Thursday, August 11, 2022
An Online Class Facilitated by Laury Rappaport
Part of The Focusing Highlights Series
This presentation will provide a brief overview of Focusing-oriented expressive arts (FOAT®), including its main approaches— Theme-Directed FOAT; Clearing a Space with Arts; FOAT Check-in and Working on an Issue.
We will do a Theme-Directed FOAT® exercise on Gene Gendlin’s central concept, the Focusing Attitude— being curious and “friendly” to all of one’s inner experiences, whether uplifting or painful and difficult. This experiential exercise includes user-friendly methods for expressing the felt sense through creative expression.
Resources:
Presentation Slides
Handout
Group Sharing Chat
Bio:
Laury Rappaport, Ph.D., MFT, REAT, ATR-BC is a Certifying Coordinator, FOT and Trainer of The Focusing International Institute. She is the author of Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy: Accessing the Body’s Wisdom and Creative Intelligence, and editor/author of Mindfulness and the Arts Therapies: Theory and Practice. Laury has been on the faculties at Lesley University for over 40 years, as well as other universities. She is the founder/director of the Focusing and Expressive Arts Institute and is also a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (CA), Registered Expressive Arts Therapist (REAT) and Board Certified Art Therapist (ATR-BC). www.focusingarts.com. His email address is [email protected]
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