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.

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

We all experience times when we feel we cannot be enough, when our culture tells us that we can never have enough, and when we struggle with how to say, “enough!” in love. Participants will explore the ways their inner teacher can provide courage and clarity in order to live lives that are truly 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

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

We will engage in powerful and enjoyable contemplative practices and processes—with a loving and supportive group of black women, each doing their own inner work.

  • 17 Jun - 19 Aug 2023
  • online

Foundations of the Courage & Renewal Approach – (June/July 2023 – Wednesdays, 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.

  • 28 Jun - 26 Jul 2023
  • online

A Courage & Renewal Retreat: Abundantly Available Grace

Renewal experiences allow us to live with self-acceptance, gratitude, compassion, and the awareness of abundantly available grace.

  • 07 - 08 Jul 2023
  • La Crosse, WI

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

We will engage in powerful and enjoyable contemplative practices and processes—with a loving and supportive group of black women, each doing their own inner work.

  • 15 Jul - 19 Aug 2023
  • online

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 - 06 Aug 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

Turning to Wonder

A weekend retreat inviting participants into "Turning to Wonder".

  • 11 - 13 Aug 2023
  • Shaolwater WA, Australia

Foundations of the Courage & Renewal Approach – (Aug./Sept. 2023 – 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.

  • 12 Aug - 16 Sep 2023
  • online

Restore Balance & Renew Your Spirit in Northern Spain: August 2023

Restore balance and renew your mind, body, & spirit by connecting with like-minded individuals while experiencing the quiet, charming villages, forests, lush farmland and beaches of Northern Spain.

  • 20 - 27 Aug 2023
  • Asturias, Spain

Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life: A Courage to Teach® Retreat

Begin the school year with intention and focus by honoring the innate gifts you bring to your professional life. In this weekend retreat, we will draw inspiration from the Fall season in order to reflect, renew, re-inspire, and re-engage in our professional and personal lives. What seeds would you like to sow this year? What do you want to let go?

  • 01 - 03 Sep 2023
  • San Rafael, CA

Conversations with a Garden: Discovering Earth’s Timeless Lessons for Wise Living

What can we learn from a garden? In this monthly program series we will lean in, listen, and linger over its lessons, such as enjoying the fullness of abundance, allowing the leaves to fall, setting boundaries, reciprocity, connection, finding deep rest, and more.

  • 20 Sep 2023 - 17 Apr 2024
  • online

BEAUTY, BROKENNESS & COURAGE – Standing in the gap with Heart and 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 Ards. There will be opportunities outdoors, to commune with the environment.

  • 22 - 24 Sep 2023
  • Donegal, Ireland

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

Finding Joy and Aliveness in Chaotic Times

Take a radical step to pause and renew your sense of joy and aliveness on this weekend retreat at the wonderful Emerson College in Sussex, England.

  • 29 Sep - 01 Oct 2023
  • East Sussex, UK

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

Foundations of the Courage & Renewal Approach – (Oct./Nov. 2023 – 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.

  • 05 Oct - 02 Nov 2023
  • online

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

SoulFire for Intergenerational Women – a Nature Based Retreat

What has this tumultuous time of change fired up in your soul? Bring your learnings, your longings, your grief, and your stories to a woman’s circle for all ages. We will fan that sacred fire that Mother Earth continues to birth from within us.

  • 12 - 15 Oct 2023
  • Ward, CO

In Search of the Wolf – Restoring Instinct & Inner Guidance in the Italian Alps

In one of the most beautiful and preserved corners of the Alps, on the edge of the Grand Paradiso National Park in Italy, we invite you to a 3 days/2 nights Circle of Trust Retreat to help restore one of our most essential sources of guidance: our own instinct and inner wisdom.

  • 13 - 15 Oct 2023
  • Acosta Valley, Italy

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

Claiming Your Life as It Is: A Soul of Aging Retreat

A Circle of Trust retreat that invites participants to reclaim wholeness of self and clarity of vocation as we reflect on the tremendous potential of our aging.

  • 27 - 29 Oct 2023
  • online

Courage to Lead: A Circle of Trust® Retreat

While the forces of exhaustion, loneliness, violence, and injustice are real and undeniable, so are the powers of human authenticity, generosity, courage, and community that rise up to meet them. Courage to Lead helps you become a more self-aware and wholehearted leader, seek clarity in your sense of purpose and leadership, pause from the demanding pace of a leaders life, and honour your successes and struggles.

  • 02 - 04 Nov 2023
  • Tatamagouche, NS, Canada

A Circle of Educators: Transformative Teaching

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

  • 04 Nov 2023
  • Palo Alto, CA

Joy, Meaning & Purpose in Sedona: Nov 2023

“Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” 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.

  • 05 - 11 Nov 2023
  • Sedona, Arizona

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

The Art of Giving and Receiving

A half day reflection session on "the art of giving and receiving."

  • 11 Nov 2023
  • City Beach WA, Australia

Courage & Renewal Practicum – (November 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.

  • 15 Nov 2023 - 21 Jan 2024
  • hybrid

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

Design the Life you Love…in Sonoma, California

“Sometimes, life can feel big, messy and filled with the unknown.  This retreat offers you space to explore how mystery shows up in unexpected places to guide your ongoing awakening.  With opportunities to reflect while hiking and in meaningful conversation with others, this is a time of breaking open your true self.

  • 12 - 17 Feb 2024
  • Sonoma, California

Living in Alignment: A Women’s Yoga & Circle of Trust® Retreat

"This retreat was most transformative! It was a magical combination which helped build the container we worked in: the landscape, our leaders, the participants, movement, and of course no fixing, just the gift of reflecting through open honest questions. Extraordinary!" ~Participant Testimonial

  • 25 Feb - 02 Mar 2024
  • near Todos Santos, Baja Peninsula

Falling Upwards: Rediscovering Your Purpose

Do you need a recharge and renewal? Join Dan & Robyn in a soulful encounter and restorative yoga. Rediscover your clarity, zest, purpose and passion.

  • 29 Feb - 04 Mar 2024
  • Rivendell Retreat Centre, Bowen Island, BC

Reclaim Your Power In Baja California, Mexico: March 2024

“Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” This awe-inspiring retreat, meant to set your soul on fire, will use the stunning vistas and natural energy of ocean and sunshine to rejuvenate and revitalize your mind, body, and spirit like no other experience.

  • 03 - 09 Mar 2024
  • La Paz, Mexico

Awakening Wonder and Living Joyfully in Italy

Awaken wonder and cultivate joyful living by connecting with like-minded individuals while experiencing the quiet, charming villages, forests, farmland, and vineyards of Italy.

  • 14 - 20 Apr 2024
  • Viterbo, Italy

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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