FREE Taster Focusing PRACTITIONER Training Year Program 2026/27

Join the FREE Introductory taster Session for the Focusing Practitioner Training Program!

             You must have completed a Focusing Skills course before enrolling on this program

Curious about becoming a certified Focusing Practitioner?

Discover how this unique, transformative program can support your personal and professional growth. Attend an introductory Zoom session and explore the key benefits.

Come and have some fun together whilst exploring the Focusing Practitioner Training Program (May 2026 – May 2027)

When? 7pm - 8.00pm Wednesday 15 April  2026 on Zoom. 

Key Features:

• Holistic Training Format: Combines face-to-face community sessions in beautiful settings, Zoom sessions, and personalized mentoring.
• Certification: Become a BFA Focusing Practitioner, equipped to teach Focusing one-on-one and integrate it into your profession.
• Unique Approach: Experience Embodied Relational Presence (ERP), a method blending Focusing with mindfulness and Nonviolent Communication.
• Global Community: Join a compassionate, international network dedicated to meaningful, heart-centered action.
• Tailored Journey: The program is customized to fit your personal learning style and life rhythm.

Unique Program Points:

• Flexible & Self-paced: Learn at your own pace, balancing the program with your life.
• Professional Integration: Ideal for therapists, coaches, and teachers seeking to deepen their practice.
• Residential Retreats: Experience in-person training weekends in serene settings like Braziers Park, Oxfordshire.

Don’t miss this chance to embark on a life-changing journey of growth, connection, and Focusing mastery.

  Watch this clip on The Focusing Practitioners Program at Braziers!

To register or for more information on the Practitioners year long Program 2026 - 2027

Contact Simon McKibbin at simon@living-presence.co.uk

About Simon - Companion, Coach, Facilitator, & Trainer

We are living in unprecedented times—both thrilling and unsettling with forces beyond our control at play on financial, global, environmental, and social levels. The lack of meaning in materialism has left our culture's social fabric empty, sowing confusion in our identities and a sense of lostness about what it means to feel secure, grounded in the natural order, and truly connected to others and the awe and mystery of the universe.

We live in a culture of atomization where technology promises connection yet alienates us further—moving from Cartesian "I am" to Apple "I-Phone," faces frozen and hypnotized by screens. The proliferation of information competes for our attention—it's hard to draw breath and sense our true identity as sovereign beings.

And yet... in every moment, the sun rises and stars offer their soft light. The ground remains ever faithful, lovingly supporting us. Birds continue to sing, trees remain rooted, oceans stay deep, and there is richness and beauty in every precious, tingling, vibrant moment. A silky breath slides into our bodies from the skies as the universe continues breathing through us, perfuming every cell with vibrancy and warmth. We are here now, alive—coming home to ourselves is the prayer of every star, every mote of dust. Something deep within knows how to return to its authentic original self—like a hidden gem stitched into a garment's lining, we had it all the time. Embodied Relational Presence offers a portal to true self-empowerment where we realize we are not foam buffeted by waves, but the ocean itself.

For over 34 years, I've supported individuals and communities toward greater personal and professional empowerment through Mindfulness, Nonviolent Communication, and Focusing—practices that unlock our capacity to live more fully, creatively, and courageously. My work bridges inner transformation with outer change, rooted in active commitment to ecological regeneration, social equity, and nonviolent living through grassroots organising and co-creation. I invite you into this portal of Embodied Relational Presence—where there is autonomous, sovereign, connected, and irrepressible life—to become both magician of your own wholeness and powerful ally for planetary regeneration and collective wellbeing.

Experience: CNVC Certified NVC Trainer | BFA Focusing Teacher | Breathworks Mindfulness Teacher | Associate Mindfulness Teacher, University of Cambridge (2017–2023) | Extinction Rebellion consultant, mediator & trainer | Møller Institute Cambridge University Executive Coaching Guest Lecturer | Mindfulness in Schools Project (MISP) teacher | Triratna Buddhist Order member | Samaritans volunteer

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