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Focusing is a process of listening to the wisdom of your body
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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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9th July 2022 Clapham, south London
Workshop 3: Experiencing & The Body
Focusing Skills Certificate
This is Workshop 3 in my Focusing Skills series, covering more about the practice of Focusing, including Focusing on particular topics, and more on listening and offering guiding suggestions.
Peter Afford -
9th July 2022 Zoom, South East
Introduction to Focusing
Introductory
Weekend course: Focusing is a process that can enrich all areas of our lives, as it is about the very way that we pay attention to what we experience. Often we have habitual ways of…
Suzi Mackenzie -
23rd July 2022 Exeter Natural Health Centre, Queens Walk, 83/84 Queen Street, Exeter EX4 3RP
Introducing Focusing – Focusing Skills 1 (Please note change of date)
Introductory
This in-person course will be held on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th July. It will teach you some the elements of Focusing: sensing into your body, describing what you find there, and welcoming whatever comes.…
Susan Jordan -
30th August 2022 Zoom
The magic of the body’s wisdom: Free seminar
Introductory
Find answers, possibility and healing through listening to the body Beneath our reactive thoughts and conflicted feelings is a place of deep knowing and wisdom. You may have glimpsed this in intuitive moments or dreams,…
Peter Gill
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…
Download Focusing-Feldenkrais-PolyvagalTheory-1.pdf (pdf)Maureen Murray
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