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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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19th February 2025 Zoom Online
Practitioner Training Program 2025/26 FREE Taster intro
Professional Training
Come and have some fun together whilst exploring the Focusing Practitioner Training Program! When? 7pm – 8pm Wednesday 19 Feb 2025 Only 3 places left…. Practitioner Program Date: 20 March 2025 – 19 March 2025…
Simon McKibbin -
23rd February 2025 Ownzone Therapy Rooms, Stroud, Glos. UK, Stroud
FREE, small in person taster – booking essential
Introductory
Here is a chance for a small group of individuals (max 8) to hear about and experience the beauty of Focusing. What is it to authentically answer, from present moment experience, the question, How are…
Claire Owen -
25th February 2025
Practice in Presence for Coaches and Helping Professionals: An Introduction to Focusing and other Embodiment Practices
Introductory
Discovering a taste of these embodied practices can help increase your presence. with clients. You’ll learn to explore your own aliveness and body’s wisdom in a new way. You will also gain an understanding of…
Ruth Friedman -
27th February 2025
Awaken Self Compassion: online course
Introductory
“Can you imagine if you really let it in that you are not a problem to be solved in any way?” Adyashanti Maybe you find it hard to be kind to yourself? or perhaps…
Peter Gill
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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