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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.

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

  • 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

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