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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.
We are excited to announce the opening of the registration for the Focusing School 2025 which will take place in the West Midlands on 20th-24th August 2025.
Courses & events
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19th June 2025 Online
Module 2: The path of the companion
Focusing Skills Certificate
The essence of this course is exploring the role of the listening or companion in Focusing and learning how we can support the focuser with supportive and sensitive listening. Skills and topics include: Dwelling at…
Peter Gill -
21st June 2025
Introducing Focusing – Focusing Skills Module 1
Introductory
Introducing Focusing – Focusing Skills course Module 1 Saturday 21st, Sunday 22nd, Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th June 2025, 10.00-1.00 each day This online workshop will introduce you to the basic elements of Focusing: sensing…
Susan Jordan -
21st June 2025 Calstock Therapy Hub. Calstock Cornwall , Calstock
Focusing Grounding & Listening / Companioning skills – Level 1
Focusing Skills Certificate
This is a Level 1 Focusing & Listening skills course. In this course we will explore – How we commonly deal with our hurting feelings & emotions – & how we can use grounding &…
John Threadgold -
23rd June 2025 Zoom
Foundation for Healing Creativity and Intuition: Level 1 Focusing Skills Course on Zoom
Focusing Skills Certificate
British Focusing Association (BFA) Accredited Course starts June 23 2025 Join the Free taster for this course Monday 9 June @ 7 – 8pm Course Structure This BFA-accredited Focusing Skills course comprises five standalone…
Simon McKibbin
Articles & Blogs
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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…
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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…
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Peter Gill -
13th Oct 2023
Saying ‘no’ in presence: Setting limits through body sense. In Kypriotakis, N. and Moore J. (Eds), Senses of Focusing. Volume II. Athens: Eurasia Publications, pp.469-483.
Bodywork Decisions Philosophy Therapy Trauma
Any ‘no’ of a client can express a primary organismic No that has an implicit life enhancing target. The client tries to communicate that he or she is missing something that allows his or her…
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Freda Blob
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