EFA-Gatherings past
A Fiesta of Focusing, let’s share…
SEPTEMBER 2025 – from Wednesday, 17th to Sunday, 21st
In 2025 the EFA gathering took place in the beautiful retreat center Koningsteen in Kapelle-op-den-Bos in Belgium.
WHAT HAPPENS AT THE GATHERING?
During this gathering, we followed the structure, which was much appreciated over the past years.
– A variety of happenings throughout the day, offered by those excited to share something
– Daily meetings with the whole group
– Daily Focusing Partnerships
– Home Groups
We co-created the program during the first couple of hours of our gathering. As the program was not planned in advance, there was plenty of time and space for participants to share what felt alive for them and offer workshops and groups on specific topics. Ideas were brought along or emerged spontaneously as we came together.
Happenings 2025
- Pausing: interest group or conversation around different things that can occur / can be done when pausing – Bie
- Listening in 3 directions (non-verbal): presentation of client and discussion – Harriet
- Experiencing authentic movement: workshop crossing Authentic Movement with Focusing – how do Focusers do this? – Heidrun
- Holding & letting: using Gendlin’s process model chapter 8; ‘how to’ – Robert Lee
- Deepen your spiritual connection: workshop using Thinking at the Edge – Fiona
- Silence – felt sense – spiritual awareness: a quaker-like exploration – Barbara
- Inner movement: experiential workshop, embodied movement from the inside out – Adam
- Living our questions; planting Focusing seeds in Ukraine: exploration and sharing – Gosia
- Rest is resistance: (non) activity – Joke
- Climate, environmental – how do I experience it?: interest group to share experiencing – Teresa
- ‘There is always someone in’: workshop development and feedback using Focusing, Qi Gong – Regina
- What happens when your breath guides your Focusing process?: exploration – Saren
- Felt sensitive ways towards an increasingly uncomfortable future (climate change): workshop – Peter
- Experiencing Thinking at the Edge playfully: experiential workshop and Q&A – Evelyn
- A taste of Home Focusing: workshop around communicating with non-Focusers in a Focusing way – Annat
- Trauma resilience: workshop around trauma prevention elements in Wholebody Focusing – Astrid
- Process-oriented practices inspire each other: presentation, Feldenkrais experiential, sharing – Amona
- Leading a Focusing listening to children’s books: playful experience of listening, looking, reading – Joke
- Keeping a space when under threat: workshop around physical threat and keeping space, using martial art inspired techniques – Mathias
- Rest – nap – doing nothing together – Joke
- Deep listening and Focusing, letting music happen: workshop using sound and music – Joachim and Machiel
FEEDBACK FROM PARTICIPANTS
To be updated soon…
