Reverend Dr. Lauren Artess

President and Founder
lauren@veriditas.net
Veriditas, The Voice of the Labyrinth Movement
Veriditas ~ The Voice of the Labyrinth Movement
1009 General Kennedy Avenue, 1st Floor
The Presidio
San Francisco, California 94129
voice: 415.561.2921 -- fax 415.561-2922

The Reverend Dr. Lauren Artress is author of Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Tool (Putnam/Riverhead Books, New York) and serves as a Canon at Grace Cathedral. She has been with the Cathedral since 1986 when she first served as Canon Pastor until 1995 and then served as a Canon for Special Ministries until August 2004. She created Quest: Grace Cathedral Center for Spiritual Wholeness in 1987 through the Laurence S. Rockfeller's Fund for The Enhancement of the Human Spirit.

Lauren created Veriditas, centered around a twelfth century mystical tool symbolic of the Path of Life that is re-introducing the walking meditation back into the Christian tradition. She travels world-wide offering workshops and lectures on the labyrinth and on Hildegard of Bingen. She creates large group events that nurture the connection between the human and Divine such as the Women's Dream Quest and Singing for Your Life (now called Symphony of Souls), a 24 hour, year-end healing event. In 1996 she created Veriditas, a non-profit dedicated to introducing people to the healing, meditative powers of the labyrinth. In addition to her ordination as an Episcopal priest she is a licensed psychotherapist in the State of California.

Lauren holds a Bachelor's Degree in Special Education from Ohio State University and a Master's 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.

Lauren serves on the Board for the International Transpersonal Association as well as the Transpersonal Institute. She is a Diplomate in the American Association for Pastoral Counselors and a Clinical Member in the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapists and licensed in the State of California.