Guides & Workshops

The mission of the Center for Courage & Renewal is to nurture personal and professional integrity and the courage to act. It does this by:

• Helping people who wish to live and work to more wholeheartedly renew themselves, reclaim their vocational vitality and deepen their professional practice;
• Supporting these people in becoming forces for positive change in their workplaces, professions and communities as well as in the lives of the people they serve; and
• Contributing to the growing national conversation about reclaiming integrity and courage in professional and public life.

The Center helps to foster personal and professional renewal through supporting retreats and programs that offer the time and space to slow down and reflect on life and work. The retreats—based in the Circle of Trust® approach—are often called Courage to Teach® or Courage to Lead and are led by skilled facilitators who make use of poetry and stories, solitude, reflection and deep listening. In addition to offering Circle of Trust retreats nationally, it prepares Courage & Renewal Facilitators through its Facilitator Preparation Program to offer Courage to Teach and Courage to Lead retreats in their local communities. In some parts of the country, groups of Courage & Renewal Facilitators have created affiliate organizations that support retreat offerings.