Community Labyrinths
Emotional health in the Community
Insight Labyrinth provides workshops and training that helps community and youth groups to identify and address issues that are having a negative impact on their individual and collective emotional health and wellbeing.
Building and then walking the labyrinth as a group creates a strong community bond as, together, we transform an outdoor/indoor area into a 'sacred space'. Participants are usually surprised and delighted with the finished labyrinth; the process of building helps each person invest something of themselves - physically, emotionally and spiritually - and so the labyrinth becomes a strong container for the group/community and our shared purpose.
The Issue
There are obviously many issues that impact on communities/community groups and many of these issues are inextricably linked - and almost every issue will impact on emotional health and wellbeing. I have worked with many communities in the past - usually facilitating group work that addressed emotional/mental/sexual/physical health issues. Once a group understands more about how their self-esteem and emotional health influences their resilience and motivation, they become empowered to make and sustain the changes that will serve them and their community.
How Insight Labyrinth can improve emotional health in community/youth groups
Insight Labyrinth can help your community or youth group to safeguard their own emotional health and wellbeing , whilst also gaining insight in to how they can remove/overcome any self-limiting beliefs with ease. I can facilitate the building and walking of the labyrinth for your group/occasion and I also devise and facilitate bespoke workshops/training around the needs of your group if you would like to do some deeper work with the labyrinth on any particular emotional health and wellbeing issue. [For example, with a group of young people at Swansea Community Farm: the labyrinth was a culmination/celebration of six weeks of workshops exploring self- esteem, teamwork, communication & creating a vision for the participation of young people in the farm’s future.]
In these experiential workshops I use the labyrinth as a tool and metaphor, to help participants to discover and explore how to use their state of mind to move towards their personal and shared goals, and how to
change their state of mind at will - to one which nurtures creativity, peace, productivity and resilience - thereby achieving greater emotional health and wellbeing in the process.
These workshops are creative, engaging, inclusive and effective! I offer three different workshop options: a half-day, a whole day or a 2 day workshop.
Empowered individuals and groups are the most valuable resource within a community...and these workshops will increase participants' awareness of how they can create and sustain change that will benefit themselves, their group and their community.
Who can benefit from the Labyrinth?:
Labyrinth walks and workshops can foster cohesion and transformation for groups and communities as we witness one another on our paths. Anyone and everyone can experience the labyrinth – children, young people, adults and the elderly. Even though the labyrinth has historical pagan and (later) Christian associations, it is really non-denominational and therefore can be used as an effective multi-faith and multi-cultural tool as it was relevant to so many different cultures around the world. Labyrinths can also positively transform the energy of the land they are built on.
The labyrinth can be of particular benefit to:
The labyrinth can be created in:
The labyrinth can be used:
• To gain insight into difficulties/find answers to questions/help make decisions
• As a tool to practise mindfulness and increase awareness, vitality & well-being
• To create deeper bonds within the community/group
• To mark any transition from one ‘state’ to another
• To celebrate rites of passage
• To celebrate any joyful occasions (births/naming ceremonies; marriages/handfastings; anniversaries)
• In remembrance or memorial
• To honour loved ones & the Ancestors
• To help reunite body, mind & spirit
• To calm & nourish the soul!
Your Labyrinth
Your labyrinth can be made outdoors or indoors, as a temporary or permanent structure to suit your needs/purpose. Materials used to construct the labyrinth are only limited by the imagination! From candles, natural/found objects, wood, rope, shells, seaweed, stones, wool, recycled materials…to sand, soil, cob, living willow, lavender, wood chippings, hedgerow, dry stonewall, light and sound...or paint, wellies and people!
Please contact me for more information and/or to discuss your requirements.
Labyrinth walks and workshops can foster cohesion and transformation for groups and communities as we witness one another on our paths. Anyone and everyone can experience the labyrinth – children, young people, adults and the elderly. Even though the labyrinth has historical pagan and (later) Christian associations, it is really non-denominational and therefore can be used as an effective multi-faith and multi-cultural tool as it was relevant to so many different cultures around the world. Labyrinths can also positively transform the energy of the land they are built on.
The labyrinth can be of particular benefit to:
- Youth groups
- Community groups
- Teams
- Ecology/conservation/heritage groups
- Healthcare practitioners
- People who are seeking employment
- People with special needs
- People who are terminally ill
- Individuals, couples and families
The labyrinth can be created in:
- Community spaces
- Youth Centres
- Schools & colleges
- Hospitals & hospices
- Prisons
- Places of work
- Any public or private space
- Wild, natural places
- Cemeteries/ pet cemeteries & memorial grounds
The labyrinth can be used:
• To gain insight into difficulties/find answers to questions/help make decisions
• As a tool to practise mindfulness and increase awareness, vitality & well-being
• To create deeper bonds within the community/group
• To mark any transition from one ‘state’ to another
• To celebrate rites of passage
• To celebrate any joyful occasions (births/naming ceremonies; marriages/handfastings; anniversaries)
• In remembrance or memorial
• To honour loved ones & the Ancestors
• To help reunite body, mind & spirit
• To calm & nourish the soul!
Your Labyrinth
Your labyrinth can be made outdoors or indoors, as a temporary or permanent structure to suit your needs/purpose. Materials used to construct the labyrinth are only limited by the imagination! From candles, natural/found objects, wood, rope, shells, seaweed, stones, wool, recycled materials…to sand, soil, cob, living willow, lavender, wood chippings, hedgerow, dry stonewall, light and sound...or paint, wellies and people!
Please contact me for more information and/or to discuss your requirements.