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The home of Focusing and listening in the UK

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.

Vajrasara Rankin. Therapist

Focusing enables me to live my life and to counsel clients with a deeper level of self-awareness.

Paula Newman – Counsellor.

Focusing has transformed my life

Cathy Rowan

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!

Taravajra

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.

David

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!

Peter Afford

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

Elizabeth English  DPhil (Oxon)

Focusing has helped me feel more alive

Suzi Mackenzie

Focusing, for me, is a doorway to an open, kindly, wise and profound connection to Life.

Helen Bryant
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Courses & events

  • 12th September 2026 covered location in the woods 20 minutes south of Cambridge: exact location shared on booking

    Embodied Companioning: Focusing with Symptoms and Feelings 

    Specialist

    The session aims to deepen self-connection through Gendlin’s focusing, and make space for symptoms and the feelings that come up around them, through relational dynamics with others. Skills that can be developed during the session…

    Naomi Silverly

  • 12th September 2026 Zoom

    Changes Group – Focusing Partnerships 

    Specialist

    What is a Changes Group People meet in a group, then split up into Focusing Partnerships, and finish by coming back to the group. It is an open group where participants do not need to…

    Amona Buechler

  • 14th September 2026 Ilfracombe, Devon

    Path of Freedom: Untangling® retreat 

    Specialist

    Are you longing for change but keep repeating the same patterns? Do you sense that more freedom is possible but are totally stuck with how to get there? Maybe you have a tangle! The Untangling®…

    Peter Gill

  • 14th September 2026 Online & Summer camp, Cummer

    Sensed Ecology – Focusing Skills 2026 – 2027 

    Focusing Skills Certificate

    Sensed Ecology Year 1 – Focusing Skills Programme Sensed Ecology Year 1 is an invitation to begin a slow, rooted journey into Focusing: learning to listen to the body’s quiet knowing, to stay close to…

    Marta Fabregat

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