18th May 2025
Creative Compassion – Toward A Culture Of Relational Empathy. Training Social Skills Through Art-Based Focusing
Freda Blob
Creative Compassion for Peacebuilding (CCP) is a Focusing-oriented, art-based approach that helps individuals understand and practice Relational Empathy (Maureen O’Hara) through receptive-active art activities.
This article outlines the theoretical framework of the CCP approach, as presented at the 2023 TIFI Focusing Oriented Therapy Conference and the 2024 Focusing Impulse Conference of the German Focusing Institute (DFI). It provides an overview of the key aspects of CCP and emphasises the personal and relational benefits that practitioners can gain from it.
Freda developed the CCP approach during the pandemic to help people overcome isolation and build connections.