FOCUSZART The Focusing Studio

A Place for Arts in Focusing

Fascilitated by Freda Blob

Growth, Change and Well-Being Through Arts From The Felt Sense

Introducing Freda Blob

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Freda Blob is an art therapist, creative arts counselor, and adult educator who specializes in art-based programs. She has 30 years of experience as a clinician and teacher. Since founding The Focusing Studio in 2019, she has been passionate about teaching the Arts in Focusing approaches. She is a Certifying Coordinator, Focusing Oriented Therapist, and Trainer with The International Focusing Institute TIFI

The Focusing Studio is a space designed to help individuals and groups embark on a journey of positive growth and healing

Our mission is to encourage and support you in living a fuller, more authentic life and becoming true to yourself

We achieve this by offering opportunities to explore the transformative power of Focusing and Felt Sense-based arts

INFOBOX Felt Sense-based Arts

Felt Sense-based arts, the art-making from the Felt Sense, is a creative, body-focused meaning-making process. It is both therapeutic and an art form in its own right. It unfolds the Felt Sense as a work of art in the process of becoming

 

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We offer three ways to engage with Arts in Focusing: Expressive Arts Focusing, Creativity Focusing and Creative Compassion for Peacebuilding

We promote the integration of Felt Sense-based arts into Focusing and related fields, including psychotherapy, counseling, education, community wellness, cultural creativity, and mindfulness

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Arts in Focusing Approaches

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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Arts Focusing (EXAF) uses Felt Sense-based studio art to process problem-solving and heal emotional wounds from the present and past

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 the Creative and Expressive Arts

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

EXAF draws from a variety of approaches, but is primarily person-centred and experiential. It places the client's experience at the heart of the co-creative therapeutic process

 

developed by Freda Blob

Creativity Focusing

We help you cultivate your creativity through Arts To Focusing Joy practices that spark your artistic expression

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Creativity Focusing (CF) uses Arts To Focusing Joy (AFJ) practices together with user-friendly Focusing tools to help you move toward a more creative version of yourself

CF is an action-oriented approach that uses the transformative power of art-making to help you become more you by creating art you love

CF helps you build a more creative and fulfilling life by cultivating creative shifts in both your art and your daily life

CF restores your full aliveness through Focusing-informed engagement with the visual arts

CF is designed for absolute beginners. It is also for creatives who have lost their creative voice

 

developed by Freda Blob

Creative Compassion for Peacebuilding

We provide self-paced, museum art-based practices to cultivate compassion for peacebuilding

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Creative Compassion for Peacebuilding (CCP) is a practice that helps you stay in a zone of emotional ambiguity and feel more comfortable with people who are different from you or have different needs

CCP uses the aesthetics to expand your empathic understanding of differences in art and people

CCP is a user-friendly approach that engages you in embodied cultural and creative arts activities

CCP is a Community Wellness Focusing approach to building relational empathy for global peace

CCP connects with the art of persecuted and neglected artists and those aligned with their artistic heritage

 

developed by Freda Blob

Stay In Focus. Integrate ZART Into Your Practice!

ZART: German for Gentle Feeling