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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.

Vajrasara Rankin. Therapist

Focusing enables me to live my life and to counsel clients with a deeper level of self-awareness.

Paula Newman – Counsellor.

Focusing has transformed my life

Cathy Rowan

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!

Taravajra

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.

David

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!

Peter Afford

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

Elizabeth English  DPhil (Oxon)

Focusing has helped me feel more alive

Suzi Mackenzie

Focusing, for me, is a doorway to an open, kindly, wise and profound connection to Life.

Helen Bryant
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Courses & events

  • 16th June 2021 South West

    Module 4: Radical Acceptance 

    Focusing Skills Certificate

    Module 4 of the BFA skills series exploring how to use Focusing to explore deeper emotional tangles and difficulties Topics: Developing grounding Inner visitors and guests in Focusing Dynamics of the inner world Guiding skills…

    Peter Gill

  • 17th June 2021 Online – via zoom

    Focusing with our Inner Critic 

    Introductory

    Two hour workshop: Our critical voices can have a huge impact on us, making us feel bad and preventing us from doing what we want to do. Explore the presence…

    Suzi Mackenzie

  • 22nd June 2021 Zoom Meeting (Video Conference)

    優良澄心夥伴獎 初階課程 L 3-5 

    Focusing Skills Certificate

    先决条件：夥伴獎 初階課程 L 1 & 2 在這次的課程中，你將學習到： ★ 如何藉由傾聽身體與能量來獲取內在智慧與直覺 ★ 發展出友善而好奇的自我關係 ★ 運用同理的語言來支持接納與臨在 ★ 成為一個絕佳的聆聽者：和他人建立深度連結 ★ 如何引導改變，學習轉化的工具 ★ 在深度轉化的過程中保持著安全 ★ 從困惑到明晰：如何和模糊在一起 ★ 學習化解內在衝突的藝術 ★ 以有機的決策方式回應行動上的阻礙與內在衝突 ★ 有能力把問題放在一旁 ★ 在朋友遭遇困難時能給予支持，讓溝通技巧更加細緻 ★ 從舊有習慣與受限的自我意象，通往喜悅的生命之流 ★ 如何找到生命中的嶄新流動？ ★ 和自我澄心——創造一個安全的容器，學習更多「提醒建議」…

    Amona Buechler

  • 24th June 2021 Online – via zoom

    Focusing with a Life Issue: Four Week Personal Development Course 

    Specialist

    Thursdays 12.00-2.30pm 24th June, 1st, 8th, 15th July on Zoom – £120 – space for 4-6 people Take the opportunity to work on an issue in your life with the support of the Focusing process…

    Suzi Mackenzie

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