Walking as One
Walking as One for Peace
Anticipation fills my plans for World Labyrinth Day 2025.
The tradition of walking labyrinths as one at 1 PM in local time zones began in 2009, and it’s grown to over a hundred countries. Participants walk existing ones, create new permanent or temporary installations, trace finger labyrinths…
All beautiful ways to connect with this year’s theme of “Creating Peaceful Paths”.
For me, even the phrase “walking as one” reminds me that a peaceful path begins within.
The road before me has been pretty bumpy lately, and peace has felt very far away from my heart. I’ve been pulled off balance, trapped by extremes, stuck in resignation…
And I’m trying to rise above it.
To blossom beyond adversity, I must cultivate resilience, and I am actively exploring the actions and behaviors that help me thrive in the murkiest of waters.
Strikingly, when I bounce back from times of resignation and extreme upheaval, it’s because something has changed. That something is usually me. Cultivating resilience involves changing aspects of my identity, my beliefs, behaviors, priorities, even the way I relate to others.
Slipping sideways, changing course, redefining terms, shedding what no longer serves — I’m reinventing myself and re-creating my world. I know I’m beginning to touch resilience when I feel clever, creative, inspired, energized, confident, rooted. The hopelessness and impotent fury of resignation fades into something like…mischievousness?
I’m not sure that word is the best fit, but there’s a sense of curiosity mixed with a detachment that encourages experimentation. Instead of being crushed by others’ perceptions or actions, I giggle while thinking about trying something new and muse, “Huh. How’s that gonna strike them, I wonder.” I’m flipping the script, and I’m the better for it.
This doesn’t mean detaching from accountability. Quite the contrary. Owing up to my part in being trapped in resignation (or in any emotional blow-ups I cause while refusing to succumb to resignation) seems to mark my transition out of this murky space.
This also isn’t like flipping a light switch, as much as I might wish it to be. It often takes persistence and many, many steps. If it’s my world I’m re-creating, that’s not something I can do alone.
Walking as one, as a single human, I seek the peace that dwells within.
The peace that lets me transform the mud around me into magic.
Walking as one, with thousands of others across the world?
This creates a wave of peace, and its ripples are manifold and as yet untold.
I hope that you’ll join me at the ‘Awapuhi Labyrinth in HPP to celebrate World Labyrinth Day on May 3rd, 2025. I will be facilitating a circle share on cultivating resilience at 11:30 AM, followed by a labyrinth walk at 1 PM, and you’re welcome to join either or both. You can read more in this press release, find other World Labyrinth Day events near you.
RSVP or ask a question below. Circle shares and labyrinths are two of my truths, and I can’t wait to share them with you!