If you would like view the video recordings from the webinars series, Focusing-Oriented Expressive Arts (FOAT®): Tools for Resilience-Building, hosted by Focusing Initiatives International, you will need to enroll in this course offered through the FOAT Online School.

To ensure that all those who wish to watch the webinar recordings may do so, we have made the registration fee a sliding scale– free of charge for those that cannot afford it. If you do have the means, we ask that you select the highest amount that is right for you. By paying what you are capable of, you are supporting both the FOAT Institute and all the members in our FOAT Community that cannot contribute financially. Thank you!


About this Series

Description

Focusing-Oriented Expressive Arts (FOAT®) integrates Gendlin’s Focusing with user-friendly methods for creative expression. Laury Rappaport (founder of FOAT®), along with her advanced FOAT® Training students will introduce 4 Theme-based FOAT® exercises that are designed to cultivate resilience, access the body’s wisdom, and unfold our inherent creativity for positive change.

The meetings include a brief grounding/attunement, warm-up to arts expression, main FOAT® exercise, and sharing in a Focusing way. These webinars are for all levels of Focusers… and anyone interested in using creative tools for expression (color, line, image, writing, gesture-movement, sound)!

This series consists of four webinars:

1. Peaceful Place
Taking the time to focus on a peaceful place (a place you know or make up in your imagination) helps the body to relax and restore– which is helpful during times of stress. Focusing and the arts are integrated into the experience.

2. Focusing Attitude for You
The “Focusing Attitude” teaches us to bring a curious and “friendly” attitude toward our inner experience and creative expression– and helps to transform our inner critic. We will practice the Focusing Attitude– and then find a new “attitude” that we would like to bring into our lives (such as kindness, gentleness, compassion, etc.).
 
3.  Inner Advisor and “Paper Zine” Project 
This exercise integrates guided imagery with FOAT® to find an inner advisor– a part of ourselves that embodies our innate wisdom.  Ally will teach a simple process of folding paper to create a “zine”– a little booklet to hold our felt sense expressions (which can be drawings, words, or pictures).  During the guided exercise, we will listen for a question that is wanting to be asked– inviting a spaciousness for the inner advisor to offer a felt sense response.  This exercise teaches us how this inner wisdom lives within and can be called on to offer guidance for a variety of life’s issues, questions, or challenges.
 
4. Source of Strength 
This FOAT® exercise helps to become aware of something in your life that is, or has been, a source of strength or support. We will take time to Focus on the source of strength, get a felt sense and symbol (a word, phrase, image, gesture, or sound) and express it through writing, art, movement, or sound. This Source of Strength can continue to nourish you in an ongoing way.


Enrollment Details

Cost: Sliding scale from $10 - $45 USD. This is also free to anyone who would like to watch the recordings and is not in a position to pay. 

Enroll below by selecting the button "Enroll with this amount" next to your intended sliding scale amount. Please register with your preferred contact email. If you already have a FOAT Online School account, please use your existing account!


This program is not CE eligible.

Please note this course does not meet the prerequisite requirements to take Level 1 of our FOAT® Training Program. If you are interested in taking an online course to fulfill the prerequisite, please see our Introduction to FOAT® course.