New Possibilities

Welcome to the inaugural issue of New Possibilities, a periodic newsletter for the clients, colleagues, and friends of The Mandorla Center. The main purpose of each issue will be to provide you with relevant information and practical resources that will enlighten, empower, and enhance your life and career. Each issue will serve as a forum for exploring new possibilities for our lives — emotionally, physically, intellectually, and spiritually. In short, each issue will inspire you to seek out new possibilities in your own life.

Future issues will be published periodically. Each issue will feature a highly informative and interesting article that will provide you with insight and perspective on issues that matter most to you, like topics of interest in the mental health and education fields. Each article will aim to clarify, provoke thought, as well as encourage and inspire you to seek out and implement new possibilities in your life and career.

If you have an idea for an article for a future issue or if you would like to submit an article for possible publication in our newsletter, please send your query to pblessin@bellsouth.net. Articles for the ‘Feature Article’ will be written by practitioners in the mental health, education, and related fields, and articles for the ‘Client’s Corner’ will be written by clients. As such, New Possibilities will be a forum for connecting with each other and for sharing ideas, success stories, and best practices. And in so doing, we will support each other to seek out and implement new possibilities in our lives.

Work begins on The Mandorla Lodge and Retreat Center.

Welcome

Volume 1, Issue 1, Summer 2004

Client’s Corner

Our work at The Mandorla Center is to help integrate and facilitate emotional, physical, intellectual, and spiritual growth and well being for the client, both personally and professionally. Helping our clients create passionate and fulfilling relationships, careers, and lives is our primary mission!

As such, we have provided you with this forum to serve as your “VOICE”. We want to hear from you regarding your thoughts, feelings, and ideas about your own personal transformations, insights, growth, and success stories.

For possible inclusion in next season’s issue, please send your submission to the Director of The Mandorla Center at pblessin@bellsouth.net, who also serves as the newsletter’s general editor. Submissions should be limited to 200 words and should focus on a topic or personal experience that has had a significant impact in your life and that you believe can benefit others.

To protect confidentiality, all submissions accepted for publication will be printed anonymously and may be edited to ensure the information published stays within all applicable ethical, legal, and professional standards. We look forward to hearing from you. Our hope is that this forum will provide you an opportunity to share your experiences, to express your thoughts and feelings, and to connect with others.

To add or remove your name from our mailing list or to contact us with questions, comments, or ideas for our next issue, as well as event and news items that you’d like published in the newsletter, please e-mail us at pblessin@bellsouth.net or call us at 678-290-1337. If you know of someone who can benefit from the information in this newsletter, please pass it along. All correspondence and information (including personal data such as email addresses, etc.) sent to the above email address (the Director of The Mandorla Center) is kept completely confidential and is not shared with anyone outside The Mandorla Center. The editor reserves the right to make appropriate edits to submissions to ensure all information published stays within all ethical, legal, and professional standards, and is consistent with the positive and supportive spirit of The Mandorla Center.

Feature Article

Groundbreaking began June, 2004 on The Mandorla Lodge and Retreat Center. The center will be a 5000 square foot lodge nestled on 9 beautiful mountain acres near Jasper, Georgia. The center will open in Fall, 2004 and will host retreats, meetings, conferences, and other activities of interest to our community of clients, colleagues, and friends.

Dear Carole and Patrick, … You are making a difference in the world and I am so blessed to benefit from it. I will take it and put the same thing out in the world for others. - Client