Sensed Ecology: A Year of Listening, Belonging, and Becoming
Focusing Skills Training through the lens of Sensed Ecology
When: September 2025 – May 2026
- Wednesdays, 10:00–12:00 (Irish time)
- OR Wednesdays, 15:00–17:00 (Irish time)
Where: Online and optional in-person gatherings
Contact: Marta Fabregat - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
About
What if the part of you that longs to let go… isn’t quite ready to be let go of?
There’s something tender in that edge, the place where life wants to move, but a part of us needs more time, more space, more listening. In Sensed Ecology, we don’t push. We stay with. Gently, curiously, and with full-bodied presence. And from that quiet companionship, something new begins to emerge.
I'm delighted to open registration for the next cycle of my Sensed Ecology Focusing Skills Yearlong Programme, beginning this September 2025. This certified training weaves the experiential practice of Focusing with the embodied intelligence of the natural world, a journey of re-rooting, rewilding, and reinhabiting your place in life’s great web.
About the Journey to Sensed Ecology
My path to teaching Focusing through Sensed Ecology has grown naturally from a gentle ongoing practice and research in my life, giving me a canvas of exploration and insight: that we are not separate from the living world, we are, quite literally, plants ourselves. This insight, beautifully reflected in Eugene Gendlin’s work, invites us to expand Focusing beyond the individual body-mind to include the wider ecological body of which we are a part.
Drawing from my experience as a Plant Medicine Facilitator and Nature Steward, I began weaving the practice of Focusing with the subtle intelligence of the natural world. This approach invites a more embodied, multi-sensory way of learning, where sensing becomes a dialogue between our inner felt experience and the living ecosystems around us.
Sensed Ecology honors and extends the core of Focusing by nurturing this relationship with the more-than-human world. It offers a humble, grounded pathway to explore how our own growth, healing, and belonging arise in connection with the plants, soil, and seasons that sustain us all.
We practice sensing as living organisms in communication with other forms of life, soil, wind, birdcall, silence. Through this, we rediscover how inner transformation and ecological awareness are not separate, but profoundly interwoven.
What You’ll Learn and Receive
- The foundational skills of Focusing: presence, felt sense, and safe inner listening
- Practices for staying with complex emotions and holding them with care
- The art of Companioning, supporting another’s process with respectful presence
- Tools for grounding, self-regulation, and body-based trust
- An embodied sense of your place in the living world
- A supportive, slow-growing community of practice
- Certification from the British Focusing Association (BFA), recognised by the International Focusing Institute (TIFI)
Course Format
September 2025 – May 2026
Choose your weekly online group:
- Wednesdays, 10:00–12:00 (Irish time)
- OR Wednesdays, 15:00–17:00 (Irish time)
Each module includes:
- 5 weekly live Zoom sessions (2 hrs each)
- Nature-based invitations between sessions
- Focusing partnerships for regular practice
- 4 optional in-person seasonal Saturday gatherings in the west of Ireland
(also accessible online for those further afield)
Module Themes
- Coming Home – Rooting your Focusing practice
- Inner Ecology – Listening to what lives beneath the surface
- Joy of Sensing – Reawakening the body as a sensing being
- Walking with Life – Confidence, solitude, and listening with the land
- Wholebody Knowing – Integration, creativity, and belonging
Facilitated by Marta Fabregat
TIFI Certified Focusing Coordinator & BFA Mentor |
Trainer in Compassionate Communication |
MA Social and Cultural Mediator |
Plant Medicine Practice & Nature Stewardship | Founder of Sensed Ecology
Click here to read Marta's profile on our website.
To Register or Learn More
Get in touch if you would enjoy a check in and questions and answers chat with Marta here:
Email Marta at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Visit: www.martafabregat.com
You are warmly welcome. Whether this is your first step into Focusing, or a return to a deeper way of listening, I’d be honoured to walk alongside you.
