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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.

Aging With Purpose: A Conversation with Parker J. Palmer & Kathryn McElveen

Join Parker in conversation with Kathryn McElveen, Executive Director of the Center for Courage & Renewal, as they explore Parker’s reflections on aging, purpose, courage, activism, love, loss, and the ongoing work of becoming more fully ourselves with the passage of time.

  • 16 Sep 2026
  • online

Discovering Space for Your Voice: An Exploration of the Geography of Grace

You are invited to journey through the landscape of grace with a cohort of others seeking to be courageous and compassionate in this pivotal time.

  • 17 Sep 2026 - 18 Mar 2027
  • online

Freedom in Restraint: Writing into Less as More

Please join us for a one-and-a-half-day contemplative poetry writing retreat as we explore the potential for freedom in restraint—the value of simplicity, holding back and “just enoughness,” even as we may feel pressures for constant growth, for “more.”

  • 17 - 18 Sep 2026
  • online

Open Community Discussion: Aging With Purpose: On the Brink of Everything – Sept. 18, 2026, 12pm EDT

Reflect and connect following the Aging With Purpose Conversation with Parker J. Palmer & Kathryn McElveen.

  • 18 Sep 2026
  • online

Unmoored and Unlost: a Circle of Trust® retreat on Zoom

An invitation to explore your experience of this time of unmooring, where old structures are breaking down and new ones are beginning to be imagined and dreamt into being.

  • 19 Sep - 14 Nov 2026
  • online

Circle of Trust: Autumn Gathering In

Join us in a day-long retreat, based on Parker Palmer's idea of a "hidden wholeness" within us, where we will explore our authentic selves through a seasonal theme in community with others.

  • 19 Sep 2026
  • Hiawatha, Iowa

The Tenacity to Hope: The Courage to Walk the Path

What does hope look like in the midst of difficult times? This Circle of Trust® retreat offers clergywomen the opportunity to come together to pause, reflect, and reclaim the courage to hope.

  • 21 - 23 Sep 2026
  • Weikert, PA

Fierce Souls and Tender Hearts – A Courageous Gathering Across Generation and Gender

"Just Beyond the Known." Join with the living land as guide, where our fierce souls and tender hearts are summoned by the wild, shape-shifting presence of the sacred. We will listen into the depths of paradox as we navigate this threshold of our loves together.

  • 24 - 27 Sep 2026
  • Ward, Colorado

Easing into Release, Releasing into Ease: An Autumn Circle of Trust®

As autumn invites the trees to release their leaves, this weekend retreat invites you into your own gentle letting go.

  • 25 - 27 Sep 2026
  • online

Love is Liberation Book Launch Gathering

Please join me for this free online book launch gathering for the release of my new book published by Parallax Press, Love is Liberation, Five Contemplations for Daily Ethical Living.

  • 01 Oct 2026
  • online

Autumn at Heron Home: A Courage & Renewal® Experience on Washington Island, WI

This two-day Courage & Renewal Retreat is intended for people seeking to live more authentic lives~ Claim time for your own personal renewal while strengthening a sense of community with those present.

  • 02 - 03 Oct 2026
  • Washington Island, WI 54246 USA

Writing into Presence: Reflective Practices for Courageous Leadership

Reflective practices nurture our capacity to lead courageously from the integrity of our whole selves. Join us in this Courage & Renewal® weekend immersion where we will explore writing in multiple forms as well as other creative expressions to support connection with the heart and soul that sustains our capacity to live and lead with presence, creativity, and hope.

  • 02 - 04 Oct 2026
  • Portland, Oregon

Foundations of the Courage & Renewal Approach – (Oct 2026, 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.

  • 03 - 31 Oct 2026
  • online

Resting in True Nature: Attuning to the heart’s whispers

"Take rest; a field that is rested gives a bountiful crop." ~Ovid To reclaim our true nature, to embrace our true selves and let our lives speak, requires us to listen to the quiet whispers of the heart.

  • 04 - 06 Oct 2026
  • Wexford Ireland

Courageous Awakenings: Psychedelic Integration for a Renewed Life

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.

  • 07 Oct - 02 Dec 2026
  • online

Community-Based Leadership: Connecting, engaging, and sustaining ourselves for climate action and land stewardship

This gathering offers an opportunity to take a pause from the demands of our work in climate change, land stewardship and biodiversity protection. Participants will have opportunities to build leadership skills, connect and enhance relationships with colleagues, and return with greater clarity, purpose and the inner resources needed to sustain ourselves in our vital work.

