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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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7th September 2026 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…
Amona Buechler -
8th September 2026 Zoom
TIFI Certified Trainer training to groups
Focusing Skills Certificate
UNIQUE international training opportunity! Harriet Teeuw and Rene Veugelers will start the certified TIFI Focus Trainer training online on Tuesday, september at 7 pm (CEST). 10 monthly meetings until March 2027. (In working with children…
René Veugelers -
8th September 2026 Online Zoom
Somatic Intelligence Journeys – Monthly Group (Zoom)
Introductory
Small Group Focusing Journeys | 3–4 participants5 gatherings across 5 months These Focusing Journeys are for those who feel a quiet — or not so quiet — pull toward what lives beneath the surface. Together,…
Halina Rozensztrauch -
9th September 2026 Zoom
FREE NOURISHING FOCUSING TASTER: All Doorway levels into Focusing Skills Course 2026
Focusing Skills Certificate
FREE NOURISHING FOCUSING TASTER SESSION Focusing for Healing, Intuition & Creative Living — BFA-Accredited Online via Zoom · 7:00–8:15pm (1hr 15 mins) Next Free Taster: Wednesday 9 September 2026 — Doorway 2: Safe Inner Space…
Simon McKibbin
Articles & Blogs
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28th Aug 2026
We are Interaction
Focusing in the Space Between What a fox taught me about presence One of the gifts Focusing has given me is a deeper, embodied way of listening — to myself and, at the same time, to my interaction…
Deirdre Kennedy -
21st Oct 2025
Staying Connected
Introductory Practitioner projects
Staying connected with one self traveling and teaching worldwide Children and Focusing a personal journey!
Download Staying-Connected.pdf (pdf)
René Veugelers -
18th May 2025
Creative Compassion – Toward A Culture Of Relational Empathy. Training Social Skills Through Art-Based Focusing
Creative Compassion for Peacebuilding (CCP) is a Focusing-oriented, art-based approach that helps individuals understand and practice Relational Empathy (Maureen O’Hara) through receptive-active art activities. This article outlines the theoretical framework of the CCP approach, as…
Download Creative_Compassion©Freda-Blob.pdf (pdf)
Freda Blob -
16th Jun 2024
The autistic wall of tears
The autistic wall of tears When I was first introduced to Focusing through training with Peter Gill, I very quickly realised that the inside world was a bit of a mystery. In my introductory Focusing…
Catherine Flynn
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