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Webinar: Cartography of the Soul - A Path for Healing Trauma and PTSD with Peter Winfield

  • 23 Feb 2026
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Online

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What if healing from trauma is not about “getting over it,” but about walking a new path through it?

Join Peter Winfield—Army veteran, artist, writer, and author of Cartography of the Soul— in conversation with Lauren Artress for an exploration of the labyrinth as a path for healing trauma and PTSD. After multiple overseas deployments as an army officer and counter-terrorism manager, Peter was diagnosed with PTSD and depression. His search for healing led him to mindfulness, art, and writing—and back to the creative self he had left behind. First introduced to the labyrinth through Walking a Sacred Path and later encountering it in a veterans’ treatment program, Peter discovered in the labyrinth a profound metaphor for the inner journey of recovery and transformation.

Together, Peter and Lauren will explore how the labyrinth offers a trauma-informed, embodied practice that supports integration, storytelling, and Post-Traumatic Growth. Grounded in lived experience and spiritual depth, this conversation speaks to veterans, survivors, caregivers, and healing professionals alike—offering the labyrinth as a sacred container where meaning can be reclaimed, identity reshaped, and a new path forward gently revealed.

    Register to join us live on Zoom on Monday, February 23rd at 12pm noon Pacific, or receive a recording link to watch at your convenience. VIA Members can enroll for free and will also receive exclusive access to a special half-hour Q&A with the guests following the one hour conversation.

    Peter Winfield

    Peter Winfield is an Army veteran who, after coping with PTSD, anxiety and depression for many years found healing through mindfulness, writing, art, and by sharing his journey with others. He is a mental health advocate, a writer, artist, and wisdom seeker.

    As a former army officer and counter terrorism manager with multiple overseas deployments Peter was diagnosed with complex PTSD, double depression and suffered from multiple concussions. He discovered that to heal he had to find a new path to meaning in his life.  He found that path as an artist, writer and a seeker of deep wisdom from ancient traditions, such as the labyrinth. He has served as the vice-chair of the client advisory council at the Royal Mental Health Centre in Ottawa, Canada, where he learned the healing power of story telling, of the power of overcoming stigma and fear and sharing his struggles with mental health. He is now a second year MFA student in creative nonfiction writing at the University of Kings College, Halifax.

    Peter explores themes of identity, suffering, transformation and storytelling in healing journeys. He also explores the phenomenon of Post Trauma Growth as a guiding principle to create a new life through art and writing. 

    https://peterwinfield.ca/

    https://cartographyofthesoul.substack.com/ 




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