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.

Connections

How do we take care of ourselves without turning away from the realities of the world? A simple circle of listening and support for a turbulent time.

  • 25 Apr 2025
  • online

Tending the Heart with Courage: A Community Drop-In (Spirituality & Religion)

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.

  • 25 Apr 2025
  • online

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

How are we growing and fortifying friendships and community to co-create a future with the Living Earth, where all have dignity, peace, and the ability to live full, meaningful lives? We are calling an intergenerational, diverse group of people, longing to savor such questions to renew hope, heart-strength, and stamina.

  • 26 Apr - 26 Jul 2025
  • Millbrook, NY USA

Courage to Cultivate Community: Monthly Mini-Retreat for Renewal & Resilience with Community Builders

April’s theme? Tapping the Sweetness of Community Building: Inspiration from Maple Syrup Season

  • 26 Apr 2025
  • Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Heart of Higher Education 2025

Join us for events in 2025 planned for supporting the calling and work of higher education professionals.

  • 01 May - 31 Dec 2025
  • online

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

“Walk as One at 1” – World Labyrinth Day Walk

Join me in High Park, Toronto and walk the labyrinth. Be part of a "rolling wave of peace" as people around the world walk local labyrinths.

  • 03 May 2025
  • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

A Year to Live, A Year to Love: A Retreat Series to Spark Creativity, Courage & Aliveness

This series of one-day retreats throughout 2025, inspired by Stephen Levine’s, A Year to Live, is a courageous invitation to people of all ages and all stages of life to reflect on creating their best life while firmly grasping awareness of mortality and the impermanence of life. In a small community of seekers, you will explore how paradoxically contemplating death and impermanence can profoundly deepen your experience and appreciation of the present.

  • 04 May 2025
  • Philadelphia, PA

Stillness: an online Circle of Trust®

Step away from the noise and into a quiet, reflective space where stillness can bring clarity, grounding, and renewal.

  • 04 May 2025
  • online

Community Drop-In (May 6, 2025)

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.

  • 06 May 2025
  • online

Transforming Insights Into Lasting Change

Craving a space where your deepest experiences are truly seen and honored? Join us the first Wednesday of every month for a free psychedelic integration circle—a soulful, supportive gathering to ground your insights, ignite transformation, and walk the path of growth together.

  • 07 May - 03 Dec 2025
  • online

Discovering the Courage to Lead: Aligning Soul and Role

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.

  • 09 - 11 May 2025
  • Franklin TN

Uplift Your Heart & Spark Joy – A Women’s Yoga & Circle of Trust® Gathering

Join us for a special Women’s Yoga & Circle of Trust Gathering designed to help you tap into your deepest wisdom and spark joy in your heart.

  • 10 May 2025
  • Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada

Black Women’s Radical Self-Love Retreats, 2024-2025

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.

  • 17 May - 19 Jul 2025
  • online

Touchstones for Authentic Living

Find wisdom and connection at this Circle of Trust, one day, in-person retreat based on the work of Parker J. Palmer.

  • 18 May 2025
  • Dublin, Ireland

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

Liberatory Leadership: Practices of Joy and Radical Care

This retreat is designed to help participants renew their passion, enthusiasm, and commitment to themselves and the communities they serve, and is open to those identifying as women who are in leadership—whether formally or informally. With courage, compassion, and creativity we will share practices to hold our current realities, wherever we find ourselves in these challenging times.

  • 20 - 23 May 2025
  • Union, WA, USA

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

Se relier à la communauté en des temps difficiles / Connecting with community in difficult times

Faites une pause et renouez avec la plus belle partie de vous-même lors de cette retraite d’une fin de semaine au cœur du Vieux-Québec, joyau du patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO. / Take a break and reconnect with the best part of yourself at this weekend retreat in the heart of Old Quebec, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

  • 23 - 25 May 2025
  • Québec, QC, Canada

Whisper of the Heart

“Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.” Parker J. Palmer

  • 30 May - 01 Jun 2025
  • Fremont, Ohio

Toward Wholeness: Crafting the Mosaic

Join us in June to reflect on our place in the mosaic of higher education. Enter a space from which we can take perspective: draw in close and treasure what’s precious, and stand back and appreciate the true value of our work, even when all of this may be hard to discern amid the everyday ferment of institutional life.

