NEW: Focusing Practitioner Training March 2025 - 2026 Book Now
Thu 20 Mar 2025 7:00 PM - Thu 19 Mar 2026 9:30 PM
Braziers, OX10 6AN.
Description
Overview Focusing Practitioner Training Program
20 March 2025 – 19 March 2026 / Hybrid Face to Face in natural retreat settings and Zoom
Facilitator: Simon McKibbin
JOIN THE NEXT PRACTITIONER TASTER, meet Simon and connect Wed 19 Feb 2025
Completion of the BFA Focusing Skills Course is a necessary prerequisite
1. Overview
The Focusing Practitioner Training Program serves as a journey towards personal, professional, and collective transformation, enabling participants to integrate Focusing into various contexts while contributing to a shared global vision of compassionate engagement.
"What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away." – Eugene Gendlin
2. Summary of the BFA Practitioner Program
- Certification & Professional Integration: Certification as a BFA Focusing Practitioner allows you to teach and practice Focusing one-on-one while integrating it into professional contexts.
- Holistic Learning Approach: Engage in a flexible learning format with in-person workshops, online Zoom sessions, and personalized mentoring.
- Unique Embodied Relational Presence (ERP): A program rooted in Simon McKibbin's 34 years of Focusing experience, blended with mindfulness and Nonviolent Communication.
- Global Vision: Join a compassionate community with a shared vision of meaningful global change.
- Personalized Program: Tailored to your learning journey, allowing for individual growth alongside a supportive community.
“The world is not the other, it is ourselves, ourselves in the world and the world in us.” – Eugene Gendlin
3. Your Focusing Practitioner Journey and BFA
- Becoming an accredited BFA Focusing Practitioner connects you to a meaningful community of like-minded individuals, fostering deep personal connections and ongoing development.
"A felt sense is the body's sense of a particular situation." – Eugene Gendlin
4. & 5. What is unique about this Practitioner training?
- This training, led by Simon McKibbin, integrates a lifetime of experience with Focusing, mindfulness, and NVC, creating a unique Embodied Relational Presence (ERP) approach.
- The combination of three in-person weekends and regular Zoom sessions invites an outward, authentic expression of your Focusing practice.
"If the energy comes from experiencing, it will feel as if you are being carried by the situation itself." – Eugene Gendlin
6. A Global Vision of Compassionate Engagement
- This program encourages participants to embody and share a vision of compassionate action, offering something precious to a world in need of connection and meaning.
“We are always in the process of becoming." – Eugene Gendlin
7. Aims
- To support your unique way of sharing Focusing.
- To deepen your relational presence and felt sense.
- To integrate Focusing into your daily and professional life.
- To cultivate a network with a global perspective, grounded in compassion and connection.
8. Pre-requisites
- Completion of a Focusing skills course.
- A one-to-one consultation with the facilitator to assess readiness.
9. Timescale and Completion
- The program is self-paced, typically taking 12-18 months to complete. Certification is granted when both you and your mentor agree that you're ready to share Focusing with others.
“Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.” – Eugene Gendlin
10. Certification and Completion
- Certification enables you to teach Focusing, integrate it into your professional field, and become a member of the BFA and International Focusing Institute.
11. How? A Shared Living Felt Sense
- The training supports the unique, evolving nature of each participant’s Focusing process, inviting flexibility and innovation.
"The body is not just an object in the world; it is the lived process of being and interacting." – Eugene Gendlin
12. Program Framework
- Consultation: One-to-one introduction.
- Zoom Sessions: 13 group sessions.
- Residential Workshops: Two long weekends of in-person training.
- Mentoring: 15 one-hour sessions.
- Partnerships: Ongoing Focusing partnerships with peers.
13. Program Training Content
The core of Focusing is Embodied Relational Presence (ERP), which emphasizes deep connection and safety, providing the foundation for guiding others.
14. Environmental Elemental and Natural Relational Presence
- Focusing invites a harmonious relationship with the natural world, deepening our connection with our environment and recognizing our role in a sustainable future.
"We live in interaction with nature, not as isolated subjects." – Eugene Gendlin
15. Existential-Spiritual Relational Presence and the Mystery
- Exploring the felt sense brings us into contact with the deeper mysteries of existence, offering a portal into what is meaningful and universal.
16. Relational Language and Communication in Presence
- Develop the ability to communicate from a deep relational space, using language that honors connection.
17. Companioning: Presence for Deep Connection with the Focuser
- Learn how to create a safe and resonant space for others to explore their inner worlds.
“Every bad feeling is potential energy toward a more right way of being if you give it space to move toward its rightness.” – Eugene Gendlin
18. Your Vision as a Focusing Practitioner
- You are encouraged to cultivate your unique path as a Focusing practitioner, with opportunities to shape your practice based on your passions and personal growth.
19. Focusing Competencies
- Develop the skills to guide others in Focusing, facilitate sessions, and deepen your practice through Embodied Relational Presence.
20-26. Additional Elements: Fees, Certification, and Community
- Certification fees, mentoring options, and residential workshop costs are detailed, with flexible payment plans available.
- Join the UK and international Focusing communities to expand your network and support your practice.
“You are a process. You are moving, evolving, living in a constant flow.” – Eugene Gendlin
JOIN THE NEXT PRACTITIONER TASTER, meet Simon and connect Wed 19 Feb 2025
For the fuller introduction to the program with dates and costs etc or to arrange your free precourse 1 to 1 contact simon@living-presence.co.uk Mob: 07974817393
for more on Simon www.living-presence.co.uk
Location
Braziers, OX10 6AN.