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Lauren Artress
The Reverend Dr. Lauren Artress is author of Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Tool,The Sacred Path Companion (Putnam/Riverhead Books, New York) and The Path of the Holy Fool: How the Labyrinth Ignites our Visionary Powers.
She is Canon Emerita of Grace Cathedral since 2004 in acknowledgement for her innovative, worldwide work with the labyrinth as a spiritually integrative tool. She first served as Canon Pastor from 1986 until 1992 and then Canon for Special Ministries until August 2004.
In 1996 she created Veriditas, a non-profit dedicated to introduce people the healing, meditative powers of the labyrinth. The labyrinth is a twelfth century mystical tool symbolic of the Path of Life that is re-introducing the walking meditation back into the Christian tradition and beyond.
Veriditas offers a bi-annual program in Chartres, France called Walking a Sacred Path that nurtures spiritual maturity. In addition to her ordination as an Episcopal priest, she is a spiritual mentor and is a licensed MFT psychotherapist in the State of California.
Lauren holds a bachelor’s degree in special education from Ohio State University and a Master of Education from Princeton Theological Seminary.
She received her analytic training in Object Relations and Systems Theory at The Blanton-Peale Graduate Institute at The Institute of Religion and Health in New York City. Her Doctor of Ministry degree was granted in 1986 from Andover Newton Theological School in Boston Massachusetts in Pastoral Psychology.
She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the California Institute of Integral Studies and received the Gandhi, King, and Ikeda Peace Award for her work in creating community through her work with the labyrinth.
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