Visit this website for a "virtual" labyrinth walk, interspersed with inspirational quotes and visually stunning images (optional)
http://www.gratefulness.org/Labyrinth/
http://www.gratefulness.org/Labyrinth/
Punahou Labyrinths in the News
Punahou News
Labyrinth Maker Explores New Paths on Campus
http://www.punahou.edu/news/item/index.aspx?LinkId=2519&ModuleId=91
article by Camila Chaudron '08 posted February 12, 2014
Lessons in Mindfulness
http://www.punahou.edu/news/item/index.aspx?LinkId=2435&ModuleId=91
article by Catherine Black ’94 posted January 3, 2014
Punavision Labyrinth Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1foLepBsvtE
Case Middle School Courier (see page 5)
Labyrinths: A Metaphor for the Journey of Life
http://bit.ly/cmscourier
article by middle school students: TJ Johnson and Ryan Park posted February 2014
Labyrinth Maker Explores New Paths on Campus
http://www.punahou.edu/news/item/index.aspx?LinkId=2519&ModuleId=91
article by Camila Chaudron '08 posted February 12, 2014
Lessons in Mindfulness
http://www.punahou.edu/news/item/index.aspx?LinkId=2435&ModuleId=91
article by Catherine Black ’94 posted January 3, 2014
Punavision Labyrinth Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1foLepBsvtE
Case Middle School Courier (see page 5)
Labyrinths: A Metaphor for the Journey of Life
http://bit.ly/cmscourier
article by middle school students: TJ Johnson and Ryan Park posted February 2014
Labyrinth Resources for Educators
Compiled by Lars Howlett
Ideas for Exploring Labyrinths in the Classroom:
Common Materials for Creating Labyrinths in Schools:
http://labyrinthresourcegroup.org
A Santa Fe non-profit with free manual to download detailing advice and steps for building a school labyrinth. They have built ten labyrinths in New Mexico at elementary schools and published a School Labyrinth Guide including 32 pages of lesson plans, classroom ideas, and a construction workbook for $35 with a DVD.
The Labyrinth Society
http://labyrinthsociety.org/resources
International organization offers insight into labyrinth types and sacred geometry, instructions for drawing, and activities for kids. Sponsors the Labyrinth Locator (LabyrinthLocator.com) for finding and exploring labyrinths in your community and World Labyrinth Day on the first Saturday in May each year.
Veriditas
http://www.veriditas.org/ft
Non-profit founded by Lauren Artress formerly of Grace Cathedral that leads spiritual workshops and facilitator training for many including teachers, faculty or school chaplains that may be interested in introducing or leading a labyrinth program at a school.
My Maze
http://www.mymaze.de/home_e.htm
The most comprehensive website for labyrinth designs, drawings, and geometry.
108 Ways to Use Labyrinths in Schools
http://www.montessoriservices.com/108-ways-to-use-labyrinths-in-schools
Forty page paperback full of ideas for utilizing the labyrinth in classrooms sold for $15.
Toronto Labyrinth Community
http://www.labyrinthnetwork.ca/children.htm
Labyrinth Art Examples and List of Children’s Books
Yoga in my School
http://yogainmyschool.com/labyrinths-in-the-classroom-a-cross-curricular-learning-tool/
Ideas for using labyrinths in the various fields of education and the benefits to students.
Peaceful Endeavors
http://www.peacefulendeavours.com/children.htm
Labyrinth facilitator Virginia LoneSky offers more examples of drawing simple to complex labyrinths and photos of labyrinths used in classrooms around the world.
Compiled by Lars Howlett
Ideas for Exploring Labyrinths in the Classroom:
- - Art: Learn to draw classical pattern, experiment with seed patterns & designs
- - Math: Study sacred geometry, meanings of numbers and patterns/ratios in nature
- - Math: Calculate/estimate length of walking path using geometry or strides
- - Music: Drum circle on the labyrinth
- - Service Learning: Create labyrinth out of food/clothing donations that builds over time
- - Social Studies: Study labyrinths around world – Cretan coins, Roman Mosiacs, English
Turf Mazes, Peruvian Nazca Lines, Swedish Trojaborg, Hopi “Man in the Maze”, etc.