  • 02 - 04 Jun 2025
  • online

How to Hold It: Engaging Creatively in Life’s Contradictions

In How to Hold It: A Circle of Trust® Retreat, we will be exploring how to do the hard but possible and necessary work of holding tensions in ways that “enhance our lives and allow us to enhance the lives of others.”  Parker Palmer

  • 06 - 08 Jun 2025
  • Mittagong, NSW

In This Together: The Courage & Renewal Approach to Mentoring (June – Aug 2025)

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 Jun - 14 Aug 2025
  • online

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

How do we co-create a future with the Living Earth, where all have dignity, peace, and the ability to live full, meaningful lives? We are calling an intergenerational, diverse group of people, longing to savor such questions to renew hope, heart-strength, and stamina.

  • 13 - 15 Jun 2025
  • Bangor, PA, USA

Circle of Trust®: Summer Abundance

Give yourself the time and space to engage your whole, authentic self with courage and support as we explore the questions of your life in the abundance of summertime.

  • 12 Jul 2025
  • Hiawatha, Iowa, USA

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

Foundations of the Courage & Renewal Approach – (July/August 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.

  • 24 Jul - 21 Aug 2025
  • online

Abundance and Grace for All Seasons: A Yearlong Courage & Renewal Series

Through individual written reflection and group interaction, you will have opportunities and time to recognize the grace that is always abundantly available in the four weekend retreat series.

  • 01 Aug 2025 - 07 Feb 2026
  • La Crosse, WI USA

Sanctuary: Rekindling the Heart of Leadership®

In this highly interactive workshop, Dr. Gloria Burgess, pioneer in leadership formation, master facilitator, and acclaimed poet and author, invites you to realign with values, practices, and choices that enliven your leadership. We will co-create sanctuary--an intentional, sacred space to center on practices that help us realign with our calling and reconnect with our inner wisdom. Sessions will include reflection, small group exercises, dialogue, and other integrative modalities.

  • 04 - 08 Aug 2025
  • Orleans, MA 02653 United States

Courage to Lead : A Circle of Trust® Retreat

Courage to Lead® is a rare opportunity to slow down and deepen connections with kindred spirits and committed peers. This event will support courageous change makers to understand how their unique gifts can meet the needs of their communities while exploring questions of importance in their life and leadership.

  • 07 - 09 Aug 2025
  • Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia, Canada

Searching for Truth-Tellers in Sacred and Storied Places

In the hush of sacred, storied places, history whispers the wisdom of lifetimes. When we listen together - with compassion as our guide - these echoes become pathways of healing, calling us toward the heart of a benevolent community, where our shared humanity may root and flourish.

  • 08 - 11 Aug 2025
  • Savannah, Georgia

Becoming the Elder Tree: Purpose in the Second Half of Life

Learn to be like elder trees in the forest that nurture, support, and pass wisdom to others for the well-being of the community.

  • 15 - 17 Aug 2025
  • Hiawatha, Iowa, USA

“Summertime Abundance: Yellowstone as Spiritual Inspiration”

Experience the “Geography of Grace” in Yellowstone Park. The park’s summertime abundance will serve as jumping off point for spiritual deepening through Nature’s geography.

  • 19 - 22 Aug 2025
  • Gardiner, MT, USA

A Year to Live, A Year to Love: A Retreat Series to Spark Creativity, Courage & Aliveness

This series of one-day retreats throughout 2025, inspired by Stephen Levine’s, "A Year to Live", is a courageous invitation to people of all ages and all stages of life to reflect on creating their best life while firmly grasping awareness of mortality and the impermanence of life. In a small community of seekers, you will explore how paradoxically contemplating death and impermanence can profoundly deepen your experience and appreciation of the present.

  • 24 Aug 2025
  • Philadelphia, PA

Living Elementally

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.

  • 30 Aug - 22 Nov 2025
  • online

Bridging Generations: Accompanying Adult Children Through Life’s Obstacles and Opportunities

Join us for this retreat series, as we engage in 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 relationship. We will meet in September and January for two days of retreat each time. In between, we will hold peer learning circles to help you go deeper.

  • 19 Sep 2025 - 02 Feb 2026
  • online

Circle of Trust®: Autumn Harvest

Give yourself the time and space to engage your whole, authentic self with courage and support as we explore the questions of your life in the harvest time of autumn.

