In 2023/24 I am offering this course online with occasional introductory weekends and events in person

Anyone! For those seeking new tools for personal development, for therapists and body workers, for creatives… for anyone seeking more embodiment and access to deeper knowing.

The BFA Focusing skills certificate is a complete and thorough foundation course in the art and skills of Focusing and Listening. It starts with any introductory workshop or course. In total it comprises of ten days of experiential learning (or the equivalent number of hours) The emphasis of the course is using Focusing with oneself. The course can be covered through weekends, courses or one to one learning. Each module/workshop covers a theme and there is some flexibility with the order in which they are taken. More details on each module/workshop is found below. Completing the certificate enables you to apply for further professional training.

Online courses:
Modules cost £135 (£150 from November 2023)
(or 10% off if you book any four or more modules)

This workshop, courses and day is an ideal way to learn Focusing. They are a mixture of practice, teaching and informal discussion. Usually participants will practise Focusing in pairs or in small groups, with plenty of time for questions and discussion. Explore how to:

• Live a life full of curiosity
• Tune into your inner wisdom
• Meet yourself and others with kindness and openness
• Be with and understand strong emotion
• Find what truly feels right for you and your life
• Connect more deeply to yourself, others, and the world…

Some of the skills you will learn:

• Develop the key qualities of curiosity, interest and inner kindness
• Be safe and respectful with yourself and others in Focusing
• The steps of the Focusing journey
• Develop self-compassion
• How to practise Focusing on your own
• How to practise Focusing with someone else

The essence of this workshop is exploring the role of the listening or companion in Focusing and learning how we can support the focuser with supportive and sensitive listening. Skills and topics include:

• Dwelling at the edge
• Deeper empathic listening
• Supporting the focuser to "be with"
• Empathic invitations to go deeper
• The magic of the felt sense

This workshop introduces the skills of Guiding or reminding. Here the companion learns how to offer suggestions that deeply and safely support the Focusing process: Skills and topics include

• Self-Guiding
• Guiding principles
• Guiding skills
• Helping the focuser when they get stuck
• The felt sense

What parts do we meet inside? What is a part? and what does it want? And can and should we accept them all? And how can we support ourselves and others to develop an empathic relationship with everything inside. Skills and topics include:

• Developing grounding
• Parts and guests in Focusing
• What parts want…
• Guiding skills with parts
• Radical acceptance

On this final Module we will explore how is Focusing can be woven into everyday life. Transforming it form a a formal practice to a way of being.

Topics:
• The gift of compassion
• Approaches to Focusing
• Navigating a life
• Focusing in everyday life
• Celebration and next steps