Circle Holding

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

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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.

    • You can order our book Circle Holding: A Practical Guide to Facilitating Talking Circles on Amazon (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Circle-Holding-Practical-Facilitating-Talking/dp/1805013157/)

    To learn more about facilitating circles you can join one of our trainings:

    https://www.circleholding.org

    Tessa's trainings can also be found at

    [https://www.tessavenutisanderson.co.uk/circles/circle-training]
    IG @tessa.venuti.sanderson

    We love to hear from circle facilitators and circle goers so please email us at [email protected]

    Thank you to Fabio Venuti for the music composition.

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