HAPPY 2010!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHAT PARTICIPANTS ARE SAYING....
"The greatest thing for me was that attending the retreats has become a life-enhancing experience for me. It has filled a very deep need within me to have a safe place for quiet, non-rushed, deep reflection. This experience has affected how I interact with the people in my life; professionally and otherwise. There is so little silence and time for reflection around me that I almost forgot how important that is. Now I seek opportunities to provide this not only for myself but also for others. What impressed me so much is that everything about the retreat is invitational. Everyone is respected for what they do or don't contribute. Everyone is allowed to take from the experience whatever suits them. There is no agenda, no fixing, no advice."
Agnes Leistico, california
" I honestly did not know what to expect from the retreat but I can tell you that it was a transformational experience for me. It helped put me back in touch with the most important things in my life. I can tell you that I am finding real joy in my work (and life in general) for the first time in a long time…..and I attribute that directly to the reflection I was able to do. So, will this retreat help women find more joy in their lives? Absolutely, resoundingly YES!! "
Cindy, south carolina first time participant, and registered for two more.
"What does circle (of trust-of leadership) mean to me? The experiences are transformational. The space provided for me to allow my inner teacher, my higher self, the true leader within me to show up is evidenced at every circle. It is there, in solitude and community that I discover, affirm, and celebrate my humanity and sense of belonging to this world. It is there that I challenge myself to be myself. It is there that my passion is refueled and that my belief that I can make a difference is intensified."
Erma from Atlanta
"It is good to see the State Department of Education looking in this direction! (The Courage to Teach direction) That could do more to stop the hemorrhaging of teachers out of the profession than about anything else they could invest in".
A state district superintendent
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ALL OF THE 2009 RETREATS WERE GREAT EXPERIENCES AND WE FEEL WERE WELL RECEIVED. ALL OF THEM WERE FILLED AND HAD WAITING LISTS. WE ARE SINCERELY GRATEFUL TO THOSE OF YOU WHO PARTICIPATED WITH
still learning, inc.
PLEASE JOIN US FOR 2010 PROGRAMS
DETAILS ARE BELOW AND MORE WILL FOLLOW.
LOOKING AHEAD TO THE
NEW YEAR!!
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NEW IN JUNE 2010
Courage to Lead
It’s been another rough year. Are you even more stressed by severely shrinking budgets and growing needs? Are you pulling your hair out over the multitude of tasks and responsibilities you face daily? Are you beat down by the challenges that confront you as you strive to provide miracles for our most precious resource—our children?
SCASA, in partnership with still learning, inc, and the Office of School Leadership, is pleased to invite you to the Courage to Lead seminar at the Summer Leadership Institute.
Based on the work of Palmer J. Parker, author of The Courage to Teach and A Hidden Wholeness, this national program fosters personal and professional renewal through seminars that offer the time and space to slow down and reflect on life and work.
The Courage to Lead is a different approach to leadership development, rooted in the belief that effective leadership flows from the identity and integrity of the individual. Through this process called leadership formation, participants reflect on how their selfhood affects the way they relate to colleagues, their leadership tasks, their organization, and the world.
The facilitators, Dr. Sally Z. Hare and Sandie Merriam, have worked with Parker and the Center for Courage & Renewal. Sally has facilitated this work across the United States, as well as in Canada and Australia. She is Singleton Distinguished Professor Emerita of Coastal Carolina University and president of still learning, inc. Sandie has been a longtime public school teacher leader and was a member of the pilot Courage to Teach group in
South Carolina.
Sponsored by the Rainwater Foundation, twenty administrators will have the opportunity to participate in Courage to Lead free of charge. You will be reimbursed $100 toward the cost of one night of your lodging and some meals furnished. You will also have the opportunity to participate in
three seasonal retreats
during the school year.
The seminar takes place from 10 am – 9 pm Monday, June 21 and from 10 am-4 pm on Tuesday, June 22.
Space is limited. To reserve a space, please call or email Sally Barefoot at your earliest convenience: 803-734-8304 or sbarefoot@leaders.ed.sc.gov.
