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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.

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Seasons of Leadership – Autumn

Join with leaders from around the globe as we explore the relationship between nature's seasons and our own life and leadership journeys. Using poetry, writings and music, these facilitated quarterly sessions give you a chance to step off the hamster wheel for a couple of hours and reflect and share in a confidential circle of trust.

17 Sep 2024
online

Black Women’s Radical Self-Love Retreats

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.

21 Sep 2024
online

Black Women

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

This is a four-session 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 - 29 Sep 2024
online

Braving Your Way through Life’s Transitions

Live in greater alignment with your deepest values, listen to your inner wisdom, and reconnect who you are with what you do.

22 - 27 Sep 2024
Rhinbeck, NY

Leading from Within: Tending to our Hearts (An Online Circle of Trust for Korean Speaking Clergy)

This circle will focus on inner leadership for Korean speaking pastors in both the USA and Korea. As we create a safe space of support and protection for each other, we will lay the groundwork for listening more deeply to our inner voice.

23 Sep - 25 Nov 2024
online

Wholeness & Renewal as the World Shifts

In this six-week, online retreat series, we’ll explore how the changes happening around us and within us, and examine how we stay true to our values and gifts, so we may contribute to a more loving, just, and sustainable world.

24 Sep - 29 Oct 2024
online

Autumn’s Paradox: A Saturday Circle of Trust®

An in-person and online retreat to contemplate the contradictions the season presents.

28 Sep 2024
hybrid

Community Drop-In (October 1, 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.

01 Oct 2024
online

Community Programs

It Takes a Village: Finger Lakes, NY

This Circle of Trust® for women 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, and this beloved Earth.

03 Oct 2024 - 06 Mar 2025
Trumansburg, NY USA

Community Drop-In (October 3, 2024)

03 Oct 2024
online

Community Programs

Courageous Awakenings: Integration for a Renewed Life, Theme: Paradox in Transition

Experience the autumnal shift at Courageous Awakenings. Set in serene Pendle Hill, where Parker Palmer himself found insight, this 3-night retreat offers a sacred space to reflect and grow. As the leaves change, so can you—transitioning from what was, to what is, and what may be.

03 - 06 Oct 2024
Wallingford, PA

BEAUTY, BROKENNESS & COURAGE Standing in the Gap with Heart & Hope

In the midst of brokenness there is beauty. Holding both allows the heart to expand and power life creating hope, courage, resilience, and joy. Throughout the retreat, all our inquiry and reflection will be supported and nourished by the beautiful natural landscape of An Tobar, Co Meath. There will be opportunities outdoors, to commune with the environment.

04 - 06 Oct 2024
Meath Ireland

For Anyone

Colorado Springs Camino

Our Circle of Trust gatherings will happen along the way. We will meander through the Garden of the Gods, amble along the Spring’s easy and scenic trails, eat together at cozy trailside restaurants and end up at a kitschy and comfy retro motel in Manitou Springs. There will be ample time for solitude, fellowship and rest.

04 - 06 Oct 2024
Colorado Springs, Colorado

Walk in Beauty: Pilgrimage of El Camino de Santiago, Spain A Kinder Camino

El Camino: An Epic Journey Awaits You! This journey offers stunning natural landscapes, lodging in charming rural farmhouse inns and manor houses, regional-delicious local cuisine, and a full rest day.

11 - 19 Oct 2024
Santiago de Compostela, Spain

The Daring Camino de Santiago – Spain

Reunite mind, body, and spirit, connecting with like-minded individuals while traveling through this historic and sacred pilgrimage of El Camino de Santiago, Spain.

12 - 19 Oct 2024
El Camino de Santiago, Spain

Practicing Courage in a Time of Polarization

A growing divide within our personal and professional lives is provoking a polarization that has far-reaching consequences. It not only is damaging relationships but also is leading to divisions that pose a threat to our democratic society. 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 to make a difference. We also know that being together in groups like this renews, inspires and fuels us for the long haul! Join us in our five-session experience offering hope for a different future.

