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.

Where are we now?

An invitation to rest, recover and re-orient, after 3 challenging years.

  • 28 Mar - 25 Apr 2023
  • online

The Journey to Wholeness: Online Yoga and Circle of Trust Sessions

Join Dan and Robyn for exploration of living wholeheartedly. We will experience yoga and the Courage and Renewal® approach.

  • 30 Mar - 27 Apr 2023
  • online

Everyday Solace: Nourishment, Connection & Community in Restless Times

Find wisdom and solace in a safe and supportive space at this Courage and Renewal® residential retreat in a beautiful setting near Dublin in Ireland.

  • 31 Mar - 02 Apr 2023
  • Dublin, Ireland

Nurturing the Soul in Challenging Times

For three Saturdays women of all ages are invited to meet on Zoom to explore the nature of the soul and how it is nurtured through poetry, music, creativity, solitude, community, and deep listening.

  • 01 - 29 Apr 2023
  • online

Wonder: an online micro-retreat

Wonder is an approach to life that opens possibilities and leads to new perspectives.

  • 02 Apr 2023
  • online

Black Women’s Radical Self-Love (Mini) Retreats 2022-2023

Doing inner work in the supportive community of other black women makes connecting with our self-love more possible.

  • 15 Apr 2023
  • online

Reimagine Courage, Creativity, and Connection in Sonoma, CA

Throughout the retreat, we will explore, individually and in community, the thoughts and behaviors that hold us back and inhibit our growth. These retreat sessions are interactive, fun, and insightful. You’ll work hard, be challenged, and leave feeling capable of tackling new opportunities.

  • 16 - 22 Apr 2023
  • Sonoma, CA, USA

Teaching with Heart: A Monthly Pause for Educators

Over the course of this academic year, once a month, a group of educators from across the globe will gather online for brief pauses to reflect, share and connect with one another and more deeply with our own inner teacher..

  • 20 Apr - 18 May 2023
  • online

Courage & Renewal Practicum – (April/May 2023)

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.

  • 28 Apr - 08 May 2023
  • online

How We Talk About Race

A series introducing the Tools and Concepts needed to hold healthy, healing, and transformative conversations about race that are key to building Benevolent Community.

  • 02 - 23 May 2023
  • online

Foundations of the Courage & Renewal Approach – (May 2023 – Tuesdays, 3-5pm 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. Sessions will take place every Tuesday, 3-5pm ET.

  • 02 - 30 May 2023
  • online

Still We Heal: A Courage & Renewal Retreat Series for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Spiritual Leaders & Activists

As BIPOC Leaders in trans lineage spiritual traditions, we are called to live into our Best, Brilliant and Wise selves in even more Courageous and Powerful ways, especially now. Join us in retreat to listen, rest, restore, experiment, play, and create new/old pathways and practices to be in community and to rediscover ease and wellbeing within ourselves.

  • 04 - 18 May 2023
  • online

Solitude and Songs: A Springtime Circle of Trust Retreat

This retreat combines the principles and practices of Circles of Trust, the abundance of seasonal metaphors, and the power of music (with singer/songwriter Sara Thomsen) to help us understand and live into our lives. This retreat will also serve as an introduction to the Circle of Trust process.

  • 05 - 07 May 2023
  • Saint Paul, MN, USA

Rediscover Your Purpose in Santa Fe

The secret places of Santa Fe's mountains, ancient ruins, and canyons invite a personal call to bravery...bravery to stand for what is important for your life. Daily sessions are challenging, fun, and insightful. There is ample opportunity for personal reflection, self-care, and time to enjoy the art and history for which Santa Fe is known.

  • 06 - 12 May 2023
  • Santa Fe, NM, USA

Journey Toward Wholeness: A Circle of Trust® Retreat

In five sessions, guided by the Courage & Renewal® approach, we will together create a sacred, confidential space in which to do our own inner work in solitude and community. (Photo by Kevin Bergen on Unsplash)

  • 06 May - 01 Jul 2023
  • online

Opening the Voice of Courage: A Circle of Trust® retreat to open Expression, Joy, and Connection

Barbara McAfee and Dianne Baker will lead participants in a journey of vocal play, silence, oral tradition community singing, movement and reflection to explore the wild and wide nature of our voices, and the things that impede us from using our full voice in the world.

