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Welcome to the website Mandalaweb.info of Annalisa Ippolito, a teacher of Art History with a passion for Mandala, sand painting of  Native Americans and Hindu-Tibetan traditions.
Actually she lives and works between Italy, Dominican Republic, and Spain.
Her web site is dedicated to the World of Mandala and the poetry that is in each people. This web site is like a notebook where she organizes all notes, infos, theories and knowledge that Annalisa
discovered on her trips, studies and meetings with people all around the world.
The goal of this web site is to share with as many people as possible the beauty and benefits of Mandalas.

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This page is dedicated all people that work with Mandala and that send me info 
about them meeting, course, seminars, workshop with the mandala... 
Enjoy and attend!

Creating Mandalas with Susanne Fincher

posted Feb 7, 2012 2:43 AM by Annalisa Ippolito

Create and interpret mandalas (sacred circles) under the guidance of a warm, passionate expert. Learn ways to use art materials for insight, healing, and self-expression in an atmosphere that welcomes and delights in your creativity.  Workshop leader, Susanne Fincher, is an art therapist with more than 30 years experience leading groups in the US and abroad. Give yourself the treat of attending a Creating Mandalas workshop. Come to more than one, or attend all four and experience ongoing personal growth all year through your creative process.

Susanne F. Fincher, MA, LPC, ATR-BC, is a licensed professional counselor and a board certified art therapist. She has produced the books Creating Mandalas, The Mandala Workbook, and the popular series Coloring Mandalas 1, 2, and 3. Susanne offers workshops and supervision at her Plum Blossom Studio in Decatur, Georgia.










Fridays, 12 noon – 4:00 pm

March 2, 2012

April 27, 2012

August 24, 2012

November 2, 2012

Plum Blossom Studio

Decatur, Georgia

$49.00 each workshop

$150.00 all four workshops

For information: info@creatingmandalas.com or 404-290-8773

WORKSHOP REGISTRATION FORM

Name____________________________________________________

Address___________________________________________________

        _____________________________________________________

        _____________________________________________________

Phone ____________________________________________________

Email_____________________________________________________

 

____March 2, 2012, Creating Mandalas                             $49.00

____April 27, 2012, Creating Mandalas                               49.00

____August 24, 2012, Creating Mandalas                            49.00

____November 2, 2012, Creating Mandalas                         49.00

____To attend all four Creating Mandalas                        $150.00

        

                                 Total payment                          $________

 

Please make checks payable to: Susanne Fincher

Mail to:

2311 Ava Place

Decatur, GA  30033

 

News from Susanne Fincher

posted Jan 24, 2012 10:55 AM by Annalisa Ippolito

An exciting exhibit! 

The Sacred Round: Mandalas by the Patients of Carl Jung

Oglethorpe University
Museum of Art
Atlanta, Georgia
February 5-May 6, 2012

Lecture series includes one by Susanne:
Mandala: The Natural Center
Friday, February 24, 2012
7:00 pm
www.oglethorpe.edu

Save your place:

Entering the Circle:
A Five Day Mandala Intensive
Susanne F. Fincher and Marilyn F. Clark

June 10 – 15, 2012
Location: Decatur (Atlanta), Georgia
$495 (early registration) 20 CE’s

20 CE’s applied for through LPCAGA

Learn to appreciate mandalas as spontaneous symbols of wholeness by creating and interpreting your own mandalas. Together we will explore the twelve Archetypal Stages of the Great Round of Mandala.  Susanne & Marilyn share informative talks on color and form in mandalas, as well as the psychology, myth, and meaning in mandalas. Throughout we will enjoy creative self-expression in Plum Blossom Studio, an airy work space set in a shady Japanese inspired garden.

Mandala Certificate Program

Entering the Circle is also Part I of the Mandala Certificate Program.

For information visit: www.creatingmandalas.com or email us info@creatingmandalas.com

Mandala Calendar 2012

posted Dec 12, 2011 4:01 PM by Annalisa Ippolito   [ updated Dec 12, 2011 4:04 PM ]

It is on line my Mandala Calendar 2012. it is my gift for all people that need take a time to breath, relax and think that all we need is not more time... but the quality of time!

Enjoy it!

Annalisa

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The mandala is a tool for your wellness and awareness, with its motion from centre to periphery and vice versa suggests a journey inside you and can help each one to enter into a new dimension of space-time marked by present.
The mandala is an invite to gain inner harmony and peace every day to approach every commitment and every activity focused and centred on you. It is a tool to live on "Here and Now" without dispersion of good energies in useless thoughts.
When you feel very hectic and entangled in activities is the time to make the effort to stop and take back your own present.
You need just five minutes a day, a few slow deep breaths and focus on the mandala of the month you can get your centre your energy and your lucid mind. And then go on...

