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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
22nd April 2021 online
How to lose it less with your kids! Focusing skills for more empathic parenting
Introductory
Do you find that despite your best intentions, you can end up losing it with your children and saying and doing things you regret? Do you sometimes not recognise yourself in those moments when you…
Peter Gill22nd April 2021 Online – via zoom
Introduction to Focusing
Introductory
What is Focusing? What is the felt sense? You will be introduced to the Focusing process and the particular way of Focusing Listening. This highly experiential workshop will help you…
Suzi Mackenzie24th April 2021 Zoom Platform
Welcome To The Field of Spacious Presence…
Introductory
“If you can live in your body and not reject any of it, you will be guided into discovery of your own wisdom and Nature’s wisdom, guided into this vast awesome field of spacious Presence”…
Cecelia Clegg28th April 2021 South West
Module 3: The art of guiding – Guiding: Online
Focusing Skills Certificate
Module 3 of the BFA skills Series, exploring deeper listening and the skills of guiding and reminding Topics: Guiding skills Self-Guiding Guiding Principles Helping the focuser stay present Deeper Listening The felt sense
Peter Gill
Articles & Blogs
3rd Apr 2021
Focusing, Feldenkrais, and a little Polyvagal Theory
Bodywork Trauma
Developed by Moshe Feldenkrais, Feldenkrais is a method of somatic education that effects neuromuscular re-patterning by directing attention to slow, gentle, often-novel physical movements. By paying attention to such movements, unnecessary muscular tensions throughout the…
Download Focusing-Feldenkrais-PolyvagalTheory-1.pdf (pdf)Maureen Murray23rd Feb 2021
Focusing Groups Today – A Review
Changes groups, Focusing groups and Focusing circles have been around since the beginning of Focusing. In fact the original Changes group pre-dates 1-1 Focusing as we currently know it. This was an open (‘walk-in’) group…
Download Focusing-Groups-Today.pdf (pdf)Gordon Adam16th Sep 2020
“You matter” – the implicit and essential message of Focusing
It is a tragic truth that too may of us go through life feeling that our life does not matter, that what we deeply feel, value and believe does not matter, that even our existence…
Peter Gill2nd Jul 2020
Keeping Focusing Safe – Safer Ride with Intense Feelings
Keeping Focusing safe is important for everyone practising this gentle, yet potent way to heal and grow. You can practise Focusing not just with a Focusing Practitioner, but also on your own or…
Ildiko Davis
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