Upcoming and Continuing Labyrinth Events:
Sacred Spaces and Places: Imagination and Art in the Healing Process
with
Nancy Greely, Joan McMillen, and Melissa Ann Reed
". . . sometimes it is necessary
to reteach a thing its loveliness,
to put a hand on its brow
and retell it in words and in touch
it is lovely
until it flowers again from within,
of self-blessing."
—Galway Kinnell, "St. Francis and the Sow"
When we spend time with images that touch us deeply, we ordinary human beings make room for something of extraordinary beauty to flower within us. Our bodies think in images, and, as psychiatrist Gerald Epstein says, "Images are our umbilical cord to Spirit." By nurturing our creative imaginations we “pull ourselves together”—re-linking bodies with psyches, minds, and spirits.
In these evening meetings we explore some of the ways imagination can guide, shape, or enhance the healing process—weaving us into our own richest selves, whatever our circumstances.
Trinity Labyrinth Guild presents this special summer series:
Seven Tuesday evenings (May 29 - July 10), 7 - 9 p.m.
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
147 N.W. 19th Avenue
Portland, OR 97209
Sight, the Gift of Darkness (Tuesday, May 29, Kempton Hall)
Special guest Nancy Attinger Greely will share the journal writings and photographs that helped her find healing images during the changing seasons of her own journey—and her mother's—through breast cancer.
Finding the Poetry in our Bodies (Four Tuesdays, June 5, 19, 26 and July 3 + Thursday, June 14, Morrison Room)
Joan McMillen and Melissa Ann Reed walk us through the corridors of ourselves, playing with poetry (by Antonio Machado, e.e.cummings, and Mary Oliver, among others) and our own ways of moving. Gentle movement explorations based on the work of Moshe Feldenkrais invite us to experience ourselves in new ways. Time for journal-writing and/or sketching as well as discussion provided. Continued explorations between meetings and sharing of those explorations encouraged.
Dancing the Labyrinth (Tuesday, July 10, Kempton Hall)
This drama by Melissa Ann Reed, with music by Joan McMillen, is the record of the role of imagination and art in the healing process of two women who recover from cancer. Presented on the Labyrinth in Trinity Cathedral’s Kempton Hall. Time for discussion and for walking the Labyrinth follow.
Click here for a Dancing the Labyrinth flier
About the Facilitators
Nancy Attinger Greely, with degrees in music and art, has spent her life as a teacher of art, music, and as a consultant for educational television in the San Francisco Bay area.
Joan McMillen, musician, composer, improvisational pianist, labyrinth facilitator, and Feldenkrais teacher, lives and practices in Portland.
Melissa Ann Reed, a classically trained theatre artist, is a scholar of speech-interpretation literature. Her postdoctoral research contributes to the Humanities in Medicine and the new discipline of poetry therapy. She lives and practices in Portland.
For questions or to register, please call Joan McMillen: 503-297-0725
Pre-registration is required
- Sight, the Gift of Darkness, May 29: $15.00 (seating for 50)
- Five workshop evenings, June 5 - July 3: $90.00 (limited to 12 participants)
- Dancing the Labyrinth, July 10: $15.00 (seating for 50)
- All seven evening events: $120.00
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