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.
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.
Now more than ever, we need a renewed commitment to social and environmental engagement and justice in this very complex time. Together we will deepen our insight and understanding of the roots of structural violence so we can engage in the world with creativity, courage, love, and hope. This retreat will ground us in resilience, connection and contemplative practices that renew and sustain body, mind and spirit.
The retreat provides a safe space to slow down and nurture personal and professional integrity, and the courage to lean into socially engaged action.
What You Will Learn:
Program Features:
Tentative Retreat Outline
Day 1
5:30-6:30 pm Dinner
7:30-9:30 pm Session 1: Opening Circle: Welcome, Retreat Overview, Touchstones, Intentions for the Journey, Introductions
Day 2
7:00-7:30 am Session 2: Reclaiming Renewal: Contemplative Practices
7:30-8:30 am Breakfast
9:00-11:45am Session 3: Soul Stories Listening Deeply & Cultivating Faithfulness
12:00-1:00 pm Lunch
1:00-2:00 pm Session 4: Respite: Enjoy Mercy Center: rest, walk, paint, explore, meditate—you choose!
2:00 – 5:00 pm Session 5: Spiritual Discernment: Contemplative Practices for Inspired Action
5:30-6:30 pm Dinner
7:00-9:00 pm Session 6: Circle of Light: Harvesting Lessons of the Day
Day 3
7:30-8:30 am Breakfast
9:00-11:30 am Session 7: Closing Circle/ Ritual & Celebration: Visioning Next Steps
12:00-1:00 pm Lunch & Farewell
Mercy Center offerings include meditation, wellness, prayer, eco-spirituality, professional & social development, spiritual direction, and mutuality. Internationally known, this conference and retreat center provides a peaceful and holistic environment for people of diverse faiths and backgrounds to nourish their spiritual and professional lives, and a convenient location for conferences and events in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Mercy Center is a ministry of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, an order of Catholic women religious. Mercy Center was established in 1981 in Burlingame, California, as a retreat center and a conference center for religious and other nonprofit organizations.
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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