FOAT® Self-Study Courses

Our self-study courses offer flexible learning. Feel free to take them at your own pace
Once you have finished, you will be granted a Certificate of Course Completion!

Both courses are open to people who are new to FOAT as well as experienced.



Self-Study Bundle

Includes both of our self-study courses below

Bundle Price: $150 USD. Purchase this discount bundle to save $40!

What is included: Lifetime access to two self-study courses that feature videos, downloadable audio exercises, documentations to guide the learning process, and additional helpful resources! To learn more about the individual course content, you can view the course pages below.


FOAT® Tools I: Foundations for Enhancing Resilience (Self-Study)
$95.00 USD

Focusing-Oriented Expressive Arts (FOAT®) is a mindfulness-based approach that integrates Eugene Gendlin’s Focusing with the expressive arts. This self-study course provides an introduction to 4 Theme-based FOAT® exercises that are designed to enhance resilience, cultivate self-compassion, reduce stress, and enhance wellbeing. Each exercise teaches the basics of the Focusing process (listening inwardly to the body’s wisdom) along with user-friendly methods for arts expression. This self-study course is based on the Live Teleconference Series.

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Introduction to FOAT® Self-Study
Approved for 3 CE Hours
$95.00 USD

This course provides an introduction to Focusing-Oriented Expressive Arts (FOAT®), including its history and development, foundational principles, and main theoretical and practice approaches. Based on Eugene Gendlin’s evidence-based Focusing, this self-study course includes learning the foundational concepts of Focusing Attitude, felt sense, symbol/handle, and felt shift; along with the basic step of expressing a felt sense in the arts.

User-friendly arts methods for expressing a felt sense are presented. The following main approaches are defined– FOAT Check-in, Theme-Directed FOAT, Clearing a Space with Arts, and Working on an Issue- with examples of each approach. Didactic video presentations and experiential practice exercises provide a rich, varied format for learning. This self-study course is based on the Live Teleconference.

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