still learning, inc.
hopes your life is going well.
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
ELAINE AND SALLY EARLY MORNING PREPARATION
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ALL OF THE 2010 RETREATS were GREAT EXPERIENCES AND WE FEEL WERE WELL RECEIVED. WE ARE SINCERELY GRATEFUL TO THOSE OF YOU WHO PARTICIPATED WITH
still learning, inc.
PLEASE JOIN US FOR 2011 PROGRAMS
DETAILS ARE BELOW AND MORE WILL FOLLOW.
LOOKING AHEAD TO THE
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MARCH!!
next NEW RETREAT FOR
2011
Finding What You Didn’t Lose:
A Circle of Trust Retreat
Steeped in the HEALING POWER OF STORY
A Retreat on the Ocean
with Sally Z. Hare, PH.D., and Elaine Sullivan, M.ED., LPC, LMFT
March 23-25, 2011
Pawleys Island, South Carolina
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
You have to know they exist –
or you won’t see them.
--Sally Z. Hare, I’ll Meet you in the Field: The Intersection of Education and Community
In this unique retreat, therapist Elaine Sullivan and teacher Sally Z. Hare come together for the first time to create what promises to be a very special space. They invite you to join them for a Circle of Trust, grounded in Parker J. Palmer's Circle of Trust® approach, at the intersection of Elaine’s work in wellness and the healing power of story with Sally’s work in adult learning and lifelong learning and the importance of our stories in understanding the meaning of our lives.
the trick of finding what you didn't lose
(existing's tricky:but to live's a gift)
the teachable imposture of always
arriving at the place you never left
---e. e. cummings
Of course, we haven't really lost anything… Not our hearts, our true selves, nor our sense of passion for our life and work. But the pressures and hectic pace of our modern lives too often cause us to feel like we are losing hope - and we can no longer see what has always been there, our own gifts and strengths.
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.
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
The safe space of this retreat offers you the opportunity to glimpse your own hidden wholeness, to rejoin soul and role, to reconnect who you are with what you do. This is a creative endeavor that asks us to reclaim our own story. Researchers in leadership and adult development today are affirming that successful adults are those who remember, reflect and recreate their stories. Our lives are not our experiences, but how we make meaning from our experiences.
This circle of trust retreat is for persons from diverse professions: education, health care, psychology, law, philanthropy, the arts, 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. 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, various wisdom traditions – and inviting our own writing and poetry to emerge.
Here is one way to understand the relationships in a circle of trust: they combine unconditional love, or regard, with hopeful expectancy, creating a space that both safeguards and encourages the inner journey.
In such a space, we are freed to hear our own truth, touch what brings us joy, become self-critical about our faults, and take risky steps toward change—
--- Parker J. Palmer, A Hidden Wholeness
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 country. For more information, see
WHEN and WHERE
The setting for the retreat will be the Sea View Inn, located on Pawleys Island, SC, one of the oldest summer resorts on the East Coast.
The retreat will begin at 5 pm on Wednesday, March 23, and end with lunch on Friday, March 25, 2011
Participants may stay at the Sea View Inn for the weekend at discounted rates.
COST
The registration fee for this retreat is
$889
and includes EVERYTHING: all retreat fees, materials, single room with private half-bath, wonderful Southern meals (hot breakfasts, dinner mid-day, and supper in the evenings!), generous coffee and tea breaks.
Please mail your check to still learning, inc, with AN attached registration form to
Dr. Sally Z. Hare, still learning, inc, p o box 14028, Surfside Beach, SC 29587.
Registration by JANUARY 30, 2011 entitles you to a discounted fee of $799.
Elaine Sullivan earned her M.Ed. in Counseling Psychology from Loyola University and holds the certifications in Texas of LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) and LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist) in Texas. She is also a certified Transactional Analyst and a clinically trained Imago Relationship Therapist. Through more than thirty-five years of working with written autobiographies, she has learned the power of remembering, retelling and recreating life stories. Elaine recently received the Halbert L. Dunn Award, the most prestigious award presented by the National Wellness Institute and regarded as one of the highest honors in the health promotion and wellness fields. Elaine has been prepared as a national Circle of Trust facilitator through the Center for Courage & Renewal –and is a founding leader in the Center for Formation in Higher Education.
Space is limited to 20 participants. Programs typically fill well before the deadline.The setting for the retreat will be the Sea View Inn, located on Pawleys Island, SC, one of the oldest summer resorts on the East Coast. The retreat will begin at 5 pm on Wednesday, March 23, and end with lunch on Friday, March 25, 2011
coming in june!!!! JULY!!!and october!!!!
