Featured Presentations

FRIDAY EVENING PRESENTATION
"EARLY STEPS" Panel Discussion moderated by Harriette Royer
Panelists and TLS founding members Helen Curry, Toby Evans, Kathy Ruyts and Jeff Saward will share their different points of entry as The Labyrinth Society was formed by a diverse group of labyrinth enthusiasts who gathered from around the world.  We will seek insight into the vision that sparked the beginning and the inspiration that carried it forward, step by step on the journey.

SATURDAY MORNING PRESENTATION
Science and Spirit: Labyrinths in Hospitals

Robert Ferré is owner of Labyrinth Enterrpises and returns to the podium to share his many years of experience working with hospitals and health care organizations to build labyrinths in these locations.  Roberts explains, "Since science deals exclusively with the visible, observable, and quantifiable, scientific medicine, in turn, takes a reductionist approach, seeking to alleviate symptoms by prescribing drugs or surgery. Labyrinths effectively address that area ignored by the scientific paradigm, namely, inner healing."  An awareness of the need to find balance of science and spirit in the healing process is increasing as is the demand for labyrinths in the health care setting, not only by institutions and practitioners, but by patients and families as well.

SATURDAY EVENING PRESENTATIONS
The Sacred Passage: Your Final Labyrinth Walk

Rebecca Rodriguez, creator of Labyrinth Inspiration Cards(c) says,
"From the moment you were born, your first breath of this earthly air, you began your lifelong labyrinth journey...your pilgrimage to the center and back.  Birth...you were awake then, open and fully engaged. Where are you now?  Using the very real experience of hospice and preparing to die, we will lift the veil a bit and reflect on deep symbolism of the labyrinth walk and preparing to transcend this life.  Your final labyrinth walk in this lifetime will arrive, no doubt, by divine design. When it does, you can step into that experience as it unfolds, awake, open and fully engaged. The labyrinth can be a tool to assist you through its story, experience and doorway to new worlds."

Sacred Global Music Concert and Labyrinth Walk
Sound therapist and Gathering musician Sonam Targee was born in South India, received his bachelors degree in Ethnomusicology and trained in Chinese Medicine.  He has been playing and singing sacred music from around the world for more than 30 years. Trained in mridangam, Sonam especially loves the devotional chanting of India. He uses the recorder, native American flute, Bulgarian kaval, Indian bansurai flute and punji, Mongolian bahu, Tibetan lingbu, Balinese flute, European cornetto as well as the harmonium, dumbec, fnger cymbals, tar, Irish penny whistle, Peruvian quena and, of course, his voice.  His intention is to share the joy and beauty of world music in order to draw people together and purify hearts and minds. He will share his talents and instruments to create a deeply moving labyrinth experience for Gathering participants.

SUNDAY MORNING PRESENTATIONS

Being Connected - Our Lifelines and Relationships Within the Labyrinth

Gernot Candolini of Austria will share a brief and amazing exercise using the classical labyrinth design in a spiritual exercise on healing and wholeness. 

"THE NEXT STEP" Panel discussion moderated by Robert Ferré
Looking into the future to discuss what is new on the horizon of labyrinths in the global community, panelists Lauren Artress, Gernot Candolini, Jill Kimberly Hartwell Geoffrion and Kimberly Lowelle Saward will share their stories, thoughts and experiences.  Plan to be intrigued and inspired as we prepare to cross the threshold from the Gathering into the next phase of the journey.