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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.

Courses & events
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11th June 2022 Union St, Sheffield, Sheffield
Your body knows the way: Beginning the Focusing journey
Focusing Skills Certificate
This course will introduce you to the life long skill of Focusing and Listening. Held at BNHS , in Gloucester Rd, Bristol. Some of the skills you will learn: Develop the key qualities of curiosity,…
Peter Gill -
12th June 2022
Introducing Focusing – Focusing Skills 1
Introductory
This course, which will take place online over four mornings, 12th, 19th and 26th June and 3rd July, will teach you some the elements of Focusing: sensing into your body, describing what you find there,…
Susan Jordan -
21st June 2022
Module 5: Healing and Transformation online
Focusing Skills Certificate
Final module of the BFA series where we will explore these topics and more How we get tangled Anatomy of a tangle Shifts and transformations Qualities of whole self The living process Five Tuesday evenings…
Peter Gill -
29th June 2022 Online
Gentle Guide to Mindfulness Meditation
Introductory
The practice of mindful meditation lies at the heart of mindfulness – and Focusing lies at the heart of meditation. The Gentle Guide to Mindfulness Meditation is a 4-week course is an ideal way to approach…
Elizabeth English
Articles & Blogs
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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 -
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…
Download Focusing-Feldenkrais-PolyvagalTheory-1.pdf (pdf)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…
Download Focusing-Groups-Today.pdf (pdf)Gordon Adam
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