A 60-hour experiential training spread over five modules, designed to deepen and expand Focusing skills, somatic sensitivity, and their practical applications.
The training blends in-person weekend workshops with online Zoom seminars, offering a rich mix of Focusing theory, experiential inquiries, somatic meditations and pair and group exercises.
What You Will Learn:
- Listen with greater sensitivity and subtlety
- Engage with the inner knowing that goes beyond words
- Recognize and interpret how the body “speaks”
- Communicate in ways that facilitate deeper movement and change
- Work skillfully with blocks, inner critics, and complex inner dynamics
- Navigate life choices with more clarity and resourcefulness
- Deepen contemplative and meditative practices for greater insight
Module 1 - SOMATIC INTELLIGENCE - a way in - is a prerequisite, serving as the foundation for the journey ahead.
Session 1 - The Doors - The art of active awaiting
Session 2 - Felt Listening - How do we pay attention
Session 3 - Felt Sensing and Resonance - What do we pay attention to
Session 4 - Symbolising, Sense Making - How the body speaks
Session 5 - Mapping the Journey
Module 2 - THE ART OF LISTENING - in person - Chorleywood
As you start to walk on the way, the way appears — Rumi
Session 1 Ways in - Making space for what we don’t know yet
Session 2 Felt Listening - Attuning
Session 3 Felt Sensing - Dwelling at the edge
Session 4 Symbolising, reflecting, holding and letting
Session 5 Mapping and simplifying
Module 3 - THE ART OF GUIDING - Zoom
The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a magnificent world in itself —Henry Miller.
Session 1 Self Guiding
Session 2 Guiding into contact: acknowledging & describing
Session 3 Guiding into deepening: being with and letting It speak
Session 4 Supporting and receiving change
Session 5 Suggestions, invitations, reminders
Module 4 - WAYS THROUGH THE MAZE - In person - Chorleywood or Devon Retreat
Every bad feeling is a potential energy towrads a more right way of being if you give it space to move towards its rightnes — Gendlin
Session 1 Re - Sourced
Session 2 Tangled
Session 3 Self Empathy and Inner Critic
Session 4 Exiling and Absorbing
Session 5 Creating and Re - Storying
Module 5 - OCEAN IN THE DROP - In person - Chorleywood or Devon Retreat
Your physically-felt body is, in fact, part of a gigantic system of here and other places, now and other times, you and other people, in fact the whole universe. This sense of being bodily alive in a vast system is the body as it is felt from inside — Gendlin
Session 1 Larger Bodying
Session 2 Whole Body Focusing
Session 3 Bio Spirituality
Session 4 Styles of Focusing
Session 5 Callings and next steps
FINE - TUNING
Focusing Skills Training
This course is valuable for anyone looking to integrate Focusing into their daily life, as well as for professionals—facilitators, coaches, therapists, or leaders—who work with people in a transformative capacity.
This BFA-Accredited course also serves as a stepping stone toward Practitioner and Teacher training in Focusing
MODULE I
A Way In
MODULE I
The Art of Guiding
MODULE V
Ocean in the Drop
When & Where
Module I:
option 1) 3 Day Residential Retreat in Devon: 25th - 28th September 2025 - BOOK HERE
option 2) 5 x 2.5 Zoom calls on Tuesday 15th, 22nd, 29th July, 5th, 12th August, 6:30pm - 9pm - BOOK HERE
Module II - V:
October - March 2026 - dates to be decided with participants
Cost:
Module 1: £150 (online), £490 - £695 (residential 4 Day/3 Night Retreat in Devon)
Module 2 - 5: £690 (teaching only) + food and accomodation costs if Module 4 and 5 are held at Devon Retreat Centre
Pre requisite:
To join the Module 2 - 5 you will need to attend the Introductory workshop (Module I)
To Book Module 1 - please follow this link
To Book Module 2 - 5 please contact me on info@somatree.com
Reading recommendation:
Focusing: How To Gain Direct Access To Your Body's Knowledge - Eugene T. Gendlin
Bio Spirituality: Focusing as a way to grow - Peter A. Campbell, Edwin M. McMahon
The Power of Focusing - Ann Weiser Cornell
The Focusing Student’s and Companion Manual, Part 1 & 2 - A. Weiser Cornell & B McGavin
Focusing Skills Training is intended for all who are interested in learning how to practice and use Focusing awareness with themselves and others. The training is not therapy. It is not meant to replace any forms of treatment or therapy in which prospective participants may be engaged, and we recommend that you consult with any therapeutic practitioner you may have, prior to registering. It is an educational experience, meant to enhance personal growth and professional practice.
Following the directions for Focusing is much like paddling a canoe from some protected inlet out into the middle of a river. Once there, several things can happen, Sometimes you paddle deliberately into a current. Sometimes, the flow of the river catches you unaware, bearing you along in its grasp. Sometimes you just paddle around and go nowhere. Nothing happens. Following the instructions can only get you out into the middle of your own inner stream. Once there, you soon discover that the stream has a life and movement of its own. It does not bend to your paddling any more than your canoe can change the course of the river's flow. All you can do is go with it in case it should catch you and carry you along.The challenge involves a delicate balance between purposeful striving and then letting go of the reins. It is a matter of knowing where to be, and then being there with an attitude of patient expectation. It calls for disciplined preparation, but then allowing time and space for a deeper knowing and a process to manifest itself.
Bio Spirituality - Peter A. Campbell, Edwin M. McMahon