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Living My Purpose in These Times

What is mine to do in these times? With so many other voices telling us what we "should" do or "could" do, it can be hard to get clear. Join us for a three part online mini-retreat to reflect and grow.

08 - 22 Jan 2026
online

Circle of Trust®: Winter Rest

Give yourself the time and space to engage your whole, authentic self with courage and support as we explore the questions of your life in winter's time of rest.

10 Jan 2026
Hiawatha, Iowa, USA

Heart Centers: A Circle of Trust® Retreat

Can you feel the capacity of the human heart expanding or longing to? In this retreat, we will create a Circle of Trust as we explore five emerging centers of the human heart, not just one.

10 Jan - 07 Mar 2026
online

Choosing Courage to Be…

Join us for an online yearlong community of Circle of Trust opportunity- to pause, slow down, and together ponder how to be courageous in 2026. You have the option of joining for 6 or 12 sessions.

10 Jan - 05 Dec 2026
online

Courage to Teach®: Online Offerings for Educators

These three unique Courage to Teach® offerings invite school leaders and administrators to gift themselves something rare: time away to rest, reflect, and reconnect—with themselves, with their purpose, and with a trusted community of peers.

10 Jan - 06 Jun 2026
online

Courage: an online Circle of Trust®

How do we live with courage and integrity?

11 Jan 2026
online

Reflective Book Circle (January 13, 2026)

This month we are diving into Chapter V (Staying Engaged in the World) together.

13 Jan 2026
online

Community Programs

Writing Together: A Courage & Renewal Reflective Writing Circle

Using the Courage & Renewal approach and writing prompts, we will explore our unique life stories and what they have to teach us.

14 - 19 Jan 2026
online

Community Programs

Claiming Your Life as It Is: A Soul of Aging Retreat

A Circle of Trust retreat that invites participants to reclaim wholeness of self and clarity of vocation as we reflect on the tremendous potential of our aging.

16 - 18 Jan 2026
online

Embodiment Pause (January 19, 2026)

Join us to practice and learn more about the importance of the mind/body connection.

19 Jan 2026
online

Community Programs

Foundations of the Courage & Renewal Approach – (Jan/Feb 2026, Wednesdays 3pm-5pm ET)

Throughout 5 online sessions, learn how the values, principles, and practices of the Courage & Renewal® approach, taken together, create trustworthy spaces to explore questions of meaning, purpose, and how to live authentically with integrity and courage.

21 Jan - 18 Feb 2026
online

Gifts of Imperfection Online Course Study

What if, instead of striving to be “perfect,” you gave yourself permission to be real? Inspired by Brené Brown’s beloved book The Gifts of Imperfection and following the Circle of Trust principles and practices, this online course study is an invitation to set aside the masks and the pressure of “having it all together,” and instead explore the freedom, courage, and connection that come from living wholeheartedly.

22 Jan - 26 Feb 2026
online

For Anyone

Changing Seasons: Winter’s Invitation

A retreat exploring life’s transitions through the wisdom of winter. "Changing Seasons" is a retreat for people interested in exploring what it means to move through life's transitions and how we can enter into times of change with intention and openness.

22 Jan 2026
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Courage to Teach®: Grounding the Spirit, Reclaiming Hope, and Building Community (A Virtual Retreat for PreK–12 Educators)

How do we care for ourselves within systems that often ask us to set aside our integrity, our well-being? This retreat offers a restorative, well-held space for PreK–12 educators and anyone else who wishes to reconnect with themselves in community with others.

24 Jan - 14 Mar 2026
online

Welcoming the New Year with Hope

This is a one day Circle of Trust® retreat which offers an opportunity to journal, reflect and share in small groups as a way of welcoming the new year with hope and courage.

24 Jan 2026
Brisbane, Qld, Australia

Healing Relationships: Cultivating a New Perspective on Relating to Adult Children

Join us for this weekly 6-session series, as we engage in a conversation about the joys and challenges of being a parent to adult children, with a focus on doing our inner work, holding tension in life-giving ways, taking some risks, and growing in healthier relationships.

