Course Description

Level 2: FOAT Facilitation and Partnership Skills teaches the foundational skills for facilitating others in the main FOAT approaches learned in Level 1. Skills and methods include: FOAT Partnership, Compassionate Listening (Intermediate), Theme-Directed FOAT, FOAT Check-in, Clearing a Space with Arts, Inner Critic, FOAT with Steps, and Working on an Issue.
 
A core practice within Focusing and FOAT training programs is the Partnership. Trainees will rotate partners to practice facilitating the fundamental FOAT exercises learned in Level 1. Challenges and blocks to FOAT/Focusing will be addressed. The training includes didactic material, videos, readings, demonstrations, experiential practice, FOAT coaching and supervision.

Target Audience: Psychologists, Psychoanalysts, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, MFTs, Counselors, Substance Abuse Counselors, Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Creative Arts Therapists, Educators. 

Location: Online via Zoom.

Date and Time:  In Level 2, all ten Group Meetings will be held via Zoom.

Dates (2024): These dates are valid for the U.S.– please use the time converter to determine if the meeting dates will be the same for your timezone!

• January 29
• February 12, 26
• March 11, 25
• April 8, 22
• May 6, 20
• June 3

Time: 3:00pm - 6:30pm PT (Pacific Time) / Click here for a timezone converter

Course Cost: 

• Early bird: Discount available through January 4, 2023
  • Pay in full: $1100. 
  • Monthly payment plan: $220/month for 5 months
• Regular Price: Valid from January 5 - January 22, 2024
  • Pay in full: $1200
  • Monthly payment plan: $240/month for 5 months

Registration Information: Deadline to register for this offering is January 22, 2024. Click here to see full registration page.

Faculty:

• Laury Rappaport, Ph.D., LMFT, REAT, ATR-BC
• Doreen Meister, MA, LMFT
• Grace Brillantes Evangelista, Ph.D., RPsy, CSCLP
• Lynn Pollock, MA, LMHC, REAT
• Marise Lariviere, LMFT, ATR, TCF

If you would like to learn more about the following faculty, please visit our FOAT Faculty webpage for their biographies.

Course Content Level: Beginner

Target Audience: Psychologists, Psychoanalysts, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, MFTs, Counselors, Substance Abuse Counselors, Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Creative Arts Therapists, Educators 

Agenda: The agenda for all 10 Group Meetings is available inside of the FOAT Online School course and will be made viewable to registered participants.

Course Objectives

1. Describe the significance of having a FOAT Partner to develop facilitation skills.
2. Describe the significance of having a FOAT Partner in order to have an embodied understanding of somatic processing with creative expression.
3. Explain the roles in the FOAT Partner Practice: Focuser and Facilitator.
4. Summarize the significance that the “Focuser” is in charge.
5. List at least 3 components that are ethical to consider in a FOAT Partnership.
6. Describe what Compassionate Listening is.
7. Explain the importance of saying back both the verbal and nonverbal communication of clients.
8. Summarize how to offer a listening response when clients have two different feelings.
9. Explain how to integrate Compassionate Listening with expressive arts.
10. Practice how to integrate Compassionate Listening with Focusing.
11. Practice how to integrate Compassionate Listening with Focusing-Oriented Expressive Arts (FOAT®). 
12. Demonstrate how to facilitate a FOAT® Check-in.
13. Practice intermodal applications within FOAT exercises.
14. Demonstrate how to facilitate Clearing a Space with the Arts- Directive Approach.
15. Demonstrate how to facilitate Clearing a Space with the Arts- Nondirective Approach.
16. Explain Demonstrate how to facilitate Clearing a Space with the Arts- Concrete Approach.
17. Summarize how to facilitate Clearing a Space with the Arts- Hybrid Approach.
18. Demonstrate how to facilitate at least 1 “FOAT with Steps” exercise.
19. Summarize how to facilitate “Working on an Issue with the Arts.”
20. State at least 1 challenge in using a script in facilitating FOAT.
21. Explain what the “Inner Critic” is.
22. State 1 FOAT exercise for “Transforming the Inner Critic” that can be applied to groups and individuals.
23. Explain how to integrate “Dialogue” in working with the Inner Critic FOAT exercise.
24. Name at least 2 strategies for working with the Inner Critic.
25. List at least 3 strengths in the fundamental skills in Focusing-Oriented Expressive Arts.
26. List 2 challenges in facilitating Focusing-Oriented Expressive Arts.

Satisfactory Completion for CEs: This offering is approved for 32.5 CE hours. Participants must have paid the tuition fee, signed in, attended the entire seminar, completed an evaluation, and signed out in order to receive a certificate. Full attendance is required (there is no partial CE). 

Cancellation Policy: All refund requests are subject to review by the Focusing and Expressive Arts Institute Training Director.

• Requests made 21 days or more before the registration deadline for a given course, you will be given a refund of 95% of your registration fee (please note we take 5% for administrative/transactional fees), or the option to apply the full registration fee as credit towards your account for future program costs. 
• Requests made between 7 to 20 days before the registration deadline will be given a refund of 50% of your registration fee, or the option to apply the full registration fee as credit towards your account for future program costs. 
• Any requests made within 6 days or less before the registration deadline are non-refundable but you will be given the option to apply the full registration fee as credit towards your account for future program costs. 

Grievance Policy: For questions or concerns, please contact us at [email protected].

Disclosure Statement: There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.

CUE Management Solutions, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CUE Management Solutions, LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

CUE Management Solutions, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0242.