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.

Heart of Higher Education 2025

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

  • 01 Nov - 31 Dec 2025
  • online

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

Grounded in Love: an Online Circle of Trust

Love is one of the most challenging and transformative practices we can choose. In this 75-minute retreat, we’ll reflect on how choosing love sustains us.

  • 02 Nov 2025
  • online

Community Drop-In (November 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 Nov 2025
  • online

Community Drop-In (November 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 Nov 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.

  • 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

Crossing the Threshold: Engaging Courage & Possibility

This retreat, set on the threshold of the Winter season, is designed to provide opportunities to explore the impactful influences at the core of what calls each of us to meaningful life and work.

  • 08 Nov 2025
  • Nashville, TN

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 - 12 Nov 2025
  • 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

Spirituality & Religion Community Connection (November 10, 2025)

Participants will be invited to acknowledge and celebrate the gifts and blessings of the natural world through the lens of abundance and reciprocity.

  • 10 Nov 2025
  • online

Living the Questions: A Courage & Renewal Experience at Holy Wisdom Monastery

Living the Questions: A Courage & Renewal® Weekend is the second of a year long series of retreat opportunities at Holy Wisdom Monastery in Middleton, WI with Mary Louise Peters and Amy Christianson. The weekend will include creating a quiet, focused, and enlivened space - a Circle of Trust® - where personal, inner wisdom can be heard.

  • 14 - 16 Nov 2025
  • Middleton, WI

Reflective Book Circle (November 18, 2025)

This month we are diving into chapter three of “On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Older” by Parker J. Palmer.

  • 18 Nov 2025
  • online

Courage to Teach®: Radical Renewal for Resilient Educators

A Circle of Trust® Retreat to Reawaken Awe, Love, and the Long Flame of Vocation. This Courage to Teach® is a one-day onsite retreat—a space for sacred pause, radical remembering, and courageous renewal.

  • 19 Nov 2025
  • Lawrence, KS

Stepping In: Practices and Strategies for an Emerging World

Join Norma Wong, author, Zen master, and community advisor, and Parker J. Palmer, founder of the Center for Courage & Renewal, in conversation with CCR Executive Director Kathryn McElveen to explore how courage, imagination, and shared practice can help us step in—co-creating new possibilities for ourselves, our relationships, and our communities.

  • 20 Nov 2025
  • online

As the River Flows – a Courage & Renewal® day retreat for personal & professional development

In this Circle of Trust® day retreat, we will draw on the river metaphor to reflect alone and together on our current life journeys, and any questions or wonderings we may be holding at this time.

  • 22 Nov 2025
  • Tauranga, New Zealand.

Touchstones for Authentic Living

Time for you: a day of calm, reflection, and connection in a supportive and nurturing environment. Join us for a one-day, in-person retreat at The Sanctuary, an oasis of calm in a beautiful setting in Dublin City.

  • 22 Nov 2025
  • Dublin, Ireland

Community Drop-In (December 2, 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.

  • 02 Dec 2025
  • online

Still We Heal: A Courage & Renewal Retreat Series for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Spiritual Leaders & Activists

As Black, Indigenous, and People of Color leaders committed to diverse spiritual lineages, we are called to live into our Best, Brilliant and Wise selves in even more Courageous and Powerful ways, especially now. Join us in retreat to listen, rest, restore, experiment, play, and create new/old pathways and practices to be in community and to rediscover ease and wellbeing within ourselves.

  • 04 - 05 Dec 2025
  • online

Wrestling with Praise: Finding Joy and Devotion Even When It Seems Unlikely

Please join us for a one-and-a-half-day contemplative poetry writing retreat as we explore through reflection and writing the praise that can emerge when we are truthful, connected and open.

  • 04 - 05 Dec 2025
  • online

Embracing Paradox: The Art of Staying with the Uncomfortable

Join us for a three part mini-retreat series to practice noticing paradox and staying with the uncomfortable through our bodies. During our time together we will engage in tai chi exercises, self reflection, and group conversation.

  • 04 - 19 Dec 2025
  • online

Community Drop-In (December 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 Dec 2025
  • online

The World We Know Is Possible: A Circle of Trust® Retreat for Men

This international online retreat is for men and male-identifying participants seeking a return to center while navigating the tension between today’s harsh realities and the world we know is possible.

  • 05 Dec 2025 - 30 Jan 2026
  • online

Leading from Within: Tending to Ourselves and Our Communities

This Courage to Lead® weekend intensive for women is an 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.

  • 05 - 07 Dec 2025
  • Portland, OR

Simple Gifts: Giving & Receiving from the Heart

A 75 minute, online Circle of Trust® to explore the quiet grace that lives in the exchange between giving and receiving.

  • 07 Dec 2025
  • online

Courage to Teach®: Radical Renewal for Resilient Educators

A Circle of Trust® Retreat to Reawaken Awe, Love, and the Long Flame of Vocation. This Courage to Teach® is a one-day onsite retreat—a space for sacred pause, radical remembering, and courageous renewal.

  • 09 Dec 2025
  • Girard, Kansas

Living with Radical Courage in Unsteady Times

“So often, when we feel lost, adrift in our lives, our first instinct is to look out into the distance to find the nearest shore. But that shore, that solid ground, is within us. The anchor we are searching for is connection, and it is internal. To form meaningful connections with others, we must first connect with ourselves.” ~~ Brene Brown

  • 12 - 14 Dec 2025
  • online

Blue in December

Please join us for this four-hour micro-retreat for a time of simply being with one another—to acknowledge what is real, listen to ourselves and others, and perhaps, to find some things to appreciate about our lives just the way they are.

