Psychosocial Support and Community Wellness

by Iqra Sohail, Sema Çiçekli, Jess Griths, Oleksandr Bazhenov, Jérôme Desquilbet (Oct. 2025) DiscomfortIf you attend a Focusing training course, you can expect to practice in pairs or groups of three. If the course is taught in English and has an international audience, English will […]

Ascencion’s reflections highlight what many students discover: Community Wellness Focusing is not simply a method to learn but a way of being that reshapes how we listen and accompany others.

The walled city of Multan, Pakistan,  is a warren of narrow streets where the rays of sun seldom reach. Yes, before 1947, when the city was inhabited by the Sikh and Hindu business community, it was thriving with merchants, shops and more spacious family homes. […]

An Interview with Anna Willman, in conversation with Dana Hercbergs I met Anna in 2021 through the Focusing community and occasionally attended her weekly Saturday Listening Space, an online peer support group.  Her facilitation style melds her own grounded attention with her wonderful sense of […]

Each of us lives in community. Our family is our first one. In Focusing, we learn to create a space of radical acceptance for our inner community. FII is now offering a series of bi-monthly gatherings “Creating Space for Community”, to explore concepts around inner/outer community […]

We have learned a lot about fear these past few years.  It’s a very powerful reaction that comes from many different directions and in many forms. The pandemic, storms, droughts, climate change, political unrest, wars… Of course we are justified in being afraid. Fear is […]