Source of Strength

Focusing-Oriented Expressive Arts (FOAT®): Tools for Resilience-Building

Are you wanting to…

• learn tools to foster your wellbeing and resilience?
• listen and access your body’s wisdom and creativity? 
• identify small action steps that carry forward self-care practices into your daily life?

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

With FOAT®, the practice deepens over time.  Our intention is to build a supportive, welcoming community for practice, learning, and connection!

Theme: Source of Strength

November 4 from 3:30 – 5:00 PM PT  (Note: Daylight Saving Time ends… Standard Time begins)

Facilitated by Su and FOAT Team

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 a 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.

Suggested Materials 

• Paper: Any kind or size that you feel drawn– to write and/or draw your intentions and action step
• Drawing/writing materials: Pen, pencil, crayons, markers, colored pencils, oil pastels, etc. Whatever you have is great!

Optional: Scissors, ribbon, yarn; magazine or collage images/words; simple paints