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 5

This Healing and Abundance course offers

• What limits us

          Exploring mechanisms that limit potential for growth and abundance inviting new possibilities.

• What does Freedom really mean?

          Explore how focusing can facilitate a sense of the fresh-edge, liberation and empowerment.

• Levels of healing, physical, emotional and spiritual

          Explore the different levels of healing—physical, emotional, and spiritual— for deep transformation 

• Poetry and inspirational quotes to support wellbeing

          Draw inspiration from poetry and inspirational quotes, nourishing and supporting your wellbeing

• Resting in the Limitless

         Rest in a state of openness and receptivity to the limitless possibilities that life has to offer.

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.

Lisa inspires about the Focusing course 60 seconds!

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 currently 2 (modules)  Healing and Abundance courses billed to run, as follows: 

Course 1: (In the evening)  

Dates: Mondays March 10, 17, 24, (Not 31). April (Not 7), 14, 21, 28. May 5, 12. 2025
Time: 7pm - 8.30 GMT (Evening sessions)

Course 2:  (In the evening)

Dates: Tuesdays December 2, 9. 2025  January 6, 13, 20, 27. February 3, 10. 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 'K2' McKibbin – Companion, Guide and Facilitator

I am inspired by participating in, and supporting creation of close knit communities, teams and groups and in supporting you and others to become the best you can be is my passion. I believe with inspired intentionality, and with compassionate communal care and support, we can allow our wings to unfurl further and stretch out into their fullness.

My whole life is geared towards active campaigning for ecology, nature regeneration, and nonviolent communities. I also support grassroots initiatives and ecology movements and advocate for global social equity, working for sustainable communities and meaningful regenerative change, such as sharing in the emergence of NVC community, as we are doing here together, for example.

I have over 30 years of teaching and training in Mindfulness, Nonviolent Communication, Focusing, and Presence-related skills. Extensive experience in various settings, including the University of Cambridge, corporate, and educational establishments.

CNVC certified Nonviolent Communication Trainer . BFA Focusing Teacher. Breathworks Mindfulness Teacher. Mindfulness in Schools Project MISP Teacher. Consultant, Mediator and NVC Trainer to Extinction Rebellion. University of Cambridge Associate Mindfulness Teacher 2017 – 2023. Samaritan’s Volunteer. Member of the Triratna Buddhist Order.

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