June 21-22, 2010
Reflect – Renew – Recharge
“The Courage to Lead retreat is a must for leaders. With the major challenges administrators are facing today, taking time to connect who you are with what you do is essential. It is a life changing experience that will truly rekindle your motivation and inner wholeness. ”
Dr. Joanne Avery
Deputy Superintendent
Anderson School District Four
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KIRKRIDGE®
RETREAT AND STUDY CENTEr
A Circle of Trust®
Taking Heart Once More: Finding Beauty AND Healing and Wholeness in a Broken WorD
A Circle of Trust Retreat Grounded in the Philosophy of Parker J. Palmer
JULY 27-29, 2010
SALLY Z. HARE AND JEAN RICHARDSOn
"Most of us become teachers for reasons of the heart.We teach because we care deeply about our students and about some subject. But the demands of teaching and the conditions in some schools cause too many of us to lose heart as the years go by. Is it possible to take heart once more so that we can continue to do what good teachers always do-- which is to give heart to our students?"
--Parker J. Palmer
Tuesday 6:30 dinner thru Thursday lunch
Cost $495 ($425 before May 31, 2010)
We can’t give what we don’t have. Not only teachers, but all of us engaged in the helping and serving professions know the challenge of sustaining ourselves and our commitment to deeply held values and beliefs. The more passionate we are about our work, the more vital it is that we take time to renew our own spirits—to reconnect with the wellsprings of our service to others. Join us for a different kind of professional development – one that focuses on each person’s own identity and integrity.
The Circle of Trust ® retreat, which was developed by Dr. Parker J. Palmer as the Courage to Teach program, is designed for teachers, counselors, school and community and business leaders, ministers and clergy, and others who wish to live more wholeheartedly
RETREAT LEADERSHIP
Sally Z. Hare and Jean Richardson
Sally Z. Hare, Ph.D. is a teacher and a learner. She is the Singleton Distinguished Professor Emerita at Coastal Carolina University, where she served for many years as Dean of the Graduate School and Continuing Education and was the founding director of the Center for Education and Community. In the early 90’s, Sally met Parker Palmer and he invited her to work with him as he created The Courage to Teach program. Presently, she has works with the Center for Courage & Renewal and facilitates Courage to Teach® and CIRCLE of TRUST programs across the country with educators, physicians, community leaders and other professionals
Jean Richardson, M.Div, D. Min. has served as the director of Kirkridge Retreat Center since 2005. Prior to coming to Kirkridge Jean spent 10 years on the staff of Ghost Ranch, a national Presbyterian retreat center in Abiquiu, New Mexico, as the Program Director and the Development Director. Prior to returning to the East, Jean was the pastor of two congregations in San Francisco, CA and served as adjunct faculty and a consultant at San Francisco Theological Seminary.ABOUT Kirkridge: Since 1942, Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center has been providing a place for rest and renewal to for many along life’s journey. Kirkridge is located on the beautiful Kittatinny Ridge of eastern Pennsylvania near the Delaware Water Gap and the Pocono Mountains. Our retreats, our hospitality, our beautiful vistas and our sacred ground provide space for individuals to experience the holy in their lives.
Space is limited to 20 participants.
Programs typically fill well before the deadline.
The registration fee for this retreat includes: all retreat fees, materials, double sleeping rooms, meals and snacks.
Single rooms cannot be guaranteed but may be requested for an additional $100.
You may register on-line at www.kirkridge.org or
mail $200 with your contact information to
Janet Lewis at Kirkridge.
KIRKRIDGE
2495 Fox Gap Road,
Bangor, PA 18013-6028,
610-588-1793 .
Fax: 610-588-8510
www. kirkridge.org
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SEPTEMBER
The Journey to the Undivided Life:
RECLAIMING YOUR HIDDEN WHOLENESS through the HEALING POWER OF POETRY
A Retreat Bringing Together
Poetic Medicine with the Circle of Trust ® approach
with John Fox, CPT, and Sally Z. Hare, Ph. D.
September 10-12, 2010
Burlingame, CA -- ten minutes from the San Francisco airport
There is in all things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness. This mysterious Unity, and Integrity, is Wisdom, the Mother of all,
Natura naturans.
—Thomas Merton, Hagia Sophia
In this unique retreat, poet John Fox and teacher Sally Z. Hare come together to explore the intersection of their work. They invite you to experience a circle of trust, grounded in Sally's many years of working with Parker J. Palmer's Circle of Trust theory, and the healing power of writing, based in John's own work in poetry therapy.
