BFA Articles

BFA members authored articles about the many and varied aspects of Focusing – for beginners and more advanced people alike. Search by type or browse though the listing. All are offered to support you in your learning and practice of Focusing.

3rd Apr 2021

Focusing, Feldenkrais, and a little Polyvagal Theory

Bodywork Practitioner projects Trauma

Developed by Moshe Feldenkrais, Feldenkrais is a method of somatic education that effects neuromuscular re-patterning by directing attention to slow, gentle, often-novel physical movements. By paying attention to such movements, unnecessary muscular tensions throughout the…
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Maureen Murray
23rd Feb 2021

Focusing Groups Today – A Review

Changes groups, Focusing groups and Focusing circles have been around since the beginning of Focusing. In fact the original Changes group pre-dates 1-1 Focusing as we currently know it. This was an open (‘walk-in’) group…
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Gordon Adam
28th May 2020

The ‘Ladybird Guides’ to Gene Gendlin’s books Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning and A Process Model.

Campbell Purton Centre for Counselling Studies, University of East Anglia These were written for the second, third and fourth years of the course ‘Focusing and the Power of Philosophy’ which I taught with Rob Foxcroft…

Peter Gill
24th May 2020

Remembering Gene Gendlin

Introductory Philosophy

Remembering Gene Gendlin Greg Madison I cannot imagine coming up with an obituary or a memorial for Eugene Gendlin that he could stand to read. He would make a joke of any attempt to…
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Greg Madison
24th May 2020

FOT and the Greasy Beast

Philosophy Spirituality Therapy

FOT and the Greasy Beast: Welcoming the undomesticated nature of living process Greg Madison All forms of Focusing offer deep transformational experiences. So much so that I sometimes wonder if, as therapists, we add…
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Greg Madison
24th May 2020

Embodied Democracy. A Conference Presentation

Decisions Introductory Philosophy

Embodied Democracy: SEA Conference Presentation 2015, London Greg Madison Abstract This report evolved from contributions to the 2015 Society of Existential Analysis conference in London. I briefly describe opening the conference with a guided…
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Greg Madison
24th May 2020

Spirituality in Psychotherapy. Random Notes on the Living Source in FOT

Spirituality

Spirituality in Psychotherapy: Random notes on the living source in FOT Greg Madison When my client sits down there are many directions we might go: into stories of the week, stuck patterns, discrete…
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Greg Madison
24th May 2020

Palpable Existentialism. A Focusing-oriented Therapy

Philosophy Therapy

Palpable Existentialism: A Focusing-oriented therapy Greg Madison PhD In a recent edition of this magazine (Psychotherapy in Australia, Vol. 19, No. 4, August 2013, p.72-80) an extract was published from Ann Weiser Cornell’s…
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Greg Madison
24th May 2020

Focusing for the Therapist

Decisions Spirituality Therapy

The medical and nursing team called me to meet Loyola, a patient who was refusing to accept her terminal diagnosis and return home. Walking onto the ward I became aware of a nervous feeling in…
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Greg Madison
23rd May 2020

Welcoming the Tiger! – Working with Trauma in Focusing (for Focusers and Companions)

Trauma

Being alive means that we will at some point experience trauma – those events that are overwhelming or too much for us to be able to meet and assimilate. Inevitably when we turn our attention…

Peter Gill