© Gabriel Holom, press photo
Background In Design
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 and work as student assistant (1981 - 1984) was with sculptor and Folkwang teacher Prof. Franz Rudolf Knubel (research area Sensual Design)
Freda was a participating artist at the International Stone Sculptur Symposium Kaiserslautern (1982)
Clinical Training and Career
Freda holds two Pre-Bologna degress from the Free University of Berlin (Clinical Psychology BA, MA 1992) and the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen (Adult Education MA 2010).
In her second thesis 'The Significance of Corporality for Educational Processes with Special Consideration of Focusing as Method' she pioneered by crossing educational salutogenesis and embodiment with experiential First Person Science
Freda graduated as Art Therapist (Diploma of Advanced Studies) from the Catholic University of Freiburg in 2022. Her thesis 'The Experiential Third: Focusing Concepts for Art Therapy' was again an academic pioneering work
Freda passed a postgraduate seven-year-program in person-centered training, undergoing two certification procedures at the Person-Centered Institute AGB Berlin (depth-oriented, 1998) and the Person-Centered Institute IGB Stuttgart (behavioral-oriented, 2004). The program was performed by 18 clinical teachers including Prof. Reinhard Tausch, founder of the German Person-centered Psychotherapy approach
From 1994 - 2002 she was trained in Focusing by 14 German and Swiss Focusing pioners and practitioners. Her Focusing training was backed up by two prior basic trainings in body-psychotherapy (Biosynthesis with David Boadella, Biodynamic with Gerda Boyesen) along with continous practice of Sensual Awareness (Gindler-Goralewski)