Click on the cover to download



Mandala Calendar 2012

News from Susanne Fincher

posted Dec 5, 2011 3:17 AM by Annalisa Ippolito

Special Offer:
www.Shambhala.com: Three of her Coloring Mandalas coloring books for the price of two!

Also available: Creating Mandalas, revised edition, with a new chapter on group mandalas.


Save the Date:

Entering the Circle: A Five Day Mandala Intensive

Presented by: Susanne F. Fincher and Marilyn F. Clark

June 10 – 15, 2012

Location: Atlanta, Georgia

$495 (early registration) 20 CE’s

"Our annual immersion experience in mandalas, circular designs with an ancient history and psychological significance. Learn to appreciate mandalas as spontaneous symbols of wholeness as you create and interpret your own mandalas. Listen to informative talks on color and form in mandalas. Witness case study presentations that demonstrate the meaning in mandalas. Together we will explore the Archetypal Stages of the Great Round of Mandala through our creative expression in Plum Blossom Studio, an airy work space set in a shady Japanese inspired garden."

Mandala Certificate Program.

Entering the Circle is also Part I of the Mandala Certificate Program.

For information visit: www.creatingmandalas.com or email us info@creatingmandalas.com

Facebook: “Like” Susanne’s Facebook page: Creating Mandalas.

Unconditional Presence of Sound - Meditation and Music: Cultivating Mindful Awareness

posted Oct 18, 2011 1:57 AM by Annalisa Ippolito

Thursday, November 17, 2011 from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm

Plum Blossom Studio, Decatur, GA



Treat yourself to a day of renewal!

Experience the unconditional presence of sound as it supports and deepens

meditation practice. We will explore these profound meditation practices:

• Lovingkindness

• Gratitude

• Body awareness

• Mindfulness

• Forgiveness

• Mandalas

$125 - To Register Call, Email, or go to www.integrativemusicinstitute.com
Open to everyone, those new to meditation as well

as those with a practice
~ contact hours or continuing education units available ~

Email:

# info@integrativemusicinstitute.com
Erin Johnson, LPC, FAMI
# # 434.971.4747 ext. 105

Cara Marinucci, LPC, FAMI
# # 434.960.2327

With appreciation to
Susanne Fincher for the use of
Plum Blossom Studio
www.creatingmandalas.com

A Mandala Consultation - Decatur - Georgia (US) - Saturday, August 20

posted Jul 4, 2011 10:45 AM by Annalisa Ippolito

A Mandala Consultation
Saturday, August 20

12:00 noon – 4:15 PM

Plum Blossom Studio

Decatur, Georgia

$90.00    (limited enrollment)

$25.00 for CE processing

During this consultation you are invited to create mandalas (circular drawings) and refine your skills for guiding clients’ exploration of mandalas as a form of self-discovery. Bring any and all of your questions, concerns, or curiosity about creating mandalas. This consultation provides an opportunity to re-visit and learn from your experiences using mandalas during supervision, with individuals, and with groups. You are especially encouraged to bring your own or client mandalas, and stories of successes, mistakes, and lessons learned from your clients about mandalas.

For Susanne’s present and former supervisees, this consultation provides four supervision hours toward the ATR and Georgia LPC credentials. Others can receive four CE hours (applied for through LPCA of GA).

Susanne Fincher, MA, LPC, ATR-BC, has expert knowledge about mandalas for insight, healing, and self-expression. She has produced the books Creating Mandalas, The Mandala Workbook, and the popular series Coloring Mandalas 1, 2, and 3. Susanne provides workshops and supervision at Plum Blossom Studio in Decatur, Georgia.

For information and registration: info@creatingmandalas.com or 404-290-8773

MANDALA OF PEACE

posted Jan 3, 2011 7:33 AM by Annalisa Ippolito   [ updated Jan 3, 2011 7:46 AM ]

This mandala was created during two
Mandala workshops facilitated by
Rev. Starr DiCiurcio.  It is comprised
of the individual peace mandalas of
women of Buddhist, Christian and
Jewish faiths.
  
The peace mandala is now on loan at
the Hospice Center in Schenectady, NY
where people can enjoy its energy.
 

