WEBINAR: Risking the Journey to My Center: Labyrinth Walks with Gay Men with Lauren Artress and Frank Faine

Labyrinth walks with gay men offer a unique invitation to risk taking a journey into their authentic selves and gifts within a supportive community of like-minded men. This webinar will introduce a process for creating and facilitating labyrinth walks with gay men. In addition, it will describe three possible formats for facilitating such walks as well as explore some of the opportunities and challenges of offering labyrinth walks to gay men as well as the wider LGBTQ community.  Participants will also learn about how these walks have begun to sow seeds of connection and community among the men who have participated in them.

Frank Faine

Frank Faine is a spiritual director, Veriditas trained labyrinth facilitator and retreat leader and poet living in Orlando, FL. He brings a rich and diverse background to his work in companioning, healing and teaching to all persons on as they journey to discover a life affirming spiritual path.  He has served as pastor for two United Church of Congregations in Florida; as a chaplain in a variety of healthcare settings with an emphasis on coping with the spiritual/emotional challenges chronic illness, death and dying; and as a psychotherapist specializing in holistic approaches to integrating mind, body and spirit. He holds a Master of Divinity from Bexley-Seabury Seminary; an EdS in Mental Health Counseling from the University of Florida and Masters in Speech-Communication from the University of South Florida. He is also a musician and a poet.  Long active with the Bach Festival Choir in Winter Park, FL he’s currently at Rollins College pursuing a degree in music. As a poet he’s currently working on completing a poetic memoir Fierce Tenderness: A Gay Man’s Journey into the Ancestral, Authentic Self.