Focusing for Counsellors and Psychotherapists
5th and 6th October 2024
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 those 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 Certificate course online
Module 1 – Introducing Focusing 21st, 22nd, 28th and 29th Sdptember 2024
Module 2 – Exploring Focusing 19th, 20th, 26th and 27th October 2024
In this online workshop, the second of a five-module Focusing Skills certificate course, we will explore further both the Focusing process and what it means to be a companion to another Focuser. The emphasis will be on learning through practice but there will be plenty of time for questions and discussion. This module follows on from the previous one, Introducing Focusing. If you have not attended Module 1 but would like to join this module, I would suggest you book one or more individual catch-up sessions with me.
The workshop will take place over four mornings, Saturday 19th October 2024, Sunday 20th October, Saturday 26th October and Sunday 27th October, 10.00-1.00 each day. The cost will be £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 to book an individual session or sessions.
Module 3 – Going deeper 16th, 17th, 23rd and 24th November 2024
In this online workshop, the third of the five modules of the Focusing Skills Certificate course, we shall 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 begin to 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 16th November 2024, Sunday 17th November, Saturday 23rd November and Sunday 24th November, 10.00-1.00 each morning. The cost will be £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.
Focusing practice session 7th December 2024
Module 3 of the Focusing Skills course will take place at the end of November and Module 4 in early January. As this is a longish gap, I'm offering an optional practice session on 7th December. Most of the time will be devoted to Focusing in pairs and in group exercises, but there will be an opportunity for questions and discussion. This practice session is also open to people who are doing or have done Focusing Skills courses with other teachers.
The session will run from 10.00-1.00 on Saturday 7th December. The cost will be £40, concessionary rate £30. If you would like to take part but can't pay the concessionary rate, please contact me.
Module 4 – Parts and 'somethings': befriending our critics 11th, 12th, 19th and 20th January 2025
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 course will take place over four mornings from 10.00 am – 1.00 pm, on Saturday 11th January 2025, Sunday 12th January, Saturday 18th January and Sunday 19th January. 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 course will take place over four mornings from 10.00 am – 1.00 pm, on Saturday 8th February 2025, Sunday 9th February, Saturday 15th February and Sunday 16th February. 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