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.

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

February’s theme? Getting Lost & Found: Weathering the Storms with Wisdom from Within In late winter...feed your power from the inside out, in good company! Tap into & renew what's important to you.

  • 15 Feb 2025
  • Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Side by Side Retreat for Couples Aging Together in Spirit

Based on the true soul stories collected in "Side by Side: the Sacred Art of Couples Aging with Wisdom & Love", this retreat is designed for all couples, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, living into the autumn/winter of their lives who are interested in enriching their relationships.

  • 18 - 20 Feb 2025
  • Santa Cruz, California

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

This is an 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 - 23 Feb 2025
  • online

Foundations of the Courage & Renewal Approach – (Feb/March 2025, 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.

  • 22 Feb - 22 Mar 2025
  • online

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. Too often, the topic of our own mortality is avoided or labeled as morbid. However, in pausing to honor the gift of life, often a renewed sense of aliveness is ignited, catalyzing growth, jump-starting long-awaited change.

  • 23 Feb - 02 Nov 2025
  • Philadelphia, PA

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

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.

  • 25 Feb - 23 Jul 2025
  • online

Circle of Preachers: Lenten practices for nurturing a live encounter

You are invited to join with a supportive and encouraging company of preachers this Lent. Using the practices and principles of Circles of Trust, members will make trustworthy space for a live encounter.

  • 25 Feb - 22 Apr 2025
  • online

Embodiment Pause (February 26, 2025)

Join Courage & Renewal members in taking some time out of your day to take a breath and pause.

  • 26 Feb 2025
  • online

Courage to Lead: A Circle of Trust® Retreat for People Ages 20-40

We invite young leaders and activists to this Courage to Lead® retreat to reconnect with what grounds and sustains you in your life and work. In a rhythm of large-group gathering, individual reflection time, and structured time in smaller groups, you will have space to explore questions and ideas that hold meaning for you in this season.

  • 27 Feb - 01 Mar 2025
  • Germantown, Maryland, USA

Always We Begin Again: The Heart of Higher Education 2025

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

  • 01 Mar - 31 Dec 2025
  • online

Finding Home: a monthly Circle of Trust retreat for those who work in Higher Education

An invitation to pause and reflect on our response to these times of change and uncertainty: What does it mean to be an educator? How do we want to teach, learn and live? Who will we be to each other in our workplaces, our communities and our world?

  • 01 Mar - 10 May 2025
  • online

Touchstones for Authentic Living

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

  • 01 Mar 2025
  • Dublin, Ireland

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

Community: an Online Circle of Trust®

A 75-minute online retreat to reflect on the power of community, our deep interconnectedness, and the relationships that sustain us.

  • 02 Mar 2025
  • online

How to Rest: Nourishing Practices to Restore, Body, Mind and Spirit,

This week-long retreat is part of the broader Pendle Hill's iconic Spring Term.

  • 03 - 07 Mar 2025
  • Wallingford, PA

Community Drop-In (March 4, 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.

  • 04 Mar 2025
  • online

Community Drop-In (March 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 Mar 2025
  • online

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

Balancing Life and Leadership: A Courage to Lead Retreat

This retreat is open to people from diverse fields and is designed with the theme of early spring in mind. Between the dormancy of winter and the blossoming of spring is an opportunity to tend to the equilibrium of our lives and our leadership. We invite you to join us in this opportunity to pause and disconnect from the fast pace and distractions of daily life, and join other change-makers who dare to engage their work with presence and compassion.

  • 14 - 16 Mar 2025
  • Portland, Oregon

Leading with Wisdom: A Courage to Lead® Retreat for Administrators

Join courageous leaders like yourself in this weekend retreat. Together we will create a trustworthy space to tap into our individual and collective wisdom and honor the innate gifts we bring to our professional and personal lives. We will draw inspiration from the Spring season in order to reflect, renew, re-inspire, and re-engage our leadership in ways that enhance our own wellbeing and the wellbeing of the communities and organizations we serve. Expect to emerge with greater clarity, integrity, and resilience. This life-affirming investment in yourself will benefit you and all those who are touched by your leadership.

  • 14 - 16 Mar 2025
  • San Juan Bautista, CA

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.

  • 15 Mar - 19 Jul 2025
  • online

Beautifying Our Gaze

"The way we look at things has a huge influence on what becomes visible to us. When we beautify our gaze, the grace of hidden beauty becomes our joy and our sanctuary." ~John O'Donohue

  • 15 Mar 2025
  • St. Louis, Missouri

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

Seasons of Leadership – Spring

A chance for leaders to take some time out and connect with their own inner teacher. Using the metaphor of nature who teaches us constantly about balance, rest and renewal, we will share a confidential online space with leaders from around the globe and consider our own relationship with balance and what may be emerging for us in 2025.

  • 18 Mar 2025
  • online

The Call to Courage: Hearing & Responding to our Courageous Selves – a Courage & Renewal weekend retreat

Where in your life do you feel like you need more courage? What could you do if you had more courage?

  • 21 - 23 Mar 2025
  • New Zealand

Searching for Truth Tellers in Sacred and Storied Places

"Healing begins where the wound was made." - Alice Walker, The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart, 2000 What can we learn from the past? Ask a Truth-Teller, a role held by one who speaks courageously, is thought to be wise, often acting as a moral or spiritual guide within the community. We invite you to join us for an unforgettable and immersive Circle of Trust® Retreat held in Historic Savannah, Georgia.

  • 23 - 27 Mar 2025
  • Savannah , Georgia

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.

  • 29 Mar - 28 Jun 2025
  • online

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

Courageous Awakenings: Psychedelic Integration for a Renewed Life

As winter melts into spring, the transition mirrors our inner lives. Change brings both anticipation and resistance. How can we honor what was, accept what is, and welcome what may come? In the mud of life’s challenges lie the seeds of rebirth, waiting to bloom.

  • 03 - 06 Apr 2025
  • Wallingford, PA

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.

  • 04 Apr 2025 - 07 Feb 2026
  • La Crosse, WI USA

Practicing Courage in a Time of Polarization

An ever-growing divide within our personal and professional lives is provoking a level of polarization that has far-reaching consequences. It not only is damaging relationships but has contributed to divisions that pose a threat to our democratic society. Now, more than ever, 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 make a difference. These spaces allow people to face clear eyed into harsh realities while continuing to build the world we know is possible. We know that being together in a community of support renews, inspires and fuels us for the long haul! Join us in our five-session experience offering hope for a different future.

  • 07 Apr - 16 Jun 2025
  • online

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

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

  • 10 Apr - 08 May 2025
  • online

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)

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

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

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

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

Cette présence en nous que nous ne connaissons pas/ This presence within us that we do not know

Faites une pause et renouez avec la plus belle partie de vous-même lors de cette retraite Courage & Renewal® d’une fin de semaine dans le cadre exceptionnel du Monastère des Augustines, 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 Courage & Renewal® weekend retreat in the exceptional setting of Le Monastère des Augustines, in the heart of Old Quebec, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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

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

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

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

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

“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 Undivided

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

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

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

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

his 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

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

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

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
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