“The times are urgent, we need to slow down” ~ Bayo Akomolafe
This is a gathering for anyone who senses we are living through a time of profound reckoning and who longs to meet it with courage, clarity, and compassion.
Guided by the Courage & Renewal® approach, we will work with multiple ways of knowing and co-create a trustworthy space to help us listen for the wisdom that lies beneath the noise of a world in upheaval as we ask “what is ours to do?”
The morning will offer a gentle weave of activities: creating and walking a beach labyrinth, shared breakfast, poetry, guided meditation, singing, and time for you to reflect individually and in small groups. A spacious morning to reconnect with what matters.
We live in troubled times. And still, we work, smile, shop, cook, tend to our gardens and friendships. But when we pause — really pause — we often sense something deeper stirring beneath the surface. A knowing that all is not well. A quiet ache, a low hum of grief, a feeling that we are not only witnesses but participants in a great unravelling. In those still moments, we may feel a subtle dread, a shared knowing among those who are awake to the fragility of our time. A grief not easily named, carried quietly by many.
Our belief is that to meet the challenges of these times we need to reconnect with the sacred: the “more than”, the greater whole of which we are part. There are a myriad names to name this large whole – soul, inner teacher, original nature – and no one word is adequate to capture this ineffable mystery.
We’ll begin the morning with a labyrinth walk on the beach at low tide. Together we’ll build a classical 7-circuit labyrinth using pebbles to mark the path. A labyrinth is a single, spiraling path that leads to a central area and then you walk the same path back out, returning to the beginning. Unlike mazes there are no tricks or dead ends. The labyrinth is often referred to as an archetypal image as it emerged in different cultures over 4000 years ago and is thought of as a mirror or metaphor for the evolutionary spiral of life and change.
No experience of meditation, labyrinths or retreats necessary. Age 16+
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.
