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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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30th October 2021 Zoom
What do I want?
Specialist
For most of us there are things that we want in our lives – for ourselves, for those close to us and for the world. And there are things we don’t want, as well as…
Susan Jordan -
2nd November 2021
The Landscapes of grief
Specialist
For many of us grief is something we turn away from yet so often, when we pay kind attention to the body… it remembers, or it asks us to remember. It holds both the knowing…
Peter Gill -
6th November 2021 Online – via zoom
Focusing in Client Work – one day online workshop
Specialist
The practice of Focusing enables both counsellors and clients to become more connected with the wider realm of our embodied experience and gives us access to rich layers of inner knowing about what we feel…
Suzi Mackenzie -
6th November 2021 Clapham, London
The Art of Focusing
Introductory
An introductory weekend workshop for a small group to introduce people to the practice of Focusing and listening. It will be held in person at my home in south London.
Peter Afford
Articles & Blogs
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3rd Apr 2021
Focusing, Feldenkrais, and a little Polyvagal Theory
Bodywork Practitioner projects 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 Murray -
23rd 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 Adam -
16th 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 Gill -
2nd 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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