• 23 Jun - 07 Jul 2026
  • online

The Growing Edge: An invitation to attend to your growing edge in a time of chaos

Discovering your growing edge. In a world of radical change, how can we move beyond simply reacting to the chaos around us? Through this two part, online mini-retreat, we invite you to explore where new life is being born, even in the midst of exhaustion and upheaval— to discover your and our collective growing edge.

“All around us worlds are dying and new worlds are being born; all around us life is dying and life is being born. … Such is the growing edge! … It is the extra breath from the exhausted lung, …the basis of hope in moments of despair…” ~Howard Thurman

Discovering your growing edge. In a world of radical change, how can we move beyond simply reacting to the chaos around us? Using the Courage & Renewal® approach*, we invite you to explore where new life is being born, even in the midst of exhaustion and upheaval— to discover your and our collective growing edge. 

This mini-retreat offers a sanctuary to listen to your growing edge.  Over 2 two hour sessions, we will take the time and make the space to compassionately notice both brokenness and beauty within ourselves and our communities, and so allow the growing edge to lead us towards participating in the creation of a life-giving world. 

Come as you are to find your footing, re-root in your truth, and discover a source of hope and confidence needed to move forward.

This by pay.it.forward offering held by Healing by Choice! (HbC!) practitioner and Courage & Renewal Facilitator Marcia Lee with Christina Sasaki.

Christina  is a soul companion, consultant, facilitator, and innovator with over 25 years of experience in coordinating community projects and educational events, she is a project person who enjoys listening to the unspoken, creating space for dialogue and for co-creating a better world. She sees her vocation as bringing “inclusivity and the soul” to practical contexts such as: life long learning for hospital chaplains, community gardens as spaces for refugees, editing a quarterly social justice magazine, to a current project – building a community grocery store, which actively supports older adults, families and children. She has had the wonderful opportunity to participate in the Courage & Renewal Foundations and Practicum Programs and is currently an apprentice in the Facilitator Preparation Program.

June 23 and July 7, 2026, 5pm-7pm EST, this is a two-part series, please plan to attend both sessions.

Welcome! Your registration is fully supported by our community funding. To keep the Healing by Choice! services accessible to all, we invite you to participate in this Pay.It.Forward offering based upon your financial capacity.

Seasons of Financial Capacity
Fall Fruit ($150 actual cost): Share from your bounty for the harvest yet to be.
Summer Branches ($100): Strengthen the reach & vitality of the branches.
Spring Roots ($5 – $99): Supply essential nutrients for the well-being of the whole tree.
Cross-Pollination: Share about the retreat and/or bring a friend!

We invite you to participate in this Pay.It.Forward offering based upon your financial capacity. Register and make your contribution here: https://forms.gle/SFofya7PafRJ57LE7

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