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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.
We are excited to announce the opening of the registration for the Focusing School 2025 which will take place in the West Midlands on 20th-24th August 2025.
Courses & events
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13th March 2026 Braziers Park Ipsden Wallingford Oxfordshire OX10 6AN United Kingdom
A Focusing-Based CPD Residential: Deepening Therapeutic Presence for Therapists, Coaches & Somatic Practitioners
Professional Training
A Focusing-Based CPD Residential: Deepening Therapeutic Presence for Therapists, Coaches & Somatic Practitioners The March 13 Date billed here is a heads up on the following Event for November 26 – 29 3-day Residential| 26…
Simon McKibbin -
15th March 2026 Zoom
Professional Training – Share Focusing with the world
Professional Training
You can join a one-year training or join two years: Year-1: Focusing Facilitator or Practitioner for working one-on-one Year-2: Focusing Teacher Training for teaching Focusing to groups What You Will Learn Year 1 Offer one-to-one…
Amona Buechler -
17th March 2026 Online Zoom
Somatic Intelligence Journeys – Monthly Group (Zoom)
Introductory
Small Group Focusing Journeys | 3–4 participants5 gatherings across 5 months (option of morning or evening group) These Focusing Journeys are for those who feel a quiet — or not so quiet — pull toward…
Halina Rozensztrauch -
17th March 2026 Zoom Online
LAST CALL: Healing Creativity and Intuition: Focusing Skills 1 on Zoom
Focusing Skills Certificate
British Focusing Association (BFA) Accredited Course 2026 What is Focusing? Focusing is a pilgrimage of self-discovery, where the body becomes both compass and companion, leading us towards the wellspring of healing and the untapped realms…
Simon McKibbin
Articles & Blogs
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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 -
13th Nov 2023
Wisdom at the edges
Introductory
Inside all of us lie uncharted territories, lands where everything we know fades and we enter another kind of realm. In this place, we are no longer in charge, and what approaches us seems mysterious…
Download BC483-Thresholds-October-2023_Gill.pdf (pdf)
Peter Gill
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