Our innate wholeness is part of the gift of being human, but as Thomas Merton has written, it is often hidden or invisible. The pressures and hectic pace of our modern lives too often make it easier to see our brokenness than our wholeness - and we can even forget that it is there. Those of us engaged in organizational leadership, teaching, psychology, pastoral care, medicine and other service professions, in community service and social change, know the challenge of sustaining ourselves and our commitment to deeply held values and beliefs.
The more passionate we are about our work, the more vital it is that we take time to renew our own spirits-to reconnect with the wellsprings of our work in the world, our service to others. To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. --Wendell Berry
This circle of trust retreat is for persons from diverse professions: education, health care, psychology, law, philanthropy, religious/spiritual life, and nonprofit and community organizations. In this retreat the skilled facilitators will help create a quiet, focused, respectful space, in which the noise within us and around us can subside,
and we can meet stillness.'
Stillness is where you meet with the essence of things…
In stillness we can begin to let go of external voices, stereotypes, and clichés that crowd out original, personal and internal voices. Those discordant outer voices fade away in stillness. Stillness is a place of rooting oneself in a much larger field of being.
--John Fox, 'Finding What You Didn’t Lose'
In large group, small group, and solitary settings, we will explore the intersection of our personal and professional lives, making use of stories from our own journeys, as well as insights from poets and various wisdom traditions – and inviting our own writing and poetry to emerge.
ABOUT The Institute for Poetic Medicine
The Institute for Poetic Medicine is 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to “awakening soulfulness in the human voice.” We nurture and strengthen the human capacity to connect to Self, Other, Community, the Natural World, and the Divine. We offer public workshops, retreats, and professional programs in therapeutic, healing, medical, educational and pastoral settings, as well as veterans, at-risk and incarcerated young people, persons living with life-altering illnesses and mental health challenges.
ABOUT still learning, inc.
still learning, inc., is about renewing what we do by reclaiming who we are, in the world of work, the world of parenting, the world of family, the world of leadership. We are dedicated to the lifelong learning of teachers, educators, parents, business and other leaders through renewal programs in workshop and retreat settings all over the planet. For more information, see www.stilllearning.org.
WHEN and WHERE
The setting for the retreat will be the Mercy Center Burlingame, an internationally known conference and retreat center located ten minutes from the San Francisco airport. IN addition to the natural sanctuary of mature oaks and flower gardens, Mercy Center has a bookstore, a hand-built labyrinth, and lovely walking paths. You may want to come in early – or stay late to take advantage of the yoga, massage and healing touch offered by appointment with their experienced bodywork practitioners.
Our retreat will begin at 5 pm on Friday, September 10 and end with lunch on Sunday, September 12, 2010.
COST
Space is limited to 24 participants. Programs typically fill well before the deadline.
The registration fee for this retreat is $889 and includes EVERYTHING: all retreat fees, materials, private bedrooms, all meals, coffee and tea breaks. Please mail your check to still learning, inc, with the attached registration form to
still learning, inc,
p o box 14028,
Surfside Beach, SC 29587.
RETREAT LEADERSHIP
John Fox, CPT,
is the founder and president of the Institute for Poetic Medicine. John teaches at the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology, John F. Kennedy University, California Institute of Integral Studies and Holy Names University. John has introduced the field of poetry therapy to professionals in education, cancer support, spiritual/pastoral care, counseling, and arts-in-medicine. He has worked with people throughout America as well as in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Israel, Canada, South Korea and Kuwait. He is the author of Finding What You Didn’t Lose and Poetic Medicine. He is past president of the National Association for Poetry Therapy.
Sally Z. Hare, Ph.D.,
is a teacher and a learner. She is the Singleton Distinguished Professor Emerita at Coastal Carolina University, where she served for many years as Dean of the Graduate School and Continuing Education and was the founding director of the Center for Education and Community. During her Kellogg fellowship in the early 90’s, Sally had the chance to meet Parker Palmer as she was exploring the concept of community. Parker invited her to work with him as he created The Courage to Teach. Since that time, she has worked with the national Center for Courage & Renewal and facilitated COURAGE TO TEACH® and COURAGE TO LEAD® and CIRCLE of TRUST® programs in South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Georgia, Oregon, Mississippi, Kansas, as well as Canada and Australia. Sally leads circle of trust retreats internationally with educators, physicians, community leaders and other professionals.
