The Collabyrinth
Botanical labyrinths for conferences, organizations, and public gatherings
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If you are planning a conference, gathering, retreat, or public program and are interested in creating space for reflection, participation, or collective action, let’s talk.
The starting point is not a standard package.
It is the question your gathering is asking.
Email: hello@TheCollabyrinth.com
Temporary, site-responsive installations designed to cultivate reflection, participation, connection and meaningful action.
Now or Never
San Francisco
A seven-circuit botanical labyrinth created for a civic futures festival exploring participation and agency. Participants moved through a sequence of prompts, identified one small step they were willing to begin, and added flowers and commitments to the installation. Over the course of the gathering, the labyrinth became a collective creation.
Reflection requires different conditions.
Conferences and gatherings are designed to bring people together around important ideas. But insight does not automatically become understanding, and understanding does not automatically become action.
A labyrinth creates a different kind of space within the event.
Participants step out of the flow of programming and into a physical experience that allows them to slow down, reflect, and engage a central question in their own way.
Depending on the setting, the labyrinth may function as:
a quiet space for individual reflection
a facilitated experience connected to an event theme
a participatory installation that changes as people contribute to it
a place to move from reflection toward commitment or action
The labyrinth offers structure without prescribing an answer.
Selected Work.
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Together Conference, San Francisco
Gathering Focus: Possibility
Design Response: Botanical reflection space + locally sourced materials
Made Possible: Slowing down, connection and a material story of re-use
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Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis
Gathering focus: Labyrinth learning + contemplative practice
Design response: Education, making + multiple labyrinth forms
Made possible: Different ways to enter the practice at participants’ own pace
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End Well Conference, Los Angeles
Gathering Focus: Common ground; Grief, caregiving + end of life
Design response: Quiet enclosure + fragrant native botanicals
Made possible: Privacy, sensory immersion + space for emotional processing