About the session
- The organizing power of the mandala as a container for your artistic expression. Discover how this ancient symbol provides structure and safety for intuitive work, especially during times of grief, transition, or when you feel ungrounded in your practice.
- Ways to invite magic and guidance into your creative journey through openness and asking. Julie shares how being heartbroken and open led to a life-changing discovery, and how the mandala continues to answer her creative questions even when she tries to resist.
- A practical framework for sustainable creative rhythms that connect your inner life with seasonal cycles and symbolic language. Learn how to work with pattern, simplicity, and the relationship between center and circumference as a reflection of self and community.
- How to use mandala practice as both a spiritual tool and a therapeutic process for accessing your subconscious. This approach offers freedom within structure, allowing what wants to come through you to emerge naturally while maintaining a grounded, consistent practice.
Julie will guide you through creating an "affirmations mandala" using just three circular objects and two colors, transforming a creative struggle (like "I can't stick to a routine") into a positive mantra that you draw, color, and embody through the sacred geometry of concentric circles. This deceptively simple practice becomes a portable talisman you can keep in your journal or under your pillow, turning pattern-making into a meditative commitment to yourself and the universe.
About the speaker
Based in Scotland, Julie Gibbons is a symbolic artist, educator, and guide who teaches mandala-based creative practice in times of personal and collective change. Through her work, she invites women to use symbols as a living language for reflection, healing, and meaning-making. Rooted in Jungian psychology, seasonal cycles, and decades of personal practice, Julie’s teaching offers the mandala as a practical, embodied process for exploring inner and outer worlds. Known for its depth, gentleness, and carefully held container, her work supports the development of sustainable creative rhythms that connect imagination, environment, and the inner life.
