Autumn is a season that invites us into paradox. Growth fades and the abundance of the year is harvested while the seeds of new beginnings are released. Within our lives and in the realm of our work as leaders, activists, or change-makers, we are regularly asked to hold the tensions of paradox.
When confronted with paradox – the challenge of contradictions, conflicting needs or circumstances, opposing viewpoints that are difficult to reconcile – we have an opportunity to respond with curiosity, compassion, courage and presence, rather than react with some variation of fight, flight, or freeze.
What qualities of the self are needed to hold the tension that paradox can generate?
How might we remain open to receiving the gifts hidden within conflicting circumstances?
What can embracing paradox show us about our wholeness?
When experiencing fear, overwhelm or uncertainty, what resources can we lean into for clarity and resilience?
This Courage to Lead® retreat is an opportunity to explore where you are in this season. We invite you to pause and disconnect from the fast pace and distractions of daily life, and join alongside other change-makers who dare to engage their work with presence and compassion.
Participants in this retreat will:
- Access imagination, artistic expression, and other contemplative practices to envision and embody the wholeness of a future we long to call home
- Build a trustworthy space for accessing and telling our truths and listening to the truths of others
- Explore our inner sources of leadership
- Learn practices for holding the complexities we encounter in our personal and professional communities
Who is this retreat for? This retreat is open to people from diverse fields and is designed to help participants renew their passion, enthusiasm and commitment to their leadership and the communities they serve. Past participants have included school teachers, administrators, managers, support staff, activists, writers, clergy, coaches, doulas, mental health practitioners and leaders from the nonprofit and corporate sectors and beyond. Leadership can also be reflected in other ways that we show up in the world through our professional, family, or community life.
Registration fees include all materials and supplies, Friday and Saturday lunch, beverages, snacks, and 16 PDUs or CEUs.
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.
