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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.
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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7th February 2026
Going forward with Focusing – Focusing Skills Module 5
In this fifth and last module of the Focusing Skills Certificate course we will look further at untangling difficult inner dynamics and also look at ways of bringing Focusing into our lives. There will be…
Susan Jordan -
7th February 2026 Zoom
Feldenkrais Principles enrich Focusing – Establishing the Right Conditions for Learning
Specialist
A Highlight hosted by The International Focusing Institute By exploring both the similarities and the differences between two process-oriented approaches— Focusing and Feldenkrais®—we can deepen our appreciation of the learning conditions already cultivated in Focusing, and…
Amona Buechler -
9th February 2026 Zoom Online
The Magic of Embodied Relational Presence: Focusing Skills 3 on Zoom
Focusing Skills Certificate
British Focusing Association (BFA) Accredited Course 2026 – 2027 Course Overview: This five-part BFA-accredited Focusing Skills course offers flexible, standalone modules that build essential Focusing skills. Completing all five modules fulfills BFA certification, supporting personal…
Simon McKibbin -
11th February 2026 Zoom
Focusers Guide to the Galaxy: The Great Philosophers – (NEXT UP Aristotle: A Being in Search of Meaning)
Specialist
Focusers Guide to the Galaxy: The Great Philosophers 6 Lunchtime Sessions exploring wisdom through felt sense What if the great philosophers weren’t just thinking their insights—but felt-sensed them first? Join us for a playful philosophical adventure…
Simon McKibbin
Articles & Blogs
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21st Oct 2025
Staying Connected
Introductory Practitioner projects
Staying connected with one self traveling and teaching worldwide Children and Focusing a personal journey!
Download Staying-Connected.pdf (pdf)
René Veugelers -
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…
Download Creative_Compassion©Freda-Blob.pdf (pdf)
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…
Download BC483-Thresholds-October-2023_Gill.pdf (pdf)
Peter Gill
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