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.
This program is being independently organized and led by a Courage & Renewal Facilitator(s) prepared by the Center for Courage & Renewal. While we support our facilitators in various ways, CCR has no direct responsibility for the planning or facilitation of this event. Please direct any questions to the facilitators using the contact form below.
The Center for Courage & Renewal and its facilitators do not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, age, height, weight, physical or mental ability, veteran status, military obligations, and marital status.
INTENTION: to inspire triads and dyads of those who identify as woman. Soul friends from a local area, family, or cultural /artistic / activist / service / faith organization coming together to learn and grow on behalf of the land and communities we live in. This offers the opportunity for in-between practices, check-ins and action steps with the same learning partners over the year.
WHY? Each of us is alive and moving in spheres of communal involvement – with close friends, partners, family, work, social activism, faith communities, business relationships. We have been doing this our whole lives with a multitude of varying degrees of connection and influence. No matter our age, we each have inner longings to change and bring change into all these spheres to create the world we all know is possible. We see the need and desire to influence and be influenced with the soulful power of both personal and collective intimacy and authenticity. We are a community-in-process – inside and outside!
We each have the fiery birthright capacity to be elders-in-training to serve as channels of life energy on behalf of the greater village we live in.
We are aware of the urgent need to activate Earth’s natural healing energies in many forms – individually and collectively. Where our human systems are breaking down, we dream for new ways for sustainability as psycho-spiritual and embodied humanity – as living, networking members of Mother Earth.
Consider your engagement in this 2024 challenge as an emergent form of Earth’s longing for healing and wholeness – a fresh direction of sparking SoulFire in your own life and community!
”By doing one learns; with study one refines; through dreaming one creates; in loving one fulfills.
Such is the secret for tending to the perennial garden of our soul.” from don Oscar Miro-Quesada
A Pilgrimage of Soul for Intergenerational Women
2024 East Coast ‘SoulFire’ Community Cohort
A series of virtual and in-person retreats rooted in the Courage & Renewal® approach.
Honoring the sacred rhythms of the seasons in multi-generational community
with the goal of individual and local community renewal.
Come with your courageous soul-mates, in two’s or three’s, youngers and olders.
Together we will form a diverse community of learning, co-creating, loving, and tending the garden of Soul.
INTENTION: to inspire triads and dyads of those who identify as woman. Soul friends from a local area, family, or cultural /artistic / activist / service / faith organization coming together to learn and grow on behalf of the land and communities we live in. This offers the opportunity for in-between practices, check-ins and action steps with the same learning partners over the year.
WHY? Each of us is alive and moving in spheres of communal involvement – with close friends, partners, family, work, social activism, faith communities, business relationships. We have been doing this our whole lives with a multitude of varying degrees of connection and influence. No matter our age, we each have inner longings to change and bring change into all these spheres to create the world we all know is possible. We see the need and desire to influence and be influenced with the soulful power of both personal and collective intimacy and authenticity. We are a community-in-process – inside and outside!
We each have the fiery birthright capacity to be elders-in-training to serve as channels of life energy on behalf of the greater village we live in.
We are aware of the urgent need to activate Earth’s natural healing energies in many forms – individually and collectively. Where our human systems are breaking down, we dream for new ways for sustainability as psycho-spiritual and embodied humanity – as living, networking members of Mother Earth.
Consider your engagement in this 2024 challenge as an emergent form of Earth’s longing for healing and wholeness – a fresh direction of sparking SoulFire in your own life and community!
‘Winter Longing’: March 2 – 3, 2024: starts with a online weekend on Zoom.
10-4 Saturday and 10-1 Sunday – includes nature-based solitary time.‘Spring Fire’: April 19-21, 2024, at Kirkridge Retreat Center, Bangor PA (2-night retreat with Carol Kortsch and Valerie Brown)
‘Summer Heat’: a June Zoom Day (TBD)
plus, a personal ‘guided’ retreat – on a summer date and place by water of your own choosing.
‘Fall Harvest’: Sept 6-8, 2024, at Kirkridge Retreat Center, Bangor PA (2-night retreat with Carol K. and Cat Greenstreet). Full Clearness Committee process offered.
‘Winter Fire’: Date and time TBD – final November Zoom meeting
See more website information about the beautiful and sacred space of Kirkridge Retreat Center, Bangor, PA on the Appalachian Trail , and Columcille Megalith Park next door.
COST $840.00 per person for the entire year cohort program*
Please only apply together in small groups of 2 or 3.
Rolling applications reviewed by Dec 15th, 2023, and if there is still room – Jan 28th, 2024.
$150 non-refundable deposit to Kirkridge after acceptance into program
March 1 – $345.00 payment to Kirkridge
Aug 1 – $345.00 payment to Kirkridge
*Please note that ‘Cost only’ is charged. As facilitators we offer our time and energy on a gift (dana) basis.
Please read this document for more details about our ‘gift economy’ understanding before you sign up.
This program is being independently organized and led by a Courage & Renewal Facilitator(s) prepared by the Center for Courage & Renewal. While we support our facilitators in various ways, CCR has no direct responsibility for the planning or facilitation of this event. Please direct any questions to the facilitators using the contact form below.
The Center for Courage & Renewal and its facilitators do not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, age, height, weight, physical or mental ability, veteran status, military obligations, and marital status.
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