Focusing Plus is a specific style of Focusing developed by the German-Swiss Focusing Network FN for exploring and processing structure-bound patterns
Focusing Plus draws on a variety of modalities and incorporates energetic bodywork and person-centred body psychotherapy approaches
Focusing Plus is rooted in the work of the early pioneers of the Focusing Network FN, formerly the International Focusing Network IFN, which was founded by Eugene Gendlin in 1980 and had a German spreaking branch in Munich. Focusing Coordinators from Germany, Switzerland and Austria published their Focusing Journal as early as 1981. Their ideas and practices have been extended and revised multiple times through various collaboration arrangements, and from 1988 on through collaboration with the GFK Institute for Person-centered Psychotherapy, Body Therapy and Focusing Zurich CH
Publications by IFN and GFK founder Ernst Juchli, GFK co-founder Christiane Geiser, Hans-Ulrich Schlünder (FN) and other FN/GFK co-writers have been produced continuously since the early days. Their articles, essays and creative writing projects resulted in two books, which were published by the GFK Institute Zurich and the Swiss Association for Psychotherapy SGfK in 2017
Focusing Plus is rooted in 45 years of European Focusing tradition. It is the essential training guideline for the Focusing that we have been practicing and teaching since 1994
