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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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30th July 2024 Zoom
Focusing Foundations Training Level Three & Level 4
Focusing Skills Certificate
This course offers a rich potential for change. It opens a doorway to a space where it is possible to transform your life in a way that feels right for you. Focusing is a practice everyone…
Marie Connors -
14th August 2024 Noah’s Ark Children’s Venture, Macaroni Wood, Eastleach, Cirencester GL7 3NF, Cirencester
BFA Summer Focusing Camp 2024
A wonderful opportunity for Focusers and their families to get together to focus, have fun and socialise in a relaxed and natural setting. Everyone is welcome to join the ‘Focusing Camp Tribe’! On offer are…
Gordon Adam -
27th August 2024 https://calendly.com/paulacharnley/a-taste-of-focusing_august
Focusing to Manage Digital Detox
Introductory
Focusing to manage Digital Detox – free Seminar Tuesday August 27 @ 19:00-20:15 Simply Register to join Join me in this session to explore how we might use Focusing to help us manage our digital…
Paula Charnley -
5th September 2024 Online
BFA Certificate in Focusing Skills. Level 1, Introduction
Focusing Skills Certificate
Taught by Paula Newman, Online. Dates: September 5th, September 12th, September 19th, September 24th Time: 10am-1pm Focusing is a gentle way of paying ourselves attention and deepening self-awareness. It trusts that our body knows and can…
Paula Newman
Articles & Blogs
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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 -
14th Oct 2023
Creative Compassion – Towards a Culture of Relational Empathy
Creative Compassion is a practice cultivating self-empathy and empathy for others through the arts. The Creative Compassion practice is designed for building basics of Relational Empathy within a safe framed setting. Relational Empathy (Maureen o’Hara)…
Download Creative-Compassion-Blog-©FOCUSZART-Freda-Blob.pdf (pdf)Freda Blob -
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…
Download Saying_no_in_presence_Setting_limits_thr.pdf (pdf)Freda Blob
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