  • 07 - 08 Oct 2026
  • hybrid

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.

  • 09 - 11 Oct 2026
  • Leavenworth, KS, USA

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

Vesseling the Sacred: a Courage & Renewal learning retreat for Soul Workers

An invitation to explore, in a supportive learning community, how the practices of Courage & Renewal® create safe spaces for the shy soul to show up.

  • 10 Oct - 05 Dec 2026
  • online

Standing On Sacred Ground: A Healing History Journey

History is more than a collection of dates and events. It is the story of human lives - of choices made, suffering endured, courage displayed, and hope sustained. This Retreat traces a story from the shores of Savannah to the fields of Montgomery and Selma.

  • 11 - 16 Oct 2026
  • Savannah, Georgia

Connect With Courage: A 75-Minute Courage & Renewal Experience

An invitation to join a brief online Circle of Trust® introductory experience.

  • 12 Oct 2026
  • online

Turn to wonder and courage in decision making

Making decisions can be challenging – how can we know what is the right decision? We all experience a sense of standing in a tragic gap between differing alternatives in decisionmaking. 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 and courage of your decision-making with others, while cultivation courage.

  • 13 Oct - 17 Nov 2026
  • online

‘Women’s Soul Stories’: a monthly online gathering to share the stories that shape us, and discover the wisdom they hold.

Come and join us for our online gathering of women on the second Wednesday of every month. Using the Courage & Renewal® approach we will reflect and draw on our wisdom sharing our stories held in a Circle of Trust.

  • 14 Oct 2026 - 16 Jun 2027
  • online

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

The Gifts of Autumn: Abundance, Gratitude and Letting Go

"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers." — L.M. Montgomery Immerse yourself in the abundance of autumn, surrounded by a unique Canadian Carolinian woodland in the beautiful Niagara Peninsula. This Circle of Trust® weekend retreat offers a welcoming and trustworthy space to rest, reflect and rejuvenate.

  • 17 - 18 Oct 2026
  • Wainfleet, Ontario, Canada

‘Fall-Ing’ Into Me: A Circle of Trust Series for Enhanced Self-Understanding and a Journey Toward Wholeness

An invitation this Fall to explore the beauty of the Courage & Renewal® approach, and to deepen self-understanding and wholeness through five online retreat sessions.

  • 17 Oct - 21 Nov 2026
  • online

Courage to Lead

This series of four seasonal retreats invites us to renew heart, mind, and spirit, and to explore the inner landscape of our lives. Together, we create confidential and courageous spaces for learning and growing, both in solitude and in community.

  • 22 Oct 2026 - 28 Aug 2027
  • Hickory Corners, MI, USA

Courage to Lead

This three-day retreat invites us to renew heart, mind, and spirit, and to explore the inner landscape of our lives. This is offered as a stand-alone retreat, but it is also the first retreat of our seasonal four-part retreat series.

  • 22 - 24 Oct 2026
  • HIckory Corners, MI 49060

Reconnecting with Voice and Purpose: A Full-Day Workshop for Educators

This workshop offers a space for caring and committed educators to slow down, reflect, and listen deeply to themselves and one another. Together, we will reconnect with the meaning and purpose that nourish our lives as educators.

  • 24 Oct 2026
  • online

Cultivate Peace; Care of the World: Facing Uncertainty with Wisdom and Compassion

Based on the life and teaching of Thich Nhat Hanh, this nature immersion retreat is based at the Avalokita Center, a small retreat center in Castelli, one of the most beautiful villages of Italy with ocean and mountain views. Through mindfulness mediation practices in the plum Village tradition, individual and group reflection, and immersion in the natural landscape, we explore what it means to live in connection with each other, to cultivate a hope based on wise, skillful and compassionate action, and to rekindle moral courage and clarity to create a world that we know is possible.

  • 28 Oct - 01 Nov 2026
  • https://avalokita.it/dove-siamo/

Journey Toward Wholeness: A Four Retreat Series

In every season of life, there is a call to make sense of our place and purpose in the world. How do we discern that call in these tumultuous times? And what questions are you holding in your heart this season? Join us for a deep dive into your soul’s journey, over a series of four retreats. Together we will cultivate the ground for hope and renewal in our lives, our workplaces, our communities, and our world. This retreat is intended for all of us who are eager to bring our unique gifts to the work of caring for our communities and ourselves. We extend a warm and explicit welcome to BIPOC folks, queer folks, and other people navigating the world with marginalized identities.

