Seasonal Retreat Series

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Seasonal Retreats Courage & Renewal Seasonal Retreat Series consists of 4 weekend retreats, one in each season over a year. The 20-30 participants are gathered in naturally beautiful settings to explore and renew the connection between their personal and professional lives.

Each retreat is carefully designed with individual and group activities, using seasonal metaphors, personal experience, the power of poetry and teaching stories, journaling, art, and nature, as the stimulus for reflection and dialogue. Time is spent in reflection - alone and with others - exploring the interconnections between our personal and professional lives and identities. All retreats include unscheduled time to rest, play, exercise, and explore the natural world. Most retreat groups are mixed vocationally. A few are focused on a particular profession or group (i.e. teachers, human service providers, clergy, early learning, non-profit leaders.)

The diversity of the group becomes a rich source of learning, as participants connect across lines of race, class, gender (and more) to listen deeply, ask open/honest questions, and learn about themselves and each other.

With 12 years experience facilitating seasonal retreat series, our facilitators are highly successful at renewing the identity and integrity of participants.

Benefits of a C&R Retreat Series
Retreat series help individuals strengthen connections between who they are and the work they do. Men and women of all races, ethnicities, and belief systems have a unique retreat experience based on their own questions. Powerful learning arises from the safety and trust that develop among cohort members over time.

Every year, participants report: