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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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29th June 2022 Online
Gentle Guide to Mindfulness Meditation
Introductory
The practice of mindful meditation lies at the heart of mindfulness – and Focusing lies at the heart of meditation. The Gentle Guide to Mindfulness Meditation is a 4-week course is an ideal way to approach…
Elizabeth English -
30th June 2022
Online Level 3: Companionship
Focusing Skills Certificate
Thursdays 2pm – 5pm. 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 understanding…
Fiona Parr -
3rd July 2022 stroud, South West
Rewilding the soul
Specialist
Would you like to reconnect to the natural world and open to its wisdom? Are you missing a sense of belonging? to yourself and life? Would you like to reclaim your wildness and wisdom? …
Peter Gill -
4th July 2022
Online Focusing Skills Foundation Course
Focusing Skills Certificate
This is a 60 hour foundation course in focusing in peer partnerships and on your own. It is a class for people who want to learn to focus and listen. Focusing is coming into relationship…
Sky Hawk
Articles & Blogs
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15th Jun 2022
Our body is nature
For a long time, I thought of nature as just a nice place to be in, and it felt good to be in the forest or by the sea, but I didn’t pay much more…
Peter Gill -
18th May 2022
Focusing and Meditation: Journeys to the Deep
Journeys to the Deep: A Gentle Guide to Mindfulness Meditation Published by Mud Pie Books, March 2022. Every Focusing session is a kind of journey – one that follow freely as I meditate. I feel…
Elizabeth English -
9th Dec 2021
Mary Hendricks Gendlin Memorial
I wish to share on the BFA blog this YouTube video with other Focusers. It is a memorial to Mary Hendricks Gendlin in 2015 set-up by the International Focusing Institute. What touched me about what…
David Garlovsky -
3rd Apr 2021
Focusing, Feldenkrais, and a little Polyvagal Theory
Bodywork Practitioner projects Trauma
Developed by Moshe Feldenkrais, Feldenkrais is a method of somatic education that effects neuromuscular re-patterning by directing attention to slow, gentle, often-novel physical movements. By paying attention to such movements, unnecessary muscular tensions throughout the…
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Maureen Murray
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