Learn to focus

Are you wanting to resolve what's in the way of your own growth and the life you know is possible?

You CAN be the one in charge of your change process… and your change process can build on your own resources, helping you to be stronger, calmer and have a more creative life.

Wouldn't it be great to have a respectful, body-based process for change that really works, that YOU can learn, that YOU can have with you every day of your life, for yourself, for family and friends?

You can.

Focusing is a powerful and natural process for positive life change.

We’ve been offering Focusing training programs since 2008. These programs were created to help people who felt stuck in their lives, who are struggling with procrastination and finding it hard to move forward. Our courses offer support for people who are sinking under low self-esteem and severe inner criticism, having a hard time feeling grounded and making confident decisions, and most of all longing to live the fulfilling lives they know they could live but never quite getting there.

I have seen hundreds of people's lives improved by taking these courses including my own. 

The Focusing Foundational Training Program is designed to give you Focusing for the rest of your life and consists of two courses:

• Foundation One

• Foundation Two

What will you receive from taking the Focusing Training Program? 

• An easy, step-by-step method for exploring any problem or stuck situation and finding relief, insight, and new steps of action, so you feel bigger than your problems and in control of your life

• A revolutionary way to access your body's wisdom – so you can get in touch with rich information about your life and your life's direction that you already know without knowing you know

• A simple but powerful listening process that lets you be supportive of other people – and yourself – in ways that are literally the opposite of interfering and giving advice, so your relationships open up

• Skills to grow your Self Compassion

• A structured plan for moving forward and taking the lessons beyond the course into your daily life so you feel empowered to take your life into the areas you've always wished for yourself

• A process that you can use with any problem or issue, now or in the future, for the rest of your life

• Practice in cultivating Self-in-Presence, the ability to be compassionately larger than your difficult emotions

• More ways to help your Focusing partners be Self-in-Presence

• A supported process for coming into body awareness at the start of the session, called ‘Leading In’, that you can give to and receive from your Focusing partner

• More about the ‘edge’, that place where what is unclear becomes clear, and how that is the key to transformation

• Support in getting the most out of your Focusing process, especially in places where you know it could go further but it isn’t

• ‘Advanced listening’ skills for helping your partner get a felt sense when starting with an issue, for helping your partner stay with the present moment, and much more.

Plus:

• Supported practice with partners

• Exercises and handouts

• Opportunities for questions and discussion.

What the class actually includes:

• 1 x introductory Focusing Session (which takes place before the course commences)

• 9 x two-and-a-half-hour meetings for a total of 22.5 hours of class time

• Your own copy of The Focusing Student's and Companion's Manual

• Unique exercise cards for every paired class exercise so you know exactly what to do to make the exercises most effective for yourself and your partner

• Up to one hour of Focusing partnership, in between class meetings each week, to further develop your Focusing skills

• Email and/or phone support from the teacher and the class assistants if you have questions between the class meetings or need extra help.

WHO
For anyone wanting to feel more Self Compassion, Self Worth, Self Care and anyone wanting Deep Clarity and Peace.

Also for Healing professionals who would like to develop new skills to work with their clients.

WHAT 
Profound high end life skills, change based on compassion, self-acceptance and being present in the moment.

Guided by and held by skilled teachers with many years of experience in a nurturing space.  

WHERE
Online live, join us from anywhere in the world.

WHEN
Focusing Foundations Part One and Part Two meet for 2-2.5 hours a week over 10 weeks.

There is a practice week with no class usually at week 6. This is an opportunity to integrate and explore the techniques.

HOW 
We use Zoom to connect the group. You can call in using a computer, tablet or phone.

You will receive class materials before the course begins. 

WHY  
Because everyone deserves to feel deeply connected to their resources and to have the opportunity to feel truly alive and connected to life’s possibilities.

If you are looking for help with one specific problem you may find one-to-one sessions initially could be a better first step for you.