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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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25th January 2026 Online Zoom
Focusing on The Magical Child Archetype
Specialist
Accessing your inner Magical Child, and the sense of awe, wonder, wisdom, that is unique to this guide. How to engage with this archetype, and bring it in as more of a guide into your…
Bethany Rivers -
28th 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 -
29th January 2026 Zoom Online
FREE Taster intro PRACTITIONER Training for 2026/2027 Program Hybrid Zoom Residential
Professional Training
Come and have some fun together whilst exploring the Focusing Practitioner Training Program! When? 7pm – 8pm Thursday 29 Jan 2026 Practitioner Program Date: 01. April 2026 – 01. April 2027 Zoom and Braziers Park…
Simon McKibbin -
31st January 2026 Braziers Park OX10 6AN
Focusing, NVC and Presence Face to Face Residentials @ Braziers Park 2026
Specialist
Focusing, NVC & Presence Residentials 2026 Braziers Park, Oxfordshire | Transform crisis into creative response Early FLAG for 31.01.2026 BUT first residential starting on 23 – 26 April 2026 “The desire to be heard, the…
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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