Claiming Your Life as It Is: A Soul of Aging Retreat

An opportunity for reflection, renewal & gracious harvesting

This Circle of Trust® retreat is rooted in The Soul of Aging, a small-group program based on the work of Dr. Parker J. Palmer and The Center for Courage & Renewal.  Claiming Our Life As It Is 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.

Session topics for this retreat: 

The Retreat process invites participants to reclaim wholeness of self and clarity of vocation as we reflect on the tremendous potential of our aging.

• Calling in the Ancestors: Visions of Aging
• The Courage to Name and Claim Your Unlived Life
• Pathways to Wholeness-Claiming our Significance
• Aging as Enlightenment in Slow Motion

This online Circle of Trust retreat offers: 

• a space to renew the heart, mind, and spirit through the exploration of the inner landscape of one’s life

• time to reconnect to one’s identity and integrity; identifying and honoring gifts & strengths, and acknowledging our limits.

• a process to strengthen one’s self-awareness, with the help of others

• a space to deepen our conversation with ourselves, through tangible practices and specific guidelines

• a group in which powerful inquiry about the spiritual life can happen in a safe and confidential context

• an opportunity to practice deep listening and respectful speaking which can ultimately infiltrate and strengthen one’s life beyond the group

• a counter-culture approach to the problem solving, analytical, fast-paced world we often find ourselves in.