  • 30 Oct 2026 - 06 Jun 2027
  • Wallingford, PA, US

Courage & Renewal Practicum – Online – (November 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.

  • 01 Nov 2026 - 31 Jan 2027
  • online

Practicing Beauty in Times of Uncertainty: A Circle of Trust Retreat

How are you nurturing your soul’s capacity to hold it all; the beauty, wonder, and heartache? Come explore what it means to practice beauty amidst the grief and struggle. This retreat is for anyone who longs for a space of solitude in community, where we can seek our way forward together.

  • 04 - 07 Nov 2026
  • Union, WA, USA

Awakening to the Space Between

What if the real transformation you need is not in the realm of improved time management? What if... it isn’t doing more, digesting more, collecting more data, but awakening to the quiet “in-between” places you usually rush past? Let the heart & soul of Nashville, Tennessee, welcome you into this 3-day retreat, offering connection & the space to receive, slowing one’s breath and awakening to a shift in presence & energy.

  • 05 - 07 Nov 2026
  • Nashville, TN United States

Exploring Joy and Gratitude: A Courage & Renewal Retreat

A weekend retreat exploring the values of St. Francis through the Courage & Renewal approach.

  • 06 - 07 Nov 2026
  • La Crosse, WI US

Active Hope In Unordinary Times

As we continue this shared journey, we return to questions that matter deeply in these unordinary times.

  • 07 Nov 2026
  • online

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

Rooted and Rising: A Grounding & Growth Retreat on Bowen Island

You are invited to reconnect with your authentic story and renew inner peace amidst life transitions. Set on Bowen Island at beautiful Rivendell Retreat Centre, the program utilizes yoga movement, breath practices and soulful self inquiry from the Courage & Renewal approach, including Clearness Committees for discernment, rooting practices, and creative intention-setting.

  • 09 - 13 Nov 2026
  • Bowen Island, BC, Canada

The Emergent Christ: A Winter Journey for Pilgrims of the Spirit

Open to anyone curious about Christianity or longing for a fresh way of following the Way, the ancient term for Christians. Join us to explore what faith might look like in an evolving, unfolding cosmos — awakening to divine love shining through all matter, in us and in the sacred earth.

  • 12 Nov 2026 - 08 Apr 2027
  • hybrid

Calling Back Your Spirit – Embrace the natural richness of fire, air, water and earth

Yellowstone Hot Springs Retreat to Harvest, Reflect, Create & Balance - where the waters meet the big sky! We invite you to stop…have space in nature to listen and feel the whispers of your soul. Just be. Experience the richness & peacefulness in this lush fall retreat.

  • 13 - 16 Nov 2026
  • Gardiner, MT, USA

The Power of Attention: The Inner Work of Leadership

Our retreat invites those called to lead into the often-overlooked inner work of leadership. Together, we'll examine where your attention is being claimed, what deserves your attention now, and how you can lead from a place of greater presence and wholeness. This retreat is for anyone who seeks to lead with greater intention and integrity, whether or not "leader" appears in your job title. The quality of your leadership is shaped by the quality of your attention.

  • 13 - 15 Nov 2026
  • Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

The Courage Way®: Wisdom for living, working and leading with integrity

What would you do with more courage? Inspired by "The Courage Way" by Shelly Francis and the Courage & Renewal® approach, this online Circle of Trust® retreat invites you to pause, reflect, and explore what it means to live, work, and lead with courage.

  • 14 - 21 Nov 2026
  • online

Living in Our Gendered Bodies – A Circle of Trust® Retreat

This Circle of Trust® retreat will offer a space to focus on the theme of life in gendered bodies and offer opportunities to explore questions and assumptions from our lived experiences.

  • 20 - 22 Nov 2026
  • online

inviting affectionate curiosity into our lives

An exploration of softening and wondering as responses to life: What holding curiosity and affection together makes possible in our turbulent world.

  • 20 - 22 Nov 2026
  • Adelaide Hills, Australia

The World We Know Is Possible: A Circle of Trust® Retreat for Men

This international online retreat is for men and male-identifying participants navigating the tension between today's harsh realities and the world we know is possible. We invite you into a space of authenticity, deep connection, and honest reflection.

  • 04 Dec 2026 - 29 Jan 2027
  • online

Leading from Within: Tending to Ourselves and Our Communities

This Courage to Lead® weekend intensive for women is an 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.

