Sorry you missed the event

Here’s your chance to experience The Dance Within Whole Body Focusing presented by Addie van der Kooy.

Addie has generously donated these recordings to Focusing Initiatives International to help raise funds for our ongoing work.
With your donation, you’ll receive access to view and download the webinar videos and handouts from the October event—an opportunity to immerse yourself in this profound exploration of Whole Body Focusing at your own pace. Click here to purchase the videos and handouts. 

What you will experience

At the heart of Whole Body Focusing (WBF) lies a dance of two, seemingly opposing, inner movements that create a space within your whole body where Focusing can unfold naturally.

In the Embrace (or Stepping Forward), you fully allow your inner experiences to be exactly as they are. In Stepping Back, you make room for an embodied sense of “Me” (Self in Presence)—a spacious awareness that is distinct from your inner experiences.

Throughout the previous webinars, Addie van der Kooy guided participants in exploring the delicate balance between these two movements—an organic, fluid dance that helps prevent entanglement with the parts of ourselves that need attention. This practice allows those places to safely open within the aliveness of the whole body and an awareness that is both kind and curious.

Building on his International Focusing Institute Highlight taster class held in March, “The Dance Within Focusing: Embrace and Step Back,” these recorded sessions offer a deeper, more experiential exploration of Whole Body Focusing.

Addie warmly invites you to revisit this exploration through the recordings—discovering how to unconditionally accept your inner world while reconnecting to the aliveness and vastness of “You,” the deeper self that, as Eugene Gendlin once described, “can be discovered under all the packages each of us carries.”

These webinar videos are highly experiential, offering a variety of practices that help deepen your sense of Unconditional Acceptance and Stepping Back into You in Presence. The sessions also include a special focus on disentangling from negative or unhelpful thought streams—creating a protected space for what wants to grow and move forward within you.

Click here to learn purchase the videos. 

Addie van der Kooy is an International Focusing Institute Certifying Trainer and Coordinator in Wholebody Focusing (WBF). He has been working for almost 25 years with Kevin McEvenue, founder of WBF. Addie is a Dutch national who lives in the south-west of England where he has been offering 1:1 on-line WBF sessions and training for the last 12 years. He is the author of the WBF workbook “Focusing With Your Whole Body”.