Program Calendar

Find the program that works best for you

No matter what program you attend, you’ll experience the Courage & Renewal approach, a social technology of time-tested principles and practices that reveal what’s possible when we create space to hear our inner teacher and honor the inherent worth and dignity of every human being.

Black Women’s Radical Self-Love Retreats, 2024-2025

Doing inner work in the supportive community of other black women makes connecting with our self-love more possible. And it makes this hard and important work enjoyable.

  • 18 Jan - 19 Jul 2025
  • online

Courage to Cultivate Community: January Mini-Retreat for Renewal & Resilience with Community Builders

January’s Theme? Winter’s Gift: Tending To What’s Dormant & Wants to Grow, Leaving Behind What’s Dead & Gone. In the new year and as we approach the Inauguration...feed your power from the inside out, in good company! Tap into & renew what's important to you.

  • 18 Jan 2025
  • Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Listening for the Sound of the Genuine: A Winter Retreat Day

A spacious day of listening for the sound of the genuine: your own true voice and what is good, true, and beautiful in this world.

  • 19 Jan 2025
  • East Sussex, UK

Embodiment Pause (January 20, 2025)

Join Courage & Renewal members in taking some time out of your day to take a breath and pause.

  • 20 Jan 2025
  • online

Hope in the Dark: A Winter Circle of Trust Retreat

A weekend retreat exploring the wisdom of winter and the generative power of darkness through poetry, journaling, silence, and nature.

  • 23 - 26 Jan 2025
  • Wallingford, PA

The Clearness Committee: Learning the Art of Open Questions

Learn the art of open questions and how to find clarity in life decisions with others.

  • 23 Jan - 20 Feb 2025
  • online

It Takes a Village: Exploring Your Part in All of This

This Circle of Trust® will explore our part to play during difficult times. Come to sit with others for inspiration and support as we aim to listen deeply, live congruently, and respond boldly -- to heal and grow on behalf of ourselves, our community, our public life, and this beloved Earth.

  • 24 Jan - 18 Apr 2025
  • online

Courage & Renewal Practicum – Online – (January 2025)

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.

  • 24 Jan - 13 Apr 2025
  • online

Teaching Beyond Technique: A Winter Retreat that Explores the Heart of a Teacher

This 3-day in person retreat will introduce you to the unique Courage to Teach® approach to personal and professional development. You will be invited to listen to the voice of your inner teacher and be encouraged to live more fully aligned with your deeper values as a person and educator. This is an Introductory Courage to Teach® Retreat with a Clearness Committee.

  • 24 - 27 Jan 2025
  • Adamstown, Maryland USA

Charting a Path in a Broken World

Join us for 6 weekly sessions to explore how we navigate a fractured world.

  • 28 Jan - 04 Mar 2025
  • online

My Neighbor, Myself: A Courage & Renewal(R) Women’s Weekend

This 2-day Women’s Weekend is an opportunity to experience Wisconsin’s Washington Island, reconnect with what is most important in your life and consider how we can all live more fully within our relationships, neighborhoods, and community.

  • 31 Jan - 01 Feb 2025
  • Washington Island, WI USA

Embracing Beauty Within, Between, & Around Us

"The way we look at things has a huge influence on what becomes visible to us. When we beautify our gaze, the grace of hidden beauty becomes our joy and our sanctuary." John O'Donohue

  • 01 Feb 2025
  • Rocky River, Ohio

Always We Begin Again: The Heart of Higher Education 2025

Join us for events in 2025 planned for supporting the calling and work of higher education professionals.

  • 01 Feb - 31 Dec 2025
  • online

Solitude: an Online Circle of Trust®

A 75-minute online retreat to explore the refuge of solitude, fostering calm, presence, and deeper self-awareness.

  • 02 Feb 2025
  • online

Living into the Touchstones: A Circle of Trust ® online series

This 11-part online series is dedicated to exploring and experiencing each of the Circle of Trust ® Touchstones for creating safe and trustworthy space.

  • 02 Feb - 07 Dec 2025
  • online

Reconnecting with True Self: A Courage & Renewal® Seasonal Retreat Series

Three seasonal retreats will invite you to slow down, listen, and reconnect with your life and work at a deeper level, in whatever life-season you find yourself.

  • 06 Feb - 04 Oct 2025
  • North Kawartha, Ontario, Canada

Courage & Renewal®: Travelers, All, Going With Courage!

