A rare opportunity for renewal, connection with kindred spirits and the chance to explore questions of importance to you.
DEADLINE TO REGISTER: October 28, 2021
ABOUT THIS EVENT
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive ~Howard Thurman
Are you actively engaged in creating communities rooted in justice, peace and ecological responsibility? Are you passionate about your vocation or cause and trying to sustain yourself while facing the urgency you feel about making a difference in these complex times?
While the forces of exhaustion, loneliness, violence, and injustice are real and undeniable, so are the powers of human authenticity, generosity, courage, and community that rise up to meet them.
Courage to Lead for Young Leaders and Activists is a rare opportunity to slow down and deepen connections with kindred spirits and committed peers. This event will support courageous change makers in understanding how their unique gifts can meet the needs of their communities while exploring questions of importance in their life and leadership.
Courage & Renewal retreats help you become a more self-aware, wholehearted leader. You’ll experience the time and space to:
Pause, be still, and disconnect from technology and the demanding pace of life
Seek clarity in your vocation and sense of purpose and cultivate the courage and stamina to rise to today’s challenges
Honour both successes and struggles in your professional and personal life
Witness and be witnessed, listen and be listened to – without performance evaluation, statusizing, or ego
Recognize and value the genuine in yourself and others
Strengthen your capacity to ask open-ended questions, hold tensions, and rejoin soul and role
Move beyond either-or thinking into holding opposing truths and complexity
Stay grounded in your own integrity and inherent worth
At the retreat, we create a counter-cultural community that helps amplify and validate the voice of one’s ‘inner teacher’, shifting from a dominant perspective that prioritizes external authorities. Over the course of three days, young leaders and activists (ages 25-40) will journey together by engaging in large-and small-group dialogues. There will be opportunities to explore the intersection of your inner capacity and authenticity as it relates to your life, leadership, and activism. There will be stillness, solitude, time on the land, and journaling for reflection, to help unearth clarity and courage and bring meaning and resiliency to your life and leadership.
This retreat is modeled on the Circle of Trust® approach developed by Parker J. Palmer and the Center for Courage & Renewal. These Young Leaders and Activists retreats have been offered in the United States for nearly a decade, and for the first time in Canada in 2018 at the Tatamagouche Centre. You can learn more about “Circles of Trust” at www.couragerenewal.org/approach or in Parker Palmer’s book, A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life.
“People are hungry for expressions of hope that they can locate themselves in.”--Kathyrn McElveen, Executive Director, Center for Courage & Renewal
“Courage to Lead for Young Leaders and Activists was by far one of the best professional development experiences I have had. The skills I learned have helped me in my workplace, in work I do in the community, and in my personal life.” --Past participant, Courage to Lead for Young Leaders and Activists
“We reflected on how to contribute to an increasingly fractured world without getting lost in hopelessness at the magnitude of the issues facing us. It is this practice of resiliency that I feel is so essential for young leaders and activists to develop “ -Past participant, Courage to Lead for Young Leaders and Activists
Program Cost
True Program Cost - $655 includes tuition, meals & single lodging. Double lodging reduces overall cost by $125. Please use coupon: CTLYLA-double
Barrier-reduced Program Cost 1 - $175 includes tuition, meals & single lodging. This is made possible through grant funds and donations.
Barrier-reduced Program Cost 2 - $65 includes tuition, meals & single lodging. You only pay 10% of the true program cost. This is made possible through grant funds and donations.
Generous Program Cost - $705 includes tuition, meals & single lodging and your generous donation supports others to attend. You will receive a charitable donation receipt for your support.
Leadership
Brian Braganza is a facilitator and experiential educator specializing in Leadership, Community Youth Development, and Masculinity. He was prepared by Parker J. Palmer and the Center for Courage & Renewal as a facilitator in 2014 and has led retreats in Nova Scotia and the U.S. Brian has a 25-year history with the Tatamagouche Centre and with HeartWood Centre for Community Youth Development. Brian delivers experiential programs for boys and men and co-designed T.O.N.E., Therapy Outside Normal Environments, a unique men’s therapeutic project, which builds men’s abilities to connect authentically and live into their wholeness. Brian lives with his wife Tara and their daughter near Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. He is also a wilderness traveler, writer and musician.
Tara Reynolds is a facilitator, community organizer and leadership coach with a passion for creating trustworthy spaces that inspire, liberate and encourage individuals to listen and lead from within. She is a Co-Founder and Associate of WholeHeart, Inc., whose mission is to support inner transformation that leads to social transformation. Tara is a certified Courage & Renewal® Facilitator and an alumnae of the Vermont Leadership Institute. Tara has been prepared by the Canada Coach Academy as a Life and Wellness Coach. She and her daughter are permanent residents in Canada and are grateful to live in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaw people. Tara enjoys working and learning with her husband, Brian Braganza, who is also a certified Courage & Renewal® Facilitator.