Personal growth and development

The BFTA Focusing Skills Certificate Course

This course is recognised by The British Focusing Teachers' Association (BFTA)

The BFTA Focusing Skills Certificate Course is divided into 5 weekend levels. You can take the weekend courses one at a time, joining the next course when it suits you, or you can take the course as a whole. The course needs to be taken in sequential order, as each level builds on the skills previously learned, building up your own personal growth and development.

Objectives:

 Learn how to Focus with a Companion

 Learn how to be a Focusing Companion

 Learn how to become present to your experience

 Develop a base for integrating Focusing into your life

 Personal growth and development

The course is experiential, with plenty of opportunity to practice. Learning takes place through a combination of demonstrations, theoretical presentations, experiential exercises, practice periods, and question and answer sessions.

Outcomes of each level:

Level 1: The Essence of Focusing

Learn how to listen to your inner wisdom through creating a positive inner relationship with yourself. Develop the knowledge and skills to begin to practise Focusing alone, and to begin to listen to an other, so you can Focus with a companion.

By the end of Level 1, you will have a basic understanding of the Focusing process.

Level 2: Becoming Companions

Practise the listening skills that enable you to companion someone else in a Focusing partnership. Expand your Focusing skills and deepen your ability to listen to yourself encourage your personal growth and development.

By the end of Level 2, you will be able to join a peer group of Focusers, form a Focusing partnership, and attend further or advanced classes and workshops.

Level 3: Companionship

Learn how to support the Inner Relationship of the Focuser with their felt experience. Deepen your own Focusing skills.

By the end of Level 3, you will have a deeper understanding of the Focusing process, and will be able to guide yourself through the process. You will also be able to support another Focuser with your listening skills.

Level 4: Reminders

Learn how to offer reminding suggestions in a Focusing partnership. This takes you deeper into the heart of the Focusing Process, and the relationship between a Focuser and their companion.

By the end of Level 4, you will be able to offer guiding suggestions to your Focusing partner, and to extend your ability to self-guide.

Level 5: Deeper and Further

Learn more about 'presence and partiality' - developing your ability to be fully with whatever needs you attention, and the biases and no-go areas that can interfere with that. Make Focusing fully your own. Times for further practice and demonstrations. Bring your questions, and what you would like to explore.

The course is 60 guided learning hours of personal growth and development. See events diary for current course dates and venues. These workshops need to be taken in sequential order. Half price if you have taken this workshop before.

The BFTA Course are held at:

Bristol - Bristol Natural Health Service, 407 Gloucester Road, Bristol BS7 8TS

Dartmoor - 28 Oaktree Park, Sticklepath, Okehampton, EX20 2NB

Conference call - by phone or Skype. No Focusing courses near you? Then join a small group to learn Focusing by telephone or through your computer with Skype. You don't even need to leave the comfort of your own home to enjoy the richness that Focusing has to offer. Contact me for more information.

Times: 10am to 5pm, both days. Click here for dates.

Costs: £100 each weekend. Please send £50 non refundable deposit at least a month in advance. The course is half price if you have attended the same BFTA Certificate workshop previously.

£460 pay in two instalments - save £40!

£450 for the complete course - save £50!