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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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20th April 2026 Online, Snugsboro
20 April Free Introduction to Focusing Taster hosted by ‘Our Birth Journey’
Introductory
Please register your free place for 20 April place with link below: https://www.ourbirthjourney.com/course/introduction-focusing This free taster will be followed up with a Three Part live Course Listening Within: An Embodied Path to Inner Clarity Introduction…
Deirdre Kennedy -
21st April 2026 Online Zoom
Introduction to Focusing for counsellors/therapists
Introductory
Do your clients ever feel stuck, repeating the same stories without finding relief? Join us for an Introduction to Focusing, based on the pioneering work of Eugene Gendlin. Learn how to help your clients access…
Bethany Rivers -
22nd April 2026 Zoom
Focusers Guide to the Galaxy. Indigenous Wisdom Carriers Oren Lyons: “We Are Only Tenants on This Earth”
Specialist
Indigenous Wisdom Carriers A 6-Session Lunchtime Series ‘We Are the Land Itself Speaking’ – Tiokasin Ghosthorse The Experience Bring alive the voices of Indigenous wisdom carriers through the lens of focusing. Explore their teachings through…
Simon McKibbin -
23rd April 2026 Zoom
Focusing for Person Centred Counsellors
Specialist
Focusing for Person Centred Counsellors – Five Thursdays 10am-1pm Online 23rd Apr – 21st May £240 Early bird – if full fee paid by 13th Feb Fee after 13th Feb: £275 If you book the…
Suzi Mackenzie
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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