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The home of Focusing and listening in the UK

Focusing is a process of listening to the wisdom of your body

The British Focusing Association (BFA) is a community of Focusing practitioners, teachers and Focusing-oriented therapists. We are here to support your learning and deepening of Focusing and listening in all its forms. Here you can find practitioners, search for events, read articles and blog posts and more.

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Focusing has deepened my therapy practice, helping clients (and me) to understand and integrate unconscious parts.

Vajrasara Rankin. Therapist

Focusing enables me to live my life and to counsel clients with a deeper level of self-awareness.

Paula Newman – Counsellor.

Focusing has transformed my life

Cathy Rowan

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!

Taravajra

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.

David

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!

Peter Afford

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

Elizabeth English  DPhil (Oxon)

Focusing has helped me feel more alive

Suzi Mackenzie

Focusing, for me, is a doorway to an open, kindly, wise and profound connection to Life.

Helen Bryant
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Courses & events

  • 10th November 2026 Karl-Heine-Straße 54 04229 Leipzig, Germany

    Changes Group Leipzig, Germany 

    Specialist

    Changes Groups sind Orte für Partnerschaftliches FOCUSING. In regelmäßigen Treffen bieten Changes Groups einen Raum, um gemeinsam FOCUSING zu praktizieren. Bei einer Changes Group handelt es sich nicht um eine feste Gruppe, sondern um ein offenes Treffen. Die…

    Amona Buechler

  • 11th November 2026 Zoom

    FREE NOURISHING FOCUSING TASTER: All Doorway levels into Focusing Skills Course 2026 

    Focusing Skills Certificate

    FREE NOURISHING FOCUSING TASTER SESSION Focusing for Healing, Intuition & Creative Living — BFA-Accredited Online via Zoom · 7:00–8:00pm (1hr) Next Free Taster: Wed 11 Nov 2026 — Doorway 4:Focusing for Healing and Creativity This…

    Simon McKibbin

  • 14th November 2026

    Going Deeper – Focusing Skills Module 3 

    Focusing Skills Certificate

    In this online workshop, the third of five modules of a Focusing Skills Certificate course, we will look more deeply into the processes of Focusing and being a companion, refining and building on the skills…

    Susan Jordan

  • 14th November 2026 Online

    Introduction to Focusing 

    Introductory

      Introduction to Trauma-Sensitive Focusing A three-part live online introduction to Focusing, offering a gentle and embodied way of listening within. The course explores how to slow down, make space for inner experience, recognise the…

    Deirdre Kennedy

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