- - Language Arts: Write poems or reflections along the path of a finger labyrinth drawing
- - Language Arts: Consider myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, Ariadne’s Thread, use of
metaphor, also popular culture – David Bowie’s Labyrinth
- - PE: Walking meditation as healthy practice of being outside in motion, epic walks:
Appalachian Trail, Mount Everest, Pacific Crest Trail, marathon as meditation
- - Health: Conflict resolution, emotional control, stress reduction, mindfulness
- - Ritual: Group walk on 1st or last day of the semester to set intention/reflection
Common Materials for Creating Labyrinths in Schools:
- - Finger labyrinth drawn on paper
- - Chalk on concrete or blacktop
- - Flour or Lime on grass or dirt
- - Masking Tape on carpet or floor
- - Projection of light on ground from above
- - Paint on wood or hard floor
- - Food or Clothing drive using donations to create path
- - Rope or String with stakes in ground
- - Scratched in surface of sand, gravel or dirt
- - Mown into grass lawn at different levels
- - Landscape installation with stone, bricks, mulch, garden, etc.
- - Stone paver with bricks in-laid as plaza
For more information see: Discover Labyrinths
http://www.DiscoverLabyrinths.com
San Francisco Bay Area labyrinth designer and facilitator Lars Howlett offers presentations on artistic installations (books, shoes, coconuts, bottles) as pathway to peace through healing. Lars speaks to K-12 and college classes, organizes school social justice projects, brainstorms ideas for classroom curriculum, and helps build temporary or permanent labyrinth installations.
http://labyrinthresourcegroup.org
A Santa Fe non-profit with free manual to download detailing advice and steps for building a school labyrinth. They have built ten labyrinths in New Mexico at elementary schools and published a School Labyrinth Guide including 32 pages of lesson plans, classroom ideas, and a construction workbook for $35 with a DVD.
The Labyrinth Society
http://labyrinthsociety.org/resources
International organization offers insight into labyrinth types and sacred geometry, instructions for drawing, and activities for kids. Sponsors the Labyrinth Locator (LabyrinthLocator.com) for finding and exploring labyrinths in your community and World Labyrinth Day on the first Saturday in May each year.
Veriditas
http://www.veriditas.org/ft
Non-profit founded by Lauren Artress formerly of Grace Cathedral that leads spiritual workshops and facilitator training for many including teachers, faculty or school chaplains that may be interested in introducing or leading a labyrinth program at a school.
My Maze
http://www.mymaze.de/home_e.htm
The most comprehensive website for labyrinth designs, drawings, and geometry.
108 Ways to Use Labyrinths in Schools
http://www.montessoriservices.com/108-ways-to-use-labyrinths-in-schools
Forty page paperback full of ideas for utilizing the labyrinth in classrooms sold for $15.
Toronto Labyrinth Community
http://www.labyrinthnetwork.ca/children.htm
Labyrinth Art Examples and List of Children’s Books
Yoga in my School
http://yogainmyschool.com/labyrinths-in-the-classroom-a-cross-curricular-learning-tool/
Ideas for using labyrinths in the various fields of education and the benefits to students.
Peaceful Endeavors
http://www.peacefulendeavours.com/children.htm
Labyrinth facilitator Virginia LoneSky offers more examples of drawing simple to complex labyrinths and photos of labyrinths used in classrooms around the world.
Terry Yamamoto-Edwards at the Luke Center compiled this list of resources in response to teacher inquiry!
Good applications across the curriculum! Download file below.
Good applications across the curriculum! Download file below.
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Check out these websites:
http://www.labyrinthsinschools.com/
www.pathsofpeace.com
Lisa Gidlow Moriarty is a resource for use of labyrinths in educational settings, as well as a creative artist and designer of labyrinths. She uses both historic replicas and unique contemporary labyrinth designs, including Circle of Peace™, a 7-circuit concentric circle design that blends elements of the ancient classical and medieval or Chartres-like patterns with sacred geometric principles. In collaboration with a school Social Worker, Lisa developed the CrossRoads Problem Solving Labyrinth™, a dual path design that utilized mediation techniques to teach peaceful conflict resolution in schools.
http://www.labyrinthsinschools.com/
www.pathsofpeace.com
Lisa Gidlow Moriarty is a resource for use of labyrinths in educational settings, as well as a creative artist and designer of labyrinths. She uses both historic replicas and unique contemporary labyrinth designs, including Circle of Peace™, a 7-circuit concentric circle design that blends elements of the ancient classical and medieval or Chartres-like patterns with sacred geometric principles. In collaboration with a school Social Worker, Lisa developed the CrossRoads Problem Solving Labyrinth™, a dual path design that utilized mediation techniques to teach peaceful conflict resolution in schools.