Cultivating Your Resilience through Focusing-Oriented Expressive Arts (FOAT®)

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In this workshop, we will begin with a centering exercise to ground ourselves and connect with the larger community. Next we will do a Focusing exercise to access a “source of strength”—letting a felt sense emerge from it. Through a user-friendly approach, we will find a way to express our felt sense into a creative expression—which might come as a color, shape, image, word, phrase, gesture or sound. We will also identify a small step to carry this inner strength into our daily life. 

As we bring into awareness a source of strength and externalize it through creative expression, our resilience becomes enhanced. Sharing in community supports and nourishes carrying this strength forward in our lives.

This webinar will be hosted on CoronaPlaza.LIFE, a space created by Focusing Initiatives International to provide psychosocial support tools for free for everybody affected by the Corona Virus restrictions. Join us to help support Focusing Initiatives International in their efforts to promote social change as they support people and communities to develop wellness, inner healing, and find creative solutions to local problems.

Note: No experience necessary in Focusing or the arts.

Recommended Materials:

• Please have any size or kind of paper; simple drawing materials—anything will do.