When you embark on your journey with Creative Compassion for Peacebuilding (CCP), you will expand your empathy beyond personal preferences and limitations to encompass multiple layers of existence
You learn to
- cultivate empathy for what that feels familiar and unfamiliar to you aesthetically
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process what provokes unease or appears divergent
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tune into and connect with different bodily feelings and energy states that may 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 develop a wider range of social empathy by implicitly training interactive skills through art-making from Felt Sense
By coming in touch with the your Felt Sense—a kinaesthetic sense of inner truth emerging from the body's inner wisdom—you will find new ways of being in the world that make you feel more at home with where life is placing you
The benefits of operating from body sense are accessible by following the CCP Directives
The art directives you are introduced to come from different traditions: Receptive Art Therapy (Museum Art-based 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 seize of power
Hölzels simple pastel drawings serve as reference pictures for a user-friendly receptive-active arts engagement induced by the CCP Directives (low-skill-high-sensitivity approach)
Transfer from artistic to social Relational Empathy needs some kind of facilitation. A Creative Compassion guide (a Focusing practitioner/professional or FOAT practitioner) can help you find action steps for integrating CCP into your daily life