FOCUSZART The Focusing Studio

A Place For Felt Arts

Fascilitated by Freda Blob

We make space for the arts in Focusing and Focusing-related fields of psychotherapy, counseling, education, community wellness, cultural creativity and mindfulness

We offer three pathways for engagement with person-centered and experiential Felt Arts: Expressive Arts Focusing, Arts To Focusing Joy and Creative Compassion

We offer trauma-informed Expressive Arts Focusing skills training, FOAT® introductory training, and Focusing skills and certification trainings at all levels (Profiency in Focusing Partnership, Focusing Practitioner, Focusing Trainer), certificates granted by DFG and TIFI

Mission Statement

FOCUSZART The Focusing Studio was founded to bring Felt Arts to people and communities. Our mission is to teach how to find growth, health and meaning through intermodal experiential Felt Arts activities

Our mission is not only to promote well-being and existential health, but also to initiate shifts in culture-bound ways of thinking, feeling and acting. We strongly believe that Felt Arts engagement is a portal for transcultural development

Experiential Felt Arts activities promote cross-cultural learning through bottom-up, right-brain activities. They bridge the materialistic and spiritual realms of life through the use of the aesthetic and cultural arts. They are therapeutic, educational and culture-building

Introducing Freda Blob

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Founding Director Freda Blob

Freda Blob is a Teaching Felt Arts Fascilitator and a Focusing Oriented Art Therapist with 30 years of experience as a clinician and adult educator. She is a Certifying Coordinator with The International Focusing Institute TIFI

Expressive Arts Focusing

We offer trauma-informed Expressive Arts Focusing ExAF for clinical and non-clinical settings online and in person

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Benefit from our expertise in Expressive Arts Focusing for growth and healing. Find new ways to solve problems and become more effective in your work. Find inner peace by befriending emotional wounds of the present and past. Let us help you on your journey

Expressive Arts Focusing (ExAF) is a body-focused approach embedded in the European Focusing culture, along with art and design

ExAF is an integrative approach that blends Focusing with multiple understandings of the creative and expressive arts

ExAF is a trauma-informed, bottom-up approach that promotes self-regulation, resilience and existential health

ExAF is a pluralistic humanistic approach that puts the client's needs and experience first in collaborative, co-creative settings

 

developed by Freda Blob

Arts To Focusing Joy

We teach you how to get access to Focusing Joy through help you make arts that get you unstuck

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Focusing Joy is the joy of owning your being and becoming. You are the person you are, and you are all the infinite possibilities that move you into a more creative you, especially when you invite your inner artist to show up

Arts To Focusing Joy (AFJ) is an action-oriented approach to becoming more you by making art you love

AFJ brings back the full range of your aliveness through Focusing-informed engagement with the visual arts

AFJ creates shifts in both art making and life

AFJ is designed for absolute beginners or creatives who have lost track of their creative expression

 

developed by Freda Blob

Creative Compassion

We offer self-paced learning, single-sessions and group sessions for Creative Compassion Practice for peace building

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Creative Compassion Practice (CCP) helps you feel more comfortable with people who are different or have different needs from you by expanding your understanding of aesthetics from a relational standpoint

CCP is a community wellness oriented approach to building relational empathy for global peace

CCP is a user-friendly approach to engage in embodied cultural and creative arts activities

CCP is connecting to the art worlds of persecuted artists and their heritage

 

developed by Freda Blob

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