04 Feb - 11 Mar 2026
online

For Anyone

Abundance and Grace for All Seasons: A Yearlong Courage & Renewal Series

Through individual written reflection and group interaction, you will have opportunities and time to recognize the grace that is always abundantly available.

06 - 07 Feb 2026
La Crosse, WI USA

Grace and Reflection: A Courage & Renewal® Weekend

Grace and Reflection: A Courage & Renewal® Weekend is the third of a year long series of retreat opportunities at Holy Wisdom Monastery. The weekend will include creating a quiet, focused, and enlivened space - a Circle of Trust® - where personal, inner wisdom can be heard.

13 - 15 Feb 2026
Middleton, WI

Living in Alignment: A Women’s Yoga & Circle of Trust Retreat

The life you're building doesn't require force. It requires alignment. Living aligned requires attention and intention...daily. Join Kirstin Anglea and yoga teacher, Phoenix Ries, for their 5th annual Living in Alignment retreat in Baja, Mexico. A breathing space to find your footing at the waters edge.

22 - 28 Feb 2026
Todos Santos, Baja, Mexico

Reclaim Your Joy in Baja California, Mexico

Set in the stunning coastal paradise of La Paz, Baja California Sur, one of Mexico’s top wellness and eco-adventure destinations, this transformational retreat invites you to reconnect with your body, your purpose, and the natural world.

22 - 28 Feb 2026
La Paz, Mexico

Practicing Courage in a Time of Polarization

An ever-growing divide within our personal and professional lives is provoking a level of polarization that has far-reaching consequences. It not only is damaging relationships but has contributed to divisions that pose a threat to our democratic society. Now, more than ever, the landscape of our “citizen lives” is changing daily, and we know the power of people showing up grounded in the practices of Courage and Renewal make a difference. These spaces allow people to face clear eyed into harsh realities while continuing to build the world we know is possible. We know that being together in a community of support renews, inspires and fuels us for the long haul! Join us in our five-session experience offering hope for a different future.

23 Feb - 27 Apr 2026
online

Thresholds and Doorways: Writing into Life’s Inevitable Transitions

Please join us for a one-and-a-half-day contemplative poetry writing retreat as we explore the transitions of our lives through reflection and writing, and how we might find our way through them with courage and grace.

26 - 27 Feb 2026
online

For Anyone

Foundations of the Courage & Renewal Approach – (Feb/March 2026, Saturdays 10am-12pm ET)

28 Feb - 28 Mar 2026
online

Living with Authenticity, Integrity & Courage For those who identify as 2SLGBTQ+ and their Allies

A two-day Circle of Trust® Retreat on Zoom

28 Feb - 01 Mar 2026
online

Reclaiming Rest: Nourishing Practices to Renew and Restore Body, Mind, and Spirit

Overwhelmed by commitments and pressures that lead to burnout, we seek to challenge Grind Culture and resist time's role in neo-liberalism and neo-colonialism. This session focuses on rest and renewal as essential practices to reclaim self-care, love, and humanity, and promote social justice.

01 - 07 Mar 2026
Wallingford, PA

Balancing Life and Leadership: Courage to Lead in Challenging Times

Are you seeking to find balance in your life, and make changes to better serve who you want to be in the world and how you want to show up? We invite you to join us in this opportunity to pause and disconnect from the fast pace and distractions of daily life, and join other change-makers who dare to engage their work with presence and compassion.

13 - 15 Mar 2026
Portland, OR

Renewal and Resilience: Sustaining Your Passion to Teach

How can we reconnect with what brought us to teaching and rediscover our passion for this work? This Circle of Trust® retreat offers the opportunity to join a community of educators in a supported space to pause, reflect and reclaim the purpose and commitment that sustains us.

27 - 29 Mar 2026
online

Having Tea With Grief: A Yoga & Circle of Trust Retreat®

Grief shows up at our doorstep in many different forms. The loss of a loved one, a relationship; a transition from one place to another, grief for the state of things-the Earth, for humanity. How can we bravely welcome the grief that comes our way? Sit with it. Make it a cup of tea.

