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Creating Mandalas: For Insight, Healing, and Self-Expression

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Friday, November 15, 2024
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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Experience an engaging expressive arts-based journey through the history, psychology, and strength-based approaches for creating and finding meaning in mandalas. Informal lectures with slides illustrate the spiritual psychology of mandalas, as well as Carl Jung’s theory of mandalas, and American Art Therapist Joan Kellogg’s system, the Archetypal Stages of the Great Round. Ms. Fincher, a mentee of Kellogg, describes each stage and its typical mandala designs that can help form a diagnostic impression of the person creating the mandala. By the end of the day participants will be able to • Describe steps for creating and interpreting a personal mandala for wellness. • Explain Jung’s theory of mandalas in the psychology of adult individuals. • Describe two stages of the Great Round and typical developments issues associated with each stage. • Identify two essential resources for creating and better understanding mandalas. *Kindly note this is a full day workshop


Speaker

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Susanne Fincher

Creating Mandalas: For Insight, Healing, and Self-Expression

Biography

More than 40 years ago I discovered my love of creating mandalas. During a time of grieving, I found that sketching circular drawings made me feel better. Someone told me that C. G. Jung called drawings like mine: mandalas. Through an apprenticeship in Art Therapy (1976 – 1978), my interest in mandalas grew. I found my way to the mandala training of Joan Kellogg, an American Art Therapist (1981 – 1983). Joan became an important mentor for me and encouraged me during the writing of my book, Creating Mandalas (1991, 2010). I became a Board Certified-Registered Art Therapist (1979), and a Licensed Professional Counsellor (1993). In my therapy practice, supervision of practitioners, and through my books, workshops, and mandala intensives, I have introduced thousands of people to the spiritual, psychological, and health enhancing dimensions of creating mandalas. I continue creating mandalas as a personal practice dedicated to healing myself, others, and the planet we share.

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