  • 11 - 14 May 2023
  • Bangor, PA

Living into Joy – A Circle of Trust® Retreat

Whatever our flaws, it is indeed encouraging to know that we are actually designed for joy. But what is joy? And how can we live into it more fully, intentionally and courageously? Join us for a weekend retreat to begin exploring these questions.

  • 12 - 14 May 2023
  • Kincumber South NSW, Australia

Teaching with Heart: A Monthly Pause for Educators

Over the course of this academic year, once a month, a group of educators from across the globe will gather online for brief pauses to reflect, share and connect with one another and more deeply with our own inner teacher..

  • 18 May 2023
  • online

Coming Back to Life: The Courage to Emerge: A Spring Circle of Trust retreat

As we turn from both winter and the pandemic into a new season, it’s time for a fresh look at what wants to emerge in both the inner and outer landscapes of our lives. Join us for this life-giving Circle of Trust® retreat to explore what wants to happen next in your life, and what it might mean to live, work, and lead from a place that’s truly “grounded” – in the earth, in these complex times, and in your most authentic self.

  • 19 - 20 May 2023
  • Belle Plaine, MN

Harvesting our Gifts: Drawing on the Wisdom of Autumn – a one-day retreat for personal & professional development

Drawing on the seasonal metaphor, this autumn one-day retreat offers you time away from busy lives to reflect on your life and work, your personal qualities and gifts, and the opportunity to gain some clarity about where you are at and where you’re heading.  

  • 20 May 2023
  • Te Puna, Tauranga, New Zealand

Finding Your Roots in the Riot of Spring: A Courage to Lead Retreat

As heart-centered leaders living in a time of great challenge and opportunity, how might we remain grounded, rooted in our integrity, while allowing the “color and growth” of our lives and work to unfold, without sacrificing ourselves or those we serve in an urgent pursuit of abundant harvest?

  • 23 - 26 May 2023
  • St. Andrew’s House, Union, WA

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.

  • 26 - 28 May 2023
  • Birmingham, UK

Courage on the Threshold: Embracing Life’s Changes with Integrity & Grace

Over three days we will contemplate what it means to “stand on the threshold” with courage and attentiveness, listening for the next congruent step, and honor the threshold moments in our lives as an integral part of the process of transformation and change.

  • 02 - 04 Jun 2023
  • Union, Washington

Nature as Teacher: Fridays at Fox Island

This retreat series will be held on three Fridays at a private retreat space on Fox Island, WA, on the shores of Puget Sound. With saltwater at our feet and an eye toward the Olympic Mountains and the Nisqually estuary, we will welcome the more-than-human world as our teacher and guide.

  • 09 Jun - 07 Jul 2023
  • Fox Island, WA

The Heart of Higher Education 2023: Finding Our Place in Shifting Landscapes

Join this gathering of educational professionals as we reflect on, explore, and sit with questions related to place: physical, interior, and the web of connection that weaves us together.

  • 14 - 16 Jun 2023
  • online

Enough: An In-Person Circle of Trust Retreat

When was the last time that you felt Enough? In this retreat, we will cultivate the balance to actually live lives that are Enough.

  • 16 - 18 Jun 2023
  • St. Louis, MO

Awe, Wonder, and Reflection in Iceland

On this retreat, your days will be filled with a soulful blend of scenic hiking, educational sessions, and deep, meaningful conversations. Each day, you will spend considerable time taking in the Icelandic nature as you hike, admire, and reflect on the spectacular scenery found along the Ring Road of Iceland.

  • 17 - 25 Jun 2023
  • Serfoss, Iceland

A Benevolent Community Circle For Educators – Creating Space That Nurtures The Soul

We invite you to join us for a weekend Retreat that will be the beginning of building a Benevolent Community Circle for Educators. Our intention is to continue gathering together following our time in retreat, via Zoom (twice a month), for a year to continue the conversations and relationships.

  • 23 - 25 Jun 2023
  • hybrid

Finding Place and Soul in a Shifting World

Join us for a monthly three hour session through Zoom, an international community exploring finding our place in the world and connecting our inner life with who we are and what we bring to the world.

  • 15 Jul - 02 Dec 2023
  • online

Clearness Committee Opportunity

If you are someone who has experienced at least one Circle of Trust® with a Clearness Committee and want more experience with this unique form of community discernment, here is an opportunity for you.

  • 22 Jul 2023
  • online

“Soulfire” for Intergenerational Women

SOULFIRE - Calling women of all ages to join together in community. Bring your learnings, your longings, your grief, and your stories to a woman’s circle that will fan that sacred fire that Mother Earth continues to birth from within us.

