Living the Questions: A Courage & Renewal Experience at Holy Wisdom Monastery

Living the Questions: A Courage & Renewal® Weekend is the second of a year long series of retreat opportunities at Holy Wisdom Monastery in Middleton, WI with Mary Louise Peters and Amy Christianson.

What are the questions that you are holding in your heart? What questions enliven your life?

“Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart… Try to love the questions themselves… Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given because you would not be able to live them — and the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answers.”
~Rainer Maria Rilke

A Year of Courage & Renewal® Weekend Experiences: Each renewal weekend will include creating a quiet, focused, and enlivened space – a Circle of Trust® – where personal, inner wisdom can be heard. There will be a mix of time spent in large group, small group, and individual reflection along with poetry, teaching stories, wisdom traditions, nature and activities for exploration.

We will use these experiences and other rich metaphors to symbolize and discover and explore life
questions. Together, we will experience creating spaces in our lives to tend and nurture our desire to live
fully with courage and resilience.

• Revitalize your commitment to the values that give meaning to your life.
• Increase your ability to listen openly and be present.
• Learn reflective practices to become more intentional.
• Explore questions to build and sustain community.
• Expand trustworthy and authentic relationships.

Our spacious time will allow for your exploration of Wisdom Prairie. Please dress accordingly.

The Center for Courage & Renewal (CC&R) was founded by Parker J. Palmer, PhD.  Currently over 300 facilitators world-wide support and invite people to explore “role and soul” in retreat. The Center’s mission is to nurture deep integrity and relational trust, building the foundation for a more loving, equitable, and healthy world. 

Using the Center for Courage & Renewal principles, practices and touchstones, the year of themes of welcome & presence (August), living the questions (November), grace & reflection (February), and wonder & hope (April). In the language of Benedictine values, the focus is on hospitality, patience & humility, prayer, communication & stewardship.

Mary Louise Peters a Courage & Renewal® Facilitator, will be joined by Amy Christianson who recently completed the Courage & Renewal Practicum Program. She has a long professional career in education within early childhood, PreK-12 and higher education settings. Amy’s background includes educational leadership, organizational change and working with diverse populations.