  • 04 Oct 2025
  • Hiawatha, Iowa, USA

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

Heart Matters

3 day, 2 night residential retreat on the land of the Peramangk people in the Adelaide Hills connecting with self, others, and what matters most.

  • 17 - 19 Oct 2025
  • Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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

Now more than ever, women of color clergy need a place to rest, replenish, and be witnessed and supported in trustworthy circles of care. Women of color serving as spiritual leaders carry a heavy load in providing pastoral care for your faith communities while also being personally impacted by systemic racism and sexism, especially in the current political climate. This 4-retreat series offers rest and respite for tending to your own soul in community with others.

  • 28 - 30 Oct 2025
  • Santa Cruz, CA

Threshold: Pausing for Reflection, Renewal, and Re-creation in Sedona

Are you ready for “something more” in your professional life, however you might define “more”? Then imagine for a moment gathering with a small group of kindred spirits in a setting that is totally conducive to your ongoing personal and professional evolution, immersed in a process that will both equip you and allow you the time, space, support, and encouragement to “go deeper” and discover what that “something more” might be for you.

  • 01 - 05 Nov 2025
  • Sedona, AZ

A Year to Live, A Year to Love: A Retreat Series to Spark Creativity, Courage & Aliveness

This series of one-day retreats throughout 2025, inspired by Stephen Levine’s, A Year to Live, is a courageous invitation to people of all ages and all stages of life to reflect on creating their best life while firmly grasping awareness of mortality and the impermanence of life. In a small community of seekers, you will explore how paradoxically contemplating death and impermanence can profoundly deepen your experience and appreciation of the present.

  • 02 Nov 2025
  • Philadelphia, PA

Holding Change with Courage: A Circle of Trust Retreat

We will explore what it means to “hold change” in our lives and communities, participating in large group, small group, and solitary activities. Poetry, music, art, movement and the beautiful forest, water and mountains that surround us will help us understand ourselves in a deeper way. Together we will co-create a trustworthy space to honor who we are and how we can hold change with integrity and grace.

  • 02 - 05 Nov 2025
  • Union, WA, US

Abundance and Grace for All Seasons: A Yearlong Courage & Renewal Series

Through individual written reflection and group interaction, you will have opportunities and time to recognize the grace that is always abundantly available in the four weekend retreat series.

  • 07 Nov 2025 - 07 Feb 2026
  • La Crosse, WI USA

The Journey to Wholeness: awakening to your one wild and precious life

Press pause. Reflect, recharge and rejuvenate. Through mindful practices, insightful teachings, yoga movement, and engaging adventure, let go of stress and uncover your deepest desires. Whether you're seeking clarity, healing, or simply a break from daily pressures, get set to launch your journey toward living with wholeness and purpose. Are you ready for the next step in your transformation?

  • 08 - 15 Nov 2025
  • Chacala, Nayarit, Mexico

Courage & Renewal Practicum – Onsite – (November 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.

  • 09 Nov 2025 - 08 Feb 2026
  • hybrid

Discovering Space for Your Voice: An Exploration of the Geography of Grace for Presbyterian Pastors and Leaders

You may wonder how you can be a hope-filled and effective leader in your congregation or other calling as we navigate extraordinary and uncertain times in culture and Church. You are invited to journey through the landscape of God's grace with a cohort of others seeking to be courageous and compassionate.

  • 10 Nov 2025 - 16 Apr 2026
  • hybrid

Circle of Trust®: Winter Rest

Give yourself the time and space to engage your whole, authentic self with courage and support as we explore the questions of your life in winter's time of rest.

  • 10 Jan 2026
  • Hiawatha, Iowa, USA

Abundance and Grace for All Seasons: A Yearlong Courage & Renewal Series

Through individual written reflection and group interaction, you will have opportunities and time to recognize the grace that is always abundantly available.

  • 06 - 07 Feb 2026
  • La Crosse, WI USA

Portuguese Camino: Walk in Beauty Pilgrimage 2026

Let us pamper you in this exclusive, small group, amenities-packed pilgrimage where you’ll savor breathtaking natural beauty of the legendary coast of Portugal and Spain, charming, three and four-star accommodations, and regional delicious cuisine, including gourmet picnic lunches.

  • 10 - 20 Oct 2026
  • Guimarães, Portugal to Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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