Experience personal renewal and reflection as you move toward a more authentic and loving life. This virtual retreat incorporates the practices and principles of the Center for Courage & Renewal, co-founded by writer and activist Parker Palmer, Ph.D., and is based on his Circle of Trust® approach.

  • 08 Feb 2025
  • online

The Wild Creative Sojourn: Voyaging Beyond the Fear of Failure

Please join us for this Wild Creative Sojourn as we voyage into and through the landscape of the fear of failure—taking some risks, discovering some gifts, and setting wise intentions for change.

  • 13 - 15 Feb 2025
  • online

Side by Side Retreat for Couples Aging Together in Spirit

Based on the true soul stories collected in "Side by Side: the Sacred Art of Couples Aging with Wisdom & Love", this retreat is designed for all couples, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, living into the autumn/winter of their lives who are interested in enriching their relationships.

  • 18 - 20 Feb 2025
  • Santa Cruz, California

Discovering the Courage to Lead: Aligning Soul and Role

We will explore the essential question, “who is the you that engages in leadership work?” In doing so we hope to open new avenues, perspectives, and insights that aim to elevate your leadership practice and help you to illuminate the part of the world in which you lead.

  • 21 - 23 Feb 2025
  • Franklin TN

The Courage To Belong: Restoring Identity and Integrity for Self & System

This is an immersive online event, where you are invited to experience how the values, principles, and practices of the Courage & Renewal® approach foster and develop belonging. Dr Saiyyidah says 'as you develop your relationship with your inner teacher you start to belong in your own skin more and when you understand what belonging is for you then you can help others to feel like they have a sense of belonging. I think that just makes the world feel better and is expansive for humanity.'

  • 21 - 23 Feb 2025
  • online

Foundations of the Courage & Renewal Approach – (Feb/March 2025, Saturdays 10am-12pm 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.

  • 22 Feb - 22 Mar 2025
  • online

A Year to Live, A Year to Love: A Retreat Series to Spark Creativity, Courage & Aliveness

This series of one-day retreats throughout 2025, inspired by Stephen Levine’s, "A Year to Live", is a courageous invitation to people of all ages and all stages of life to reflect on creating their best life while firmly grasping awareness of mortality and the impermanence of life. In a small community of seekers, you will explore how paradoxically contemplating death and impermanence can profoundly deepen your experience and appreciation of the present. Too often, the topic of our own mortality is avoided or labeled as morbid. However, in pausing to honor the gift of life, often a renewed sense of aliveness is ignited, catalyzing growth, jump-starting long-awaited change.

  • 23 Feb - 02 Nov 2025
  • Philadelphia, PA

Tending to Those Who Tend to Others: A Circle of Trust Retreat for Women of Color in Religious Leadership (Online)

Now more than ever, women of color clergy need a place to rest, replenish, and be witnessed and supported in trustworthy circles of care. Women of color serving as spiritual leaders carry a heavy load in providing pastoral care for your faith communities while also being personally impacted by systemic racism and sexism, especially in the current political climate. This 4-retreat series offers rest and respite for tending to your own soul in community with others.

  • 25 Feb - 23 Jul 2025
  • online

Courage to Lead: A Circle of Trust® Retreat for People Ages 20-40

We invite young leaders and activists to this Courage to Lead® retreat to reconnect with what grounds and sustains you in your life and work. In a rhythm of large-group gathering, individual reflection time, and structured time in smaller groups, you will have space to explore questions and ideas that hold meaning for you in this season.

  • 27 Feb - 01 Mar 2025
  • Germantown, Maryland, USA

Finding Home: a monthly Circle of Trust retreat for those who work in Higher Education

An invitation to pause and reflect on our response to these times of change and uncertainty: What does it mean to be an educator? How do we want to teach, learn and live? Who will we be to each other in our workplaces, our communities and our world?

  • 01 Mar - 10 May 2025
  • online

Community: an Online Circle of Trust®

A 75-minute online retreat to reflect on the power of community, our deep interconnectedness, and the relationships that sustain us.

  • 02 Mar 2025
  • online

Living in Alignment A Women’s Yoga and Circle of TrustⓇ Retreat

Consider joining KIrstin Anglea and Phoenix Ries for their 4th annual Yoga/Circle of TrustⓇ retreat that will light you up from the inside and guide you towards balance and alignment. We will use a delicious variety of daily yoga and Circle of Trust practices throughout our week together.

