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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

  • 17th May 2021 Zoom Meeting (Video Conference)

    Level 3-5 Focusing Skills Course (eligible for TIFI PFPAward) 

    Focusing Skills Certificate

    When you are in contact with your body, with yourself, the Focusing-way, it enables you to develop emotional intelligence, so as not to suppress or lose yourself in your emotions or your mental activities. You…

    Amona Buechler

  • 20th May 2021 Online – Zoom

    Introduction to Focusing (2) 

    Introductory

    Introduction to Focusing (2) – 12.30-2 Thursdays 20th & 27th May, 10th & 17th June – £65 (discounted to £55 if you’ve recently done Intro 1 with me) Get more practice of both the Focusing…

    Suzi Mackenzie

  • 21st May 2021 Online – via zoom

    Focusing with our Dreams 

    Introductory

    In this two hour course explore how Focusing can open up different aspects of your dreams and help you utilise the growth potential within them. You will have the opportunity to bring actual dreams and…

    Suzi Mackenzie

  • 22nd May 2021 Online – Zoom, South East

    Creativity and Values into Action 

    Focusing Skills Certificate

    These two Saturdays will include more opportunity to nurture creativity and intuition. We will look at how Focusing may relate to your values or spirituality and how we can work with action steps. If you…

    Suzi Mackenzie

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Articles & Blogs

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