Live and lead from the inside out

New start date: 14th Feb 2026

A ten-week course for women in their 50s and beyond who want to live with more clarity, presence, and self-connection. You’ll build solid Focusing skills while exploring the depth, insight, and power that come with later life.

This course blends Levels 1 and 2 of the British Focusing Association skills framework with grounded enquiry, partnership practice, and group discussion. It’s for women who know they’re entering a new chapter and want to navigate it with steadiness and self-respect.

Over 8 live classes, we work with four facets of self that shape how you move through the world.

Not as theory, but as lived experience you can feel, trust, and act from.

What you’ll learn

This is an beginners course, introducing Focusing as a way of exploring this stage of life. Bringing in levels 1 and 2 of the BFA Focusing skills, we'll cover:

• Felt sensing and how to access information the thinking mind can’t reach
• Self-appreciation and the Focusing Attitude
• Ways of resourcing yourself, grounding, and being present
• Staying with inner experience long enough for it to clarify
• 3 types of listening - appreciative listening, reflective listening, and relational listening
• Working with protective parts (critics, saboteurs, the over-responsible one) without collapsing into them

Each week includes teaching, guided practice, partnership work, and structured reflection so the skills land in your day to day life rather than disappearing once you log off.

The four facets of self we explore

We work across four specific areas that matter for older women:

Value, skills, and lived experience
Claiming the depth you actually carry rather than the narrower version the world recognises.

Body as resource
Shifting from managing or judging your body to using it as a reliable guide and ally - the heart of Focusing

Shadow selves
Meeting the parts you usually edit out and discovering the intelligence they hold, using an Inner Relationship Focusing approach to working with parts.

Difficult archetypes
Engaging with ancestral patterns like the Crone, Witch, Hag, and Harpy as sources of clarity and authority rather than stereotypes, via felt-sensing

These four lenses give you a broader and more honest picture of yourself, which naturally strengthens self leadership.

Is This for You?

• You’d like to deepen your personal practice of self-understanding and self-appreciation, in the company of others doing the same
• You want to live more from your true and authentic self as you get older
• You’re an older woman who wants to relate to herself with more understanding
• You recognise that we swim in an eco-system which tries to keep us from self-compassion, never mind self-appreciation, and you want ways to counter that
• You’ve done personal development, but want something more embodied
• You already know you'd like to learn Focusing or develop your partnership practice and the topics speak to you
• You love the idea of appreciating your "elder-woman-ness" - and are excited about finding a space that talks openly about it

This course is designed for those at beginner or refresher level of focusing experience

Please note this is a small group experience with a maximum of 8 participants.

Contact me for the recording of the 1 hour preview class.