THE FOCUSZART STUDIO

A Place for Arts in Focusing

Fascilitated by Freda Blob

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

The FOCUSZART 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 in becoming true to yourself

We provide workshops, trainings and one-on-one sessions on Creative Arts and Culture Focusing (CACF) which serve this mission

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Creative Arts and Culture Focusing (CACF) provides arts engagement opportunities that are both culture-sensitive and Focusing-oriented

We blend museum art from around the world with Felt Sense-Based Studio Art and European intermodal Focusing. Our programs involve cyclical processes of engagement, expression, and exploration

Our approach is tailored to diverse cultural backgrounds and draws from person-centered and experiential art therapy frameworks, as well as creative and expressive arts

Creative Arts and Culture Focusing (CACF)

CACF is an integrative, body-focused approach to well-being that uses art-based processing

CACF combines the principles of Focusing with a culture-sensitive approach to the visual and performing arts

CACF uses physical and virtual representations of art from museums and other global sources in the studio. It also draws from imaginative cultural spaces and exhibits

CACF provides programs that are therapeutic, self-exploratory, and community-oriented

 

developed by Freda Blob

 

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What is Focusing?

We are here to guide you on your journey of discovery and help you develop a deep understanding of CACF and the language of Felt Sense-Based Arts

INFOBOX Felt Sense-Based Arts

Felt Sense-Based Arts, the art-making from the Focusing 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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Introducing Freda Blob

Freda Blob © Photo Studio Gudrun Th. de Maddalena

 

Art Therapist, Andragogist, Focusing Expert

Freda Blob is both a FOAT-trained, licensed art therapist and a PCE psychotherapist/counselor. She is also a Focusing teacher and an adult educator with a background in design. Drawing on her 30 years of experience, she developed the Creative Arts and Culture Focusing (CACF) approach. She is the Founding Director of the FOCUSZART Focusing Studio & School and a Certifying Coordinator, Focusing-Oriented Therapist, and Focusing Trainer with the International Focusing Institute (TIFI). 

We promote the integration of Creative Arts and Culture Focusing in psychotherapy, art therapy, counseling, education, community art, cultural creativity, mindfulness, and related fields

What FOCUSZART stands for

At the time that we we began incorporating the arts into our Focusing teaching practice with German-speaking audiences, our workplace was called the Tuebingen Focusing Center ("Tübinger Focusing Zentrum"), or FOCUSZ. We kept the 'Z' in our new abbreviation, 'FOCUSZART', because it represents our approach to the arts, which is characterized by sensitivity and tenderness  — a concept encapsulated by the German word 'zart'

The FOCUSZART Focusing Studio offers three programs that combine museum experiencing with Focusing and studio art from a culture-sensitive perspective

  • Receptive-Expressive Arts Focusing (therapeutic)
  • Creativity Focusing (self-exploratory)
  • Creative Compassion for Peacebuilding (community-oriented)

Learn about our approach, services and one-on-one sessions offered by the Focusing Studio

Check out our free Creative Compassion for Peacebuilding (CCP) resources 

Get informed about our Creative Arts and Culture Focusing (CACF) training programs

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