Bio

FOCUSZART The Focusing Studio - Bio ©Freda Blob

Academic Training and Career

Freda's academic training started with a preliminary internship in design crafts to get enrolled in Design Techniques, a pilot program for vocational teachers at the University of Duisburg-Essen GER

Her major coursework for undergraduate degree and work as student assistant was with sculptor and Folkwang teacher Prof. Franz Rudolf Knubel who's research area was on Sensual Design

Freda was a participating artist at the International Stone Sculptur Symposium Kaiserslautern (1982) when her career took a turn. She took up studies in Human Sciences as requirement for a university programm in art therapy being inspired by art brut

Freda holds two university degrees in Clinical Psychology and Adult Education (both with BA, MA graduation) from the Free University of Berlin (1992) and Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen (2010). In 2022 she got her Diploma of Advanced Studies in Art Therapy from the Catholic University of Freiburg

Freda specialized in Person-centered and Experiential Psychotherapy with previor basic trainings in depth-oriented Body-Therapy (Biodynamic with Gerda Boeysen, Biosynthesis with David Boadella)

She passed certification procedures with two person-centered institutes (depth-oriented PCT: AGB Berlin, 1998; behavioral oriented PCT: IGB Stuttgart, 2004). In addition, Freda got licensed as Person-centered Teaching Consultant of the German Person-centered Society GwG in 2013

In 1994 Freda started her career as a Focuser, in 1997 she certified as Focusing trainer with the German-Swiss Focusing Network FN and in 2001 she became FN teacher and member of the FN leading team

In 2013 Freda certified as Certifying Coordinator of The International Focusing Institute TIFI. Additional trainings in Existential Wellbeing Counseling with Prof. Mia Leijssen (2016), Focusing with the Whole Body with Astrid Schillings (2016-2017), and Focusing Oriented Expressive Arts FOAT® with Dr. Laury Rappaport (2017-2020) took her Focusing practice to new levels

Since 2022 she is guest lecturer for Focusing and the Expressive Arts at the Department of Clinical Curative Education of the Catholic University Freiburg

CPD In Creative And Expressive Arts

Programs of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in therapeutic arts guarantee excellency of Freda's professional skills

 

Being an Expert In Her Field, Freda Is Standing On Many Shoulders...

Ani de La Prida (UK), Freda's teacher in Person-Centred Creative Arts, who role-modeled therapeutic use of the arts in ways that made person-centred therapy unique

Laury Rappaport PhD (US), Freda's former teacher and supervisor for Focusing Oriented Expressive Arts FOAT® who introduced her to the Expressive Arts and supported Freda to develop her own approach

René Veugelers (NL) who introduced Freda to Dynamic Expressive Focusing and role-modeled how playfulness makes all the difference

Astrid Schilllings (GER), Freda'sy former teacher of trauma-informed Focusing with the Whole Body who offered opportunities to experience the body as most safe place

Prof. Mia Leijssen (BEL) who's programm of Existenial Wellbeing Counseling shifted Freda's psychotherapeutic framework towards the existential approach 

Christiane Geiser (CH), Freda's former teacher, supervisor and mentor for intermodal Focusing Plus FN/GFK who taught her to be super precise in theory and practice

Uli Schlünder (GER), Jules Zwimpfer (CH), René Maas (NL) and Lore Korbei (AT) who taught her various styles of Focusing and how to pass them on

William Winkfield (US), artist and photographer located in Mérida/Mexico, who encouraged Freda to start with arts again after decades of clinical work

Gabriele Hasler (GER), artist and art therapist, who pushed Freda to suscribe for an academic art therapy program that was life changing

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