Making your journey with Creative Compassion Practice (CCP) you will stretch your empathy beyond personal preferences and limitations on multiple layers of existence. You learn to
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cultivate empathy for what feels aesthetically familiar and unfamiliar to you
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process what provokes unease or looks divergent
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tune into and connect with different bodily feelings and energy states that might feel conflicting
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shift your perspective on parts and the whole
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generate felt meaning in art life and in social life
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strengthen your sense of collaboration and coexistance
You come to a wider range of social empathy by implicitly training interactive skills through making arts from the body sense
Coming in touch with the body sense (a kinaesthetic sense of inner truth emerging from the body's inner wisdom) your can find new ways of being in the world that make you feel more at home with where life is placing you
The benefit of operating from the body sense will be accessable by following the CCP art directives
The art directives you are introduced to come from different traditions: Museum art-based Therapy (Receptive Art Therapy), Guided Drawing® (Sensorimotor Art Therapy®), Dynamic Shape Drawing (anthroposophic art therapy) and Focusing Oriented Expressive Arts FOAT® (integration of Focusing Oriented Therapy and Expressive Arts)
You will be guided by art directives for warming up, art directives for stepping into the process and art directives for developing your process further
Your Creative Compassion Practice will be supported artistically by artwork of an early pioneer of Modern Arts, the German artist Adolf Hölzel. The artwork coming from his art school (The Hölzel Circle) had been banned during the 1930s and 1940s by Nazi persecution
Hölzels simple pastel drawings serve as reference pictures for your receptive-active arts engagement induced by the CCP art directives (low-skill-high-sensitivity approach)
Transfer from artistic to social Relational Empathy needs some kind of facilitation. A Creative Compassion guide (focuser from Focusing/FOAT practitioner level on) can support you finding action steps that integrate your art experience and life