As this year’s World Labyrinth Day approaches, Ellen catches up with Carmel Stabley, Vice President of Community and Regional Representative Co-ordinator for The Labyrinth Society. Carmel gives a fascinating outline of the history and purpose of this annual event and focus for global intention holding, including a 24-hour marathon that took place at the time the COVID lockdown kept most of us holed up at home, and shares the beautiful intention behind the invitation on this day to “walk as one at one” all around the world while holding an intention for peace.

Carmel and Ellen (who when she isn't presenting this podcast and among many other roles, is also co-ordinator of World Labyrinth Day) talk about how intention setting has become an important part of an event that now regularly brings thousands of people together on one day as the world turns from as far afield as New Zealand and Hawaii.

The wave of peace that circles our world might perhaps this year be more potent still by the fact that World Labyrinth Day falls on May 4th. As any good Jedi might say, “Come walk–And may the Fourth be with you!”

World Labyrinth Day this year is on 4 May 2024.

Websites, people and organizations mentioned in this episode:

World Labyrinth Day https://www.worldlabyrinthday.org/

The Labyrinth Society https://labyrinthsociety.org/

Veriditas https://www.veriditas.org/

Legacy Labyrinth Project https://www.legacylabyrinthproject.org/

Australian Labyrinth Network Inc. https://aln.org.au/

Australian Labyrinth Network Inc. World Labyrinth Day in Educational Settings (most events are on 3 May 2024) https://aln.org.au/event-5530191

The Big Connection https://www.legacylabyrinthproject.org/bigconnection

The Big Connection research paper mentioned, Collective  Labyrinth Walking with a Shared Intention Leads to Connectedness, Transcendent  Experiences, and Insights for Compassionate Action during the COVID-19 Pandemic, by McGee, J. S., Katzenmeyer, C., Boddie, S. C., Meraz, & Wood, S., is published in Frontiers in Psychology, Sec. Consciousness Research, Volume 14 – 2023. Read the article at https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1232784/full.

Pre-World Labyrinth Day Workshops:

6 April 2024 12pm & 6pm EDT (event runs twice) Sharing New Ways of Facilitating Open Public Walks for WLD, hosted by Veriditas on Zoom

26 April 3pm EDT Online Handheld Finger Labyrinth Walk, hosted by Veriditas on Zoom

Find out more about these events at https://www.worldlabyrinthday.org/wld-2024/pre-wld-events.

THIS WEEK! WLD at the Myth Salon: Free webinar on Tuesday, March 19 2024 8PM EDT /5PM PDT, The Myth Salon. Find out more and register at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5WZvA0O4TK2vh2sVP1hR5Q#/registration.

World Labyrinth Day Partner Events https://www.worldlabyrinthday.org/wld-2024/partner-events.

Finger Labyrinths to download and print https://www.worldlabyrinthday.org/resources/finger-labyrinths.

Video montages of recent World Labyrinth Days:

2022 https://youtu.be/a5b_xeHBxjI

2023 https://youtu.be/2aQ5Nx4-ku0

Other videos introducing World Labyrinth Day, about hosting labyrinth walks and more: https://www.worldlabyrinthday.org/resources/labyrinth-videos

Chris Katzenmeyer speaks about World Labyrinth Day here on Impact! (Season 1 Episode 5) https://www.heartfulimpact.com/e/chris-katzenmeyer-intentions-from-the-heart/

Supporting resources for planning and holding a World Labyrinth Day event https://www.worldlabyrinthday.org/resources.

Download a World Labyrinth Day flyer (available in many languages) at https://www.worldlabyrinthday.org/resources/pr-materials (scroll to the bottom of page for full list of languages available).

Find out what World Labyrinth Day events may be happening near where you are, as well as events on line, at https://www.worldlabyrinthday.org/wld-2024/find-and-submit-events.

Find out whether one of the more than 6,000 labyrinths in 88 countries may be near you with The Worldwide Labyrinth Locator: https://labyrinthlocator.com/home.

Contact a TLS (The Labyrinth Society) Board Member with any question you may have about World Labyrinth Day: https://labyrinthsociety.org/contact-us.

Shared intention

With World Labyrinth Day as our focus, we suggest holding the following intention ahead of and on the day itself, we will that:

The hosts, participants and all labyrinths are connected in peace and planetary healing on World Labyrinth Day.

Please join us in holding this.

Join us in person for intenton holding:

https://www.legacylabyrinthproject.org/events-1 ~ Labyrinth Activist Network Zoom calls

https://insighttimer.com/cliverj ~ Daily intention holding with Clive on Insight Timer.

Our websites:

http://heartfulimpact.com/ ~ Our show website.

Global Healing Response ~ Offers a wealth of prayers, suggested practices and prompts in response to environmental catastrophe, conflict, and other world events.

Legacy Labyrinth Project ~ Creating global energetic connections through the labyrinth; inspiring active intention sending using the labyrinth via labyrinth activism.

Clive Johnson Ministry ~ Events and offerings aimed at building beloved community, including weekly energy holding vigils and Power of Eight group.

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