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 Mission Statement
To support all those who create, maintain and use labyrinths, and to serve the global community by providing education, networking and opportunities to experience transformation.
Core Values
We choose to conduct the business of The Labyrinth Society in alignment with our Core Values:
- Integrity: we are heart-centered, truthful, keep our word, and operate with candor.
- Respect: we create a safe environment where all people and points of view are honored.
- Community: we operate the Society in a circle and continuously build connections among us.
- Diversity: we embrace our differences in all of their manifestations.
- Freedom: we encourage all forms of expression and will not try to limit the labyrinth’s possibilities.
- Creativity: we delight in the fruits of our imagination, intuition and inspiration.
- Empowerment: we enable each other to be our authentic selves and strive to delegate authority.
- Learning: we promote education, networking and research
- Spirituality: we honor the labyrinth for its enhancement of our connection to Spirit , the Earth and the Global Community.
- Trust: we trust the process of the labyrinth.
We use the circle to:
- Conduct the business of The Labyrinth Society.
- Remind us of the unity we share with all life.
- Create a safe and nurturing environment that encourages open and full participation.
- Provide a heart-centered place for conflicts to be resolved and ideas to flourish.
Leadership Philosophy
The Board of Directors is the governing body of the organization. It has the authority to delegate the management and direction of the organization to the Executive Committee and to the committees appointed by the President or designated by the Board.
Like the labyrinth that we honor, we have adopted the circle as our leadership model. We think of ourselves as a leader-full group and use the energy of the circle to conduct all of our business. Our meetings are held in the round. This creates a culture of communication and cooperation amongst the leadership. The Executive Committee, the Board of Directors and the working committees each operates as a circle.
It is our goal that the circles of influence within the organization be an inter-connected web, much like the circuits of the labyrinth, that continually bring us into contact with each other so that we can have the benefit of sharing our questions and our ideas. We are committed to using the power of the labyrinth and the energy of the circle for the highest good of all and we model this in all that we do.
Photo Credit:
Chartres Labyrinth at First Unitarian Church, San Jose, CA
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