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Inner Work for Outer Joy:
Mindfully Waking UP by
Reconnecting Soul and Role
A Circle of Trust Retreat and Mini-Summer Vacation on the Ocean
with Veta Goler and Sally Z. Hare
June 15-17, 2011 Myrtle Beach, SC
Grounded in the Beauty of Nature and Silence, Poetry and Story and the Writing of Parker J. Palmer …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 teaching, parenting, caregiving, leadership, politics, psychology, pastoral care, medicine, the arts, and others in community service and social change, know the challenge of sustaining ourselves and our commitment to deeply held values and beliefs.
Let the Beauty you love be what you do.
--Rumi
The more passionate we are about our work and our world, the more vital it is that we take time to renew our own hearts, to reclaim who we are and what we do. In this retreat, we will focus on finding and sustaining the courage to take our inner selves into the outer world with integrity, to rejoin soul and role, and to slow down and remember the contemplative practices that allow us to create a personal Sabbath in our own lives. Join us as we learn to be intentional about letting the Beauty we love be what we do, about feeling alive and awake, about embracing the both/andness of life rather than the either/or.
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. ---Howard Thurman 
This retreat is for anyone seeking ways to live an undivided life, to live with wholeness and joy. It is for those who want to renew what they do and reclaim who they are; for those who aren’t interested in a life of alone-ness or navel contemplation, but who care about their community, their planet, and are seeking a place for personal renewal. It is for those who are troubled by injustice and violence and are struggling with their own sense of powerlessness and overwhelm. It is for those who, in Parker Palmer’s phrase, are experiencing “the politics of broken-hearted,” facing the seeming divisiveness in our democracy, and looking for ways of responding that are creative and life-giving.
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
---Zora Neale Hurston
There is an early registration discount of
$799
for applications and fees received by May 1.
WHERE and WHEN: The Chance for Retreat and Mini-Summer Vacation The retreat will be held at Springmaid Beach Resort in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, beginning at 4 pm on Wednesday, June 15th, and ending at noon on Friday, June 17. Each participant will have an oceanview room with private balcony, microwave and refrigerator and coffeepot, free wireless internet, and free parking.
Take a look athttp://springmaidbeach.com/ For no extra lodging cost, you may choose to bring your family to share your room. We ask you to be thoughtful about this, as we hope you will give yourself a space to be in retreat, but we also want you to be able to experience a bit of summer vacation.
You will be in retreat sessions from 4:30-9:30 on the first day, 9 am – 6 pm on the second day, and 9 until noon on the third day. You may choose to stay an extra night or two on your own to enjoy the ocean and the next-door maritime forest. Or you may want to invite friends or family to join you for the weekend, when the retreat ends. You may come early or stay for the weekend at discounted rates, if space is available. To reserve that space or for more information, please contact Sally Z. Hare at couragetoteach@sc.rr.com. The resort has six pools (two heated) and lazy rivers, a fishing pier, and fitness center. It is located next door to the 312-acre Myrtle Beach State Park, one of South Carolina’s last stands of easily accessible, oceanfront maritime forest.
The oceanfront property is less than ten minutes from the Myrtle Beach International Jetport and very close to the new Market Common, a unique village located on the old Air Force Base with upscale shopping and dining. An easy walk up the road takes you to the delightful Art Museum of Myrtle Beach. REGISTRATION and COST Space is limited to 25 participants.
Programs typically fill well before the deadline.
The registration fee for this retreat is
$889
and includes all retreat fees, materials, single oceanview room, and two breakfasts and one lunch and one dinner.
Please mail your check to with the attached registration form
still learning, inc,
P O Box 14028,
Surfside Beach, SC 29587,
There is an early registration discount of $799 for registrations received by April 15.
RETREAT LEADERS Veta Goler and Sally Z. Hare are national facilitators with the Center for Courage & Renewal (www.couragerenewal.org) – and have led Circles of Trust® as well as Courage to Teach® and Courage to Lead® for many years.
Veta Goler, MFA, Ph.D, is the Division Coordinator for Arts and Humanities at Spelman College and Associate Professor of dance. Her research and teaching interests include the intersection of dance and spirituality in popular culture and the incorporation of contemplative practices in education and the workplace for holistic learning. She loves facilitating inner exploration.
Sally Z. Hare, Ph.D, is a teacher and a learner. President of still learning inc, she is also 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 facilitated COURAGE TO TEACH® and COURAGE TO LEAD® and CIRCLE of TRUST programs in South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Georgia, Oregon, Kansas, California, as well as Australia and Canada, and leads circle of trust retreats with educators, physicians, community and non-profit leaders and other professionals.
To register, please mail your check to
still learning, inc,
P O Box 14028,
Surfside Beach, SC 29587,
with attached registration form.
CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATION FORM
Take advantage of the early registration fee by registering on or before April 15.
For further information, contact:
Sally Z. Hare (couragetoteach@sc.rr.com) 843-238-9291
or Veta Goler (vgoler@spelman.edu)
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JULY 2011 IN KIRKRIDGE!!!!
