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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.

Vajrasara Rankin. Therapist

Focusing enables me to live my life and to counsel clients with a deeper level of self-awareness.

Paula Newman – Counsellor.

Focusing has transformed my life

Cathy Rowan

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!

Taravajra

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.

David

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!

Peter Afford

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

Elizabeth English  DPhil (Oxon)

Focusing has helped me feel more alive

Suzi Mackenzie

Focusing, for me, is a doorway to an open, kindly, wise and profound connection to Life.

Helen Bryant
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Courses & events

  • 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

  • 5th September 2022 Online

    Online Focusing Skills Foundation Course 2022-2023 

    Focusing Skills Certificate

    First Steps on your Focusing Journey A Comprehensive introduction to Focusing Skills RETURNING TO YOUR EMBODIED ORIGIN What is Focusing? Focusing is gentle and profound. It is a natural way of paying attention to…

    Marta Fabregat

  • 7th September 2022 Online

    Focusing Level 5: Trauma and Action Blocks 

    Focusing Skills Certificate

    Focusing is a gentle way of paying ourselves attention and deepening self-awareness. It trusts that our body knows and can tell us what we need for physical and emotional health. During Level five, there will…

    Paula Newman

  • 7th September 2022 Zoom Online

    Focusing for Healing and Creativity Skills Course on Zoom 

    Focusing Skills Certificate

    “Whenever a part of me feels loved, it awakens to its own healing.” Kevin McEvenue   The heart of Focusing is Relationship. When we come into full relationship and learn how to be available to…

    Simon McKibbin

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Articles & Blogs

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