Program Calendar

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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.

Embodiment Pause (November 19, 2024)

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

  • 19 Nov 2024
  • online

Community Drop-In (November 21, 2024)

Community Drop-Ins offer an invitation for Courage & Renewal members to gather with others in our community from around the world and connect with our own deep knowing using the Courage & Renewal approach.

  • 21 Nov 2024
  • online

Pathways to Wholeness: A Circle of Trust Retreat

One of the greatest gifts we can offer to ourselves, our work, and our world is our own wholeness. If you long for harmony between your inner and outer worlds, strengthening your ability to show up fully and authentically in all aspects of life, this Circle of Trust retreat may be for you. The practices and touchstones in a Circle of Trust create a hospitable place for your soul to show up and discover new pathways to wholeness.

  • 21 - 23 Nov 2024
  • St. Louis, MO

Light in the Darkness: a Circle of Trust® retreat series

In this five-session retreat series, you are invited is to explore themes of waiting and wondering, of doubting and hoping, and of turning, however uncertainly, towards the light.

  • 24 Nov - 22 Dec 2024
  • online

Navigating Life Changes: A Retreat on The Ghost River

To find our way takes courage, an open heart and insight, especially in these confusing times. In a trustworthy guided process, we can help each other to rediscover our sense of direction.

  • 27 Nov - 01 Dec 2024
  • Cochrane, Alberta, Canada

Community Drop-In (December 3, 2024)

Community Drop-Ins offer an invitation for Courage & Renewal members to gather with others in our community from around the world and connect with our own deep knowing using the Courage & Renewal approach.

  • 03 Dec 2024
  • online

Holding the Shadow and the Light: A Courage to Lead Retreat for Women

This Courage to Lead® retreat for women is an opportunity to explore the heart and soul of leadership—including how we can bring greater integrity to our work in the world, and tap into the support available within the resources of community.

  • 03 - 06 Dec 2024
  • Corbett, Oregon

Community Drop-In (December 5, 2024)

Community Drop-Ins offer an invitation for Courage & Renewal members to gather with others in our community from around the world and connect with our own deep knowing using the Courage & Renewal approach.

  • 05 Dec 2024
  • online

Ordinary Sacred: Writing into Being

Please join us for a one-and-a-half-day poetry retreat as we notice and honor the “ordinary sacred” as a doorway into quieting the busyness of our lives and being with it all, just as it is.

  • 05 - 06 Dec 2024
  • online

In This Together: The Courage & Renewal Approach to Mentoring

This program will bring a cohort of about 30 participants to learn and practice skills of mentoring based on the Courage & Renewal approach and our Formative Framework for Mentoring.

  • 06 Dec 2024 - 08 Feb 2025
  • online

Bounce Travels Virtual Program: Build The Life You Want

This program is designed to guide you on a journey of understanding the life you yearn for and supporting you to determine how to get there (in significant or subtle ways). This is the perfect way to continue the ideas explored in Bounce Travels Retreats and is also ideal for those who can’t do a full Bounce Travels Retreat right now.

  • 08 Dec 2024
  • online

Cultivating Clarity, Courage, and Changeability in the Midst: Quarterly Clarity Triads for BIPOC

If you are Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color who has experienced at least one Circle of Trust® Clarity Triad or Clearness Committee and want to co-create a community of practice in deep listening to self and others, this is an opportunity for you.

  • 12 Dec 2024
  • online

Open Heart, Peaceful Mind: An Annual New Year’s Retreat for Rest & Reflection

This New Year’s retreat is designed to cultivate rest, reflection, renewal, and restoration. At these times of uncertainty, change, high stress and high anxiety, we need now, more than ever, to exhale deeply and feel fully nourished through resilience-building, heart-opening, peace-making practices, and a caring community.

  • 28 Dec 2024 - 01 Jan 2025
  • Wallingford, PA

Listening Deeply to Your Heart’s Desire

You are invited to retreat for a few transformative hours in a nurturing, creative space where your truest self is free to reflect, release and re- vision what seems to be calling you powerfully for the year to come.

  • 28 Dec 2024
  • online

Creativity and Connection in a Time of Change: A Courage & Renewal Retreat for Authorized Ministers

You are invited to join a cohort experience (January–June) with others seeking to be courageous and open hearted in this important time. Through a series of two on-site retreats (January/June) and monthly online peer calls, participants will be invited to reconnect with how their inner life of spirit and their public life of ministry grow together.

  • 06 Jan - 09 Sep 2025
  • hybrid

Benevolent Community Women’s Network: Building Communities Worthy of Our Humanity

You Are Invited! Do you want to connect with multi-faceted women who are committed to fostering conversations and skills that uplift and unite our communities? Are you interested in being more actively involved in you community? Have you wanted to have the opportunity to build leadership skills, share ideas and strategies in an open and safe space that welcomes all women, adding a seat for all who want to gather at the table? Join Us!

  • 07 Jan 2025 - 06 Jan 2026
  • online

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

  • 08 Jan - 05 Feb 2025
  • online

Consolations Explorations: A Weekly Circle of Trust Encounter

A weekly online Circle of Trust experience of soulful inquiry. Guided by Dan Hines exploring David Whyte's inspiring essays in Consolations.

  • 08 Jan - 26 Feb 2025
  • online

What’s Next? A Call to Elderhood for Turbulent Times

"Can one be passionate about the just, the ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit to no labor in its cause? I don’t think so." (Mary Oliver-Excerpt from "What I Have Learned So Far") Consider joining us for this three-day in-person Circle of Trust® commuter retreat in the rolling hills of middle Tennessee, just a short drive from Nashville. We will explore the transitional what’s next question through the lens of aging and a call to elderhood as a societal imperative.

  • 09 - 11 Jan 2025
  • Franklin, Tennessee, USA

Friendship, Community, & Resilience: A Circle of Trust® Retreat

We are calling an intergenerational, diverse group of people, longing to renew hope, heart-strength, and stamina. In this retreat we will explore how friendship and community grow and become the backbone of resilience in our chaotic, uncertain times.

  • 11 Jan - 08 Mar 2025
  • online

Renewal: an Online Circle of Trust®

A 75 minute retreat to refresh and renew your spirit.

  • 12 Jan 2025
  • online

Bounce Travels Virtual Program: Build The Life You Want

This program is designed to guide you on a journey of understanding the life you yearn for and supporting you to determine how to get there (in significant or subtle ways). This is the perfect way to continue the ideas explored in Bounce Travels Retreats and is also ideal for those who can’t do a full Bounce Travels Retreat right now.

  • 12 Jan 2025
  • online

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 & 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.

  • 13 Jan - 17 Mar 2025
  • online

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.

  • 16 Jan - 31 Dec 2025
  • online

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

Life is filled with moments of joy and sorrow. Each moment we find ourselves standing at the edge of the next moment. How do we want to spend it? How is my relationship to time bringing me alive or wearing me down? At what speed am I living my life? At what speed do I want to live my life?

  • 17 - 19 Jan 2025
  • online

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

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

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

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

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

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

Please join us for a series of four retreats in which you are allowed to press “pause.”  This will be where you can replenish, refresh, and renew yourself.  We hope this offering will be a retreat where you can tend to your spirit.

  • 28 Jan - 23 Jul 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: elevating leadership practice, inside-out

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

Please join us for the final onsite retreat in a series of four retreats in which you are allowed to press “pause.”  This will be where you can replenish, refresh, and renew yourself.  We hope this offering will be a retreat where you can tend to your spirit.

  • 28 - 30 Oct 2025
  • Santa Cruz, CA
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