This retreat invites you into a spacious, creative, and embodied exploration of the labyrinth and the SoulCollage® process—two powerful pathways for navigating the sacred journey of your life. In a time that calls for deep soul-searching, clarity of purpose, and conscious participation in the world, we gather to ask: What is mine to do? Who am I becoming? How might I truly be the change I long to see in the world?
Drawing inspiration from Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme, we approach these practices with the understanding that each of us plays a unique role in the unfolding story of the universe. As Berry reminds us, the “Great Work” of our time is to discover how our personal gifts can contribute to the healing and flourishing of the Earth community. Swimme teaches that the universe evolves through the creative impulses of each being—and that when we listen deeply, we tap into the very creativity that shaped stars, oceans, and life itself.
Both SoulCollage® and the labyrinth serve as timeless languages of the soul—symbolic pathways that allow us to listen beneath the surface of daily life. Each offers a way to access inner resources, intuition, and imaginal insight, and when experienced together they amplify one another, inviting a deeper level of understanding and presence. These practices help us create coherence amid life’s constant movement, widen our perspective, and attune to a higher awareness. In this space of clarity and connection, we begin to sense what Maria Montessori called our cosmic task—the unique contribution each of us is here to make within a complex, ever-changing world.
During our time together, you will be guided through an embodied experience of walking the labyrinth and then invited to integrate your insights by making your own SoulCollage® cards. Through image, symbolism, movement, and reflection, we explore how our personal callings participate in the wider evolutionary creativity of the cosmos—how our choices ripple outward, shaping the world in ways both subtle and profound.
This is a qualifying workshop for anyone wanting to attend Veriditas Labyrinth Facilitator Training.
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Catherine Anderson, Faculty
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The labyrinth Catherine constructed in her backyard in 2007 has been an important element in her mindfulness and creativity practices and Catherine loves showing others how the labyrinth can support us in quietening our mind and uncover our creativity. She is the author of Journaling the Labyrinth Path, a book of finger labyrinths, quotes and journal prompts inspiring you to find your unique work in the world, and Meeting Your Soul on the Labyrinth: SoulCollage® and the Labyrinth as Pathways for Transformation.
Catherine uses the labyrinth, SoulCollage®, expressive arts, poetry and mindfulness as pathways for self-discovery and as ways of uncovering meaning and purpose in life. Her personal journey of self-discovery has taken her from a career as an attorney to photography-franchise owner, to creativity-workshop facilitator.
Photography is another creative passion for Catherine and her book The Creative Photographer won a Silver Nautilus Award in the Creative Process Category in 2012. As a SoulCollage® Facilitator Trainer, Catherine loves teaching others how to facilitate workshops using the SoulCollage® process which uses images as a form of “soul language” to access our inner wisdom.
As a life-long learner, Catherine has been fortunate to train with Jean Houston, Seena Frost, Lauren Artress, Jan Phillips and many other wise teachers. In addition to her work in the US, Catherine leads creative pilgrimage retreats in South Africa, France, Italy, Mexico and Portugal.
www.CreativePilgrimage.com
