As we face growing uncertainty and the unraveling of systems once thought secure, there is no better time to connect with a community of care and engage in practices that promote clarity, courage, and conviction. We are called to see reality as it is, without succumbing to despair, while imagining possibilities and continuing to show up authentically, lovingly, and peacefully.
This New Year’s retreat is designed to cultivate rest, reflection, renewal, and restoration. At these times of change, high stress, and high anxiety, we need now, more than ever, to exhale deeply and feel fully nourished through resilience-building, heart-opening, peace-making practices and a caring community.
Welcoming the New Year is a perfect time to explore issues of transition, vocation, life purpose, passion, meaning, direction and underlying life patterns to live in greater alignment with your core values. Listen to your own inner wisdom and reconnect who you are with what you do.
Savor extended periods of silence, reflection, group discussion, creative arts, walks in nature, deep relaxation, music, laughter, and mindful movement. Surrounded by a supportive and caring community, you’ll return home feeling restored, inspired, balanced and uplifted toward the best version of you.
Our theme for this retreat is Navigating Change and Uncertainty with Purpose and Heart.
You will learn how to:
- Navigate life’s uncertain and ambiguous moments.
- Cultivate courage and trust even when you don’t feel it.
- Reflect on what matters most with soul-amplifying questions, creative practices, small and large group dialogue and more.
- Align your values with your work for a greater sense of purpose and meaning.
- Cultivate body intelligence and body awareness.
- Show yourself real kindness through self-compassion.
- Practice self-stewardship while compassionately respecting your limits.
Valerie has offered this retreat for 20 years! Experience for yourself what others have said about this powerful and inspiring retreat.
What people are saying about this retreat:
- ‘This retreat provided so many excellent opportunities for inward journey and identified ways that my energy, spiritual journey may be blocked.’
- ‘This retreat helped me to see more clearly the hindrances to my deepening/developing relationship to my joy and fullness.’
- ‘This is a retreat of great wisdom, great people, and a great compassionate leader.’
- ‘Opportunity to rest and reflect in a warm and welcoming community.’
- ‘Valerie created the spaciousness for me to heal, go deeper, be witnessed, learn from others, and explore the covered up places longing for me to come home.’
- ‘Sweet & lush’
Welcome the New Year with a Joyful Celebration & Feast!
Welcome the New Year in community and connection and with a celebratory, alcohol-free evening that includes: an array of hors D’oeuvres, choice of entrees; such as farfalle pasta with winter squash, toasted pine nuts, and sage, baked salmon with garden herbs, or roast pork loin with green apple sauce, choice of sides, like garlic crusted red potatoes, a fabulous homemade dessert bar, and concert, singing, and capping the New Year’s Eve Celebration with a Candlelight Meeting for Worship.
Watch the Information Video and Register Here: https://pendlehill.org/events/new-years-open-heart-peaceful-mind-a-retreat-for-rest-reflection/
The Center for Courage & Renewal and its facilitators do not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, age, height, weight, physical or mental ability, veteran status, military obligations, and marital status.
