CZT Jennifer Marchand writes... As a mental health professional and registered Canadian art therapist specializing in trauma recovery, my focus has always been on grounding healing work with creativity, embodiment, and culturally responsive care. Over the past decade, I have been integrating the Zentangle Method into trauma therapy across a diverse range of contexts and cultural settings as a powerful stabilization tool, particularly by combining it with EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and the Flash Technique. What I have witnessed, time and again, is that Zentangle offers clients an accessible, safe, and empowering way to fully engage in trauma...

CZT Ann Baum writes... In the summer of 2025, in a Zentangle newsletter, it was suggested that we take our tangling outside. As it happens, [at the time of this newsletter], I was visiting my daughter in Columbus, Ohio, while fellow CZT, Harper Ingram, was in Cleveland visiting her mother. Both of us being from California, we decided to get together and take our tangling on the road toward California. Harper and I became instant friends when she found me on the Zentangle website and asked to join my online Zoomtangle class. That was one year ago! So much has...

Julie writes… We say it all the time, but it really is true; either Zentangle attracts the best people, or it brings out the best in people. I think it is a little bit of both.  Over the past 20 years, we have had the honor of getting to know so many tanglers and Certified Zentangle Teachers and getting to hear their stories of how Zentangle has changed their lives. We get to meet people from all over the world, from different backgrounds, cultures and walks of life. Despite all of the differences, everyone seems to have one thing in...