Expressive Arts Focusing EAF is a meta-therapeutic approach promoting health, personal growth and existential wellbeing. No matter what kind of setting, Expressive Arts modalities can be taken into focus through the body sense. The process can stay within the frame of each therapeutic school or shift to Focusing Oriented Therapy (FOT) or Focusing Oriented Expressive Arts (FOAT®)

Expressive Arts Focusing EAF uses various artistic approaches and tools for best practice:

The main ressource comes from within. There is a part in everyone that is artist and healer

Stoppages and dead-end situations in non-clinical settings highly benefit from imainary space and alternative world experiences

Coaches and trainees can find real life solutons through unexpected and unpredictable experiences that are affective, sensory based and playful

Expressive Arts Focusing EAG brings about such experiences. Focusing and the arts are powerful tools to open up and transform structure-bound experiencing and congitive and emotion-based schemes

Empathic curiosity for differences (Geiser) and clearing a space through the arts (Rappaport) are the main therapeutic principles here

Aesthetic empathy is another useful principle as it transforms the process of art making. To handle art materials and techniques the coachees and trainees are introduced to experimental exercises of the Bauhaus Founders

All art activities are fascilitated by the professional but start from the body sense of the coachee or trainee. Their process is carried forward through circular loops of experiencing, expressing and finding new meaning. The outcome is improvement in self-regulation and self-restoring

Your webinar has done me an awful lot of good. I haven't felt as comfortable, free and light hearted for ages as I do now after the course. I just wanted to tell you that, and thank you very much

Lore

So honestly presented - thank you very much for this beneficial, strengthening offer

Astrid, person-centered counselor

The webinar war so valuable for me. Your calmness and sovereignty did me good. Thanks for everything, and the encouragement.

Sabine, remedial nurse

Despite the online distance (and this is quite amazing for me) I felt very comfortable and safe. Your empathic, clear and soothing instructions and exercises have done me a lot of good

Helena

The exercises were really good for me. I am now in focus. Thank you!

Anna, trauma-therapist

After the webinar I worked on my picture a few more times ... playing with it, discovering more. Everything I found was so valuable. Thanks again for the afternoon!

Gertrud, pediatric therapist

It is so exciting to see how you are bringing something to life that you feel exactly is on at this very moment and thereby accompany other people

Gaby, teacher

The workshop opened up new spaces I had never created before. I painted new outlooks and found new possibilities. My stress did go away and the mood improved - thank you!

Elena, psychologist

I was surprised that focusing helped me to focus on my inner sensation, to reveal the discomfort in my body and that the body itself knows and answers my request. And third, I was surprised that the answer was on the surface. It was like I didn't want to notice it and drove it out of my awareness. Now I feel connected. Thank you

Lisa, student