FREE Nourishing Focusing Taster
FREE Nourishing Focusing Taster
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FREE NOURISHING FOCUSING TASTER SESSION
Focusing for Healing, Intuition & Creative Living
BFA-Accredited Course · All Five Modules
Online via Zoom · 7:00 – 8:15 pm (1 hr 15 mins)
Free Tasters on:
Wednesday 17 June 2026
Thursday 16 July 2026
Wednesday 9 Sept 2026
Wednesday 14 October 2026
Thursday 12 Nov 2026
WHAT IS THIS TASTER?
This free 75-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 MODULE TO START
Begin your journey with any of the following five modules. You are free to join at any module and progress through the others in any sequence that suits you.
THE FIVE MODULES AT A GLANCE
You can enter the course at any module and complete the others in any order. Each module is a complete, stand-alone experience. Completing all five fulfils the full BFA Focusing Basic Skills Certification.
MODULE 1 — Focusing Foundation for Healing and Intuition
Starts: 26 October 2026
Enhanced embodied awareness · Grounding for wholeness and safety · Companioning and Noticing · Community connection and trust
NEXT UP .........
MODULE 2 — Safe Inner Space with the Felt-Sense Relationship
Starts: 23 June 2026
The magic of the felt sense · Creating inner space for relationship · Ways of beginning a Focusing session · Clearing a space · Becoming a true companion
MODULE 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
MODULE 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
MODULE 5 — Healing and Abundance
Starts: 27 July 2026
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.
More about Simon: living-presence.co.uk
07974 817393
All dates subject to adjustment. Bursaries available — just ask.