FREE Nourishing Focusing Tasters: All Doorway levels into Focusing Skills Course 2026
FREE Nourishing Focusing Tasters: All Doorway levels into Focusing Skills Course 2026
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FREE NOURISHING FOCUSING TASTER SESSION
Focusing for Healing, Intuition & Creative Living
BFA-Accredited Course · All Five Doorway - Levels
Online via Zoom · 7:00 – 8:00 pm
Free Tasters
Next - Wednesday 9 Sept 2026 for Doorway level 3: The Magic of Embodied Relational Presence
Book your free ticket for this taster below now
WHAT IS THIS TASTER?
This free 60 minute session is a warm, live introduction to the art and practice of Focusing — developed by philosopher and psychotherapist Eugene Gendlin. You'll receive a taste of embodied awareness practice, a brief guided Focusing exploration, and a chance to discover how our five-module BFA-accredited course can support your personal growth, healing, or professional development.
No experience necessary!
IN THIS SESSION YOU WILL EXPERIENCE:
- · A brief guided Focusing practice — meeting your felt sense
- · An introduction to Embodied Relational Presence (ERP)
- · A flavour of the community warmth and facilitation style
- · An overview of all five modules and the pathway to BFA certification
- · Space for questions and connection
FLEXIBLE START AND SEQUENCE: HOP ON TO ANY DOORWAY TO START
Begin your journey with any of the following five doorway - levels. You are free to join at any doorway and progress through the others in any sequence that suits you.
THE FIVE DOORWAYS AT A GLANCE
You can enter the course at any doorway and complete the others in any order. Each doorway level is a complete, stand-alone experience. Completing all five fulfils the full BFA Focusing Basic Skills Certification.
Two Doorway courses run in parallel, each moving through five levels (Doorway 1–5). Because both tracks are live at once, the published dates are chosen to show a spread across all five Doorways, rather than repeating the same Doorway twice.
DOORWAY 1 — Focusing Foundation for Healing and Intuition
Starts: 26 October 2026 (Lunchtime sessions 12 - 1.30)
Enhanced embodied awareness · Grounding for wholeness and safety · Companioning and Noticing · Community connection and trust
DOORWAY 2 — Safe Inner Space with the Felt-Sense Relationship
Starts: 18 January 2027
The magic of the felt sense · Creating inner space for relationship · Ways of beginning a Focusing session · Clearing a space · Becoming a true companion
NEXT UP
DOORWAY 3 — The Magic of Embodied Relational Presence
Starts: 22 September 2026
Gifts of the body in Focusing · Embodied aliveness as a gateway to the Bigger Space · Gestures, posture and movement · The body's resonance with nature
DOORWAY 4 — Intuitive and Creative Living
Starts: 24 November 2026
Self-guiding skills and phrases · Play and lightness in Focusing · Creativity and open possibility · The gift of not-knowing
DOORWAY 5 — Healing and Abundance
Starts: 09 February 2027
Exploring the meaning of healing · Levels of healing: physical, emotional and spiritual · What does freedom mean? · Resting in the limitless
WHAT YOU WILL GAIN ACROSS THE FULL COURSE
- · Develop unshakeable Embodied Relational Presence
- · Access your body's innate wisdom for self-discovery and healing
- · Sharpen your intuition beyond conventional understanding
- · Compassionately meet and respond to your inner critic
- · Develop empathic, sensitive listening — for yourself and others
- · Connect more meaningfully with nature, community and creative life
- · Apply Gendlin's teachings in personal and professional life
WHAT PARTICIPANTS SAY
'I highly recommend this online foundation course on Focusing... such a magnificent year of journeying with other companions. Focusing gives you a quality of connecting and resonating with one another that is beyond friendship.'
— Marta Fabregat, BFA Focusing Teacher
'I have found Focusing with Simon to be a deeply rewarding path to connecting with my emotional life. So many issues held inside me in a state of stuckness. Focusing has allowed me to release them and has brought lightness and joy to my being.'
— Andy Philpot
'I have been doing this training over 3 modules now and it is wonderful — an absolute gem of a course and trainer. Highly, highly recommended!'
— Carolyn Jane Davies, NVC Certified Trainer
COST
Each module: £175 (over 8 weeks)
Early Bird — all 5 modules: £775 (save £100 on the full price of £875)
To secure the early bird rate, email simon@living-presence.co.uk
Bursaries available — please contact Simon directly to explore options.
YOUR FACILITATOR — SIMON McKIBBIN
Simon is a CNVC Certified NVC Trainer, BFA Certified Focusing Teacher, and Breathworks Mindfulness Teacher with over 34 years of contemplative practice. He was Associate Mindfulness Teacher at the University of Cambridge (2017–2023), Guest Lecturer at the Møller Institute, and is a Triratna Buddhist Order member and Samaritans volunteer. His integrated methodology — Embodied Relational Presence — weaves Mindfulness, Nonviolent Communication, and Focusing into a living practice for personal and planetary transformation.
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.
07974 817393
All dates subject to adjustment. Bursaries available — just ask.
Future Tasters... put in your diary and Zoom link
Wednesday 14 October 2026 for Doorway level 1: Foundation for Healing and Creativity
Thursday 12 Nov 2026 for Doorway level 4: Intuitive and Creative Living
Wednesday 6 January for Doorway level 2: Safe Inner Space and Felt Sense
Thursday 28 January for Doorway Level 5: Healing and Abundance
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