The Power of Using Art with Focusing: Building Resilience with FOAT® and SoulCollage®

Saturday, March 19, 2022 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm New York time

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Class will be recorded for all registrants and available for viewing for one month.

We invite you to join us for an introduction to Focusing Oriented Expressive Arts (FOAT®), a Focusing approach that incorporates the expressive arts with Gendlin’s Focusing to enhance and deepen inner knowing.

In this webinar we will review the basics of Focusing and FOAT® and engage in a simple collage process to experience this powerful approach. You will be guided in a theme-directed FOAT® invitation, to delve into a part of your many-faceted self and illustrate your experience through the creation of a SoulCollage® card. The SoulCollage® process is highly conducive to awakening your intuition and empowering inner wisdom. 

This webinar is hands-on and no prior Focusing or arts experience is required. The time will be spent in some didactic learning and then you will be given ample time to create your collage. After, we will open it up for sharing and questions.

To get the most out of the experience, please have the following basic supplies ready:

• Scissors
• 5”x8” heavy card stock or mat board (any type of cardboard, cereal box, or moving box is fine)
• A glue stick
• A few magazines, old coffee table books, or anything you can gather images from
  • It can be helpful to go through your magazines in advance and roughly cut out the images that appeal to you to save time in class! To search for beautiful, free images on the internet to use for your collage, you can visit Unsplash.com and Pixabay.com
• Optional - X-Acto knife and cutting mat

We use Zoom videoconferencing for our online classes. In this webinar format, you will see the presenter and host, but you will not be seen. You will be able to ask questions during the webinar by typing them. Highlights presenters may at times invite a small number of participants to unmute or to join them onscreen during the webinar (optional).

You will need to have a computer/mobile device. Calling in by phone is also possible but not preferred. All registered participants will be sent a link to the video recording approximately two weeks following the class. So if you are unable to attend the live webinar, you will still be able to view it for one month.

Bios

Lynn Pollock, MA, LMHC, REAT, is an Expressive Arts Therapist currently in private practice in Massachusetts. Her clinical work includes over 12 years of experience working in community-based services with children who have serious emotional disturbances and their families, and in her private practice she specializes in working with adults, adolescents, and couples who struggle with mood, anxiety, and adjustment issues. Lynn received her master’s degree from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, and is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Massachusetts. She is a Certified Focusing Trainer: Specialization in FOAT® from The International Focusing Institute (TIFI) and Certified FOAT® Practitioner from the FOAT® Institute. When she is not working, Lynn enjoys spending time with her husband, three adult children, and her dog - and she is actively involved in her personal arts practice. 

Marise Lariviere, LMFT, ATR, received her master’s degree in Art Therapy and Marriage and Family Therapy from Notre Dame de Namur University in California. She is a Certified Focusing Trainer: Specialization in FOAT® (TIFI), a Certified Focusing Oriented Expressive Arts (FOAT®) Practitioner (FOAT Institute), and a Registered Art Therapist with the American Art Therapy Association. Marise’s passion for the visual arts inspired her to acquire artistic skills in a variety of media and to experience the profound value of art for self-expression. She now uses the expressive arts to help others access their own inner knowing for positive growth and healing through a wide range of mindful creative experiences. Marise is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and has a private practice in Los Angeles.