Stephanie Smith believes that process-based art practices are powerful tools for transformative personal growth. These are lessons she has learned from creating 10,000 mandalas in the last decade. By removing the focus on quality, our harsh inner critic can be temporarily silenced, so anyone, even those not self-identifying as an artist, can receive the many physical, emotional and spiritual benefits that art-making has to offer.

Self-taught artist Stephanie Smith works with the sacred circular art form known as mandala, using the process as a self-reflective meditative practice. She has, to date, created over 10,000 pieces of mandala art in a wide variety of expressive mediums.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx.