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.

Community Drop-In: Caring for Ourselves While Caring for Others – Continuing the Conversation (June 23, 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.

  • 23 Jun 2025
  • online

Seasons of Leadership Summer

A chance for those leading community, business, family and education to take some well deserved time out and join with others from around the world, as we reflect and use metaphors from nature to consider just how much we have changed, grown and developed ourselves and our teams over the past year.

  • 24 Jun 2025
  • online

Inner Work for Societal Change: Healing Individually and Collectively to Create a More Just World

Join author and Center for Courage & Renewal founder Parker J. Palmer and Kazu Haga, author, trainer, and nonviolence practitioner, in conversation with CCR's Executive Director Kathryn McElveen to explore how courage, compassion, and nonviolence can guide us in taking meaningful action — in our lives, our communities, and the world.

  • 24 Jun 2025
  • online

Heart of Higher Education 2025

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

  • 01 Jul - 31 Dec 2025
  • online

Tides of Our Lives

An evening of quiet reflection and conversation by the water’s edge. Under the summer sky we'll explore what’s ebbing, rising, and what wants to be noticed.

  • 09 Jul 2025
  • Toronto, ON, Canada

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

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.

  • 19 Jul 2025
  • online

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

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.

  • 04 Aug - 13 Oct 2025
  • online

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

A Year of Courage & Renewal® Weekend Experiences

Welcome & Presence: A Courage & Renewal® Weekend is the first of a year long series of retreat opportunities at Holy Wisdom Monastery.

  • 08 - 10 Aug 2025
  • Middleton, WI USA

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

Introduction to the Enneagram

This immersive, down-to-earth Enneagram retreat in Minnesota is designed to help you discover the deep motivations and hidden patterns that drive your behavior. It’s the kind of insight that can shift your relationships, rewire your leadership style, and reconnect you to yourself.

  • 21 - 22 Aug 2025
  • Maple Lake, MN

Uncertainty: an online Circle of Trust ®

In uncertainty, we long for clarity or direction. This gentle circle explores what it means to live with uncertainty—and how it may offer both discomfort and invitation.

  • 24 Aug 2025
  • online

Living Elementally in Higher Education

Join other higher education professionals as we explore how the metaphors of earth, air, fire and water can help us stay both grounded and buoyant in our work and in our lives.

  • 28 Aug - 20 Nov 2025
  • online

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

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

  • 06 Sep - 04 Oct 2025
  • online

Trusting Wildness: Living Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic

How can Aldo Leopold’s land ethic inform your life? How can you develop a more ethical and trustworthy interdependence with the wild? This Circle of Trust® retreat will invite you to consider these questions in community with others in the beautiful homes and on the land where Leopold was born and grew up.

  • 12 - 14 Sep 2025
  • Burlington, IA

Look Within – A Courage & Renewal® Experience

A “Create Date” designed with the principles and practices of the Center for Courage & Renewal with facilitator, Mary Louise Peters. This community event is offered at no cost—registration is required.

  • 13 Sep 2025
  • Portage, WI USA

Emergence: a six-week Circle of Reflection

Six weekly sessions to reflect on what is emerging in our lives – the quiet stirrings, callings, and changes that ask for our attention.

  • 17 Sep - 22 Oct 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

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

  • 08 Oct - 05 Nov 2025
  • online

Writing into the Paradox of Holding On and Letting Go

Please join us for a one-and-a-half-day poetry retreat as we explore through reflection and writing what life is asking of us during these times—holding on, letting go—while turning to the natural world as our inspiration and guide.

  • 16 - 17 Oct 2025
  • online

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

Flow: Exploring Inner and Outer Currents in the Spirit of Fallingwater

A Circle of Trust retreat with visits to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater and Kentuck Knob

  • 19 - 22 Oct 2025
  • Mt. Pleasant, PA, USA

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 formal and informal 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 retreat offers rest and respite for tending to your own soul in community with others.

  • 28 - 30 Oct 2025
  • Santa Cruz, CA

Journey Toward Wholeness: A Four-Retreat Series

In every season of life, there is a call to make sense of our place and purpose in the world. How do we discern that call in these tumultuous times? And what questions are you holding in your heart this season? Join us for a deep dive into your soul’s journey, over a series of four retreats. Together we will cultivate the ground for hope and renewal in our lives, our workplaces, our communities, and our world. This retreat is intended for all of us who are eager to bring our unique gifts to the work of caring for our communities and ourselves. We extend a warm and explicit welcome to BIPOC folks, queer folks, and other people navigating the world with marginalized identities.

  • 31 Oct 2025 - 07 Jun 2026
  • Wallingford PA

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

Holding Change with Courage: A Circle of Trust Retreat

It’s autumn. The leaves, changing, letting go; the ripe fruit, harvested; the world, uncertain. How are you holding change for yourself and others? What do you need now? What does the world need from you now? How can we hold change in ways that support connection and healing for ourselves and our communities?

  • 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

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

The life you're building doesn't require force. It requires alignment. Living aligned requires attention and intention...daily. Join Kirstin Anglea and yoga teacher, Phoenix Ries, for their 5th annual Living in Alignment retreat in Baja, Mexico. A breathing space to find your footing at the waters edge.

  • 22 - 28 Feb 2026
  • Todos Santos, Baja, Mexico

Courage, Community, Love, Healing & Hope: living in a troubled world

Troubled by our troubled world and want to make the space to listen to your heart, connect deeply with others and navigate your way to feeling joy in a trustworthy space? Join us in beautiful Kaurna Land, Adelaide, South Australia

  • 17 - 19 Apr 2026
  • Adelaide, Australia

Dig It Out, Dust It Off, and Deal With It: Asheville, North Carolina

This retreat invites you to take a courageous pause from the chaos of everyday life and intentionally turn inward. Together, we’ll create space to reflect on where you’ve been, where you are, and where you’re called to go next.

  • 19 - 25 Apr 2026
  • Asheville, NC

Camino de Santiago: A Life-Changing Journey of Courage & Renewal

Join us on a soul-stirring journey through Spain’s legendary Camino de Santiago, a 70-mile pilgrimage from Sarria to Santiago de Compostela that has changed lives for centuries. This powerful retreat is designed to help you realign your mind, body, and spirit while walking through some of the most breathtaking landscapes in northern Spain.

  • 10 - 17 May 2026
  • Northern Spain

‘Let the Beauty You Love’: A Retreat for Renewal & Engaged Social Action

This retreat explores issues of transition, vocational calling, passion, life purpose, meaning, direction and underlying life patterns to live in greater alignment with your core values, to listen to your own inner wisdom, and to reconnect who you are with what you do. While exploring personal life transitions, this retreat acknowledges the global polycrisis we face that includes climate change, political polarization, war, and injustice.

  • 05 - 07 Jun 2026
  • Burlingame, California

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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