14 Oct - 11 Nov 2024
online

Courage: An Online Circle of Trust®

An invitation to step back from routines and duties, and consider what it means to live with courage.

20 Oct 2024
online

Valentía de Pertenecer: Superando las barreras de vivir en contextos diferentes

Círculos de Sanidad y Liberación, "En Línea", un retiro en serie de 4 sesiones, en español! Cada sesión es de 2 horas para explorar nuestro sentido de ser y pertenecer.

24 Oct 2024 - 09 Jan 2025
online

Leading From Within: Nurturing the Heart of the Leader (A Seasonal Retreat Series)

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

24 Oct 2024 - 23 Aug 2025
Gull Lake, MI

Claim Your Courage on Washington Island, WI: A Courage & Renewal® Weekend

This 3-day retreat is open to all who are seeking to live with authenticity, claim voice and agency, and explore the wisdom of their inner teacher.

25 - 27 Oct 2024
Washington Island, Wisconsin

Embracing Paradox: A Courage to Lead Retreat

Autumn is a season that invites us into paradox. Growth fades and the abundance of the year is harvested while the seeds of new beginnings are released. Within our lives and in the realm of our work as leaders, activists, or change-makers, we are regularly asked to hold the tensions of paradox.

25 - 27 Oct 2024
Portland, OR

Courage to Teach®: A Gift of Nature & Renewal for K-12 Educators

What about the whole teacher? In this Courage to Teach® two-part retreat series we invite all educators to gift themselves with this “planned pause”, an opportunity to slow down and hold time and space for relaxation, reflection and rejuvenation in the beautiful natural setting of the Hale Education campus in Westwood, MA.

26 Oct - 23 Nov 2024
Westwood, MA (USA)

The Power of Wonder and Awe: Reclaiming Beauty as a Revolutionary Act

This Circle of Trust® retreat is offered as a space to reconnect with curiosity, awe, and wonder, cultivating a deeper appreciation for beauty in the world, even as we witness pain and suffering.

01 - 03 Nov 2024
Van Etten, NY

Joy, Meaning & Purpose in Sedona, AZ

This awe-inspiring retreat, meant to set your soul on fire, will use the stunning vistas and natural energy of Sedona to rejuvenate and revitalize your mind, body, and spirit like no other experience.

03 - 09 Nov 2024
Sedona, AZ

Community Drop-In (November 5, 2024)

05 Nov 2024
online

Community Programs

Community Drop-In (November 7, 2024)

07 Nov 2024
online

Community Programs

Foundations of the Courage & Renewal Approach – (Nov/Dec 2024 – Tuesdays, 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.

12 Nov - 10 Dec 2024
online

Attending to True Self in Turbulent Times

Feeling unsettled in our turbulent world? This weekend retreat offers nourishing and guided space to deepen your connection to true self, re-establish a greater sense of inner integrity and discover what truly wants to flow through you.

15 - 17 Nov 2024
Somerset, United Kingdom

Awakened Action: Opening to all of Life with Roshi Joan Halifax, Terry Tempest Williams, Christina Figueres, and Valerie Brown

In this very special program, we join together with beloved writer and environmentalist Terry Tempest Williams, social justice activist Valerie Brown, engaged Buddhist teacher Roshi Joan Halifax, and climate diplomat Christiana Figueres (online) to explore awakened action and the vows which sustain us.

15 - 17 Nov 2024
Santa Fe, NM

Courage to Lead Retreat Series for Clergy: Creativity and Connection in a Time of Change

Leadership and ministry today involve journeys unlike any we’ve known before.   You are invited to join a cohort experience with others seeking to live with love, creativity and courage.  Participants will be invited to reconnect with how their inner life of spirit and their public life of ministry grow together.

18 Nov 2024 - 13 May 2025
hybrid

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

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

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

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 up to 25 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Training

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)

02 May - 02 Jun 2025
online

Training

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

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

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