025 Zoom Online
Safe Inner Space Felt-sense Relationship: Level 2 Focusing Skills Course on Zoom
Focusing Skills Certificate
British Focusing Association (BFA) Accredited Course 2025 ALSO: Book your free taster place now for Wed 9 April 7 – 8.15pm Safe Inner Space with the Felt-sense Relationship: Part 2 Focusing Skills Course on Zoom…
Simon McKibbin -
24th April 2025 Online
Module 1: Beginning the journey – an introduction to Focusing
Focusing Skills Certificate
5 week online course introducing the essentials of Focusing and Listening – beginning the BFA skills course Develop the key qualities of curiosity, interest and inner kindness Be safe and respectful with yourself and others…
Peter Gill -
24th April 2025
Discovering Focusing: BFA Certificate in Focusing Skills, Level 1
Focusing Skills Certificate
Focusing is a gentle practice that deepens self-awareness and supports inner acceptance, compassion and grounding. People who work in caring professions such as counselling and coaching often find that Focusing enhances their practice. Dates: April…
Paula Newman -
30th April 2025 Zoom
BFA practitioner training 2025
Professional Training
Starting April 30th 2025. My BFA Focusing Practitioner training. If you want to take Focusing further or apply it professionally, you might be interested in the Focusing practitioner and Teacher training. You can follow…
Peter Gill
Articles & Blogs
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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 -
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
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