Turn to wonder and courage in decision making

“A man or woman becomes fully human only by his choices, people attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day. These decisions require courage”  ~Rollo May

Making decisions can be challenging – how can we know what is the right decision? Even the most experienced decision makers and seasoned people struggle when they find themselves having to make a difficult decision.  They experience a sense of standing in a tragic gap between differing alternatives.

This retreat invites you to carefully explore the nature of your decision-making. We invite you to slow down, turn to wonder, listen deeply to yourself and others and reflect on the nature of your decision-making, with others, while we explore and cultivate the courage needed, in the decisions we make to become fully human as Rollo May formulates it.

Together we will travel down the many roads we take to our decisions. How these roads winds their way through our inner and outer landscapes and meander through various possibilities. Using Parker J. Palmer’s perspectives of living an undivided life and listening to our True Selves, we will navigate through the Möbius strip, a powerful visual metaphor and the Tragic Gap of decision-making – the space Palmer describes as standing between the way things are and the way we know they could be. Holding that tension without collapsing into either cynicism or naïve optimism when making decisions, is difficult in a cultural reality that values action and speed.

We will explore our doubts and fears, not as an enemy of decision-making but as the creative opening needed to help us make decisions with authenticity, courage and integrity.

Over six Tuesdays, 2.5 hour sessions, we will come together to explore the challenges of decision-making and the how to use Courage & Renewal principles and practices as a guide to help us stand in that tragic gap of decision-making.