  • 04 - 06 Dec 2026
  • Portland, OR

Circle of Trust: Winter Darkness

Join us in a day-long retreat, based on Parker Palmer's idea of a "hidden wholeness" within us, where we will explore our authentic selves through a seasonal theme in community with others.

  • 05 Dec 2026
  • Hiawatha, Iowa

Our Complex Lives as Sacred Ground: A Series for Courage & Renewal Facilitators

Please join us for this three-part online retreat series for Courage & Renewal facilitators, as we explore together our lives—the complexity, the mess, the beauty, the wonder, all of it—as sacred ground.

  • 22 Jan - 08 Mar 2027
  • online

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.

  • 27 Jan - 03 Mar 2027
  • online

Foundations of the Courage & Renewal Approach – (Jan/Feb 2027, 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.

  • 27 Jan - 24 Feb 2027
  • online

Exploring Simplicity and Service: A Courage & Renewal Retreat

A weekend retreat exploring the values of St. Francis through the Courage & Renewal approach.

  • 05 - 06 Feb 2027
  • La Crosse, WI US

Iceland: Exploring the Art of Relationships under the Northern Lights

This Valentine’s weekend, step into a cozy Icelandic winter retreat designed to renew, deepen, and celebrate the relationships in your life—whether with a partner, a friend, or yourself.

  • 10 - 14 Feb 2027
  • Reykjavik, Iceland

Let Go and Open to Receive – A Woman’s Circle of Trust® Retreat – Replenishing Heart, Mind, Body and Spirit

This Circle of Trust® Retreat is a time for women to gather together, in both solitude and community, to explore what it means to both let go of what they no longer need to carry and receive what it is we deeply need to sustain us and help us thrive.

  • 19 - 21 Feb 2027
  • Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

Hearing Voices: The power of deep listening to transform your relationships at work, at home, and with yourself

"If you listen, you can hear your heart beat. If you listen, you can hear your blood rush. If you listen, you can hear yourself." ~John Klemmer

  • 19 - 21 Feb 2027
  • Nashville, TN

Temecula, CA: Enneagram Retreat: The Courage To Become Your Authentic Self

An unforgettable week of learning, adventure, community and personal transformation in the heart of Temecula Wine Country.

  • 03 - 09 Apr 2027
  • Temecula, CA

Courage & Renewal Practicum – Onsite – (April 2027)

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.

  • 11 Apr - 27 Jun 2027
  • hybrid

Kyoto, Japan: Ancient Wisdom for a Wholehearted Life

Join us for an incredible retreat in Japan’s historic center, Kyoto, a place travel writer Paul Theroux calls, “the most elegant city I have ever seen and the most art-conscious. There is nothing quite like it anywhere in the world.” Here you will find peace in the quiet temples, lush forests and endless beauty where you can truly integrate your thoughts, body, and spirit.

  • 09 - 15 May 2027
  • Kyoto, Japan

Walking the Sacred Story of the Universe

An embodied pilgrimage through 13.8 billion years of cosmic wonder, guided by science, silence, and sacred kinship with the Earth.

  • 27 - 30 May 2027
  • Dorset, UK

Maine & Acadia National Park Retreat: Rediscover Joy, Meaning, And Purpose

Join a small group of like-minded travelers for an unforgettable week exploring the rugged coastline, granite peaks, peaceful forests, and breathtaking ocean vistas of Acadia National Park. This immersive retreat blends meaningful educational sessions with some of the most spectacular hiking in the United States, creating space to rediscover joy, strengthen relationships, and reconnect with your deepest values.

  • 11 - 17 Sep 2027
  • Acadia National Park, Maine

Bend, Oregon: A Deep Dive into Purpose, Connection & the Life You Want

An all-new retreat experience for Bounce Travels alumni and personal growth seekers ready to fill their lives with clarity, connection, and purpose.

  • 03 - 09 Oct 2027
  • Bend, Oregon

Asheville & the Great Smoky Mountains: Reflection, Renewal and Re-creation

Through a powerful blend of guided self-exploration, interactive learning, meaningful conversation, and transformative outdoor experiences, you’ll have the opportunity to identify thoughts, emotions, patterns, and behaviors that may be holding you back and explore new practices for moving toward a more authentic, resilient, and wholehearted way of being and living.

  • 24 - 30 Oct 2027
  • Asheville, North Carolina
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