‘Heart Matters’ is a Circle of Trust ® Retreat based on the approach to reflective inquiry of sociologist, educator, author and activist, Parker J. Palmer and the Center for Courage & Renewal.
In a poem called ”in a Dangerous Time”, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer wrote “I want … to make a safe space for love. I want to be … flexible, committed to what’s vital, unwilling to yield”.
Hearts matter! What do you have the heart for?
And there are matters of the heart, for each of us, that call us to attention and intention and action. In answer to “what matters” you can sense your engaged heart, and hear the hearts of others.
In this retreat we will invite you to consider the spirals and layers of heart matters through interaction with the natural world, poetry, images, and sound, and to listen to your soul’s knowing through contemplation, writing, creative arts, and movement.
Led by highly experienced and skilled facilitators, this Circle offer space for deep listening to self, others and country, and provide opportunities to practice active enquiry into matters of the heart.
It is our hope that your heart will be strengthened and that you will be nourished deeply and re-sourced by this retreat.
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.
