Friedgard (Freda) Blob 

 

Certifying Coordinator of The International Focusing Institute, Certifying Senior Teacher of the German Focusing Network FN, Focusing Oriented Therapist, Personcentred Therapist and Teaching Counselor, Counselor for Existential Wellbeing, Focusing Oriented Expressive Arts FOAT® Trainer-in-Training, Certified Guided Drawing® Practitioner, Art Therapist in Training, Registered non-medical Practitioner for Psychotherapy, Clinical Psychologist (diploma), Educational Scientist (diploma)

 

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website Expressive Arts Focusing!

2020 - 2023 currently running

Scientific Training in Art Therapy, Catholic University of Applied Sciences Freiburg/GER

 

2020

Course Regulating the Traumatized Body and Mind through Expressive Arts, PESI Health Care

 

2020

Advanced Focusing Oriented Expressive Arts FOAT® Training as Focusing Oriented Therapist with Specialization in FOAT®, Focusing and Expressive Arts Institute, Santa Rosa/USA

 

2020

Course Healing with the Arts, Certificate University of Florida/US

 

2019

Training in Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing® (Certified GD® Practitioner), Institute for Sensorimotor Art Therapy and School for Initiatic Art Therapy, Apollo Bay/ AU

 

2019

Course Natural Historic Illustration: Nature, Science and Culture, Certificate University of Newcastle/AU

 

2018

Practical courses with Paolo Tesi, Pistoia/ITA, Herbert Schmidt/Künstlerhof Rottenburg and Andea Gauß/Künstlerei Tübingen

 

2017-2019

Training in Focusing Oriented Expressive Arts FOAT® (Certified FOAT® Practitioner), Focusing and Expressive Arts Institute, Santa Rosa/USA

 

1983/84

Art Brut for self-therapy

 

1983

Wood carving summer workshop with Thomas Wojciechowicz, Saarbrücken.

Study tours to International Stone Sculpture Symposia in Vienna and the Netherlands

 

1982

Artist at the International Stone Sculpture Symposium Kaiserslautern

 

1980–1983

Study of Design Technique GH Essen

Focus of studies: Stone Sculpture

Prof. Franz Rudolf Knubel

 

1978 - 1980 Internships in the creative handicraft: screen printing, signwriter and
typeface painting, painter and varnisher. Training course in carpentry, Düsseldorf