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this event is postponed- current date is just a placeholder for now. let us know if you want to sign upFocusing and the Felt Sense of Relating with Frank Bock and Åsa Opperdoes
This weekend workshop introduces Focusing, a practice developed by Eugene Gendlin, that helps you access the body’s implicit knowing — the felt sense.
Instead of relying on analysis, concepts or client stories, Focusing invites a different kind of attention: one that is slower, more precise, and grounded in lived experience.
🌿 Why this matters
Whether you work with people, bodies or processes, this approach can deepen your ability to:
* stay with what is not yet fully formed
* listen beyond words and interpretations
* support change from within the person’s own experiencing
It is also a powerful practice for your own self-care and inner orientation.
Focusing forms a foundation for many somatic approaches, including Somatic Experiencing (SE).
This weekend workshop offers a grounded and experiential introduction to Focusing as developed by Eugene Gendlin.
Åsa-Maja Opperdoes will offer an additional dimension to the practice of Focusing by integrating nature as an active and supportive part of the process. Through direct contact with the natural world, participants are invited to deepen their inner listening, presence, and embodied awareness.
🧘 What to expect
* A practical, experiential introduction to Focusing
* Learning to sense and stay with the felt sense
* Practicing listening to others in a Focusing-oriented way
* Working in pairs and small groups
* A respectful, informal and gently paced space
No previous experience is needed.
👤 About the facilitators
Frank Bock originally trained as a dancer and later in Existential Psychotherapy in the UK over 20 years ago. Now based in Stockholm he has been working with Somatic Experiencing ( SEP) as a therapist and as well as a supervisor.
He has taught for the past ten years at SKH Stockholm,now working there as a researcher. He is a certifying coordinator with The International Focusing Institute.
He began studying the ‘felt sense’ and the practice of Focusing in 2008 which underpins all the areas of his work.
Åsa-Maja Opperdoes holds a background in environmental science and ecopsychology, with a professional focus on health promotion through relational and nature-based approaches.
Her work is grounded in ecopsychological theory, emphasizing the interdependence between human well-being and the more-than-human world. She applies ecopsychology and the method of Focusing to support embodied awareness, relational processes, and a sense of ecological belonging.
📍 Practical details
📅 25–26 July
🕘 Sat 10:00–17:30 | Sun 10:00–15:00
📍 Nya Hälsans Hus, Lund
💰 3000 SEK
(Some reduced/sliding scale places available)
👥 Max 20 participants
🌐 Language: English (Scandinavian languages possible in pair work)
✍️ Registration
Sign up via Google Form: https://forms.gle/DXkVkbeepdz3hnNV8
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Östra Mårtensgatan 15, SE-223 61 Lund, Sverige, Östra Mårtensgatan 15, SE-223 61 Lund, Sverige, Lund, Sweden
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