This workshop will engage participants in a contemplative mandala-making process for professional invigoration and self-care. Participants will make a mandala through a contemplative process that can be easily replicated outside of the virtual conference. The process will open attendees’ potential for reflective inner-dialogue aimed to chronicle professional growth and generate wholeness for the practitioner. Attendees will leave the workshop having experienced an artistic wellness practice that can enrich and revitalize their professional work.
Suggested Art Materials:
(1) Surface: mixed media or watercolor paper; While the surface does not need to be square, it does need to accommodate your mandala: 7x7, 8x12, 12x12 are some options;
(2) Pencil (for tracing circle);
(3) Bowl or other circle (approx. 6-7 inches in diameter).
Media suggestions (one or two of these items will suffice):
(1) Oil pastels (+napkins);
(2) Watercolors (+water, brush, napkins);
(3) Watercolor markers (+water, brush, napkins)
Amy Bucciarelli
Amy Bucciarelli, MS, ATR-BC, LMHC, is a faculty member for the University of Florida's Center for Arts in Medicine. Amy's clinical experience focuses on medical art therapy. She has published and presented about assessments, mandalas, practitioner self-care, the therapeutic use of hand papermaking, and the collaboration of creative arts therapies and arts in medicine programs.
Dr. Sheila Lorenzo de la Peña
Sheila Lorenzo de la Peña, PhD, ATR-BC, faculty at Edinboro University. With twelve years of experience providing art therapy and DBT services at a forensic state facility serving individuals with chronic mental illness. She also served as adjunct faculty at FSU and supervised masters level students at the forensic state facility for over 10 years. She promotes routine use of creative expression. She maintains several creative practices and shares them through her social media.