Focusing

About Focusing

Focusing is a gentle yet transformative approach to listening to ourselves and others. Asking the question, ‘What wants my attention right now?’ we invite an open space within us. In this space, our deeper impulses come more fully into our awareness and begin to find a voice. As we learn Focusing, we discover how to respond to this space creatively, and how to enable fresh directions to open up with the issues and people that concern us, and in our lives in general.

Finding our Felt-sense

The felt-sense is like our inner compass. it gives us a tangible, felt- experience of what we need to move forward in any particular moment or situation. it is freshly experienced and unique to us and our situation.

Who learns Focusing?

While used by many councillors and therapists, focusing is also learned and practiced by non-professionals world-wide. it provides a safe and confdential environment to explore our inner worlds, and to experience the felt-shifts within us. focusing is supported by a long series of operational research studies conducted frst at the University of Chicago and now internationally (see www. focusing.org).

What are the benefits of Focusing?

• Healing past rifts, pain and depression;
• Moving beyond blocks;
• Making clearer choices;
• Fostering self-respect and inner confidence;
• Better relationships with others;
• Increasing health andhappiness;
• Improving sleep;
• Benefitting from dreams.

Focusing with Nonviolent Communication

Life at Work is one of the few leading-edge experts in the world able to offer a fresh and unique combination of these two globally recognised approaches. Currently the only trainer internationally certified in both approaches, Life at Work’s founder and consultant Elizabeth English, is able to provide fresh insights into both disciplines through her practice and integration of the two methods.

Focusing is also taught as an aspect of our courses in Nonviolent Comnunication

Focusing and Sleep

We have a unique and profound approach to helping people to regain sleep based on Focusing. For more information, see our page on Sleep and Insomnia.

Benefits

As this approach is practiced, typically reported benefits are:

• Sleep comes almost instantly most nights;
• If sleep comes more slowly, we still feell refreshed in the morning;
• Lucid dreaming;
• Feeling of vitality and refreshment in the morning.

Focusing in Meditation

What insights does our felt-experience hold for our meditation and spiritual practice? How is Focusing different to meditation? How can the insights of the felt-sense enrich and deepen our meditation, as well as our daily lives? Combining over twenty-five years’ of daily meditation experience with expertise in Focusing, we offer you coaching, courses and retreats, to suit your own practice.

Public Courses

At present, no public courses are running. We apologise for any disappointment at this stage. Please check again, or contact Life at Work for future events. Also, see our links page.