  • 02 - 08 Mar 2025
  • Baja California Sur

How to Rest: Nourishing Practices to Restore, Body, Mind and Spirit,

This week-long retreat is part of the broader Pendle Hill's iconic Spring Term.

  • 03 - 07 Mar 2025
  • Wallingford, PA

Design the Life You Love in Guatemala

Wow, what an incredible opportunity to embark on a journey of self-discovery and cultural immersion in the stunning setting of Antigua, Guatemala! The combination of breathtaking natural landscapes, rich historical heritage, and the warmth of the local culture surely makes for an unforgettable retreat experience.

  • 08 - 14 Mar 2025
  • Antigua, Guatemala

The Quickening: Writing into Doing

Please join us for a one-and-a-half-day poetry retreat as we explore through writing how it is we want to meet the world, what gifts we have to offer—and what is being asked of us at this time.

  • 13 - 14 Mar 2025
  • online

Balancing Life and Leadership: A Courage to Lead Retreat

This retreat is open to people from diverse fields and is designed with the theme of early spring in mind. Between the dormancy of winter and the blossoming of spring is an opportunity to tend to the equilibrium of our lives and our leadership. 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.

  • 14 - 16 Mar 2025
  • Portland, Oregon

Leading with Wisdom: A Courage to Lead® Retreat for Administrators

Join courageous leaders like yourself in this weekend retreat. Together we will create a trustworthy space to tap into our individual and collective wisdom and honor the innate gifts we bring to our professional and personal lives. We will draw inspiration from the Spring season in order to reflect, renew, re-inspire, and re-engage our leadership in ways that enhance our own wellbeing and the wellbeing of the communities and organizations we serve. Expect to emerge with greater clarity, integrity, and resilience. This life-affirming investment in yourself will benefit you and all those who are touched by your leadership.

  • 14 - 16 Mar 2025
  • San Juan Bautista, CA

The Third Act: A Retreat in Sacred Bali

Envision your Third Act and your authentic life. A week to explore the magic of Bali, soulful self learning, yoga, adventures and life-changing encounters.

  • 17 - 24 Mar 2025
  • Ubud, Bali

Facilitator Preparation Program – Onsite (April 2025)

The Courage & Renewal Facilitator Preparation Program is an 18-month leadership and apprenticeship program for carefully preparing and equipping facilitators to lead Circle of Trust® retreats and other programs rooted in the Courage & Renewal® approach.

  • 02 - 06 Apr 2025
  • Chester, CT, USA

Courageous Awakenings: Psychedelic Integration for a Renewed Life

As winter melts into spring, the transition mirrors our inner lives. Change brings both anticipation and resistance. How can we honor what was, accept what is, and welcome what may come? In the mud of life’s challenges lie the seeds of rebirth, waiting to bloom.

  • 03 - 06 Apr 2025
  • Wallingford, PA

Foundations of the Courage & Renewal Approach – (April/May 2025, Thursdays 6pm-8pm 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.

  • 10 Apr - 08 May 2025
  • online

Living a Lasting Legacy: A Soul of Aging Retreat

We are all aging. How we choose to live, as we age, is up to us. Living a Lasting Legacy invites anyone, regardless of age, who yearns to show up more fully to their life; to openly explore the challenges and gifts of aging; to surrender to and be transformed by the aging process.

  • 10 - 13 Apr 2025
  • Abiqui, New Mexico, USA

Awaken Your True Self in Asheville, North Carolina

Join us for an experience designed to reawaken your mind, body, and soul, helping you create the life you’ve always wanted. Set against the stunning outdoors of Asheville, NC, and the Great Smoky Mountains, this retreat will deepen your connection to yourself and the world around you, fostering courage and personal growth.

  • 13 - 19 Apr 2025
  • Asheville, NC

Facilitator Preparation Program – Online (May 2025)

The Courage & Renewal Facilitator Preparation Program is an 18-month leadership and apprenticeship program for carefully preparing and equipping facilitators to lead Circle of Trust® retreats and other programs rooted in the Courage & Renewal® approach.

  • 02 May - 02 Jun 2025
  • online

A Year to Live, A Year to Love: A Retreat Series to Spark Creativity, Courage & Aliveness

This series of one-day retreats throughout 2025, inspired by Stephen Levine’s, A Year to Live, is a courageous invitation to people of all ages and all stages of life to reflect on creating their best life while firmly grasping awareness of mortality and the impermanence of life. In a small community of seekers, you will explore how paradoxically contemplating death and impermanence can profoundly deepen your experience and appreciation of the present.

