Listening, Empathy, Shared Humanity: A Courage & Renewal® Women’s Retreat

Thursday — 9:30 am to 4:00 pm 

• Lunch and snacks provided
• Facilitated renewal activities: Introductions — Setting our time together —Prompts (such as poetry, short essays, music and/or images) and time for reflection — Individual writing and/or other responses — prompts for restorative movement — expressive activities (such as watercolor painting or other simple art activity). — Opportunities to be outdoors during the retreat day.

Friday — 9:30 am to noon. 

• Snacks and breaks provided
• Facilitated renewal activities:
  Prompts and time for reflection.

Cost of this two-day retreat:
This retreat is offered from our hearts, and we trust that your participation is your gift to yourself! Creating a circle of women is important to build and sustain vital communities.

We offer a sliding scale of $65 to $165. If circumstances make the lowest level cost difficult, please reach out.

Participants are responsible for arranging their individual lodging and travel to/from Washington Island, Wisconsin.
Washington Island Chamber of Commerce: https://washingtonisland.com/accommodations/
Travel to Washington Island require travel by boat. Washington Island Ferry: https://wisferry.com/washington-island/

Participants are responsible for arranging their individual lodging and travel to/from Washington Island, Wisconsin.

Washington Island Chamber of Commerce:

https://washingtonisland.com/accommodation/

Cancellation Policy:
If the minimum number of participants is not met by the deadline, the retreat will be canceled and a full refund of the retreat fee will be made.

If a participant cancels before the deadline, a full refund of the retreat fee will be made.

If a participant cancels after the deadline, a refund of $40 will be made.

Mary L. Peters reserves the right to cancel a retreat due to low enrollment or other circumstances that would make the program nonviable. Such decisions will be made in the most timely process as possible. If a retreat is canceled, you will receive a full refund.

A Spirited Pause
(a pantoum* poem; one poem, two ways)
-i-

Call on goodness and grace,
make space for wonder.
Sit in stillness, one with awe,
take a spirited pause.

Make space for wonder.
In a stream of awareness,
refresh, take a spirited pause.
Renew with freshness and light.

Refresh in a stream of awareness,
Once an hour, on the inhale,
renew with freshness and light.
With an exhale, settle your soul.

Once an hour, on the inhale,
it’s always possible, now most critical,
with an exhale, settle your soul.
A spirited pause rebuilds the world.

-ii-
A Spirited Pause

Call on goodness and grace,
make space for wonder.
Sit in stillness, one with awe,
take a spirited pause.
Refresh in a stream of awareness,
renew with freshness and light.
Once an hour, on the inhale,
with an exhale, settle your soul.
It’s always possible, now most critical,
a spirited pause rebuilds the world.

-Mary Louise Peters