Bio

Creative Compassion - Freda Bio

Background in Design

My career startet with a one-year preliminary internship in design crafts: Woodwork, screen printing, sign and letter painting and varnishing. The internship made me get enrolled in a pilot program in Design Techniques at the University of Duisburg-Essen

My major coursework and my work as student assistant was with artist and Folkwang teacher Prof. Franz Rudolf Knubel who also was guest professor at the California State University, Long Beach

I finished the three-year undergraduate program in 1983

Artist Engagement

After undergraduate degree I continued with wood and stone sculpting for a portfolio for sculpture school and volonteered at an International Symposium for Landscape Sculpturing in the Netherlands

I was participating artist at the International Stone Sculptur Symposium Kaiserslautern when my career took a turn

Art brut of art friends had drawn my interest towards art therapy and I took studies in Human Sciences as requirement to get access to a scientific university programm in art therapy

Career in Human Sciences

My professional career in the Human Sciences spanned decades of post-graduate trainings in different humanistic approaches

I was learning from 14 German and Swiss practitioners and 5 international pioneers and practitioners: Gerda Boyesen (NOR), David Boadella (UK), Eugene Gendlin (US), Mia Leijssen (BEL) and Christiane Geiser (CH). The trainings were in Biodynamic, Biosynthese, Focusing, Existential Wellbeing and Focusing Processing of Structure-Boundness

I passed a seven-year-programm in person-centered training, undergoing two certification procedures at the Person-Centered Institute AGB Berlin (depth-oriented, 1998) and the Person-Centered Institute IGB Stuttgart (behavioral-oriented, 2004). The program was performed by 18 clinical teachers, having different backgrounds and styles of person-centered practice (with critical-marxist and existential teachings from teachers of former East Berlin Institute of Person-Centered Psychotherapy)

Two University degrees from the Free University of Berlin (BA, MA 1992) and the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (MA 2010) were backing up my professional practice. They were based on two thesis of 410 pages in total (qualitative research and theory)

For thirty years Person-centered Experiential Psychotherapy, Counseling and Adult Education was the focus of my professional life

Focusing and Arts

In the midst of certifying as FWB practitioner (Focusing with the Whole Body, Astrid Schillings) a dream depicted that I took the wrong direction train. Immediate change of direction was the call of hour

I took a Focusing Oriented Expressive Arts FOAT® training with Dr. Laury Rappaport (2017 - 2021), started painting again and suscribed to online art courses

My previous studies were the entry to the Academic Art Therapy Program of the Catholic University of Freiburg. I finished this program with a Diploma of Advanced Studies (DAS) in 2022

Since then I hold a guest lectureship for Focusing and Expressive Arts at the University department of Clinical Curative Education (2022-2024)

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