  • 04 May 2025
  • Philadelphia, PA

Community, Healing and Hope: Living in a Troubled World with Courage and Love

In this retreat we will come together in community to support each other’s exploration of how to live in a troubled world in a way that is loving, kind and courageous. If you are looking for support and capacity to access your own inner wisdom and would like to do this in community, please join us.

  • 17 - 18 May 2025
  • hybrid

Reunite Mind, Body and Spirit in Ireland

This Amazing Ireland Retreat will help you to reunite mind, body, and spirit by connecting with like-minded individuals as you walk the stunning vistas of “The Emerald Isle”.

  • 19 - 26 May 2025
  • Dingle Peninsula, Ireland

Foundations of the Courage & Renewal Approach – (May/June 2025, 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 May - 18 Jun 2025
  • online

Toward Wholeness: Crafting the Mosaic

Join us in June to reflect on our place in the mosaic of higher education. Enter a space from which we can take perspective: draw in close and treasure what’s precious, and stand back and appreciate the true value of our work, even when all of this may be hard to discern amid the everyday ferment of institutional life.

  • 02 - 04 Jun 2025
  • online

How to Hold It: Engaging Creatively in Life’s Contradictions

In How to Hold It: A Circle of Trust® Retreat, we will be exploring how to do the hard but possible and necessary work of holding tensions in ways that “enhance our lives and allow us to enhance the lives of others.”  Parker Palmer

  • 06 - 08 Jun 2025
  • Mittagong, NSW

Leading with Purpose: A Retreat for Healthcare Leaders to Cultivate Inner Wisdom and Wellbeing in Sonoma, CA

Join us for an extraordinary adventure retreat, crafted specifically for current and emerging healthcare leaders who are passionate about building resilience and fostering growth in their communities. Set against the backdrop of Sonoma County’s breathtaking redwood groves and coastal bluffs, this retreat offers a unique opportunity to reflect, connect, and rejuvenate amidst nature’s beauty.

  • 13 - 19 Jul 2025
  • Sonoma, CA

“Summertime Abundance: Yellowstone as Spiritual Inspiration”

Experience the “Geography of Grace” in Yellowstone Park. The park’s summertime abundance will serve as jumping off point for spiritual deepening through Nature’s geography.

  • 19 - 22 Aug 2025
  • Gardiner, MT, USA

A Year to Live, A Year to Love: A Retreat Series to Spark Creativity, Courage & Aliveness

This series of one-day retreats throughout 2025, inspired by Stephen Levine’s, "A Year to Live", is a courageous invitation to people of all ages and all stages of life to reflect on creating their best life while firmly grasping awareness of mortality and the impermanence of life. In a small community of seekers, you will explore how paradoxically contemplating death and impermanence can profoundly deepen your experience and appreciation of the present.

  • 24 Aug 2025
  • Philadelphia, PA

Discover Your True Potential: A Life-Changing Retreat in France

Join us for an extraordinary retreat in the stunning Burgundy countryside, a place where you can truly reunite your mind, body, and spirit. As a wise coach once said, “Don’t settle for fine”—this is your chance to live the life you were meant to and connect with like-minded individuals amidst breathtaking vistas.

  • 05 - 11 Oct 2025
  • Burgundy Region, France

Tending to Those Who Tend to Others: A Circle of Trust Retreat for Women of Color in Religious Leadership (Onsite)

Now more than ever, women of color clergy need a place to rest, replenish, and be witnessed and supported in trustworthy circles of care. Women of color serving as spiritual leaders carry a heavy load in providing pastoral care for your faith communities while also being personally impacted by systemic racism and sexism, especially in the current political climate. This 4-retreat series offers rest and respite for tending to your own soul in community with others.

  • 28 - 30 Oct 2025
  • Santa Cruz, CA

A Year to Live, A Year to Love: A Retreat Series to Spark Creativity, Courage & Aliveness

his series of one-day retreats throughout 2025, inspired by Stephen Levine’s, A Year to Live, is a courageous invitation to people of all ages and all stages of life to reflect on creating their best life while firmly grasping awareness of mortality and the impermanence of life. In a small community of seekers, you will explore how paradoxically contemplating death and impermanence can profoundly deepen your experience and appreciation of the present.

  • 02 Nov 2025
  • Philadelphia, PA
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