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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.
Courses & events
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22nd September 2026 Zoom Online
The Magic of Embodied Relational Presence: Focusing Skills Doorway 3 on Zoom
Focusing Skills Certificate
“Step into the magic of true presence — come home to yourself, truly.” The Magic of Embodied Relational Presence Your Body Knows More Than You Think 22 September – 10 November 2026 Sessions 7…
Simon McKibbin -
23rd September 2026
Living Fully amidst Uncertainty: Free Webinar
Introductory
September 23rd at 6pm Are you tired of waiting for life to settle down before you can really live? Join us for a free online webinar where you’ll discover and experience a somatic approach to…
Peter Gill -
24th September 2026
Journey to Wisdom Part 2 (BFA Skills course)
Focusing Skills Certificate
In Journey to wisdom, you will learn an embodied skill known as Focusing. Many of us have never learnt to notice our feelings – or our body. We may have never been taught that we…
Peter Gill -
24th September 2026
Untangling the knots: An introduction to Untangling®
Specialist
This is a unique opportunity to join me on an online 12 week closed group course to explore the Untangling® process, developed by Barbara McGavin and Ann Weiser Cornell. We will gently explore those aspects of our…
Peter Gill
Articles & Blogs
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28th Aug 2026
We are Interaction
Focusing in the Space Between What a fox taught me about presence One of the gifts Focusing has given me is a deeper, embodied way of listening — to myself and, at the same time, to my interaction…
Deirdre Kennedy -
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
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