The FOCUSZART Studio

A Place for Arts in Focusing

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

The FOCUSZART Focusing Studio is an online 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 experience and explore the transformative power of Expressive-Creative Arts in Focusing (ECAF)

Infobox ECAF

The Expressive-Creative Arts in Focusing (ECAF) approach uses Felt Sense-Based arts to enhance the Focusing process from an expressive and creative arts perspective. When it comes to exploring the creation of meaning experientially, Felt Sense-Based arts offer an alternative to verbalizing the Felt Sense

 

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What is Focusing?

We are here to guide you on your journey of discovery and help you gain a profound understanding of 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 an extensively trained mental health professional and artist researcher. Drawing on her 30 years of experience as a Focuser, clinician, and educator, she developed the Expressive-Creative Arts in Focusing (ECAF) approach. In 2019, she founded the FOCUSZART Focusing Studio & School. She is a Certifying Coordinator, Focusing-Oriented Therapist, and Focusing Trainer with The International Focusing Institute (TIFI)

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 art-making, which is characterised by tenderness and sensitivity — a concept encapsulated by the German word 'zart'

The FOCUSZART Focusing Studio offers three pathways to engage with Expressive-Creative Arts in Focusing (ECAF)

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We promote the integration of Expressive-Creative Arts in Focusing and related fields, such as psychotherapy, counseling, education, community wellness, community art, cultural creativity, and mindfulness

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