Proactive Mindfulness

This page features a series of short videos illustrating various kinds of listening and empathy, including Focusing.

Donna Varnau talks about the Practice of Embodied Presence, guidelines for connecting directly with the personal and sacred wisdom of your body.

This conversation with Manju (Peter Gill) is about his experience of what happens when he takes time to pause and notice how it feels to be in the world. This conversation is available as a video, as well as audio only.

Audio only:

Manju (Peter Gill) is one of the UK’s foremost Focusing trainers – teaching since 2004, and leading retreats, workshops and classes for more than twenty years. He is qualified with the British Focusing Association and the Focusing Institute in New York to teach Focusing to individuals, groups. He also offers teacher training. He is also qualified in Somatic Experiencing (SE), a related practice involving a short-term, body-based approach to healing and easing the effects of trauma. Currently he is exploring how Focusing can be used as a way of meeting the challenges of the these turbulent and pivotal times in the world. See website.

See also Manju’s video on this topic.

Published February 2017