Creative Pilgrimage
Inner and Outer Journeys of Soulful Self-Discovery with Catherine Anderson through Mindful Creativity, Slow Photography and Nourishing Creative Retreats.
Inner and Outer Journeys of soulful Self-Discovery
Mindful Creativity - CONTEMPLATIVE Photography - Nourishing Retreats
“I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes on an equal distance into the world within us.”
COSMIC CREATIVITY: CO-CREATING THE WORLD WE LIVE IN
A VERIDITAS SACRED PATH PILGRIMAGE IN CHARTRES, FRANCE
June 8th to 12th, 2026
The universe is a dance of creativity, and each of us moves as a vital part of its rhythm. We create with the cosmos, through the imaginal realm, and in relationship with all that has shaped us. In this time of unraveling and renewal, imagination becomes sacred ground — the meeting place of soul and cosmos.
Join Lauren Artress and Catherine Anderson for a journey into the living conversation between creativity and spirit, where uncertainty itself becomes the threshold to transformation. Inspired by Brian Swimme’s vision of a universe alive with allurement, creativity, and communion, and by Diarmuid O’Murchu’s vision of a living cosmos ever birthing itself into being, we will explore imagination as the deep pulse of our becoming — a wellspring of resilience, wonder, and hope.
Through shared dialogue, small-group reflection, daily SoulCollage® practice, and a private labyrinth walk in the luminous space of Chartres Cathedral - a place where human creativity and cosmic radiance meet - we will explore creativity as the universe expressing itself through us. Surrounded by centuries of devotion and light, we remember our original vocation: to say yes to the Great Work of co-creation — shaping a more conscious, compassionate, and vibrant world.
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“Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits
to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.”
UPCOMING 2026 RETREATS
“That I speak here of art as a Way, gives away that I see the way of the artist as a kind of pilgrimage. When you go on a pilgrimage, you set out from where you happen to be and start walking toward a place of great sanctity in the hope of returning from it renewed, enriched and sanctified. However far you may walk, every pilgrimage is a safari into your own dark interior, an inner journey.”
“The nearest thing to contemplation is play.”
