Embodied Listening: Using Focusing as a Technique in Circle with Marta Fabregat

Show notes

For the video interview and transcript, go to https://www.circleholding.org/podcast-episode-19

In this interview with Marta Fabregat (https://martafabregat.com/), we covered:

How the practice of Focusing works
Focusing is listening from the body, but can’t separate the experience from the environment
Focusing is about the art of living rather than a method or technique
Marta and Tessa both share a short focusing practice
Focusing creates a pause and stillness through being more fully present and honouring your experience
With practice, it becomes natural to keep company with what’s happening internally all the time
Marta shares an analogy of gardening and rewilding: the former is the way we’re conditioned to communicate and be with our experience through different lenses compared to there being no imposition, judgement or belief
For ‘true’ connection to happen we need non-interventional, non-judgemental company
Through this practice with the body, this is not ‘spacey’ but very much grounded
Your own experience of a moment, of a situation makes it a totally new thing just as a poet will experience their own poem newly some time later
As a facilitator, keeping company to what comes in a group situation is crucial, ideally with a beginner’s mind without psychotherapeutic training or whatever your background may be.

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Thank you to Fabio Venuti for the music composition.