09 - 12 Apr 2026
Union, WA, USA

For Anyone

Courage & Renewal Practicum – Online – (April 2026)

Deepen your engagement with the values, principles, and practices of the Courage & Renewal approach, gaining knowledge and insights on how to bring these ways of being and perceiving more fully into your own life while expanding your capacity to influence and transform the communities and institutions you care about.

10 - 20 Apr 2026
online

Training

Whisper of the Heart

“Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.” Parker J. Palmer, "Let Your Life Speak" Embrace spring with this online Circle of Trust® Retreat as we explore practices that honor the whispers of our heart and recognize the courageous turnings that empower action. Join us and experience new growth.

11 - 18 Apr 2026
online

Courage, Community, Love, Healing & Hope: living in a troubled world

Troubled by our troubled world and want to make the space to listen to your heart, connect deeply with others and navigate your way to feeling joy in a trustworthy space? Join us in beautiful Kaurna Land, Adelaide, South Australia

17 - 19 Apr 2026
Adelaide, Australia

For Anyone

Dig It Out, Dust It Off, and Deal With It: Asheville, North Carolina

This retreat invites you to take a courageous pause from the chaos of everyday life and intentionally turn inward. Together, we’ll create space to reflect on where you’ve been, where you are, and where you’re called to go next.

19 - 25 Apr 2026
Asheville, NC

New Beginnings

What does it take to start something new? For some it takes connecting to courage, for others it takes time apart from everyday routines. This retreat is for anyone who needs a fresh start.

23 - 25 Apr 2026
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

Nourishing Tender Shoots of Hope: A Courage and Renewal® Spring Retreat

Many of us are called to be in this world with a heart for peace and justice, and we need to sustain our spirit with clarity and courage. This retreat offers spacious time to pause and rest, with an invitation to reflective inner work and meaningful connection with other changemakers.

30 Apr - 02 May 2026
Kawartha Lakes, Ontario Canada

For Anyone

Walking the Shoreline: a Circle of Trust® retreat in Ireland

An invitation to explore the ebb and flow of our experience, to enter into a time of reflection, renewal and hope as we walk our shorelines together.

01 - 03 May 2026
Co. Wexford, Ireland

Camino de Santiago: A Life-Changing Journey of Courage & Renewal

Join us on a soul-stirring journey through Spain’s legendary Camino de Santiago, a 70-mile pilgrimage from Sarria to Santiago de Compostela that has changed lives for centuries. This powerful retreat is designed to help you realign your mind, body, and spirit while walking through some of the most breathtaking landscapes in northern Spain.

10 - 17 May 2026
Northern Spain

Foundations of the Courage & Renewal Approach – (May/June 2026, Wednesdays 3pm-5pm ET)

13 May - 10 Jun 2026
online

Liberatory Leadership – Embracing Grief & Possibility while Building Beloved Community: A Multi-Racial, Intergenerational Gathering of Women

Join our Courage to Lead four day and three night retreat, open to those identifying as women, who are seeking to hold and to respond to the complexity of our time while finding rest and rejuvenation through reflection and practice in community.

17 - 20 May 2026
Corbett, OR

Pilgrimage to Silence: A Nature-Based Retreat for Rest and Renewal

This silent, nature-based retreat offers a peaceful space to rest and restore. Surrounded by Hollyhock’s forests and ocean, we step away from daily noise and slow down.

17 - 22 May 2026
Cortes Island, British Columbia

Standing at the Edge of Life: A Soul of Aging Retreat

Life is filled with moments of joy and sorrow. Appreciating the imperfect, impermanent and incomplete nature of this life can be challenging. In this Circle of Trust® retreat, we will explore these questions, along with what author Caryl Casbon calls “deep time”. Through individual and small group reflective practices and creative expression, we’ll venture out onto the edges and thresholds of our life, to discover and befriend the paradoxes of standing at the edge of time.

