Guided Focusing Sessions
(Discover Focusing: a life superpower that can help you thrive through all of life’s changes and choices…
…through Guided Focusing sessions and courses in felt-sensing.)
Longing to feel more at home with yourself?
Many of us spend our lives adrift from our inner wisdom, feeling ungrounded or at the mercy of other’s opinions and ideas.
Instead of following others’ stories about you, and their instructions on how to live and work, there is another way…
You have within you a deep source of wisdom and guidance that can help you:
- feel more in touch with yourself
- gain a sense of purpose
- think creatively about your difficult feelings and concerns without them overwhelming you
- connect more robustly and authentically to others
- make more wholehearted decisions about your work and career
And there’s a simple, structured method for accessing it: “Focusing”, sometimes called “Felt Sensing”. You can learn this in several different ways. A great way to start is by experiencing Focusing with a guided focusing session.
What is Focusing?
Focusing, or “Felt Sensing”, is a simple process of holding a special kind of non-judgemental attention to something that is felt inside. It is gentle, structured, body based, and helps you access inner wisdom and resources.
It’s a way to:
- gain insight about who you are and what you want
- understand and shift blocks to taking action
- unleash creativity and engage “out-of-the-box” thinking
- better understand why you might feel triggered by particular situations or people (and know what to do about that)
- be more present at work and at home
- resolve inner tension and conflicting feelings
- have a useful “first-aid” tool in difficult situations e.g. feeling overwhelmed or hijacked by strong feelings.
As a technique for handling strong, or difficult feelings, without losing connection to your authenticity, it’s particularly useful in the troubled times in which we live today.
The basics of Focusing can be learned quite quickly. Like any worthwhile practice, it can take much longer to master and integrate into your life.
Focusing can be used as a self-help technique, or practiced in a partnership with another Focuser. Many people also like to have regular guided focusing sessions with a trained practitioner, like me.
Who Is Focusing For?
Focusing is for anyone and everyone. Now, I know what you’re thinking. That sounds both too general, and too good to be true.
However, Focusing is a natural human process. It’s listening to yourself in a way that enables you to live more fully and freely.
Therefore it can help those who feel stuck, blocked, disconnected, or in need of healing. It can also help those who want to expand their thinking, change patterns of behaviour, experiment with mindfulness and self-awareness, and be more creative.
You can use Focusing to think about your career, your relationships, your retirement, or meaningful work. You could use it to deepen your ability to be present for your clients, to be a better parent, to be more creative or confident, or to make big, or small life changes.
Guided Focusing Sessions
Want to try Focusing? Why not have a guided Focusing session?
I offer them for new or existing “Focusers” who want a session held and guided by a trained practitioner.
What happens in a guided Focusing session?
This is partly dependent on how new to focusing you are.
- In a guided session with someone who is already somewhat familiar (or very familiar) with Focusing we’d normally spend a short time at the beginning talking about what kind of session they’d like, what kind of guiding they prefer, and also what topic they’d like to work with.
- For a new person, we’d spend a little more time talking about the topic, and I’ll explain what the process will look like. There will be time at the end to ask questions, but you are welcome to ask questions at any point.
- In both cases there’ll be 5-10 minutes at the end for feedback (if desired).
Although the Focusing session will be guided by me, the session is very definitely yours and you are of course free to dip in and out of the Focusing process during the session. You’re more than welcome to make notes about what comes to you during the session as we go along.
How to book a guided Focusing session
Guided sessions normally take place over Zoom, but can be via telephone if you’d prefer. If you’re local to me in Central Scotland, in person sessions are sometimes available. Please ask for details.
Guided Focusing sessions cost £55 and last about an hour. To book, click the button below. You’ll be taken to my calendar where you can pick a time that works for you. I’ll then be in touch to arrange payment.
Alternatively, you can get in touch here to discuss guided Focusing sessions and what you might be looking for from them.
Interested in learning Focusing (felt-sensing) beyond having a guided session?
Guided Focusing sessions can be a way to learn Focusing because you’re guided through the steps. However, I also offer some introductory courses where we’ll not only do guided practice, but you’ll also go through the steps and skills involved in a more structured way.
There are currently two options for learning Focusing/Felt-Sensing. (see below) Both are one-to-one. A small group programme is coming towards the end of 2022.
Because it’s an engine for personal change, I also use Focusing principles in all of my coaching programmes and incorporate a felt sense orientation into my coaching.
Be True to You
Understand yourself and what you really want in your career with felt sensing
Finding your true self isn’t a one time thing. It’s a continuous and repeating process of connecting with, and listening to, your authentic inner wisdom and guidance systems. And of stepping into your truth in any situation.
But this is made more difficult by distracting outer voices. And inner critics can get in the way and make it uncomfortable to go inside at all.
Learn a more reliable process for accessing your embodied wisdom whenever you need it. Be authentic and true to yourself.
Find Your Poise
Befriend yourself in troubled times. Access your inner wisdom.
Career change can create a lot of stress, especially when it’s due to redundancy. And we all know we need to take better care of our mental health in order to perform better and be more present at work.
Discover a body-based, proven process for accessing inner calm, and feeling more grounded, and more resourced
If you’ve any questions or want to make an enquiry, get in touch through my contact page. I’ll get straight back to you.
I’ve written more information about Focusing here….
Or visit the International Focusing Institute’s website. This contains a great deal of information about Gendlin’s work on Focusing, the Philosophy of the Implicit, and Thinking at the Edge. Find it here…