2016 Pre-Gathering Workshops

THE FOLLOWING PRE-GATHERING ACTIVITIES WERE OFFERED AT THE 2016 GATHERING IN HOUSTON. ACTIVITIES OFFERED AT THE 2017 GATHERING WILL BE POSTED HERE IN FEBRUARY.

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm ($70 pre-registration required)     

Embracing Your Soul’s Journey

with Margaret Harle and Margaret Strader

This workshop will allow participants to spend an extended time with the labyrinth in an enhanced environment. We will facilitate a discussion of the soul’s journey, setting up altars to the soul around the indoor labyrinth with sacred objects and candles. Indoor labyrinth walk, tips for journaling, time to reflect on walk and share as desired. Boxed Dinner Included.

Margaret Strader is a retired California educator.  She moved to Texas in June, 2012, where she discovered the labyrinth a year later at St. Paul’s Methodist Church in Houston. She trained to be a labyrinth facilitator at Grace Cathedral Church in San Francisco in November, 2013, under the excellent guidance of Lauren Artress. Since becoming a certified labyrinth facilitator, Margaret has lead many labyrinth walks throughout the Houston area and has introduced the labyrinth to family and friends in California. She has co-facilitated the Embracing Your Soul’s Journey overnight labyrinth retreat in Houston, Texas for 2 years. Margaret is currently the chairman of the labyrinth committee at Covenant Church in Houston. She will also be facilitating a labyrinth walk in Nevan, Ireland for the summer solstice in June, 2016.

Margaret Harle is a practitioner of the Healing Arts and is a Veriditas trained Labyrinth facilitator. Margaret has facilitated labyrinth walks and workshops in churches, hospitals, retreat centers, schools, parks and on the beach. She has worked with the labyrinth since 1996 and likes to focus on the labyrinth as a path of healing and transformation. Margaret is a registered nurse and a member of A Healing Collective. For over 16 years she has worked with the labyrinth ministry of the Dominican Sisters of Houston, and more recently with the labyrinth of the Sister of Charity of the Incarnate Word. Margaret lives in Houston Texas.

 

THURSDAY MORNING  9:00 am - 12:00 noon ($50 pre-registration required)

The previously scheduled offering in this time slot, A Hologram of Community: Labyrinths and the Akashic Field with Laura Esculcas & Calen Rayne has been canceled.  We have arranged the following as a replacement.

The Celestial Labyrinths: A Journey into Inner Space

with Beth Langley

Enjoy an expanded introduction to Celestial Labyrinths and come prepared for some new information and inner exploration in this revised offering based onBeth's previous workshops on Celestial Labyrinths. This experiential workshop will guide participants through the process of creating a celestial labyrinths journal and drawing nine labyrinths from special seeds. These unique labyrinths can be related to love and creation, energy, power, life and death, transformation, freedom, feelings, connections, and wisdom. Expanded Powerpoint slides and additional time for building temporary tabletop labyrinths will enhance learning. There will be time for reflection, journaling, and sharing.

Beth Langley has a BA from Columbia College, a MEPI credential at the Primary Level,  is a Veriditas certified labyrinth facilitator, and has a love of art—all things creative.   She has designed and installed over a dozen permanent labyrinths, including one in Croatia.  Permanent installations are at private and public Montessori and conventional schools, private homes, and a church in South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Puebla, Mexico.  Her most recent installations are a Chartres-style medieval labyrinth at Christ Church Episcopal School in Greenville, SC (visible from Google Earth!) a Pelican Labyrinth in Florida, and a Turtle Labyrinth in Gray Court, SC.

 

THURSDAY AFTERNOON  1:00 pm - 4:00 pm ($50 pre-registration required)

Quick and Easy Labyrinths for Community Events

with Lars Howlett

Learn how to create small, simple labyrinths with cheap and common objects for others to experience and enjoy. Developed by professional labyrinth designer and builder Lars Howlett for a monthly art walk in his neighborhood, see first-hand how Classical and Chartres-style labyrinths can be adapted for different settings of various sizes and shapes. Draw these 3 & 5-circuit patterns using easy methods and practice installing them together as a group using inexpensive materials.

Lars Howlett encountered his first labyrinth on-line, Googling ‘sacred geometry’ in 2003. Little did he realize, but this open-source archetype would become a lifelong personal and professional passion. A student, colleague and friend of Lauren Artress and Robert Ferré, Lars is leading a new generation of labyrinth designers and builders. He is the Web Chair for TLS managing their website and social media. He is the coordinator for World Labyrinth Day and committee member for the Labyrinth Locator App in development for smartphones. He has the largest following of any labyrinth-centered Facebook page with a weekly reach of 5,000+ people.

Follow his work at: Facebook.com/DiscoverLabyrinths and DiscoverLabyrinths.com