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
7th August 2020 Online – via zoom
Focusing on Relating and Relationships
Introductory
Friday 7th Aug 12.30-2.30 – £25 Our embodied experience plays a crucial part in our way of being in the world, and our way of being in relationships. Explore your own experience of the relationships…
Suzi Mackenzie
14th August 2020 Ringsfield Hall, Beccles, Suffolk NR34 8JR, Beccles NR34, UK
BFA Focusing Community Camp 2020
Specialist
Coronavirus Update: We are hopeful that the camp can go ahead despite the social lockdown due to coronavirus at time of writing. You can reserve a place on the camp without needing to pay at…
Gordon Adam15th August 2020 Zoom Platform
Pause for Presence Gathering
Introductory
An Invitation to Pause for Presence “Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. And when our souls lie down in that grass, the world is too full…
Cecelia Clegg
2nd September 2020 Skype Worldwide
Online Level 3: Focusing Companionship
Focusing Skills Certificate
Learn how to support the Inner Relationship of the Focuser with their felt experience. Deepen your own Focusing skills. By the end of Level 3, you will have a deeper…
Fiona Parr
Articles & Blogs
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…
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
24th May 2020
Remembering Gene Gendlin
Introductory Philosophy
Remembering Gene Gendlin Greg Madison I cannot imagine coming up with an obituary or a memorial for Eugene Gendlin that he could stand to read. He would make a joke of any attempt to…
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Greg Madison