The Magic of Embodied Relational Presence: Part 3 Focusing Skills Course on Zoom
The Magic of Embodied Relational Presence: Part 3 Focusing Skills Course on Zoom
British Focusing Association (BFA) Accredited Course for 2024 - 2025
Whole 5 part course overview
This BFA-accredited Focusing Skills course is designed in five unique parts (or modules), each offering a complete, stand-alone experience. Whether you’re looking to deepen your personal growth or develop professional skills, each module builds essential Focusing skills while contributing to a well-rounded understanding and practice.
Certification and Flexibility:
- Flexible Start and Sequence: Begin your journey with any of the five modules. Participants are free to join at any module and progress through the others in any sequence that suits them.
- Complete BFA Certification: Completion of all five modules fulfills the full certification requirements for the BFA Focusing Skills Certification.
Each module is a step toward personal transformation and skillful presence, fostering creativity, healing, and deeper connection
This Part/Module 3
The magic of Embodied Relational Presence course offers
- Embodied aliveness as a gateway to the Bigger Space
Experience the transformative power of embodied aliveness, for new possibilities.
- Fresh forward movement through ‘Allowing’
Learn the art of 'allowing,' embracing openness to facilitate fresh forward movement
- Gestures, postures & movement and the Felt-sense
Discover how gestures, postures, and movement can enhance your connection with the felt sense
- The Body and resonance with Nature
Explore the connection between the body and nature, for the healing power of the natural world
Benefits
- Enhanced Healing Capacities: Access your body's innate wisdom for self-discovery and healing, meeting the fundamental needs for growth and well-being.
- Heightened Awareness: Cultivate a profound connection with your body's subtle signals, inviting a deep sense of presence and understanding.
- Sharpened Intuition: Cultivate intuitive capacities beyond conventional understanding, nurturing feelings of insight and clarity.
- Practical Integration: Apply Gendlin's teachings in personal and professional realms, creating a harmonious blend of healing practices and intuitive development that align with your met needs for authenticity and purpose
What is Focusing?
Focusing is a pilgrimage of self-discovery, where the body becomes both compass and companion, leading us towards the wellspring of healing and the untapped realms of intuitive insight.
- fosters self-friendship, and unveiling transformative beauty within.
- the gentle dance between Presence and intuition, guiding us into the depths of embodied wisdom.
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Facilitation Style: Live, intuitive, and congruent with Embodied Relational Presence. Sessions include fun, play, safety, small group meetups, plenaries, interactivity, emergent elements, excitement, community orientation, and conscious pauses for reflection.
Unique Hallmark: Unshakable Presence A synthesis of Mindfulness, Focusing, and Nonviolent Communication, creating a powerful synergy for a resilient and creatively connected unshakable presence.
Extra ongoing support
- Unique Offering: Enjoy free recordings of live guided Focusing reflections from each session and a copy of the session audio for continued learning.
- Community Support: Engage in inter-session community 1:1 Focusing spaces for ongoing learning and support
Course Details Dates, Day & Time (There are three level/module 3's scheduled)
1. Commencing July 2025
Dates: Tuesdays 8, 15, 22, 29 July. 9 16, 23, 30 September 2025
Time: 7pm - 8.30 GMT (Evening sessions)
2. Commencing November 2025, completing February 2026
Dates: Mondays 24 November . 1, 8 December 2025. 5, 12, 19, 26 January. 2 February 2026
Time: 7pm - 8.30 GMT (Evening sessions)
3. Commencing June 2026
Dates: Tuesdays 30 June. 7, 14, 21, 28 July. 1, 8, 15 September 2026
Time: 7pm - 8.30 GMT (Evening sessions)
Cost
Each Level: £175 (over 8 week period) / £150 Concession
I would love for you to be present to benefit from Gene's vision of Focusing as I have, so if financially less liquidable payment plans/options and some bursaries available, please contact me directly to explore options.
The above Course constitutes one of five courses together creating the Focusing for Healing and Intuition, BFA Focusing Skills Course. See details of the the whole course.
Meet Simon McKibbin – Companion, Guide and Facilitator
With a passion for community, collaboration, and personal growth, I’m dedicated to helping individuals, - personally and professionally - and groups, flourish. I believe that with inspired intention and compassionate support, we can expand into our full potential. My life’s work is rooted in active campaigning for ecological regeneration, social equity, and nonviolent living—supporting grassroots initiatives and co-creating meaningful, regenerative change.
Over 34 years' experience teaching Mindfulness, NVC, Focusing, and Presence
CNVC Certified Nonviolent Communication Trainer
BFA Focusing Teacher & Breathworks Mindfulness Teacher
Consultant, mediator, and NVC trainer for Extinction Rebellion
Associate Mindfulness Teacher at the University of Cambridge (2017–2023)
Mindfulness in Schools Project (MISP) teacher
Samaritan’s volunteer and Triratna Buddhist Order member