About this Event
Mandala Workshop - @richartbest
A two hour workshop designed to teach and support individuals in understanding the foundations and history of mandalas, and their use in the healing process.
Individuals will use their time focused on the purpose of the mandala design, and begin to create their own. Starting with the basic layouts and simple designs, we will explore the elegance of simple representational language to communicate complex or intangible concepts. With a focus on wellbeing and personal healing, participants will draw from their own intuition when creating a design that resonates with their own experience and reflections.
Aims; Individuals will leave the sessions with a completed, mounted mandala and the skills to develop mandala designs on their own.
History/Knowledge;
A Mandala (Sanskrit for “circle”) is an artistic representation of higher thought and deeper meaning given as a geometric symbol used in spiritual, emotional, or psychological work to focus one's attention.
The image has been used by cultures around the world in many different periods up to the present. The details of the meaning of a given mandala depend on the individual creating or observing the image, but mandalas in every culture serve, more or less, the same purpose of centering an individual or community on a given narrative in order to encourage introspection and, ultimately, an awareness of one's place and purpose in the world; this awareness then allows for peace of mind.
The image is usually defined as a circle decorated with imagery which directs the mind of the observer (or creator) inwards from the outer rim toward deeper reflection on the meaning and purpose of life, the nature of the universe, the substance and reality of God, the true nature of the self, the underlying form of reality, cosmological truths, and any other spiritual, psychological, or emotional aspect of one's life.
To the 20th Century Swiss Psychologist Carl Jung, the mandala was the key to self-understanding and self-acceptance; by creating mandalas, one could come to know one's self more completely, recognize unhealthy thoughts and behaviours, and move closer to the centre of one's actual being, leaving behind the various illusions of the self which
clouded and confined one's psychological and spiritual vision.
Mark, J. J. (2020, October 13). Mandala. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/mandala/
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Compound, 161 Bexhill Road, Hastings, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00