Focusing for Counsellors and Psychotherapists (online)
Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th May 2025
10.00 am – 1.00 pm each day
Many counsellors and psychotherapists learn something about Focusing in their training but may not feel they know enough to bring it into their
work.This short online course will teach you the basic elements of Focusing, both as a resource for the practitioner and as a way of helping clients access their own embodied experience. The course will look at ways in which counsellors and psychotherapists can incorporate Focusing into their work, or incorporate it more fully.
Bringing a Focusing awareness into client sessions can help the process to deepen and become more embodied. To use Focusing effectively you need first of all to become familiar with it for yourself. The course will be mainly experiential, but there will be some theoretical discussion and reflection on client work. In the first morning we will Focus in dyads or triads. The second morning will look more at work with clients. The course is open to all practising counsellors/ psychotherapists and to those who are about to start practising,.
Cost: £75. Concessionary rate: £50. If you would like to attend but can’t afford the concessionary rate, please contact me. For bookings or more information, please also contact me.
Focusing Skills Course Online
Module 1 – Introducing Focusing
Saturday 21st, Sunday 22nd, Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th June 2025
10.00 am – 1.00 pm each day
This online workshop will introduce you to the basic elements of Focusing: sensing into the body, making friendly contact with feelings and sensations, letting them describe themselves and sensing for what more is there. It will also introduce you to what it means to be a Focusing companion and listen to someone who is Focusing. It will give you a chance to try out the process for yourself and seewhat Focusing has to offer. It is first module of a five-module Focusing Skills Certificate course NB The Focusing Skills Certificate course is not a professional training, bu it is a requirement if you wish to train as a Focusing professional.
Module 2 – Exploring Focusing
Saturday 19th, Sunday 20th, Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th July 2025
10.00 am - 1.00 pm each day
This online workshop is the second module of the five-module Focusing Skills course. In it we will continue to practise Focusing ourselves and will also explore and practise more the skills of being a Focusing companion. There willl be plenty of practice in pairs or threes and opportunities forquestions, discussion and group exercises. If you would like to join this module and have not done Module 1 with me or another teacher, I would recommend that you book at least one individual session with me beforehand.
Module 3 – Going deeper
Saturday 20th, Sunday 21st, Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th September 2025
10.00am - 1.00 pm each day
In this online workshop, the third of five modules of a Focusing Skills Certificate course, we will look more deeply into the processes of Focusing and being a companion, refining and building on the skills you have learnt in the first two modules. We will also beginto look at the times when the companion may take a slightly more active role, led by the Focuser's process, and make suggestions that can help the process forward. However, the companion's primary role is still to listen and reflect, and you will have plenty of time to practise this.
The workshop will run over four mornings, Saturday 20th, Sunday 21st, Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th September, 10.00-1.00 each morning. The cost is £130, concessionary rate £90. If you would like to attend but are unable to pay the concessionary rate, please contact me. Please also contact me if you would like to book an individual session or sessions.
Module 4 – Parts and 'somethings': befriending our critics
Saturday 18th, Sunday 19th, Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th October 2025
10.00 am - 1.00 pm each day
In this online workshop, the fourth module of five for the Focusing Skills Certificate, we will look more closely at the different 'parts', or 'partial-selves' that we often meet when we are Focusing, especially the dynamic of what's often called the 'inner critic' and its relationship to other parts of us. You will discover how to meet these dynamics with more space and kindness, both when you are Focusing yourself and when you are companion to another Focuser, and you will see how they are often not quite what we take them to be. In doing this you will continue to build on the skills you have already learnt as a Focuser and as a companion.
The worksohp will take place over four mornings from 10.00 am – 1.00 pm, on Saturday 18th, Sunday 19th, Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th October, 10.00 am -1.00 pm each morning. The cost is £130 for the four mornings, concessionary rate £90. If you would like to attend but are unable to pay the concessionary rate, please contact me. Do also contact me if you would like to book an individual session.
In this fifth and last module of the Focusing Skills Certificate course we will look further at untangling difficult inner dynamics and also look at ways of bringing Focusing into our lives. There will be time for questions and discussion about the course as a whole and for sensing ways of taking the learning forward.
The workshop will take place over four mornings from 10.00 am – 1.00 pm, on Saturday 15th, Sunday 16th, Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd November. The cost is £130 for the four mornings, concessionary rate £90. If you would like to attend but are unable to pay the concessionary rate, please contact me.
Ashburton
Devon