Journey to Wisdom
The BFA Focusing skills course
Begins Autumn 2025

Maybe you find it heard to know what you truly feel and need - your own knowing drowned out by others opinions and the noise and haste of modern life?
Maybe you are stuck with stressful thoughts and unhelpful habits? and are longing to find inner freedom.
Maybe you sense you body is trying to tell you something but don’t know how to listen
Maybe you are stuck with stressful thoughts and unhelpful habits? and are longing to find inner freedom.
Maybe you sense you body is trying to tell you something but don’t know how to listen
"Your body is not a machine, rather a wonderfully intricate interaction with everything around you, which is why it "knows" so much just in being."

What is this?
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 have answers inside of you and instead override our needs and innate wisdom. Focusing is a life long skill that opens you to everyday tools to access your own wisdom and offers a route to deep self compassion. Once learnt it can be used in every aspect of living: Self connection, decision making, healing emotional wounds, creative process, empathy with others.
- 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 fresh answers to stuck areas of your life
- Find what truly feels right for you and your life
- Connect more deeply to yourself, others, and the world…
How the course can help you?
If you are someone who struggles to not analyse and criticise, then Journey to wisdom can help you to tune into a deeper knowing that is accessed through the body. The body knows more than we think!
If you are someone who finds gets easily triggered or overwhelmed by emotions, then Journey to wisdom can give you tools to pause and get curious about what’s happening. You will develop skills to be with every part of you, to be a compassionate listener to yourself
If you work with others as a coach or therapist , then journey to wisdom can help you connect more to your own inner wisdom and then invite your clients to find theirs.
If you are someone who finds gets easily triggered or overwhelmed by emotions, then Journey to wisdom can give you tools to pause and get curious about what’s happening. You will develop skills to be with every part of you, to be a compassionate listener to yourself
If you work with others as a coach or therapist , then journey to wisdom can help you connect more to your own inner wisdom and then invite your clients to find theirs.


The structure of the course
The Journey to wisdom course is split into two 10 week courses, with a break in between. Part one covers the essentials of Focusing and Listening - enabling you to apply Focusing into your everyday life and practice in partnership* with others. Part two goes deeper into focusing by working with parts, deepening your skills as a companion and exploring Focusing in everyday life. You can book both together or try part one first. By completing both of these, you will receive the BFA Focusing Skills Certificate
What you will learn in Part 2
*What is Focusing Partnership?
Focusing Partnerships are a profound form of exploring Focusing, where you are simply and empathic listener to one another.
No advice, no questions… just pure listening. You don’t even have to know what the person is talking about.
During your weekly Focusing partnership practice on the course, your partner simply listens to you without judgment or agenda. The presence of someone who is completely present and accepting in this way has a profound effect! You’ll also learn how to give that same level of presence to your Focusing partner.
And Focusing partnership is free
- Each class is 2 1/4 hours long, comprising of teachings, Focusing practice and group discussions.
- PDF handouts and worksheets for each week
- Outside of class, you’ll have a weekly partnership practice, plus access to a forum to chat with students and teachers.
- 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 and in partnership
- Dwelling at the edge
- Deeper empathic listening
- Supporting the focuser to "be with"
- Empathic invitations to go deeper
- The magic of the felt sense
What you will learn in Part 2
- Self-Guiding
- Guiding principles and skills
- Helping the focuser when they get stuck
- Resourcing
- Parts and guests in Focusing
- Guiding skills with parts
- Radical acceptance
- Approaches to Focusing
- Navigating decisions
- Focusing in everyday life
*What is Focusing Partnership?
Focusing Partnerships are a profound form of exploring Focusing, where you are simply and empathic listener to one another.
No advice, no questions… just pure listening. You don’t even have to know what the person is talking about.
During your weekly Focusing partnership practice on the course, your partner simply listens to you without judgment or agenda. The presence of someone who is completely present and accepting in this way has a profound effect! You’ll also learn how to give that same level of presence to your Focusing partner.
And Focusing partnership is free
Who is this course for?
You are someone who wants to connect to their body and inner knowing - for your own development
You are a therapist or coach and want to learn the foundations of Focusing.
You are a therapist or coach and want to learn the foundations of Focusing.
Costs
£450 for each part
Payment plans are available
10% off if you book both parts together
Payment plans are available
10% off if you book both parts together
Dates and booking
Part 1: Sep 30 to Dec 9 10 Tuesday evenings 7-9.15pm (no class Nov 4)
Part 2: Jan 13 to Mar 24 10 Tuesday evenings 7-9.15pm (no class Feb 17)
Registration is limited to 20 participants per course
Questions? Contact me
Join the waitlist below
Part 2: Jan 13 to Mar 24 10 Tuesday evenings 7-9.15pm (no class Feb 17)
Registration is limited to 20 participants per course
Questions? Contact me
Join the waitlist below

Can I book one Part only?
Yes, you can try Part one first, and depending on what your previous experience is you may be able to book Part two on its own.
Can I pay in instalments?
Yes. Look at my payment plans page for more information
Can I miss a class?
Yes, you can miss a maximum of two classes from either part to receive the BFA skills certificate. Classes are recorded for anyone who cannot attend that week.
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