Serving Those Who Serve
When we approach our lives and our work with genuine passion and integrity, we are able to serve others with courage and commitment. These programs foster personal and professional renewal by offering the time and space to reflect on life and work.
Skilled facilitators, prepared by the Center for Courage & Renewal, help create a quiet, focused, and disciplined space--a circle of trust--in which the noise within us and around us can subside and we can hear our own inner voice.
Retreat Series Description
Sustaining the Courage to Serve and Holy Listening in a Circle of Trust go well beyond a one time, “mountain top” experience. In these experiential program, a cohort of some twenty participants journey through four retreats over one year. In large groups, small groups, and solitary settings, participants use personal stories, reflections on professional practice, time in nature, and insights from poets, storytellers, and various wisdom traditions to explore the relationship between the inner life of mind and spirit and the outer life of work and service in the world. Clearness Committees, a communal process of discernment around a vocational or other life issue, will be offered as part of this retreat.
During that time we:
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•Offer participants a meaningful break from the demands of daily life; an opportunity to slow down and take a
journey of renewal.
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•Create a soul-safe space that supports the inner journey, strengthens us for work in the world, and can be taken
home to help renew family, workplace, and community life.
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•Focus on deep listening in community--to ourselves and to each other.
Click here for 2012 - 2013 “Sustaining the Courage to Serve” Retreat Series Schedule
Click here for Fall 2012-Summer 2013 “Holy Listening in a Circle of Trust” Retreat Series Schedule