  • 12 Dec 2025
  • online

Folding and Unfolding: An International Sowing Circle

An invitation to a “diptych” to look back and fold away the old year, and to notice what is unfolding as we enter into the new.

  • 16 Dec 2025 - 06 Jan 2026
  • online

New Years – Open Heart, Peaceful Mind: A Retreat for Rest & Reflection

This New Year’s retreat is designed to cultivate rest, reflection, renewal, and restoration. At these times of change, high stress, and high anxiety, we need now, more than ever, to exhale deeply and feel fully nourished through resilience-building, heart-opening, peace-making practices and a caring community.

  • 28 Dec 2025 - 01 Jan 2026
  • Wallingford, PA

Living My Purpose in These Times

What is mine to do in these times? With so many other voices telling us what we "should" do or "could" do, it can be hard to get clear. Join us for a three part online mini-retreat to reflect and grow.

  • 08 - 22 Jan 2026
  • online

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

Heart Centers: A Circle of Trust® Retreat

Can you feel the capacity of the human heart expanding or longing to? In this retreat, we will create a Circle of Trust as we explore five emerging centers of the human heart, not just one.

  • 10 Jan - 07 Mar 2026
  • online

Choosing Courage to Be…

Join us for an online yearlong community of Circle of Trust opportunity- to pause, slow down, and together ponder how to be courageous in 2026. You have the option of joining for 6 or 12 sessions.

  • 10 Jan - 05 Dec 2026
  • 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.

  • 16 - 18 Jan 2026
  • online

Foundations of the Courage & Renewal Approach – (Jan/Feb 2026, 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 Jan - 18 Feb 2026
  • online

Courage to Teach®: Grounding the Spirit, Reclaiming Hope, and Building Community (A Virtual Retreat for PreK–12 Educators)

How do we care for ourselves within systems that often ask us to set aside our integrity, our well-being? This retreat offers a restorative, well-held space for PreK–12 educators and anyone else who wishes to reconnect with themselves in community with others.

  • 24 - 31 Jan 2026
  • online

Welcoming the New Year with Hope

This is a one day Circle of Trust® retreat which offers an opportunity to journal, reflect and share in small groups as a way of welcoming the new year with hope and courage.

  • 24 Jan 2026
  • Brisbane, Qld, Australia

Healing Relationships: Cultivating a New Perspective on Relating to Adult Children

Join us for this weekly 6-session series, as we engage in a conversation about 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 relationships.

  • 04 Feb - 11 Mar 2026
  • 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.

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

Grace and Reflection: A Courage & Renewal® Weekend

Grace and Reflection: A Courage & Renewal® Weekend is the third of a year long series of retreat opportunities at Holy Wisdom Monastery. The weekend will include creating a quiet, focused, and enlivened space - a Circle of Trust® - where personal, inner wisdom can be heard.

  • 13 - 15 Feb 2026
  • Middleton, WI

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

Reclaim Your Joy in Baja California, Mexico

Set in the stunning coastal paradise of La Paz, Baja California Sur, one of Mexico’s top wellness and eco-adventure destinations, this transformational retreat invites you to reconnect with your body, your purpose, and the natural world.

  • 22 - 28 Feb 2026
  • La Paz, Mexico

Thresholds and Doorways: Writing into Life’s Inevitable Transitions

Please join us for a one-and-a-half-day contemplative poetry writing retreat as we explore the transitions of our lives through reflection and writing, and how we might find our way through them with courage and grace.

  • 26 - 27 Feb 2026
  • online

Foundations of the Courage & Renewal Approach – (Feb/March 2026, 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.

  • 28 Feb - 28 Mar 2026
  • online

Living with Authenticity, Integrity & Courage For those who identify as 2SLGBTQ+ and their Allies

A two-day Circle of Trust® Retreat on Zoom

  • 28 Feb - 01 Mar 2026
  • online

Having Tea With Grief: A Yoga & Circle of Trust Retreat®

Grief shows up at our doorstep in many different forms. The loss of a loved one, a relationship; a transition from one place to another, grief for the state of things-the Earth, for humanity. How can we bravely welcome the grief that comes our way? Sit with it. Make it a cup of tea.

  • 09 - 12 Apr 2026
  • Union, WA

Courage & Renewal Practicum – Online – (April 2026)

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.

  • 10 - 20 Apr 2026
  • online

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

Walking the Shoreline: a Circle of Trust® retreat in Ireland

An invitation to explore the ebb and flow of our experience, to enter into a time of reflection, renewal and hope as we walk our shorelines together.

  • 01 - 03 May 2026
  • Co. Wexford, Ireland

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

Foundations of the Courage & Renewal Approach – (May/June 2026, 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.

  • 13 May - 10 Jun 2026
  • online

‘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.

  • 29 - 31 May 2026
  • Burlingame, California

Wonder & Hope: A Courage & Renewal Experience at Holy Wisdom Monastery

Wonder & Hope: A Courage & Renewal® Weekend is the fourth of a year long series of retreat opportunities at Holy Wisdom Monastery.  The weekend will include creating a quiet, focused, and enlivened space - a Circle of Trust® - where personal, inner wisdom can be heard.

  • 29 - 31 May 2026
  • Middleton, WI

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

Walking into Wonder: A Journey Through Italy’s Ancient Paths

Reconnect your mind, body, and spirit as you journey with a small group of like-hearted travelers on an unforgettable walking retreat through the breathtaking Italian countryside. Over seven days, we’ll hike approximately 70 miles of the Via Francigena, an ancient pilgrimage route winding through hilltop towns, vineyards, olive groves, and historic cobblestone villages—culminating with a powerful arrival in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican in Rome.

  • 18 - 25 Oct 2026
  • Orvieto Italy
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