Helga is the founder of the Fullcirclemandala Project.  The Fullcirclemandala project was created to use art as a tool for healing and communication. Having gone through personal healing with the aid of an artistic practice, (click on link on left to personal art website) there remained the impetus to create with others in empathy, compassion, and awareness. Using the premise of equality in diversity, we created projects with love for humanity. Here are some of our projects, with the warmest of  thank you to the funders, who supported us with the greatest kindness:

Chawker’s foundation, JFC, Charles Bronfman foundation, Visual Arts Centre, Canada Council, Unesco, Engrenage Noir, and others.

I began fullcirclemandala work by witnessing the Bush era, 9/11 and the seeing the devastation of the bombing of Iraq on TV. She proposed workshops with the dances of Universal Peace and Mandalas, and with the support of Marilyn Bronstein, Munira Avinger and many others, many 400 mandalas were created and brought as banners to Firestations that Christmas, around the site of the twin towers, and to Union Square Subway. People cried when they saw the messages and support of love, and told their stories…

 World Council of Churches for the United Nations Kyoto Conference on Climate Change in Montreal -we gave workshops on how climate was affecting us and the participants vowed to create a small action of whatever they could to help participate. We created a collective mandala with people of all nationalities and ages- from 2- 90 years of age, drawing our intentions to support on the mandala as a community.

This mandala was presented to Stephan Dion at the conference, as well as a video created by Helga on the beauty of the creation of the planet.  Helga was on board  with the World Council of Churches to help create a 3 hr event using the arts, to bring awareness to climate change, and found funding for the majority of the project.  This event took place in front of 3,000 people including the public and the United Nations Delegates. Funded by the World Council of Churches, Unesco and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Meeting in the Middle – A collaboration with the Visual Arts Centre, the Montreal Dialogue Group, and the Fullcirclemandala project. We brought together a group of Muslims and Jews, mostly Israelis and Palestinians  for a project on Peace based on understanding each other’s humanity. One person had her home bulldozed and created lamps out of the now worthless deeds of her ancestor’s  lands, adding old keys that no longer were usable, passed down from  generations, and another wrote a play on paper she made out of Arab and Hebrew old newspapers, taking the point of view of her brother’s killer, a suicide bomber, as “standing in another’s shoes”. We created an installation mandala  which was shown at the McClure Gallery in Montreal, and at the UN (United Nations Secretarial Building) in New York City.

The Three Schools Project- We brought together three schools – A Jewish school (Akiva), a Muslim school (École Jeunes Musulmans Canadiens), and a Christian school (The Priory), during a difficult period of religious relationships in Montreal to create communal mandalas 
The Mackay Centre – Thanks to the Visual Arts centre and the Chawker foundation, we worked with both the deaf and visually impaired community, two murals were created to let the outside world know their wishes and who they are. 

9/11- New York- 400 people created individual  mandalas for peace after 9/11, delivered to Firestations and Union Square subway the Christmas by Helga. Countless communal mandalas were created after that and sent to countries in need of peace. 

Workshops on Peace before the bombing of Iraq

After that, before the bombing of Iraq sent an email to a friend (Marilyn Bronstein) about an idea for collective mandalas bringing together Jews, Muslims and Christians, and Marilyn sent it out to everyone she knew. The next day emails flooded in offering space, money, help and 100 people were moved, sang, were fed, and created banners for peace which were sent around the world, all for free.