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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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25th January 2025 Online – Zoom, South East
Listening, Language and the Body
Focusing Skills Certificate
Two Saturdays: We will look at deepening your listening practice, making the Focusing process collaborative and how use of language can influence the Focusing process. We will also explore our connection with the body and…
Suzi Mackenzie -
27th January 2025
Focusing on the Good (with Ann Weiser Cornell)
Introductory
Cultivate positive feelings and enjoy more of life. Learn how to discover joy, meaning, wonder, and your body’s “yes”! Your Body is a Resource for Feeling Good You might be used to thinking of…
Peter Gill -
30th January 2025 Lake Vyrnwy, Wales, UK, Oswestry
Rekindling Connection Retreat
Introductory
Join Bethany Rivers and Paula Charnley during the Celtic Festival of Imbolc, which marks the beginning of spring. In this nourishing 4-day retreat we’ll create a space, to emerge from the dark months of winter.…
Paula Charnley -
8th February 2025
Focusing Skills Level 4
Focusing Skills Certificate
BFA accredited Skills Course Level 4 Becoming familiar with parts In This 12 hour course our focus will be working with and understanding parts. Focusing becomes embodied when we can stay with and stay curious…
Paula Charnley
Articles & Blogs
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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 -
14th Oct 2023
Creative Compassion – Towards a Culture of Relational Empathy
Creative Compassion is a practice cultivating self-empathy and empathy for others through the arts. The Creative Compassion practice is designed for building basics of Relational Empathy within a safe framed setting. Relational Empathy (Maureen o’Hara)…
Download Creative-Compassion-Blog-©FOCUSZART-Freda-Blob.pdf (pdf)Freda Blob -
13th Oct 2023
Saying ‘no’ in presence: Setting limits through body sense. In Kypriotakis, N. and Moore J. (Eds), Senses of Focusing. Volume II. Athens: Eurasia Publications, pp.469-483.
Bodywork Decisions Philosophy Therapy Trauma
Any ‘no’ of a client can express a primary organismic No that has an implicit life enhancing target. The client tries to communicate that he or she is missing something that allows his or her…
Download Saying_no_in_presence_Setting_limits_thr.pdf (pdf)Freda Blob
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