The 'Exploring the Mandala' course will be held over two Sundays.
OES Hall, 23 Railway Street, Wentworthville, NSW.
The course will be run over two Sundays, a month apart. The dates are:
2nd October 2005, and
6th November 2005.
The course begins at 9.30 and ends at 4:30 on both days.
The cost for the 2-day course is $165.00 including GST. The cost of the course includes your own copy of a 60 page guide called 'Exploring the Mandala' complete with original artwork. Morning and afternoon teas are available on the day. Please either bring or buy your own lunch.
Places on the course are limited. Email Lyn to book a place.
At the completion of this course, you will be able to:
‘Making a mandala is a discipline for pulling all those scattered aspects of your life together, for finding a centre and ordering yourself to it. You try to co-ordinate your circle with the universal circle.’ Joseph Campbell
The circle is a universal human symbol, found in all the world's great spiritual traditions. A mandala is a circular drawing made in a ritual way to contain the mandala-maker's thoughts, reflections, dreams and symbols. In this course, you will explore mandala traditions and symbolism and begin to interpret your own mandalas for personal healing and transformation.
The presentation and discussion will focus on what mandalas are, giving pictorial examples where possible. This session will also set the tone for future sessions, focusing on some guidelines for interaction, and also discussing the difference between mandala-making and art. After introducing ourselves to each other, we will cover the following discussion areas:
The focus of this session is to draw the first mandala, share it and share any reflections or insights.
The focus for this session is to look at some of the great spiritual traditions of the world and how the mandala has been used by these religions and traditions.
This session will focus on the use of colour in mandala making and the symbolic meanings for colours. Participants will be asked to reflect on their own personal associations with colour.
This session will focus on the symbology of numbers in mandala making. Participants will be asked to reflect on their own personal associations with number and the deeper meanings that numbers might hold.
The focus for this is to assimilate the presented information and respond to it in drawing a mandala.
The focus for this session is to draw a mandala. This session will include a period of time for reflection and then sharing any thoughts.
The focus for this session is reflection upon the meanings for some of the great symbols within spiritual traditions. Participants will be asked to reflect on an image for themselves and so that they can use it later in a mandala.
Susanne Fincher’s book discusses the way mandalas may be viewed as visual evidence of a psychological journey. We will look at this idea and reflect on the mandala as a journey.
We will discuss the mandala as a part of a ritual, the importance of rituals and the way simple rituals may be used within our life as healing or transformative experiences.
The focus for this is to assimilate the presented information and respond to it in drawing a mandala.
We will look at some questions and ideas in that may be useful in interpreting a mandala. All participants will have a chance for personal reflection on their own mandalas. This concludes the course.
To download the course brochure, click here.
For more information about the 'Exploring the Mandala' course, email us.
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