Mandala: A Path to Wholeness - Winter Night—Winter Light

posted Jan 3, 2011 2:07 AM by Annalisa Ippolito

Winter is the season of Stillness and Vision of the Unmanifest.  Celebrate the beauty and meaning  of Winter through the creation of mandalas.  These “sacred circles” relate to the ancient practice of creating images within circles to come into deeper connection with your True Self—the eternal and guiding aspect of your inner being.  In this workshop you will:

Learn why the circle is the archetype for wholeness

Experience the creation of personal mandalas as an active meditation
  
Connect to inner resources for well-being, insight, and creativity

Give yourself the gift of time and space for inner exploration
Create a group mandala to bless the Earth for the New Year

Art training is not required.  Bring your curiosity and open spirit!

Mandala:  A Path to Wholeness
Winter Night—Winter Light
Saturday, January 15, 2011
10:00 to 4:00

$60
(includes art materials)

Class size is limited.  Reserve your space by phoning Kathryn (309-268-0585) OR
Send $60 to:  Kathryn Bell, 1100 Beech Street #13-B, Normal, IL 61761.
Registration requested by January 8, 2011.

This Mandala workshop will be held at a private home situated in a beautiful natural setting. Directions and details will be provided upon registration.
 
Kathryn Bell, MSW, LMT, facilitator, brings a rich background of experience in psychotherapy, bodywork, and creative arts.  She is a graduate of the certification program, Mandala:  Holistic Reflection of the Self.

TRANSFORMATIONS - A LENTICULAR EXHIBITION

posted Oct 14, 2010 3:07 AM by Annalisa Ippolito   [ updated Oct 14, 2010 3:16 AM ]


                                        Tuesday, October 26 
                     at the Hotel Indigo Nashville from 5 - 7 pm


See the Faith Inspired & Floral Mandala Lenticular Works

showcasing abstract art by “Digital Dave” Turner
    and hand embellished photography by Rita J. Maggart
 
                       also enjoy Angel Pontier on Guitar with
                             sound by High Emotion Audio®
 
                   stick around after the show for Virginia Cannon 
                   and Voyage-Air Guitar’s Tuesday Nights Live!  
            featuring King Billy from 7 - 10 pm. Free Valet Parking.

 The Hotel Indigo Nashville is located at 1719 West End Avenue. We will be serving wine and light hors d'oeuvres. The attire is festive.



Lecture and workshop with Shaun McNiff in Candler/Emory University

posted Oct 5, 2010 11:33 PM by Annalisa Ippolito   [ updated Oct 5, 2010 11:46 PM ]

                        WELCOMING SHADOW

CREATING HEALING SPACE FOR RECLAIMING THE CREATIVE with SHAUN MCNIFF

 

AUTHOR OF: ART HEALS: HOW CREATIVITY CURES THE SOUL and ART AS MEDICINE: CREATING A THERAPY OF THE IMAGINATION

 

                                                    Sponsored by

 

                                                     GEORGIA ART THERAPY ASSOCIATION and  

OFFICE OF STUDENT PROGRAMMING

CANDLER SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY

EMORY UNIVERSITY

 

An exploration of what leaders do to create safe spaces where participants can practice letting go of inhibitions, cultivating responsiveness to the creative force, and learning how to witness and support the expression of others. Learn how to accept the threats and fears of expression as vital partners in remaking and revitalizing ourselves and our communities through infusions of imagination.

 

LECTURE:         OCTOBER 14, 7-9 PM

LOCATION: CANDLER/EMORY UNIVERSITY

2 CE’S for lpc’s and lcsw’s (applied for)

 

WORKSHOP:      OCTOBER 15, 9-4:00

LOCATION: EAST LAKE COMMONS CO-HOUSING; DANCING FOX ROAD

5 CE’S for lpc’s and lcsw’s (applied for)

 

Shaun McNiff is an internationally recognized authority on the arts and healing, creativity enhancement, creativity and leadership, and art-based research which was first formulated by his writings. He is an exhibiting painter and author of many books that include Art Heals: How Creativity Cures the Soul,! Trust the Process: An Artist's Guide to Letting Go; Art as Medicine: Creating a Therapy of the Imagination; Creating with Others: The Practice of Imagination in Life, Art and the Workplace; Art-Based Research, Depth Psychology of Art, and The Arts and Psychotherapy. His most recent book, Integrating the Arts in Therapy: History, Theory, and Practice, was published in 2009. McNiff established the first expressive arts therapy graduate training program at Lesley University from which the discipline of expressive arts therapy emerged.

 

Sign up Information:

 

Cost: Lecture: $15: Workshop: $110   

Make check payable to “GATA” and mail it along with the registration form below to:

 

Hertencer Sheppard

4662 Garden Hills Dr

Stone Mountain, GA 30083.

 

Email questions to Tori Tinsley, the GATA program chair at: victoriatinsley@gmail.com.

 

To learn more about Georgia Art Therapy Assoc, go to www.georgiaarttherapy.org.

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