  • 04 Aug - 06 Feb 2023
  • near Bangor, PA

Listening to Wild Earth: A Mosaic of Community

LISTENING TO WILD EARTH - A call across the generations to nature-based community leaders: to explore the edges of our human innovative capacities to be true kin - in listening to the land, to de-center the human, and experience the underlying mosaic of greater community.

  • 08 - 11 Aug 2023
  • Near Bangor, PA

Soul Care: A Circle of Trust® for Challenging Grind Culture

This series of seven two-hour sessions, using the Courage & Renewal® approach, is designed to support anyone overwhelmed by “grind culture,” the inhumane expectations to prioritize work and productivity above everything else. How do we uphold our values for wholeness, balance, well-being, and integrity in the face of an onslaught of dysfunctional external as well as internal cultural and institutional demands?

  • 23 Sep - 17 Dec 2023
  • online

Reunite Mind, Body, and Spirit As You Hike Bavaria, Germany

Your days will be filled with a soulful blend of scenic hiking, educational sessions, and deep, meaningful conversations. Each day, you will spend considerable time taking in the Bavarian air as you hike, admire, and reflect on the spectacular scenery found along King Ludwig Way.

  • 24 Sep - 01 Oct 2023
  • Bavaria, Germany

Camino Classic, the French Way Gently

Our mission is to provide not just a travel experience but rather a pilgrimage journey so transformative that it becomes a defining moment in your life.

  • 02 - 13 Oct 2023
  • Santiago de Compostela, Spain

The Journey to Wholeness: A Courage & Renewal Exploration at Hollyhock

As we emerge from recent years of uncertainty and pandemic, we can rediscover our whole selves. We can bring together our soul and roles.

  • 11 - 15 Oct 2023
  • Hollyhock Leadership Institute, Cortes Island, BC

Coastal Costa Brava Camino

Our mission is to provide not just a travel experience but rather a pilgrimage journey so transformative that it becomes a defining moment in your life.

  • 16 - 26 Oct 2023
  • Costa Brava, Spain

A Wild Creative Soul Retreat: The Art of Paying Attention

This is an opportunity to explore and nurture our creative spirits, be inspired to create in new ways, and learn about ourselves in the process. With a sense of spaciousness and generativity, we will awaken our imaginations, take some risks, seek beauty and inspiration in our natural surroundings – all with the goal of letting our creative juices flow. You may participate in one, two or three retreats in this series.

  • 26 - 28 Oct 2023
  • online

A Circle of Educators: Transformative Teaching

Join this daylong active workshops to revitalize your practice and reawaken your Teaching Heart.

  • 04 Nov 2023 - 04 Nov 2022
  • Palo Alto, CA

Exploring the Paradox of Fall: A Retreat for Facilitators

You are invited to gather in retreat with other facilitators at the beautiful Pacific Northwest St. Andrew’s House Retreat Center in Union, WA. Together we will share what is alive in our individual and collective work as facilitators, and find renewal in the light, spirit and generosity of our facilitator community.

  • 05 - 08 Nov 2023
  • Union, WA, USA

A Life Lived with Purpose: Rekindling Your Passion

Rediscover your zest and a renewed sense of purpose. A Circle of Trust and yoga experience in the Old City of Quebec

  • 09 - 12 Nov 2023
  • Quebec City, Canada

A Life Lived with Purpose: A Retreat on the Ghost River

A four-day retreat, nestled in the Rockies on the banks of the Ghost River, is an opportunity to explore, rest, and reorient. It is ideal for those in a time of transition or seeking clarity for the next phase of life.

  • 16 - 19 Nov 2023
  • King's Fold Retreat & Renewal Centre

A Wild Creative Soul Retreat: Tending the Seed

With a sense of spaciousness and generativity, we will awaken our imaginations, take some risks, seek beauty and inspiration in our natural surroundings – all with the goal of letting our creative juices flow. You need not see yourself as an “artist” – in fact, we especially welcome “novices.” We offer a welcoming home for anyone who wants to (re)connect with their creative urges.

  • 25 - 27 Jan 2024
  • online

A Wild Creative Soul Retreat: Taking Flight

This retreat is offered as a space for those who, having nurtured the seeds of their creativity, feel that they are ready to grow, to move, to take flight.

  • 18 - 20 Apr 2024
  • online
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