<\/a>A simple clean dot represents the seed, the potential of discovery<\/p><\/div>\n
Our materials are simple \u2013 a blank index card, a pencil or a pen, and a scrap sheet of paper to record your feelings and associations on.<\/p>\n
We begin by planting a seed in the center of the index card, encircling it and drawing radiating lines and shapes outward. It is as if we are creating an abstract map of our interior life. As the relaxing background music carries us deeper into ourselves,\u00a0a quiet calm blankets the room.<\/strong><\/p>\nFrom Art to Words<\/strong><\/h2>\nAs we record the symbols and shapes we have used, our mandala\u2019s map legend is coaxed into existence. Intuitively, we begin to freely and uninhibitedly make word associations with our core symbols and shapes. Then we link these words together with other adjectives, adverbs and verbs into a free-style form of writing in which there is no right or wrong, no good or bad<\/strong>, just whatever appears on the paper. We trust the process.<\/p>\n\n\t\t