--Rita Dove, former U.S. Poet Laureate
For further information, please contact:
Dr. Sally Z. Hare 843-238-9291, sally@coastal.edu
John Fox 650-938-2717, john@poeticmedicine.org
CLICK HERE FOR APPLICATION OR GO TO rEGISTER PAGE
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Journey Toward an Undivided Life:
A Circle of Trust ®
Retreat to Reconnect
Soul and Role
October 29-31, 2010
Calvin Center, Hampton, Ga. 30 miles from downtown Atlanta
…if we are willing to embrace the challenge of becoming whole…we cannot embrace that challenge all alone, at least, not for long;
we need trustworthy relationships to sustain us, tenacious communities of support, if we are to sustain the journey toward an undivided life.
—Parker J. Palmer, A Hidden Wholeness
Those of us engaged in organizational leadership, teaching, psychology, pastoral care, medicine and others in community
service and social change, know the challenge of sustaining
ourselves and our commitment to deeply held values and beliefs.
The more passionate we are about our work, the more vital it is
that we take time to renew our own spirits - to reconnect with the wellsprings of our work in the world, our service to others.
In this retreat, grounded in the writing of Parker J. Palmer, we will focus on the rejoining of soul and role. When we reconnect who
we are with what we do, we approach our lives and our work with renewed passion, commitment, and integrity.
The skilled facilitators will create a quiet, focused, respectful
space in which the noise within us and around us can subside, and
we can begin to hear our own inner wisdom. Come experience a time
for inner exploration, in the safe space of a circle of trust.
In large group, small group, and solitary settings, we will explore
the intersection of our personal and professional lives, making use
of stories from our own journeys, as well as insights from poets, storytellers, and various wisdom traditions, and participation in
the Clearness Committee, a unique opportunity for discernment
in community.
WHEN and WHERE
Our retreat will begin with the opening circle at
5 pm on Friday, October 29
and ending at noon on Sunday, October 31, 2010.
The setting for the retreat will be the Calvin Center, a year-round conference, retreat and camping center uniquely situated in a
natural setting (548 acres), while located just twenty miles south
of Atlanta’s airport. Find address and directions on their website
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Space is limited to 24 participants. Programs typically fill well before the deadline.
The registration fee for this retreat is $675.00
and includes EVERYTHING: all retreat fees, materials, private
bedrooms, all meals, coffee and tea breaks.
If you wish to share a room, (and a roommate is available) the cost
is $575.00 per person.
EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION DISCOUNT until Sept. 1st is $575.00 private room, $475.00 shared room.
Please mail your check with the attached registration form to
Haqiqa Bolling
220 Kings Hwy Decatur, Ga. 30030.
RETREAT LEADERSHIP
Haqiqa Bolling, M.Ed., has been a middle school counselor for City Schools of Decatur for the last 16 years. She is a national
facilitator with the Center for Courage & Renewal, guiding Circle
of Trust ® approach retreats. Haqiqa has been a trainer and consultant in the areas of conflict resolution, diversity and meeting facilitation. She has provided training and consultation in a variety of settings including schools, businesses, and community
organizations. She has a B.S. in K-12 education and M.Ed. in school counseling from Georgia
State University. Haqiqa has a strong commitment to service and
has volunteered in a variety of arenas. Haqiqa has also led
worship circles with the Universal Worship, as well as Community
of Hospitality. She is happily married and the mother of two
grown children.
Sally Z. Hare, Ph.D., is a teacher and a learner. She is the
Singleton Distinguished Professor Emerita at Coastal Carolina University, where she served for many years as Dean of the
Graduate School and Continuing Education and was the founding director of the Center for Education and Community. During her Kellogg fellowship in the early 90’s, Sally had the chance to meet Parker Palmer as she was exploring the concept of community.
Parker invited her to work with him as he created The Courage to Teach. Since that time, she has worked with the national Center
for Courage & Renewal and facilitated COURAGE TO TEACH® and
COURAGE TO LEAD® and CIRCLE of TRUST® programs in South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Georgia, Oregon, Mississippi, Kansas, as
well as Canada and Australia. Sally leads circle of trust retreats internationally with educators, physicians, community leaders
and other professionals. 
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