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About Us
The Mandala, with its intricate design and holistic form, serves as both a metaphor and a practical framework for our work.
It symbolizes the interdependence of mental, emotional, spiritual, and social health. Just as each segment of a mandala is essential to its whole, every individual's well-being is interconnected with their community and environment.
In practice, this means:
Designing trainings that respect and hold space for diverse cultural perspectives.
Encouraging practitioners to engage in reflective practices that deepen their own mental and emotional well-being.
Building relationships within communities that are based on mutual respect, understanding, and co-creation.
For us good mental health is a living, breathing process—a way of being that honours complexity, diversity, and the continuous pursuit of wisdom and well-being.
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Our Ethos
We believe everyone has the capacity—and the right—to thrive as intentional, conscious, and engaged individuals, thinking deeply, acting with purpose, and growing within their communities. This means we need constant access to the spaces, tools, and practices that channel our innate wisdom—not just in crisis, but as a way of life.
We exist to empower individuals to claim this for themselves—equipped, skilled, and ready to bring it into their communities. Our focus is on lifelong learning, intellectual curiosity, and the cultivation of both democratic values and individual potential. We train well-rounded, independent thinkers and holistic mental health practitioners who embody wisdom and apply it in real, tangible ways.
Good Mental Health Is a Way of Being
Mental health isn’t a fixed state—it’s a way of being. A continuous unfolding. A process of becoming a wise, healthy human in a changing world.
We see mental health as both a noun and a verb. As a noun, it reflects the mind’s state. As a verb, it’s the ongoing practice of cultivating balance, awareness, and emotional well-being. It’s not a destination—it’s a relationship with oneself, others, and the world.
Like a mandala—intricate, evolving, and interconnected—our well-being is shaped by the cultures and communities we belong to. It is never passive. It is lived, breathed, and woven into daily existence.
We don’t impose solutions. We co-create spaces where wisdom and healing emerge organically—where every person, every story, every struggle becomes part of a greater whole.
This is Good Mental Health As a Living Process.
Good Mental Health Is an Active Practice
Mental health isn’t just something we have—it’s something we do. A practice. A commitment. A way of engaging with ourselves and the world with intention, depth, and care.
At the Mandala Institute, this means cultivating mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being through reflection, dialogue, and mindful action. It means embracing complexity, fostering resilience, and allowing wisdom to take root in real, lived experience.
Good mental health is co-created—shaped by individuals and communities, evolving through shared learning and practice. It isn’t prescribed. It isn’t one-size-fits-all. No two paths to well-being are the same.
Our practitioners train to work in diverse and shifting landscapes, where adaptability and cultural sensitivity aren’t just valuable—they’re essential. We honour these differences, not by dictating solutions, but by guiding the process of discovery. Healing is not imposed. It emerges.
Good Mental Health is a Daily Practice. A Shared Journey.
A Movement Toward Wholeness.
Who We Are
Andrew Gentile
For nearly 20 years I've been using my understanding of the subconscious mind and the interplay of thoughts, emotions, behaviours and human physiology to help clients understand the root causes of their suffering and to coach them through transforming themselves at the deepest level.
As a Certified Hypnotherapist and Certified Medical Hypnotherapist since 2003, with a B.Sc. in Biochemistry, and an M.Sc. in Environmental Management, I bring a deep body of knowledge and variety of perspectives to help you make the changes you've been seeking.
Through my work with clients, I've come to keenly understand the influence of the psychological and emotional environments in which we grow up. Culture, religion, financial abundance or scarcity, the mental health and mindset of our parents - these all form parts of our environment and directly influence how we develop our adult assumptions, expectations, attitudes, perceptions, as well as coping and defense mechanisms.
My further studies and experiences with nutritional counseling, homeopathy, energy work, mediumship, shamanic healing and various traditional healing systems and philosophies from around the globe have allowed me an incredible flexibility to effectively work with clients of any background or belief system.
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Andrew Nolan
I'm fascinated with how people can harness their creative power to change their lives for the better. The intersection of psychology, spirituality, and holistic approaches to healing continues to move and inspire me. My work is targeted, multidisciplinary and effective.
My over two decades of study and experience in the healing arts, coupled with my intuitive, holistic and multi-dimensional approach to health and wellness consistently brings powerful breakthroughs to my clients. Client sessions with me always include a robust educational component.
I’m a certified hypnotherapist with both hypnotherapy and advanced hypnotherapy certifications, a certified Kundalini yoga instructor and am trained in Permaculture Design, which lends me lends an expanded framework for healing that includes the interrelationships between the health of the individual, the family, society, and the environment. I have a 28 year background in Somatics, including Medical QiGong, Chi Nei Tsang, and 5 Element Acupressure. As part of my advanced Yoga studies I am a current student of Vedic Counseling at the American Institute of Vedic Studies with Dr. David Frawley
My holistic and multi-modal approach allows my clients and students multiple angles from which to engage and experience healing and transformation. I incorporate the best perspectives of mind-body healing approaches from around the world to support, enrich, and deepen your results.