Through this in-person Circle of Trust® Retreat, we will explore what hope looks like in the midst of our current circumstances. While living in a time that makes hope hard to see, how do we have the courage to embody hope?
Engaging in reflection, conversation, and guided activities, we will practice together what it means to live into hope as clergywomen.These practices will allow participants to cultivate the resources of stillness, gratitude, and healthy boundary-setting.
Based on the work of author and spiritual elder Parker J. Palmer, this retreat will also provide the opportunity to engage in a Clearness Committee to:
- Discover a process for discernment to reach clarity
- Explore the connection between inner landscape and outer world
- Learn healthy ways to embrace paradox and hold tension in life-giving ways
- Be within a community of mutual respect and caring that welcomes the soul
What to Expect: In the retreat, skilled facilitators help to create a quiet, focused, and disciplined space — a Circle of Trust® — in which the noise within us and around us can subside and we can begin to hear our own inner voice. In large group, small group, and solitary settings, we will explore what it means to have hope in our lives, making use of stories from our own journeys, as well as insights from poets, storytellers, and various wisdom traditions.
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.
