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.