The labyrinth as a tool for meditation is explored as this group of mature students walk a labyrinth together. All participants are registered nurses (RN) on an academic program, making the transition to graduate level (Bachelor of Science in Nursing, BSN). Students’ journeys of returning to school become transformative as they experience this archetypal tool as a metaphor for their lives. Interpretive themes from a hermeneutic phenomenological inquiry (Diaconis, 2001) are reflected as patterns of the labyrinth and places on the path. Walking the labyrinth leads to questioning ways of developing curriculum and being with students in transition from RN to BSN education
