Welcome to the Center for Courage & Renewal

When you're committed to making the world a better place, it's vital to align your daily life and work with your core values. We help you listen, live and lead with integrity so you can serve the world with courage.

Especially useful when facing stressful demands of leadership and in times of transition, our unique, time-tested approach will give you new tools to build your capacity for resilience, be discerning in your choices, and engage the questions of your life with impeccable clarity.

At the Center for Courage & Renewal, we offer online resources and in-person retreats and programs that will encourage, inspire and sustain you like nothing else.

Our programs offer a profound experience of our Circles of Trust® approach — as described in Parker J. Palmer’s book, A Hidden Wholeness: Journey Toward an Undivided Life. (See our signature Journey retreats.) Founder and senior partner of the Center for Courage & Renewal, Palmer was named in 2011 an Utne Reader Visionary, one of “25 people who are changing your world.” See events with Parker.

Watch videos with Parker Palmer and friends as they share their stories of courage and renewal.

With your donations you can help more people live high-integrity lives and bring courage to the world. The Center for Courage & Renewal is a 501 (c)(3) educational nonprofit organization. 

Retreats & Programs

See our calendar of programs and retreats sponsored by the Center:

• For everyone
• Academy for Leaders
• Clergy and People of Faith
• Courage in Schools for Teachers, Educators, Administrators (including Courage to Teach®)
• Facilitator Preparation
• Healing the Heart of Democracy
• Health Care & Medicine
• Legal Professionals

Our network of 200 Courage & Renewal® facilitators across the United States, Canada and Australia hold additional retreats and programs. You can find events by venue or contact a facilitator in your region.