THE LIFE CYCLE: KELLOGG ADVANCED COURSE IN MANDALA ASSESSMENT
(3-day course with a certificate of completion)
DATE: October 23-25,2009 Friday – Sunday 9:00-5pm
PLACE: Round Oaks Creative Center
1443 Glenside Green, Charlottesville, VA 22901
TUITION: $365 includes a course notebook.($75 non-refundable deposit.)
CEU’S are available for an additional fee
INSTRUCTORS:
Phyllis Frame, M.A., ATR, is a credentialed professional member of the American Art Therapy Association. She is a founding board member of the Association of Teachers of Mandala Assessment, Inc. (no longer active), and studied and consulted with the Joan Kellogg for many years. Phyllis has a private art therapy practice in Charlottesville, VA and is the Director of the Round Oaks Creative Center, offering expressive therapies workshops and individual art therapy and sand tray sessions. She has given talks and workshops on art therapy, the mandala, and sand tray throughout the United States and in England, and has published articles on mandala, art therapy and sand tray in professional journals.
Carole McNamee, PHD, LMFT is a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and an associate member of the American Art Therapy Association. She is founder and director of Willowbank Creative Center in Blacksburg, VA where she maintains a private practice and teaches creative arts. In addition, she is an Affiliate Research Professor in Human Development and Director of the Arts in Healthcare Project at Virginia Tech. She has published and presented nationally on the therapeutic uses of the creative arts. She has been engaged in research on the use of mandalas with both individuals and couples since 2004.
DESCRIPTION
The mandala is a circular drawing, well known by Jungians as an indicator of internal processes. Jung referred to it as a “cryptogram (coded message) concerning the state of the self.” This mandala course includes concepts from psychosocial, physiological, and spiritual perspectives as they relate to our understanding of the meaning of colors and images found in mandala drawings.
Participants will be introduced to the mandala drawing and learn how to use it as a diagnostic and healing tool in work with others and for themselves. This course will include the historical background of the mandala form as seen in nature, art, myth, architecture, religion and ritual. The format will include lecture, illustrative slides, film and experiential activities including mandala art and poetry writing. It is based on Kellogg’s theory of the 13 Archetypal Stages in the Great Round of the Mandala, a comprehensive model for the development of human consciousness that fits into all cycles. Kellogg incorporated states of consciousness research with Jungian theory and cross-cultural studies, and theorized an organized system based on form, color, and symbols for understanding mandala drawings. This developmental model includes issues around birth, life, death, and rebirth and provides a map of human consciousness and evolution.
This training is for therapists, especially art or expressive therapists, or others in the fields of mental health, pastoral or spiritual counseling, or those interested in knowing more about this subject for their own growth and healing. It could be a refresher course for those who
who have taken earlier Mari or mandala courses and wish to go deeper into this material.
Please send a non-refundable deposit of $75 to Phyllis Frame, 1443 Glenside Green., Charlottesville, VA 22901. Upon receipt of the deposit, a confirmation letter will be sent with lodging information and directions to the center. For further information, please call Phyllis at 434-973-7534 or email: pframe79@aol.com
