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Marta Fabregat

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 what is not yet clear, and to sense how life moves forward from within. Through shared practice, inner listening, as nature does, we will explore the felt sense as part of a wider living ecology, not something separate from the earth, the seasons, the body, or relationship. Being nature.

What if the part of you that longs to let go… isn’t quite ready to be let go of?

There’s something so human in that edge, the place where change wants to happen, but something in us isn’t ready. In Focusing, we learn not to push past it, but to sit with it. Gently. Warmly. Curiously. And from that place of deep presence, something new begins to move. Life shows us the next step, not imposed, but emerging from within.

This programme offers a slow, rooted path into your own inner knowing, where sensing and ecology meet. It is for those who feel called to be more in tune with their bodies, the natural world, and the quiet inner threads that guide us forward.

What is Focusing?

Focusing is a simple and profound practice of inner listening, a way of tuning in to what your body knows but may not yet have words for. It invites us to sense freshly into how we are, beneath the surface stories or reactions. And it helps us be with even the most tangled or stuck places in a way that’s gentle, respectful, and non-judgmental.

When we listen like this, to ourselves, to others, to the world around us, something in us begins to flow again. Clarity comes. Grounded movement. A felt sense of “yes, this is the way.”

This course weaves together the richness of Eugene Gendlin’s Focusing, whole-body sensing, and the grounding context of Sensed Ecology, a practice that reminds us we are not separate from nature, but part of it.

Sensed Ecology Focusing

Sensed Ecology grew from years of listening and study, not only inwardly, but outwardly too: to forests, weather, soil, birdsong, and the slow language of place. It is a way of experiencing ourselves not as separate from nature, but as sensing participants in its unfolding. Just as a forest listens and responds to change, we too have an inner ecology, subtle, alive, and deeply relational that is inherently available.

This practice opens the door to becoming nature, to remembering ourselves as living organisms within a greater web of life. Through attuned sensing and presence, we discover that our inner knowing is not isolated but connected to all that lives. It offers us a space of emergence, where we can meet other beings, human, and more-than-human, with openness and possibility.

Above all, our bodies carry a unique way of relating with life, distinct and alive in each of us. Sensed Ecology helps us find that thread. It’s a return to the body as a place of wisdom, and to the Earth as a co-guide in our unfolding.

Rooted in the philosophy of Eugene Gendlin and informed by ecology, perception, and somatic presence, Sensed Ecology encourages a way of learning and being that emerges from relationship: with the body, with place, and with what is alive in the moment. It’s a way of listening not just with the ears, but with the whole body, with skin, breath, imagination, and instinct.

In Sensed Ecology, Focusing becomes more than an internal practice, it becomes a conversation with life itself. A walking-with. A sensing-with. A being-with. A way of reweaving ourselves into the living web of things, and allowing new understanding to arise from that wholeness.

A Course in Five Modules – September 2026 – April 2027

Weekly sessions – Mondays (Irish Time)
Afternoon group: 4pm – 6pm

(Participants choose one group)

Each module includes:

• 5 weekly online sessions (2 hours each) – 5 on weekday (Monday)
• Nature-based invitations and sensing practices
• Paired practice with fellow participants between sessions
• End of year Sensed Ecology Retreat – 22nd to 25th of April

Themes across the 5 modules:

1. Coming Home– First steps in your Focusing journey
2. Inner Ecology– Deepening Focusing and sensing the biology of perception
3. Joy of Sensing– Exploring the senses and the body as a gateway to presence
4. Walking with Life– Building inner trust and finding your unique rhythm
5. Wholebody Knowing– A sensing lab for integrating depth, slowness, and emergence

What You’ll Learn & Experience

• How to stay with challenging emotions without overwhelm
• A deep sense of body-trust and self-companionship
• A way to befriend the inner critic and invite gentleness
• A new way of listening to others that builds real connection
• A grounded capacity for presence, in life, in relationships, in work
• The sense of being part of something larger, an ecological community

A Space of Companionship

This is not just a course, it’s a small community. A space where your presence matters, where we share our learning, our questions, and the subtle shifts we each go through. There is space for intimacy, depth, and mutual support. Between sessions, you’ll be invited to practice with a focusing partner to deepen your learning.

What Happens in Each Session?

• Embodied welcome & attunement
• Introduction to key themes and practices
• Guided Focusing exercises and demos
• Time in pairs or small groups to practice
• Whole-group sharing and integration
• Optional nature-based sensing invitations between sessions

How We Meet: Online, Gently Held

We’ll meet on Zoom in a shared space that feels warm, relational, and grounded, even though the screen. Each session is recorded for your own reflection. You don’t need prior experience, just a willingness to slow down and listen to what is quietly waiting in you to be known.

 

Modules 1 to 5

Module 1: Rooting into Your Focusing Journey

A first encounter with body wisdom and the ecology of sensing

Module 2: Deepening the Path — Walking with What’s Here

Grounded presence and the art of accompanying what emerges

Module 3: Awakening the Senses — A Felt Encounter with Life

Wholebody listening, movement, and joy as gateways to connection

Module 4: Listening Alone, Listening with the Land

Confidence in self-guiding and the wild companionship of silence

Module 5: Seasoning the Practice — Resting into the Wider Web

Listening to complexity, creativity, and the deeper unfolding of self and world

Contribution & Commitment

The total contribution for the full programme is €1500, which includes a final in-person immersive intensive at the end of the training.

This closing gathering will take place from 22nd to 25th April 2027, offering a space to deepen, integrate, and complete the journey together within the living field of Sensed Ecology. This would have an addition €250 to cover expenses of the retreat. ( Full board 3 days in the West of Ireland ).

To reserve your place, a €150 deposit is required upon registration (from now until September).

The remaining €1350 can be paid in one of the following ways:

– Monthly instalments: spread across 8 months (September to April)
– Per module: 5 instalments, paid at the beginning of each module (approximately every 6 weeks)

Once you register, your place is held for the full cycle of the programme. This is a commitment not only to your own process, but to the shared field we will be cultivating together.

Facilitated by Marta Fabregat
TIFI Focusing Coordinator & BFA Mentor
MA Social and Cultural Mediation & Conflict Resolution                                                                                 Community Development & social Educator                                                                                                               Trainer in Compassionate Communication (CNVC)

Listen to Marta’s atunements in Soundcloud:

https://soundcloud.com/user-630429357

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