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.

Sitting in the Midst of It All

Join us for a two-day poetry mini-retreat as we pause to sit in the midst of our lives, connect with others here, and find a way into “OK-ness” with all that life offers us currently.

  • 07 - 08 Dec 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.

  • 08 - 10 Dec 2023
  • Tatamagouche, NS, Canada

Abundantly Available Grace

Through individual written reflection and group interaction, you will have opportunities to recognize the grace that is always abundantly available. This retreat is based on the Courage & Renewal® approach.

  • 08 - 09 Dec 2023
  • 920 Market Street, La Crosse, WI 54601

Warriors of Love – The Courage to Work for a World we may never see

A brief Courage & Renewal retreat to explore how we can become Warriors of Love in a world never more in need of our commitment.

  • 11 Dec 2023
  • online

Black Women’s Radical Self-Love (Mini) Retreats 2023-2024

Remembering our self-worth is one of the best things black women can do. Doing inner work with other black women makes this more possible.

  • 16 Dec 2023 - 17 Aug 2024
  • online

Open Heart, Peaceful Mind: A Retreat for Rest & Reflection, December 28, 2023-January 1, 2024

For nearly two decades, hundreds of people have welcomed the New Year at Pendle Hill with the gift of this retreat designed to rest, reflect, renew, and restore.

  • 28 Dec 2023 - 01 Jan 2024
  • Wallingford, PA

Listening Deeply to Your Heart’s Desire

Join us for a 4-hour micro-retreat as we take a loving look back at the year, settle into the here and now, and listen for the intention that wants to be ignited for the coming season.

  • 29 Dec 2023
  • online

Renewal

A new year invites us to pause and begin afresh. Join us as we take a step back and consider what renewal means for each one of us.

  • 07 Jan 2024
  • online

Foundations of the Courage & Renewal Approach – (Jan./Feb. 2024 – 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.

  • 09 Jan - 06 Feb 2024
  • online

Foundations of the Courage & Renewal Approach – (Jan./Feb. 2024 – Wednesdays, 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.

  • 10 Jan - 07 Feb 2024
  • online

Journey Toward Wholeness: A Circle of Trust® Retreat

This is a five-session Circle of Trust®, culminating in Clearness Committees, on Zoom with screen-free breaks and movement. We will embark on a journey, guided by the Courage & Renewal® approach, and together create a trustworthy, confidential space in which to do our own inner work in solitude and community.

  • 13 Jan - 09 Mar 2024
  • online

Clarity

5 weekly sessions to gain clarity, renew purpose and move forward with integrity and courage.

  • 15 Jan - 12 Feb 2024
  • online

The Courage to Be with Love & Loss

We invite you to begin 2024 by gathering and listening to your own way of knowing in the midst of life’s sorrows and joys. This three-day in-person Circle of Trust© provides spaciousness to connect to ways of renewal and perspective to nourish personal and collective courage for these challenging times.

  • 18 - 20 Jan 2024
  • Chesterfield, NH

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

The Clearness Committee: Learning the Art of Open Questions

Learn the art of open questions. Discover how to find clarity in life decisions with others. Join us for deeper exploration of a proven discernment process.

  • 25 Jan - 15 Feb 2024
  • online

The Soul of Aging: Living a Lasting Legacy 

Tapping into the roots of our ancestors, the roots of our own life, and nourishing the roots of the future. 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 the aging process; to surrender to, and be transformed by the aging process. We will create and hold a safe space in which we may seek a deeper understanding of how to age well, with dignity and integrity.

  • 26 - 28 Jan 2024
  • online

Dancing with Paradox

Join us for a monthly three hour session through Zoom, an international community exploring how holding paradoxes firmly while dancing with possibility enables us to show up to ourselves and our lives with integrity.

  • 27 Jan - 22 Jun 2024
  • online

2024 Circle of Trust Cohort in the Colorado Front Range

A Pilgrimage of Soul in Community, A Multi-Generational Circle

  • 02 Feb - 20 Jun 2024
  • Boulder, CO

Holding on and Letting Go: A Winter Retreat

First of 2 onsite Seasonally based retreats. This combination of retreats (participants can attend one or both) combine the principles and practices of Circles of Trust and the power of music to help us understand and live into our lives. The registration link below offers the chance to sign up for one or both retreats.

  • 09 - 11 Feb 2024
  • St. Paul, MN

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

Growing, Adapting, and Thriving with Courage

Join us for a series of 4 weekend retreats as we explore the changing seasons in nature and in our own lives. Practice listening to your inner wisdom, the natural world, and the stories of others in a community of trust. Encourage and embolden your authentic self to show up fully in your life and work. Embrace your core identity and strengthen your integrity so that you will thrive through times of stability and in times of change in all aspects of your personal and professional lives.

