Learn Focusing in person 2024
Discovering wisdom in the body
Dates
12th to 13th October 2024
Upaya Centre, Lisbon. Portugal
Times: 10–6pm Sat. 10-5pm Sun.
12th to 13th October 2024
Upaya Centre, Lisbon. Portugal
Times: 10–6pm Sat. 10-5pm Sun.
Beneath our usual thoughts and familiar feelings is a place of deep knowing and wisdom. You may have glimpsed this in intuitive moments or dreams, but did you know there was an everyday way to access this wisdom? Your body! This is your doorway. This workshop will introduce you to a practice known as Focusing that opens this doorway. Once learnt, this practice is yours for life - to be practiced on your own or in dyads or in everyday moments. With it, you can find new and insightful ways forward in stuck areas of your life, it can help with decision making and self understanding. It helps us to access self compassion and bring emotional healing. Your body knows more than you think.
Who is this workshop for?
Anyone who feels stuck in their head Anyone who feels their body is trying to tell them something Anyone who wants to find fresh answers to their problems Anyone seeking more self connection and compassion
Who is this workshop for?
Anyone who feels stuck in their head Anyone who feels their body is trying to tell them something Anyone who wants to find fresh answers to their problems Anyone seeking more self connection and compassion
- Why everything inside needs acceptance
- How to approach parts we don’t like
- Meeting our inner judges and protectors
- The paradox of how change happens
- Practical tools to foster radical acceptance
- Developing deep self-compassion
The Transformative power of presence
How listening into the body with presence changes everything
Dates
30th Nov-1st December
Ownzone, Stroud
Times: 10–5pm Sat. 10-4.30pm Sun.
Dates
30th Nov-1st December
Ownzone, Stroud
Times: 10–5pm Sat. 10-4.30pm Sun.
This weekend workshop will introduce the profound practice known as Focusing. Put simply it involves bringing a compassionate presence to the body and listening. Once learnt, this practice becomes a way of being that can help with many dimensions of life: Understanding our emotions and triggers, making intuitive decisions, finding perspective and insight, accessing our deeper values and wisdom and more. The body knows more than we think!
Over the two days, through gentle experiential explorations, paired practice, solo reflection and group discussion, we will learn the essentials of Focusing, enabling you to continue practicing with others and further learning through British Focusing Association trainings
This weekend is for you if:
Over the two days, through gentle experiential explorations, paired practice, solo reflection and group discussion, we will learn the essentials of Focusing, enabling you to continue practicing with others and further learning through British Focusing Association trainings
This weekend is for you if:
- You get easily overwhelmed by thoughts and feelings
- You sense you live too much in your head and would like to be more at home in your body
- You want a taste of how bringing the body’s wisdom into your life can bring deep change
- You are a therapist or coach who would like to sense how these skills could enhance your practice.
Your facilitators: Husband and wife team Peter Gill and Claire Owen.
Peter Gill is one of the UK’s foremost Focusing Teachers, and has been teaching Focusing for over 20 years. Prior to this, he spent a decade practising and teaching meditation. Also trained in trauma healing, grief work and nature connection. Peter brings an embodied, accessible and honest approach to his writings and teaching. He published his first book “The Way of Curiosity” in 2024. Peter is qualified with the International Focusing Institute and the British Focusing Association
Claire Owen has been teaching and guiding people in Focusing since 2020. Also trained in meditation, Sound Healing, natural nutrition . She has run her own baby sign language business supporting parents with social and communication needs. She is also an artist and parent to a child with special needs. Claire brings her authentic experience and a clear, empathic and creative approach to sharing Focusing.
Peter Gill is one of the UK’s foremost Focusing Teachers, and has been teaching Focusing for over 20 years. Prior to this, he spent a decade practising and teaching meditation. Also trained in trauma healing, grief work and nature connection. Peter brings an embodied, accessible and honest approach to his writings and teaching. He published his first book “The Way of Curiosity” in 2024. Peter is qualified with the International Focusing Institute and the British Focusing Association
Claire Owen has been teaching and guiding people in Focusing since 2020. Also trained in meditation, Sound Healing, natural nutrition . She has run her own baby sign language business supporting parents with social and communication needs. She is also an artist and parent to a child with special needs. Claire brings her authentic experience and a clear, empathic and creative approach to sharing Focusing.
