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Focusing is a process of listening to the wisdom of your body
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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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19th May 2022 Online – via zoom
Focusing with a Life Issue: Four Week Personal Development Course
Specialist
Thursdays 13.00-15.30 19th, 26th May, 2nd, 9th June on Zoom – £130 – space for 4-6 people Take the opportunity to work on an issue in your life with the support of the Focusing process…
Suzi Mackenzie -
21st May 2022 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 -
4th June 2022 Exeter Natural Health Centre
Introducing Focusing – Focusing Skills 1
Introductory
This in-person course, will be held on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th 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 -
11th June 2022 Union St, Sheffield, Sheffield
Your body knows the way: Beginning the Focusing journey
Focusing Skills Certificate
This course will introduce you to the life long skill of Focusing and Listening. Held at BNHS , in Gloucester Rd, Bristol. Some of the skills you will learn: Develop the key qualities of curiosity,…
Peter Gill
Articles & Blogs
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9th Dec 2021
Mary Hendricks Gendlin Memorial
I wish to share on the BFA blog this YouTube video with other Focusers. It is a memorial to Mary Hendricks Gendlin in 2015 set-up by the International Focusing Institute. What touched me about what…
David Garlovsky -
3rd Apr 2021
Focusing, Feldenkrais, and a little Polyvagal Theory
Bodywork Practitioner projects Trauma
Developed by Moshe Feldenkrais, Feldenkrais is a method of somatic education that effects neuromuscular re-patterning by directing attention to slow, gentle, often-novel physical movements. By paying attention to such movements, unnecessary muscular tensions throughout the…
Download Focusing-Feldenkrais-PolyvagalTheory-1.pdf (pdf)Maureen Murray -
23rd Feb 2021
Focusing Groups Today – A Review
Changes groups, Focusing groups and Focusing circles have been around since the beginning of Focusing. In fact the original Changes group pre-dates 1-1 Focusing as we currently know it. This was an open (‘walk-in’) group…
Download Focusing-Groups-Today.pdf (pdf)Gordon Adam -
16th Sep 2020
“You matter” – the implicit and essential message of Focusing
It is a tragic truth that too may of us go through life feeling that our life does not matter, that what we deeply feel, value and believe does not matter, that even our existence…
Peter Gill
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