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Mandala of Participation

An orientation compass for the human being 

 

You don’t need more understanding

You need orientation

 

A 6-month journey

from sensing 

to participating in your life 

This is a process of re-orienting your system 

 

We move through:

 

• perception

• orientation

• regulation

• attention

• rhythm

• relation

• roles

• participation

PATTERN SHIFT

 

At each layer you begin to see something clearly

 

Perception

→ do you sense yourself or your surroundings more?

 

Orientation

→ do you move from within or toward others?

 

Regulation

→ do you restore through your body or through external stimulation?

 

Attention

→ is your focus guided by your values or by approval?

 

Rhythm

→ are you living in your own timing or adapting to others?

 

Relation

→ do your relationships support who you are becoming?

 

Roles

→ are you living roles that fit you — or roles you have inherited?

 

Participation

→ are you present in your life — or only partially there?

Mandala of Participation 

An orientation compass for the human being 

 

Participation is not something you achieve
It is something your system becomes capable of 
 
A biologically grounded approach
to sensing, stabilising, relating — and participating in life

Most approaches begin with understanding 

 

This begins somewhere else

In the body

In sensation

In how you meet the world

 

From here a movement unfolds: 

Sense

Relate

Participate

Rejsen

Fra sansning til deltagelse — over tid 

Fase 1

 

Landing i kroppen 

Måned 1–2 

Perception · Orientation · Regulation

Du begynder at finde fodfæste

Kroppen falder til ro

 

Et indre referencepunkt

begynder at tage form

This is not something you force

It is something that reorganises 

Fase 2

 

At finde din rytme 

Måned 3–4 

Attention · Rhythm

Opmærksomheden samler sig

Du begynder at mærke

dit eget tempo

 

Ikke det du har tilpasset dig

men det der er dit

This is not something you force

It is something that reorganises 

Fase 3

 

At leve din deltagelse 

Måned 5–6 

Relation · Roles · Participation

Du begynder at træde frem

 

I relationer

I dine valg

I dit liv

 

Ikke som tilpasning

men som udtryk

 

This is not something you force

It is something that reorganises 


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THE FOUR DIMENTIONS / SEASONS

The mandala organises human life through four essential relationships

— the four compass directions every person navigates continuously.

 

BODY                  Your relationship to your own organism — its signals, its ground, its rest.

                          Winter · Earth
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TIME                   Your relationship to rhythm, energy and biological cycle.

                          Spring · Fire
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RELATIONSHIPS   Your relationship to other people — meeting, contact and function in community.

                          Summer · Air
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WORLD               Your relationship to the wider world — your contribution and authentic participation.

                          Autumn · Space
 

THE EIGHT (ORIENTATIONS) MOVEMENTS

Between the four directions, development unfolds in a spiral of eight capacities.

Each builds on the one before. Together they describe the full arc from the body's most basic sensory signals

to authentic engagement in the world.

 

01 — Body                    Perception   
                                   Sensing the world through the body's base signals
 
02 — Body                   Orientation   
                                   The body finding its inner reference point
 
03 — Body                   Regulation
                                  The nervous system returning to rest
 
04 — Time                   Attention
                                  The mind settling — not through effort, but through ground. Where water begins to flow.
 
05 — Time                   Rhythm
                                       Organising energy and life in biological cycle
 
06 — Relationships      Relation
                                  Genuine meeting and contact with another person
 
07 — Relationships      Roles 
                                  Finding your function in the communities you belong to
 
08 — World                 Participation
                                       Authentic engagement in the world — from clarity, not obligation

THE PRINCIPLE OF FLOW

The mandala does not turn by force. It turns when the system allows it — like water.

When the body is stabilised, attention settles. When attention settles, rhythm emerges. Flow is not created. It appears when resistance is reduced.

This is why the model moves from Regulation → Attention → Rhythm in sequence. Water does not push. It finds the path that is already open.

A PRACTICAL WAY TO ORIENT YOURSELF

This is not only a model. It is a way to navigate life. When something feels off, the compass gives you four questions to locate where the disruption begins.

WHEN SOMETHING FEELS OFF, ASK
Is my body stable and oriented?
Is my rhythm clear — am I living in time with my own energy?
Are my relationships genuine — am I meeting and being met?
Am I participating authentically in the world?
 

The answer will almost always point you back to the body. Not because the mind does not matter — but because regulation moves from the ground up, not from the top down.

This is not only a framework 

It is something that can be lived, practiced and integrated into everyday life.

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Vestibular Tactile Proprioception The foundational senses Perception The senses' base signal start Orientation Inner reference point Regulation Nervous system at rest Attention Mind settling Rhythm Biological cycle Relation Meeting & contact Roles Function in community Participation Authentic engagement BODY body · winter TIME time and rhythm · spring RELATIONSHIPS relation & roles · summer WORLD world and participation · autumn spring · fire summer · air winter · earth autumn · space water · flow the organism awareness participation SELF-ACTUALISATION emerges when the wheel turns freely SOMATIC ORIENTATION HUMAN FORMATION AUTHENTIC EXPRESSION Perception → Orientation → Regulation → Attention → Rhythm → Relation → Roles → Participation ↻ Somatic Lucidity – Mandala of Participation · Conceptual framework © Ane Viuf-Herseth, 2026 · All rights reserved
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