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Focusing is a process of listening to the wisdom of your body
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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.
We are excited to announce the opening of the registration for the Focusing School 2025 which will take place in the West Midlands on 20th-24th August 2025.
Courses & events
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17th October 2025 ZOOM
Autumn -Focusing Skills Certificate Level 2 – online
Focusing Skills Certificate
Module 2 Focusing partnerships – Developing your Listening Skills In this 2ndLevel of the BFA Skills Certification we turn towards deepening our Listening Skills. Total 12 hours online : 4 x 3 hours 2025 Dates October…
Paula Charnley -
18th October 2025
The Dance Within Wholebody Focusing
At the heart of Whole Body Focusing (WBF) there is a dance of two, seemingly opposing, inner movements which create a space inside your whole body in which Focusing can occur naturally. In the Embrace…
Addie Van Der Kooy -
19th October 2025 ST13
In Person – Focusing Skills Level 2 Certificate
Focusing Skills Certificate
By popular request this is the Focusing Level 2 in-person option for Autumn 2025 Module 2 Focusing partnerships – Developing your Listening Skills In this 2ndLevel of the BFA Skills Certification we turn towards deepening our…
Paula Charnley -
20th October 2025 Zoom
Beginners Focusing Skills Course Level 1 to 5
Focusing Skills Certificate
Deepen the art of listening to yourself and another 2-Month or 6-Month Online Course Mondays, Oct 20, 2025 – April 13, 2026 Relate to yourself and others with freshness, emotional intelligence, and an open heart.…
Amona Buechler
Articles & Blogs
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18th May 2025
Creative Compassion – Toward A Culture Of Relational Empathy. Training Social Skills Through Art-Based Focusing
Creative Compassion for Peacebuilding (CCP) is a Focusing-oriented, art-based approach that helps individuals understand and practice Relational Empathy (Maureen O’Hara) through receptive-active art activities. This article outlines the theoretical framework of the CCP approach, as…
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Freda Blob -
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…
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Peter Gill -
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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