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

The Focusing Studio offers creative, body-focused activities that are designed to bring about positive change in individuals and groups

Our Mission

Our mission is to help people grow as individuals and as a group. We support you on your journey to self-empowerment and healing through arts-based Focusing

We promote the integration of the arts into Focusing, Focusing-Oriented Therapy, and related fields, such as counseling, education, community wellness, cultural creativity, and mindfulness

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

Our Focusing training and certification programs at the FOCUSZART School incorporate the arts

Introducing Freda Blob

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Founding Director Freda Blob

Freda Blob is a Focusing-oriented Art Therapist and a European certified Creative Arts Psychotherapist/Counselor with 30 years of clinical experience. She is a Certifying Coordinator for 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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Take advantage of our expertise in Expressive Arts Focusing (EXAF) to promote personal growth and well-being. Discover new problem-solving strategies and become more effective in your work. Find inner peace by healing emotional wounds from the present and past. Let us help you on your journey!

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 draws from many approaches but is mainly person-centered and experiential, placing the client's experience at the heart of the co-creative therapeutic interaction

 

developed by Freda Blob

Creativity Focusing

We help you tap into your creative power through Arts To Focusing Joy practices that encourage creativity in life

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Creativity Focusing (CF) uses a practice called Arts To Focusing Joy (AFJ) together with user-friendly Focusing tools. Arts To Focusing Joy provides access to the joy of embracing your being and becoming as a creative individual. You are who you are, and you have infinite possibilities moving into 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-based 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

Through Creative Compassion for Peacebuilding, we offer museum-based art practices in self-paced learning environments, and in individual and group sessions

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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

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