Booking information
These workshops have a minimum number to take place (see booking conditions for more information) Contact me for to pay by transfer or cheque or pay by paypal below.
Costs: £195
Payment plans and concessions
These workshops have a minimum number to take place (see booking conditions for more information) Contact me for to pay by transfer or cheque or pay by paypal below.
Costs: £195
Payment plans and concessions
Dates
12th-13th Nov 2022
Bristol Natural Health Service
Times: 10–5pm Sat. 10-4.30pm Sun.
12th-13th Nov 2022
Bristol Natural Health Service
Times: 10–5pm Sat. 10-4.30pm Sun.
Topics:
- Dwelling at the edge
- Deeper empathic listening
- Supporting the focuser to "be with"
- Empathic invitations to go deeper
- The magic of the felt sense
More information.
Find out more about the BFA skills course
These workshops have a minimum number to take place (see booking conditions for more information) Contact me for to pay by transfer or cheque or pay by paypal below.
Costs: £150
Payment plans and concessions
Find out more about the BFA skills course
These workshops have a minimum number to take place (see booking conditions for more information) Contact me for to pay by transfer or cheque or pay by paypal below.
Costs: £150
Payment plans and concessions
Dates
10th-11th Dec 2022
Bristol Natural Health Service
Times: 10–5pm Sat. 10-4.30pm Sun.
10th-11th Dec 2022
Bristol Natural Health Service
Times: 10–5pm Sat. 10-4.30pm Sun.
Topics:
- Self-Guiding
- Guiding principles
- Guiding skills
- Helping the focuser when they get stuck
- The felt sense
More information.
Find out more about the BFA skills course
These workshops have a minimum number to take place (see booking conditions for more information) Contact me for to pay by transfer or cheque or pay by paypal below.
Costs: £150
Payment plans and concessions
Find out more about the BFA skills course
These workshops have a minimum number to take place (see booking conditions for more information) Contact me for to pay by transfer or cheque or pay by paypal below.
Costs: £150
Payment plans and concessions
Dates
11th—12th Feb 2023
Bristol Natural Health Service
Times: 10–5pm Sat. 10-4.30pm Sun.
11th—12th Feb 2023
Bristol Natural Health Service
Times: 10–5pm Sat. 10-4.30pm Sun.
Topics:
- Developing grounding
- Parts and guests in Focusing
- What parts want…
- Guiding skills with parts
- Radical acceptance
More information.
Find out more about the BFA skills course
These workshops have a minimum number to take place (see booking conditions for more information) Contact me for to pay by transfer or cheque or pay by paypal below.
Costs: £150
Payment plans and concessions
Find out more about the BFA skills course
These workshops have a minimum number to take place (see booking conditions for more information) Contact me for to pay by transfer or cheque or pay by paypal below.
Costs: £150
Payment plans and concessions
Dates
11th—12th Mar 2023
Bristol Natural Health Service
Times: 10–5pm Sat. 10-4.30pm Sun.
11th—12th Mar 2023
Bristol Natural Health Service
Times: 10–5pm Sat. 10-4.30pm Sun.
Topics:
- How we get tangled
- Anatomy of a tangle
- Shifts and transformations
- Qualities of whole self
- The living process
More information.
Find out more about the BFA skills course
These workshops have a minimum number to take place (see booking conditions for more information) Contact me for to pay by transfer or cheque or pay by paypal below.
Costs: £150
Payment plans and concessions
Find out more about the BFA skills course
These workshops have a minimum number to take place (see booking conditions for more information) Contact me for to pay by transfer or cheque or pay by paypal below.
Costs: £150
Payment plans and concessions
Can I book single workshops?
Yes, although it depends on what your previous experience is. Some workshops only work when taken in order.
Can I miss a workshop?
Yes, if you miss a workshop in the series, you can either take it with me at another time, or go through it in one to one sessions, or take it with another focusing teacher.
Can I pay in instalments?
Yes. Look at my payment plans page for more information
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