The mandala centred the groups insights and sense of atmosphere, and symbolised a sense of magic and awareness.

SANDTRAY MANDALAS FOR HEALING THE ANCESTORS

Sandtray Visioning Mandalas encapsulate a vision and can be activated as a moving 3D symbol.  This is a way of healing the family tree through a constellation of symbols and images that are given a voice in Creative Journal.

Kevin the Gnome ponders –

Making a collective collage with clay, paint and montage symbolising group vision for children’s play.

Group Collage can be used as a symbol for future work with children and parents.

Play and Parenting group collage.

HOME EDUCATION

Comedy, cartoons and home video formed the curriculum for a child with special gifts (http://captainkaranga.blogspot.com)

Foolish faces reflect a deep insight into human role playing.

Latex face changing, using the Inner Fool.

Home Education involved the empowerment of a deep passion for drawing and characterisation of the world of human wierdness.

Making drawings that became the basis of computer cartoons.

At School – Rude Poems by a gifted young learner of 9 years who rebels against the system.

NON DIRECTIVE PLAY AND CREATIVE JOURNAL FOR LEARNING SUPPORT IN SCHOOL.

Journal Drawings

The Shark is one boy’s statement of a difficult school experience.

Characters and puppets formed the curriculum for the emotional literacy development for a gifted child in home education.

The use of characters and narrative used both in home education and non-directive play at school.

This was created in a non-directive play sesssion as a learning support for a child of 8 yrs who was having difficulties integrating in infant school.

Two dragons trapped symbolised a young learner’s feelings about school.

VISION COLLAGE

A Mini Collage, ‘Health’, made of contrasting felt and photo montage.  The Spider Weaver is a symbol of my Creative Self as work integrating many aspects of my life.

MATWORK USING MINI COLLAGES
Matwork uses simple foam mats to symbolise different aspects of an issue, which the participant can stand on and speak through intuitive identification.  Using Mini Collages is one way of getting visual enhancement for the quality depicted, in support of intuitive resolutions.

These were made to be mats, so that each theme could be ’embodied’ and explored intuitively.

Mini Collage montages help to identify aspects of a problem that cannot be put into words, and then used as mats for role play.

Click HERE to see a video of the workshop.

WORKSHOPS INTEGRATING JOURNAL, COLLAGE AND DRUMMING

At the Phoenix Centre, Suffolk, Creative Journal and sandtray mandala expressed a heart-felt healing wish, and drumming completed the day celebrating new changes and visions for our personal lives.  Rhythm and movement brings a sense of empowerment and commitment to action, through the reverie created by resonance and rhythmical movement.

CLAY PROBLEM RESOLUTION

Clay is a muscular medium in which to experience somatic roots of the feelings, and embody the intuitive self’s resolution to a conflict.  It is supported by Creative Journal, with role play, matwork, and vision collage to further explore a future goal, and the inner dialogue of the Critic.

Three pieces of clay represent the origin, central isue and resolution of a problem.