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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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17th June 2026 Zoom
Focusers Guide to the Galaxy. The Earth Is Not a Resource, but a Relative
Specialist
Listening at the Edge of the World is a seven-session lunchtime series exploring language, land, and the felt sense of a living Earth through embodied, Focusing-based encounters with global thinkers, poets, and Indigenous wisdom carriers.…
Simon McKibbin -
17th June 2026 Zoom
FREE NOURISHING TASTER for Safe Inner Space with the Felt-sense Relationship: Level 2 Focusing Skills Course on Zoom
Focusing Skills Certificate
Taster on Wednesday June 17 @ 7 – 8.15 (For a course starting Tuesday 23 June 2026 (7pm – 8.30 GMT) Get your Free ticket now. Join us for a free dive into the depths…
Simon McKibbin -
18th June 2026 Online, Snugsboro
Thursday 18 June Q & A for next skills training starting on 25 June
Introductory
You are warmly invited to Q&A for upcoming 25 June 60h BFA approved skills course. Zoom link registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/iSLVXOPtTmW9hVgSs9PGnw If you wish to delve into Deirdre’s trauma informed teaching style his three part introduction to…
Deirdre Kennedy -
20th June 2026 Online
Writing for the Joy of It: Inviting and integrating the Felt Sense into your writing process
Introductory
Writing for the Joy of It: Inviting and integrating the Felt Sense into your writing process (Note: As a Focusing Trainee studying under Amona Buechler, I am offering this course as part of my certification project.…
Amona Buechler
Articles & Blogs
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21st Oct 2025
Staying Connected
Introductory Practitioner projects
Staying connected with one self traveling and teaching worldwide Children and Focusing a personal journey!
Download Staying-Connected.pdf (pdf)
René Veugelers -
18th May 2025
Creative Compassion – Toward A Culture Of Relational Empathy. Training Social Skills Through Art-Based Focusing
Creative Compassion for Peacebuilding (CCP) is a Focusing-oriented, art-based approach that helps individuals understand and practice Relational Empathy (Maureen O’Hara) through receptive-active art activities. This article outlines the theoretical framework of the CCP approach, as…
Download Creative_Compassion©Freda-Blob.pdf (pdf)
Freda Blob -
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
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