Twinkling lights, candles, greens, beauty… Depending on where you live and how you welcome in the month of December, it’s often a time of gathering with loved ones, gift giving, eating special foods, celebration and joy.
There also can be expectations—ours, and others’ for us. Perhaps it’s for a particularly delightful season, that certain festivities will bring out the best in us, that it will be the most wonderful time we’ve ever had with our families. Maybe in the process of looking forward to the season, we so badly want it to be that special time that we find ourselves squelching whatever it is that is really arising in us.
The truth is, we might not always feel the joy of the season, and these expectations can amplify feelings of loneliness, sorrow, uncertainty or dissatisfaction, and our internal mood may more closely match the gray of rain or snow that may fringe some of our outer landscapes.
We invite you to join us for this four-hour micro-retreat for a time of simply being with one another—to acknowledge what is real, listen to ourselves and others, and perhaps, to find some things to appreciate about our lives just the way they are.
Through the Courage & Renewal® approach this offering invites you to connect with yourself and others—and to have a chance to name the ways things are, without fixing, saving and advising—just witnessing and being witnessed in a trustworthy space.
Blue in December will be grounded in the Courage & Renewal® approach which you can learn more about in Parker J. Palmer’s book, A Hidden Wholeness. All are welcome.
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.
