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Catherine Flynn
David Garlovsky
Elizabeth English
Freda Blob
Ildiko Davis
Peter Gill

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
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)…
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Freda Blob
15th Jun 2022

Our body is nature

For a long time, I thought of nature as just a nice place to be in, and it felt good to be in the forest or by the sea, but I didn’t pay much more…

Peter Gill
18th May 2022

Focusing and Meditation: Journeys to the Deep

Journeys to the Deep: A Gentle Guide to Mindfulness Meditation Published by Mud Pie Books, March 2022. Every Focusing session is a kind of journey – one that follow freely as I meditate. I feel…

Elizabeth English
9th Dec 2021

Mary Hendricks Gendlin Memorial

I wish to share on the BFA blog this YouTube video with other Focusers. It is a memorial to Mary Hendricks Gendlin in 2015 set-up by the International Focusing Institute. What touched me about what…

David Garlovsky
16th Sep 2020

“You matter” – the implicit and essential message of Focusing

It is a tragic truth that too may of us go through life feeling that our life does not matter, that what we deeply feel, value and believe does not matter, that even our existence…

Peter Gill
2nd Jul 2020

Keeping Focusing Safe – Safer Ride with Intense Feelings

Keeping Focusing safe is important for everyone practising this gentle, yet potent way to heal and grow. You can practise Focusing not just with a Focusing Practitioner, but also on your own or...

Ildiko Davis
27th May 2020

Is it ok to tell a story in Focusing?

There is a common misunderstanding about Focusing that it is all about the body, that you have to feel it all in the body and the body is where all the wisdom lies. To me,…

Peter Gill