2016 Post-Gathering Workshops and Tours

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

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

Colors, Chakras, and the Prism Path Labyrinth

with Karen Hahn

Explore the sensations and energies of different colors and chakras with the Prism Path labyrinth, color zones, and color theory.  Learn about color energy; clearing, calibrating, and balancing chakras. Learn how to make your own indoor-outdoor, portable Prism Path Labyrinth.

Karen Hahn, PhD, RN, APN, President of the Center for Faith and Health Initiatives, has built and used dozens of labyrinths in various settings with diverse groups and individuals for over 30 years. Venues have included retreat centers, conferences, academic settings, churches, parks, health fairs, urban, and rural settings. Dr. Hahn is a trained spiritual director, holistic nurse practitioner, chaplain, and faith community nurse. She is passionate about promoting healthy communities through faith-based leadership and social justice. Her use of labyrinths emphasizes their accessibility, inclusiveness, and contemplative capacity. She delights in the creativity and variety of labyrinths and the people using them.

Post-Gathering Labyrinth Bus Tour:

SATURDAY AFTERNOON 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm ($75 pre-registration required) 

with Sarah Gish & ​​Dr. Betty Cartmell 

This bus labyrinth tour will visit 5 – 6 area labyrinths. The tour is designed to take visitors throughout Houston’s many neighborhoods and sites – the Houston Zoo and Hermann Park, the medical center, the “cool” arts district (Montrose), downtown and Fourth Ward, ritzy River Oaks, Buffalo Bayou, Memorial Park, and a bit of Chinatown. We will not stop in all of those neighborhoods but we will see them from the bus. Visitors will also learn about Houston’s rich history along the way. The tour’s final stop will be a reception at a downtown labyrinth.

Intuitive guide, artist, enrichment expert, community labyrinth leader, and igniter Sarah Gish is the owner of Gish Creative. In 1985, she received a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from the University of Texas, Austin and she began sharing her love of labyrinths with the public in 2006. Sarah’s work can be summed up in one word: CONNECTION. She helps people connect to themselves, to others, to information out there in the world, or to a higher power. Sarah is an artist and her latest art project, IGNITE YOUR LIFE! includes photographs, videos, workshops, jewelry, an art car, and a forthcoming book. 

Dr. Betty Cartmell is a Veriditas advanced-certified labyrinth facilitator. She first walked a labyrinth in 2000 in New Harmony, Indiana. It was a powerful experience and one that continues to influence her work.  She was trained as a facilitator by Lauren Artress in 2003, certified by Veriditas in 2004 and moved on to take advanced training with Lauren Artress in 2008. She is the longtime chair of the labyrinth committee at her local church. She teaches about the labyrinth at every opportunity, including numerous Sunday School classes, labyrinth displays at large conferences, labyrinth education for Christian educators and lectures at the Foundation for Contemporary Theology. She has lived in Houston since 1984 and acquired labyrinth knowledge for 16 years.

Post-Gathering Galveston Pilgrimage:

SUNDAY 9:00 am – 5:00 pm ($85 pre-registration required) 

Building Community Through the Labyrinth: How We Saved and Continue to Build Labyrinths in Galveston

with Marty Kermeen, Kay Sandor, and Reginald Adams

This tour will bus folks to Galveston (about 1 hour south of St. Paul’s) for a presentation, reflection, and labyrinth walk that tells the story of saving and relocating one of Marty Kermeen’s Labyrinths in Galveston. Lunch will be on your own at a local restaurant. LUNCH NOT INCLUDED.  Then we will enjoy 2 hours of labyrinth building on the beach before heading back to St. Paul’s in Houston.

Dr. Kay Sandor currently has a psychotherapy practice where she focuses on anxiety and depression with a specialty in grief and loss and working with the actively dying. She is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and psychotherapist and is a board certified advanced holistic nurse (AHN-BC). She retired as a Professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch, School of Nursing at Galveston and a past Associate Member of the Institute for the Medical Humanities in 2013 after having taught there over 20 years. She is also a Veriditas™ labyrinth facilitator, training with Dr. Lauren Artress of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco. She has facilitated hundreds of labyrinth walks for hospital staff, students, and community members and uses walking meditation as a way to process grief. She and two other labyrinth facilitators in Galveston schedule and facilitate monthly Full Moon walks and Seasonal Sunrise (equinox and solstice) walks. 

​Marty Kermeen is recognized as an award-winning internationally renowned artist and stone sculptor. A long-time and passionate ambassador of labyrinths, Marty and his wife, Debi, have nurtured and birthed hundreds of labyrinths that helped to rebuild, renew and connect communities, changing them for the better. Their labyrinths have been praised as some of the most beautiful and longest lasting labyrinths that are available in the world today. His artistry has been featured worldwide in numerous publications, magazines, books and TV, including HGTV, Time Magazine, and the cover of Jeff Saward’s book, Labyrinths and Mazes. Marty is a Founding Member of The Labyrinth Society. 

Reginald C. Adams is an award winning public artist, social entrepreneur, and community developer. He is best known for mosaic murals, sculptures, and labyrinths, which are strategically located in communities across Houston and abroad.

His creativity and approach to his art is inspired by his travels to more than 28 countries around the globe.  Engaging the public in the design, production, and celebration of his work is a cornerstone to his creative process.

Over the past 17 years he has facilitated the design, coordination, and production over 180 public art projects throughout Houston and beyond. These projects have been co-created with the involvement of over 28,000 youth, artists and thousands of community stakeholders. 

Reginald fundamentally believes that everyone deserves access and exposure to the arts and the creative process.