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.

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

Global Interfaith Compassion Challenge

An opportunity to join ServiceSpace's Global Interfaith Compassion Challenge.

  • 01 - 21 Nov 2026
  • 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

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.

  • 04 Nov - 02 Dec 2026
  • online

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

The “Letting Go” of Autumn: Inviting the Paradox of Change

Join us for a one-day in-person retreat day in beautiful Carmel, California as we explore Autumn as a metaphor for change, and the paradox of something awaiting - yet unknown to us.

  • 07 Nov 2026
  • Carmel, California, USA

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

Living the Touchstones: Powerful Tools for Transformation

The Touchstones are powerful tools for accessing our inner teachers, building trust, creating community, and transforming relationships in our personal and professional lives. Join us for one or more of our upcoming online Circle of Trust® sessions. In each one, we will honor all of the Touchstones, while also deeply exploring a single Touchstone.

  • 10 Nov 2026 - 02 Feb 0027
  • online

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

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

Rooted and Rising: A Journey to Grounding and Growth on the Ghost River

Do you feel pulled in a million directions? Constantly distracted by technology and the pace of life? Are you in the midst of a life transition and need to find direction and clarity? This is your invitation to pause and breathe. Join us to reconnect to the deeper life within you and reclaim your peace. The Rooted and Rising retreat is a transformative invitation: designed to renew your connection to Spirit and to your authentic story.

  • 19 - 22 Nov 2026
  • Cochrane, Alberta, Canada

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

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

Gift Yourself A Pause

Please join us this November for a mindful pause. Together, we will experience a Circle of Trust and discover the beauty of the Courage & Renewal® approach.

  • 24 Nov 2026
  • online

Delight and Doubt: Holding Hands with Wonder During Times of Uncertainty

Please join us for a one-and-a-half-day contemplative poetry writing retreat as we explore the paradox of finding delight in a broken world, alongside the doubt and confusion that inevitably surface during times of uncertainty.

  • 03 - 04 Dec 2026
  • online

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

Inviting the Winter In: A Solstice Gathering

Join us for a winter solstice gathering to slow down and connect with our inner selves and one another.

  • 20 Dec 2026
  • online

Geography of Change: Navigating the Turn of the Year

Please join us for a two-part retreat series as we explore the shifting landscapes of our lives, and how we might navigate the moving ground beneath us with courage and grace.

  • 27 Dec 2026 - 24 Jan 2027
  • online

Claiming your Life: Navigating Transitions with Hope & Courage

The New Year brings us the opportunity to think about changes and new directions. What transitions are you experiencing in your life? How have you navigated life changes and what have you learned from those experiences? Join us as we explore these questions and others you may be holding about the nature and experience of transitions and changes in your life. This Circle of Trust© retreat is for anyone seeking ways to more fully understand and act on the possibilities for growth and renewal that transitions and change can offer.

  • 08 - 10 Jan 2027
  • online

How can I live my values under pressure?

It is my hope and belief that, together, we can keep learning to live by our values, even under immense pressure.  

  • 11 - 13 Jan 2027
  • NW of Cochrane, Alberta

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

Find Your Way Back to Your Heart: Cultivating Wholeheartedness in the Midst of Chaos, A Circle of Trust® Retreat

“You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.” – George Michael In a fast paced and chaotic world we often feel the need to act quickly and we can also feel like there's nothing we can do. But there is plenty we can do, and it starts with listening to our own hearts.

  • 12 - 14 Feb 2027
  • Santa Cruz, California, United States

Seeds Beneath the Snow: Awaking Possibility through Retreat and Reflection

At the threshold between winter and spring, this three-day, onsite retreat invites you to slow down, turn inward, and listen for what is stirring beneath the surface. In the beauty of the Pacific Northwest winter, we will draw inspiration from the season’s quiet promise of renewal as we explore what is ready to be released, what is taking root, and what new possibilities are waiting to emerge.

  • 12 - 14 Feb 2027
  • Union, WA, USA

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

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.

  • 20 - 28 Feb 2027
  • online

Facing the Mess: Courage to Come Alive in Complicated Times

The last few years have been so hard. We yearn for healing and clarity in the midst of the mess. Especially in the turbulent times in which we live it’s all the more crucial that we renew our spirits and reconnect what we do with who we are.

  • 21 - 24 Feb 2027
  • Bowen Island, BC, Canada

Courage to Lead®: Building an Intentional Future Together

For leaders who wish to imagine the highest possibilities and results for our leadership, our organizations, and our communities. A vibrant future needs our intentional efforts in developing a democracy that serves everyone. This requires presence and a willingness to collaborate and show up for the lives and wellbeing of all.

  • 26 - 28 Feb 2027
  • Portland, OR

Foundations of the Courage & Renewal Approach – (March 2027, Tuesdays 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.

  • 02 - 30 Mar 2027
  • online

Long Journey Home –Healing History ℠: A Circle of Trust® Retreat

Long Journey Home is a Healing History Retreat inviting journey partners to bear witness to the history of the relationships forged between the Black and Jewish Communities beginning in 1909 through the Civil Rights era.

  • 04 Mar 2027 - 08 Mar 2026
  • Montgomery, AL

Foundations of the Courage & Renewal Approach – (April 2027, 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.

  • 01 - 29 Apr 2027
  • online

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

Having Tea With Grief: A 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.

  • 22 - 25 Apr 2027
  • Union, WA, USA

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

The Wisdom of Birds: A Retreat for Growth and Inspiration

Join us for this onsite, three-day, two-night retreat as we explore the wisdom of birds: what we can discover if we pause to celebrate, be inspired by, and learn from and with our more-than-human relatives.

  • 07 - 09 Oct 2027
  • Van Etten, NY, USA
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