In addition to meditative labyrinth walks and educational programs, a major focus of the group has been to bring the labyrinth experience to children. Children use the labyrinth to calm down, to deal with grief, to solve problems, to resolve conflict, to handle anger or sadness, to celebrate joy or just to have fun!
The Labyrinth Resource Group has been involved in developing labyrinth programs and building labyrinths in 11 elementary schools in the Santa Fe area. Featured on right is the labyrinth at E J Martinez School the day we built it. [Photo by George Henke.]Now some of those labyrinths are gone as a result of construction projects, others are not being used effectively and many schools have never had a labyrinth program. As leader of the Labyrinths in Schools Committee for our group, I am organizing volunteers to help schools revive their labyrinth programs and bring new labyrinths to interested schools.
There are many ways volunteers can help: meet with school personnel, introduce the labyrinth to staff and students and help in planning and building labyrinths. Most of the school labyrinths are made by setting stones on a pattern marked on the ground but in our current project the lines of the labyrinth will be painted on blacktop.
I am particularly interested in finding retired teachers and others who are comfortable going into the classroom to introduce the labyrinth to children. I will work with you to develop your presentation and will share my audio-visual materials.
If you are interested in any aspect of what we are doing, PLEASE CONTACT ME:
MARGE McCARTHY AT 989-8231 or margemccarthy26@comcast.net
For more information about labyrinths and our group, see our website: http://www.labyrinthresourcegroup.org/
