Navigating Life Transitions: A Courage & Renewal® Retreat

“Wholeness is never lost, it is only forgotten.” — Rachel Naomi Remen

Are you seeking clarity and support as you face a life transition?
Do you want to ‘have your own back’ with compassion and self-confidence?
Are you ready to prioritize your needs?

Live a whole life. Clarify and affirm your values and life direction in a Circle of Trust Retreat, giving you confidence to flow out into your life and life’s work.

Explore issues of life transition, vocation, aging, relationships, life passion, purpose, meaning, direction, and underlying life patterns to live in greater alignment with your deepest values, to listen to your own inner wisdom, and to reconnect who you are with what you do. In a safe and sheltered space to slow down and nurture personal and professional integrity, and the courage to lean into action, this retreat is guided by core principles and practices, which include the belief that everyone has an inner teacher, an inner source of truth. Based on the work of Parker J. Palmer and the Center for Courage & Renewal, the retreat engages contemplative practices to support personal and societal transformation.

What You’ll Experience

• Reflect on the ‘big life questions’ of relationships, vocation, underlying life patterns, aging, and more
• Engage wisdom traditions and diverse cultures
• Connect with a supportive community of seekers
• Learn interpersonal and relational skills that foster inner wisdom and greater awareness
• Savor the natural world and explore poetry, prose, periods of supportive silence, music, movement, and laughter
• Experience a version of the Quaker practice of the clearness committee, a process of individual discernment in community

What You’ll Learn

• Cultivate confidence and clarity about your life transition
• Engage the work of the Center for Courage & Renewal for healing and transformation.
• Reflect on what matters most with inspiring, soul-amplifying questions, creative practices, small and large group dialogue and more.
• Align your values with your work for a greater sense of passion, purpose, and meaning.
• Cultivate body intelligence and body awareness through nature and movement.
• Savour wisdom traditions through poetry, prose, music, and movement.
• Practice self-stewardship while compassionately respecting your limits.

Daily Schedule

A detailed schedule will be emailed to you about 30 days prior to your program. Click here to view a sample program schedule.