The home of Focusing and listening in the UK
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
24th January 2021 Online
Introduction to Focusing Day: online
Introductory
This course will introduce you to the life long skill of Focusing. It is a reflective body based practice that can be done on your own or with others, and mixed with other self awareness…
Peter Gill27th January 2021 Online, Skype Worldwide
Deep Listening: 4 week online course begins
Introductory
This course will introduce you to the life long skill of Focusing. It is a reflective body based practice that can be done on your own or with others, and mixed with other self awareness…
Peter Gill
2nd February 2021
Online Level 4: Reminding suggestions
Focusing Skills Certificate
Learn how to offer reminding suggestions in a Focusing partnership. This takes you deeper into the heart of the Focusing Process, and the relationship between a Focuser and their companion. By the end of Level…
Fiona Parr
3rd February 2021
Online Focusing Practitioner Training
Professional Training
The British Focusing Association (BFA) Practitioner Training Programme enables you to work professionally with Focusing. You can offer individual Focusing sessions to the public for a fee, and you can incorporate Focusing into any therapeutic,…
Fiona Parr
Articles & Blogs
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 Davis28th May 2020
The ‘Ladybird Guides’ to Gene Gendlin’s books Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning and A Process Model.
Campbell Purton Centre for Counselling Studies, University of East Anglia These were written for the second, third and fourth years of the course ‘Focusing and the Power of Philosophy’ which I taught with Rob Foxcroft…
Peter Gill
27th May 2020
Is it ok to tell a story in Focusing?
There is a common misunderstanding about Focusing that it is all about the body, that you have to feel it all in the body and the body is where all the wisdom lies. To me,…
Peter Gill