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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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15th January 2026
Module 5: Living a Focusing life
Focusing Skills Certificate
Final module of the BFA series where we will explore these topics and more The gift of compassion Approaches to Focusing Navigating a life Focusing in everyday life Celebration and next steps Five Wednesday Evenings…
Peter Gill -
15th January 2026 Zoom Online
FREE Taster intro PRACTITIONER Training Program April 2026/ April 2027
Professional Training
Come and have some fun together whilst exploring the Focusing Practitioner Training Program! When? 7pm – 8pm Thursday 15 Jan 2026 Practitioner Program Date: 01. April 2026 – 01. April 2027 Facilitator: Simon McKibbin Share…
Simon McKibbin -
17th January 2026 Zoom
Spring 2026 Level 3 – online Focusing Skills Certificate
Focusing Skills Certificate
Module 3 Focusing partnerships – The Art of Guiding January 17/31 & 07/14 February 2026 @ 10:00 – 13:00 UTC ( no session 24January) 4 x 3 hours In this 3rd Level of the BFA Skills Certification…
Paula Charnley -
21st January 2026 Zoom
Focusers Guide to the Galaxy ‘Drop-in’: Poets of Embodied Wisdom (Next Up: Sufi Mystic Rumi) Booking now
Specialist
Focusers Guide to the Galaxy: Poets of Embodied Wisdom 6 lunchtime drop-in sessions exploring transformative poetry through the felt sense Do 1, do all 6, your choice. “Tell me, what is it you plan to…
Simon McKibbin
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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