Bio
FOCUSZART The Focusing Studio - Bio ©Freda Blob
Academic Training and Career
Freda's academic training started with a preliminary internship in design crafts to get enrolled in Design Techniques, a pilot program for vocational teachers at the University of Duisburg-Essen GER
Her major coursework for undergraduate degree and work as student assistant was with sculptor and Folkwang teacher Prof. Franz Rudolf Knubel who's research area was on Sensual Design
Freda was a participating artist at the International Stone Sculptur Symposium Kaiserslautern (1982) when her career took a turn. She took up studies in Human Sciences as requirement for a university programm in art therapy being inspired by art brut
Freda holds two university degrees in Clinical Psychology and Adult Education (both with BA, MA graduation) from the Free University of Berlin (1992) and Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen (2010). In 2022 she got her Diploma of Advanced Studies (DASc) in Art Therapy from the Catholic University of Freiburg
Freda specialized in Person-centered and Experiential Psychotherapy with previor basic trainings in depth-oriented Body-Therapy (Biodynamic with Gerda Boeysen, Biosynthesis with David Boadella)
She passed certification procedures with two person-centered institutes (depth-oriented PCT: AGB Berlin, 1998; behavioral oriented PCT: IGB Stuttgart, 2004). In addition, Freda got licensed as Person-centered Teaching Consultant of the German Person-centered Society GwG in 2013
In 1994 Freda started her career as a Focuser, in 1997 she certified as Focusing trainer with the German-Swiss Focusing Network FN and in 2001 she became FN teacher and member of the FN leading team
In 2013 Freda certified as Certifying Coordinator of The International Focusing Institute TIFI. Additional trainings in Existential Wellbeing Counseling with Prof. Mia Leijssen (2016), Focusing with the Whole Body with Astrid Schillings (2016-2017), and Focusing Oriented Expressive Arts FOAT® with Dr. Laury Rappaport (2017-2020) took her Focusing teachings to new levels
Since 2022 she is guest lecturer for Focusing and the Expressive Arts at the Department of Clinical Curative Education of the Catholic University Freiburg
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