24 - 27 May 2026
Abiquii, NM United States

‘Let the Beauty You Love’: A Retreat for Renewal & Engaged Social Action

This retreat explores issues of transition, vocational calling, passion, life purpose, meaning, direction and underlying life patterns to live in greater alignment with your core values, to listen to your own inner wisdom, and to reconnect who you are with what you do. While exploring personal life transitions, this retreat acknowledges the global polycrisis we face that includes climate change, political polarization, war, and injustice.

29 - 31 May 2026
Burlingame, California

Wonder & Hope: A Courage & Renewal Experience at Holy Wisdom Monastery

Wonder & Hope: A Courage & Renewal® Weekend is the fourth of a year long series of retreat opportunities at Holy Wisdom Monastery. The weekend will include creating a quiet, focused, and enlivened space - a Circle of Trust® - where personal, inner wisdom can be heard.

29 - 31 May 2026
Middleton, WI

Geography of Change: A Forest Retreat for Navigating Life Transitions

Immersed in the stunning beauty of the redwoods in spring, this retreat explores issues of life transition, vocation, passion, purpose, meaning, direction, and underlying patterns, to live in greater alignment with your deepest values, to listen to your own inner wisdom, and to have the courage to act with integrity and authenticity.

29 - 31 May 2026
Ben Lomond, CA

Living the Questions: Finding Clarity in Uncertain Times

Are you seeking ways to cultivate stillness around the incessant questions in your life? In a world that often demands quick answers and constant certainty, this two-and-a-half day retreat offers a spacious alternative—a time to slow down, listen deeply, and live the questions that shape our lives. We invite you to join us in this retreat where we practice living the questions.

05 - 07 Jun 2026
Leavenworth, KS, USA

Renewing Our Courage to Lead®: A Circle of Trust Retreat for K-12 Educators

This Courage to Lead® weekend retreat invites school leaders and administrators to gift themselves something rare: time away to rest, reflect, and reconnect—with themselves, with their purpose, and with a trusted community of peers.

31 Jul - 02 Aug 2026
Cedar Valley Retreat Center

Reflection, Renewal & Re-Creation in Zion and Bryce Canyons

Are you ready for something more in your life or career? A way to show up differently, live more fully, and wake up inspired each day? Imagine joining a small group of like-minded individuals in a setting perfectly suited for growth, reflection, and transformation—immersed in a process that helps you explore, discover, and step into your next chapter with clarity and confidence.

11 - 16 Sep 2026
Virgin, UT

Embracing the Mystery: A Soul of Aging Retreat

“I don’t want to fight the gravity of aging. It’s nature’s way. I want to collaborate with it as best I can, in hopes of going down with something like the grace of that setting sun.” ~Parker Palmer

20 - 23 Sep 2026
Stoneville, North Carolina

Portuguese Camino: Walk in Beauty Pilgrimage 2026

Let us pamper you in this exclusive, small group, amenities-packed pilgrimage where you’ll savor breathtaking natural beauty of the legendary coast of Portugal and Spain, charming, three and four-star accommodations, and regional delicious cuisine, including gourmet picnic lunches.

10 - 20 Oct 2026
Guimarães, Portugal to Santiago de Compostela, Spain

For Anyone

Walking into Wonder: A Journey Through Italy’s Ancient Paths

Reconnect your mind, body, and spirit as you journey with a small group of like-hearted travelers on an unforgettable walking retreat through the breathtaking Italian countryside. Over seven days, we’ll hike approximately 70 miles of the Via Francigena, an ancient pilgrimage route winding through hilltop towns, vineyards, olive groves, and historic cobblestone villages—culminating with a powerful arrival in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican in Rome.

17 - 25 Oct 2026
Orvieto Italy

Joy, Meaning & Purpose in Sedona, AZ

Are you ready to step into “something more” in your personal and professional life? Whether it’s showing up with greater focus, resilience, and confidence—or finding the clarity and energy to engage fully in work, relationships, and life—this Sedona retreat offers the perfect blend of reflection, learning, and rejuvenation.

08 - 14 Nov 2026
Sedona, AZ

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