Focusing Plus is a specific Focusing style of the German-Swiss Focusing Network FN, developed and designed for to explore and process structure-bound patterns
Focusing Plus uses the range of all modalities and implies energetic body work and person-centered body psychotherapy approaches
Focusing Plus is rooted in the work of early pioneers of the Focusing Network FN, formerly International Focusing Network IFN founded by Gendlin in 1980 with a German spreaking IFN 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 in different collaboration arrangements, and from 1988 on in collaboration with the GFK Institute for Person-centered Psychotherapy, Body Therapy and Focusing Zurich CH
Publications of the IFN and GFK founder Ernst Juchli, GFK co-founder Christiane Geiser, Hans-Ulrich Schlünder (FN) and other FN/GFK co-writers continued from the early days till today. Their articles, essays and creative writing projects resulted in two books published by the GFK Institute Zurich and the Swiss Association for Psychotherapy SGfK in 2017
Focusing Plus is embedded in more than 40 years of European Focusing tradition. It is the esssential training guideline for the Focusing we practice and teach since 1994
