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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.

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Courses & events

  • 27th May 2025

    Free Event – Taster Session – Is Focusing for me? 

    Introductory

    You have come across Focusing and maybe read Gendlin or Ann Weiser Cornell. You feel that it might be beneficial and now you’re looking for next steps ! Or feeling like “ I have a lot…

  • 2nd June 2025 Zoom

    1.5-hour Taster: Beginner Focusing Course Online 

    Introductory

    Deepen the art of listening to yourself & another This is a 1.5-hour introduction to my 6-month Level 1-5 Focusing Skills Online Course. In the full course, you will learn all the fundamentals for having Focusing Partnerships, and for Focusing…

  • 5th June 2025 Zoom

    1.5-hour Taster: Nervous System Reset Course 

    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…

  • 7th June 2025 Zoom, South East

    Introduction to Focusing 

    Introductory

    Learning Focusing will support you to treasure the richness of your inner life and treat yourself with more kindness. Focusing allows us to become more fascinated by the world and deepen our relationships with others,…

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