CCP Directives

Learn to Enhance Empathic Relating through CCP Directives and Felt Sense-Based Arts Engagment

  • Set up your table with paper, oil pastels (or crayons, colored pencils, or markers), and tape
  • Choose the reference picture you want to work with, either from our reference collection or your own
  • Learn about the CCP tuning-in options 
  • Before starting CCP, learn about the visual art (1) and intermodal art (2) directives by viewing the PDF and video guidance

Feel free to choose your references to work with!

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CCP - Directive 1

Reference for Download by Adolf Hölzel

Materials: Three sheets of paper, tape to secure them while working, pastels, colored pencils, or watercolors and brush. You will also need gesso to cover parts of your artwork as needed

CCP with Visual Arts and Focusing Interventions

Tuning in: Dynamic Shape Drawing (DSD) (eyes open or closed)

DSD: Basic forms are transformed through rhythmic moving and swinging lines

CCP - Directive 2

Reference for Download by Adolf Hölzel

Materials: Three sheets of paper, tape to secure them while working, pastels, colored pencils, or watercolors and brush. You will also need an extra sheet of paper for your writing down words/phrases

CCP with Intermodal Transfer and FOAT® Interventions

Tuning in: FOAT® Pebble Meditation (eyes open or closed)

Audio: Pebble Meditation - by Dr. Laury Rappaport (adapted from Thich Nhat Hanh)

Tuning In For Directive 1: Dynamic Shape Drawing (DSD) - How To Do It

You are going to be introduced to three basic DSD pracitices for slowing down and focusing yourself

Tape your piece of paper down onto the table or onto the wall. Standing at the wall makes DSD more sensual as you can move your arm more freely. Take good paper quality, size of paper din A3 min. Use high quality oil pastells. High quality pastells produce better sliding on the paper

Choose the simplest shape to start with and keep up your chosen practice for some days, e.g. 7 days to notice the benefit

Drawing waves with different colors: Draw horizontal curvy lines adjusting move and breath. Drawing up: breathing in, drawing down: breathing out. Change breathing direction and see what happens - can you feel the difference?

Drawing a circle: Make 5 dots on your paper: north - south - east - west and a dot in the center. Curve your line along the dots in a circle, continue breathing while drawing without resting the hand on the paper. Repeat several times. Experienced practice: drawing the circle without dots

Drawing the celtic cross: Make 5 dots on your paper: north - south - east - west and a dot in the center. Draw a looping line from the center downwards and curve around your south, then way back back to the center; draw a looping line to the right and curve around your east, then way back to the center; draw a looping line to the left and curve around your west, then way back to the center; draw a looping line upwards and curve around your north, then way back to the center. Repeat several times. Focus yourself through breathing while drawing: Inhale when drawing downwards, eastwards, westswards and upwards - exhale when curving back to the center

More DSD directives (variations of the celtic cross and other figures of higher challenge) in the Creative Compassion webinars

Illustration of Dynamic Shape Drawing (Beispiele Dynamisches Formenzeichnen) © Gronenborn with permission

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