Sustainability from the Inside Out: The Labyrinth as a Tool for Deepening Conversations in Higher Education

The labyrinth is described as an intervention into business-as-usual in academic, workshop, or conference settings, a form of cultural reinvention. The labyrinth is also a dynamic, transformational process that taps into embodied, interior experience, drawing it out into collective view. This process, centered on walking the labyrinth and sitting in a listening circle, challenges participants to identify and express their chief motivating purposes, as well as the internal barriers they face in meeting their most valued aims. The article concludes with observations about how the labyrinth and the listening circle can be used in higher education, and other workplace contexts, as a tool for creating space for fostering sustainability from the inside out.

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