  • 01 Mar 2024 - 13 Apr 2025
  • California

A Pilgrimage of Soul for Intergenerational Women

Come with your courageous soul-mates, in two’s or three’s, youngers and olders. Honoring the sacred rhythms of the seasons in multi-generational community with the goal of individual and local community renewal. A series of virtual and in-person retreats rooted in the Courage & Renewal® approach. Together we will form a diverse community of learning, co-creating, loving, and tending the garden of Soul.

  • 02 Mar 2024 - 12 Nov 2023
  • hybrid

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

Growing Edges: Tending the inner ground of our life & work – a Courage & Renewal® weekend retreat

"And then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." - Anais Nin. Rekindle your courage and energy, as you explore the growing edges of your life and work, and the challenges and possibilities they bring.

  • 08 - 10 Mar 2024
  • Auckland, New Zealand

Clearness Committees: Spiritual Discernment in Community for Personal and Social Transformation

Are you seeking clarity about life transitions, purpose, direction, or meaning, and how to offer your most authentic gifts into the world? Are you facing uncertain or complex choices and wanting to listen to the depths of your own inner wisdom within a caring community? Are you looking to engage in deep, soulful listening that supports connection with the Living Spirit?

  • 22 - 24 Mar 2024
  • Wallingford, PA, USA

Foundations of the Courage & Renewal Approach – (April 2024 – Mondays, 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.

  • 01 - 29 Apr 2024
  • online

Living an Undivided Life: Introducing the Circle of Trust®

We invite you to join us online for four sessions that introduce a Circle of Trust® as together we create a sacred, confidential space in which to do our own inner work in solitude and community.

  • 03 - 24 Apr 2024
  • online

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

Renewal in the Midst of Muck and Mire: A Spring Retreat

This retreat combines the principles and practices of Circles of Trust and the power of music to help us understand and live into our lives. The registration link below offers the chance to sign up for one or both retreats.

  • 26 - 28 Apr 2024
  • St. Paul, MN

The Third Act: Creating One Wild & Precious Life

Ready to create your Third Act? Join us on an inspiring pilgrimage in sunny Portugal: a soulful retreat of yoga, rest, insight & adventure.

  • 27 Apr - 04 May 2024
  • Corgas Bravas, Portugal

Searching For The Soul of Justice in Sacred & Storied Places

Join us for this inspirational Circle of Trust Retreat, one that opens a door to history and an opportunity to engage in deep conversations about justice and humanity. Be part of an experience that invites us to share our lived-experiences, listen to the voices and stories of those who came before us, providing a unique space for questioning and understanding, and creating a path toward healing and building benevolent community.

  • 05 - 09 May 2024
  • Montgomery and Selma, Alabama

Foundations of the Courage & Renewal Approach – (May/June 2024 – 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.

  • 18 May - 15 Jun 2024
  • online

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.

  • 31 May - 02 Jun 2024
  • Union, Washington

The Heart of Higher Education 2024: Moving Toward Enough

Join this online gathering of educational professionals as we reflect on, explore, and sit with questions together for the restoration of our inner lives and outer work.

  • 10 - 12 Jun 2024
  • online

Resilience in the American West: June 2024

Reunite mind, body, and spirit while hiking stunning vistas in the American Southwest. This retreat is a time to reconnect with your inner needs and develop techniques to bounce forward when faced with life’s challenges.

  • 16 - 22 Jun 2024
  • Kanab, Utah

Everything Belongs: Exploring the Threads of our Being, Longing and Belonging

An Introductory Courage & Renewal® Retreat which explores the themes of Being, Longing and Belonging.

  • 21 - 23 Jun 2024
  • Ormiston, Brisbane, Queensland, Austrailia

Finding Courage in the Company We Keep

Join us for a monthly three hour session through Zoom, an international community exploring how all that we encounter can enable us to build and act from courageous hearts.

  • 27 Jul - 14 Dec 2024
  • online

Transitions: Creating the Life You Most Want NOW in Sonoma, California

World-class wineries and breathtaking scenery await you on this adventure retreat. A soulful blend of scenic hiking, educational insights, and deep, meaningful conversations await you as you spend considerable time each day in nature, admiring and reflecting on the unique and impressive panoramas found in Sonoma County, California.

  • 15 - 21 Sep 2024
  • Sonoma, California

Rediscover Your Purpose in Santa Fe, New Mexico

On this retreat, you will be inspired by the mystery and magic of the scenic landscapes and cultural richness of the Santa Fe area in New Mexico.

  • 28 Sep - 04 Oct 2024
  • Santa Fe, NM

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.

  • 19 - 26 Oct 2024
  • El Camino de Santiago, Spain
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