Presentations & Publications

Lectures

Introduction to Expressive Arts Focusing Hands-on Methods: Finding Ground in Experiential Arts. Roots, Branches, and Wings Series with Pioneers and Master Teachers

April 19, 2024. Sponsored by the Focusing And Expressive Arts FOAT Institute

More Lectures

DFG Online Talk Series, June 27, 2023 More Than Words: Trauma-informed Processing in Focusing and Focusing Oriented Settings

Conferences

Focusing Oriented Therapy Conference TIFI 2023, November 2-5, 2023

The Fresh Urgency of Now and the Transformational Power of Focusing-Oriented Therapy

Workshop Creative Compassion: Building Relational Empathy

https://focusing.org/resources/freda-blob-fot-conference-2023

Theoretical Framework

More Conferences
  • Annual Gathering of the European Focusing Association EFA 2024, September 25-29, 2024 Workshop 'How We Name it. Talking About Focusing Crossings: Forwarding Language Through Experiential Felt Arts'

 

  • 24. Congress of the German Association for Personcentered Psychotherapy and Counseling GwG, Erfurt GER, 14-16 June, 2024 Workshop 'Color Talks: Learn From the Pioneers of the Person-centered and Experiential Creative Arts Therapies'

 

  • 5. Impulse Online Focusing Conference DFI 2024, Febr. 09-10, 2024 Workshop 'Creative Compassion: Empathy In the Space of Arts And Focusing' 

 

  • 15. International Conference IEATA 2023, July 14-16, 2023 Workshop 'Creative Compassion: Building Relational Empathy through Expressive Arts Focusing Activities'

 

  • 14. International Conference IEATA 2022, 01-16-2021 Workshop 'Into the More: Exploring the Transformative Potential of Expressive Avenues'

 

  • The International TIFI Focusing Conference 2016, July 20-24, 2016 Poster Session 'Care and Share: Focusing Oriented Ubuntu Repair. The Tübingen Community Wellness Focusing FOUR Project'

 

  • EFA Focusing Fair, September 27-28, 2014, Pforzheim Germany Workshop 'Care and Share: Inspirations from Ubuntu'. Community Wellness Focusing Meets Panafrican Philosophy

 

  • The International TIFI Focusing Conference 2013, May 29 - June 2, 2013 Workshop: 'From Me to You to Us'. Community Wellness Focusing Meets Panafrican Philosophy

Annual DFG Gathering Heidelberg 2023 @ DFG Media

Annual DFG Gathering Heidelberg 2024 @ DFG Media

EFA Gathering Achberg/Lindau 2024 @EFA Media

Workshops

Learn to Trust Your Inner Artist and Your Body’s Inner Guidance A Debut Presentation

November 5, 2022, Launched by Focusing Initiatives International

More Workshops

FOCUSZART The Focusing Studio, June 27, 2024 Creative Compassion - Towards a Sense of Belonging

 

Annual Gathering of The German Focusing Society DFG Heidelberg/GER, May 5th, 2024 Trauma-informed Focusing with the Arts

 

42. Focusing Network FN Summercamp Achberg/GER, August 6-10, 2023 Introduction To Trauma-Informed Focusing With The Expressive Arts

 

Annual Gathering of The German Focusing Society DFG Heidelberg/GER, May 13, 2023 Creative  Compassion: Building Relational Empathy With Expressive Arts Focusing

 

Annual Gathering of The German Focusing Society DFG Heidelberg/GER, May 15, 2022 Being In Presence With Expressive Arts Focusing

 

Annual Gathering of The German Focusing Society DFG Heidelberg/GER, May 01, 2021 Along The Growing Edge: Exploring The More Of ... Artistcally

 

Annual Gathering of The German Focusing Society DFG Heidelberg/GER, May 09, 2020 Inside And Outside: How I See Myself As A Focuser. A Crossing Of Expressive Arts Focusing And Children's Focusing, Co-Teacher Heidrun Essler

Focusing Initiatives International IIF, May 6, 2020 With the Help of Your Inner Advisor. Support for Corona Resilience

 

Annual Gathering of The German Focusing Society DFG Heidelberg/GER, May 11, 2019 Inner Artist Meets Inner Dreamer

Videos

Videos on the Help For Helpers Youtube Channel

Help for Helpers is a free Focusing Support Group for to empower, hearten and encourage therapists, counselors, teachers and helpers of all kind

 

Video  Shaping Our Questioning: Making Space for Poiesis in Focusing Practice, May 26, 2025 @CommEmpowerHelpForHelpers

Video Creative Compassion, November 6, 2023 @CommEmpowerHelpForHelpers

Video Embodied Aesthetics for Wellbeing, February 7, 2022 @FocusingOrientedTherapies

Video Giving Sighs and Body Release: Attunement, December 2022 (adapted from Cathy Malchiodi) @CommEmpowerHelpForHelpers

Video New Beginnings: Attunement, April 26, 2021
@CommEmpowerHelpForHelpers

Help for Helper's is run by Lynn Preston/Focusing-Oriented Relational Psychotherapy and team

Articles

Get informed how clients can take up space and speak for themelves with Expressive Arts Focusing

Read our chapter 'Saying no in presence: Setting limits through body sense’, published in Senses of Focusing vol. II (Kypriotakis and Moore, 2021, pp. 469-483)

With a Focusing and FOAT® based directive for healthy boundaries

Blob, F., Exploring Space In Presence with Creative Arts. In: The Art of Insight. Journal for the Association of Person-Centred Creative Arts, Volume 1, Issue 1, Jan. 2024, pp 34-39.

 

Blob, F., Focusing-Informed Techniques For Grounding For The Therpeutic Use of The Creative Arts. In: The Art of Insight. Journal for the Association of Person-Centred Creative Arts, Volume 1, Issue 3, November 2025, pp 96 - 101.

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Papers

© Kesbedj, William Winkfield 

How Do Expressive-Creative Arts in Focusing Promote Experiencing Ubuntu and Relational Empathy? A Review of the Tübingen FOUR Project

 

Made accessible in the TIFI Community-Wellness-Peace-Justice Discussion List November, 12, 2025 Hit the button below for download

© Freda Blob

Creative Compassion – Toward A Culture Of Relational Empathy.
Training Social Skills Through Art-Based Focusing

 

Made accessible on the website of the European Focusing Association EFA May 18, 2025

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Forward Your Skills. Commit to Creativity!