Taking Heart Once More:
Learning from the Abundance of Summer
Grounded in Parker J. Palmer’s Politics of the Brokenhearted
…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
July 26-28, 2011
Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center
Bangor, PA
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If we attempt to act and do things for others or for the world without deepening our own self-understanding, our own freedom, integrity, and capacity to love, we will not have anything to give to others.
--Thomas Merton
Those of us engaged in leadership, politics, teaching, psychology, pastoral care, medicine and others in community service and social change, know the challenge of sustaining ourselves. The more passionate we are about our work and our world, the more vital it is that we take time to renew our own hearts, to reclaim who we are and what we do. In this retreat, grounded in the writing of Parker J. Palmer, we will focus on finding the courage to take our inner selves into the outer world with integrity, to rejoin soul and role.
This retreat is for anyone seeking ways to live an undivided life, to live with wholeness. It is for those who care about their community, their planet, and are seeking a place for personal renewal. It is for those who are troubled by injustice and violence and are struggling with their own sense of powerlessness. It is for those who, in Parker Palmer’s phrase, are experiencing “the politics of broken-hearted,” facing the seeming divisiveness in our democracy, and looking for ways of responding that are creative and life-giving. 
The human heart is the first home of democracy.
It is where we embrace our questions.
Can we be equitable? Can we be generous?
Can we listen with our whole beings, not just our minds,
and offer our attention rather than our opinions?
And do we have enough resolve in our hearts to act courageously, relentlessly, without giving up—ever—
trusting our fellow citizens to join with us
in our determined pursuit of a living democracy?
-- Terry Tempest Williams
Taking Heart Once More is a Circle of Trust® retreat where we can explore our own most profound questions at the heart of our many roles, including the important role of citizen in a democracy. In this retreat skilled facilitators, who have worked with Parker J. Palmer and are prepared by the Center for Courage & Renewal, help create a quiet, focused, and disciplined space—a circle of trust—in which the noise within us and around us can subside and we can begin to hear our own inner voice.
• An opportunity to explore questions of meaning and purpose, of calling, of the relationship of inner life and outer work
• Time to explore the intersection of “soul” and “role”.
• Opportunities to discern and claim birthright gifts and to consider how those gifts can best be used in leadership activities.
• A chance to consider what it mean to be authentic – in life and in leadership roles.
• An opportunity to reflect on how to engage in leadership roles out of a deep sense of identity and integrity.
• A context for deep connection with others that honors differences.
“The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.”
--- Alice Walker
The way to find the real “world” is not merely to measure and observe what is outside us, but to discover our own inner ground.
--- Thomas Merton
LOCATION:
Since 1942, Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center has been providing a place for rest and renewal for people along life’s journey. Kirkridge’s emphasis from the beginning was the integration of inner contemplation with the outward call to action for justice. The legacy continues today.Kirkridge is located on the beautiful Kittatinny Ridge of Eastern Pennsylvania near the Delaware Water Gap and Pocono Mountain region.
We are 85 miles from both New York City and Philadelphia. The nearest airports are the Lehigh Valley International (Allentown), and Newark International in that order.
REGISTRATION AND COST:
Please go to our website to register online or contact us by calling or e-mailing: Janet Lewis, (janetl@kirkridge.org), 610-588-1793. The retreat will begin at 4:00 on July 26th and continue through lunch on July 28th.
Cost: $425 before June 15th. After June 15th $495.
Contact Information: Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center, 2495 Fox Gap Road, Bangor, Pa. 18013
610-588-1793, www.kirkridge.org
RETREAT LEADERSHIP:
Jean Richardson, D.Min. since 2005 has served as the director of Kirkridge Retreat Center. Prior to this move she spent 10 years on the staff of Ghost Ranch as the Program Director and the Development Director. A trained facilitator of the Center for Courage and Renewal and an ordained Presbyterian minister, she has worked the last 15 years in retreat ministry. Prior to moving into retreat work, Jean served as an urban pastor and as a consultant and adjunct faculty member at San Francisco Theological Seminary.
Sally Z. Hare, Ph.D. is a teacher and a learner. She is the Singleton Distinguished Professor Emerita at Coastal Carolina Uni¬versity, 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, commu¬nity leaders and other professionals.
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OCTOBER 2011
Taking Your Inner Work into the Outer World:
Reconnecting Soul and Role
October 26-28, 2011 Pawleys Island, South Carolina
A Circle of Trust ®Retreat
on the Ocean with
Jeff Creswell and Sally Z. Hare
Grounded in Parker Palmer’s A Hidden Wholeness
and Healing the Heart of Democracy:
The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit
Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it,
listen for what it intends to do with you.
Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to,
let your life tell you what truths you embody, what values you represent.
---Parker J. Palmer
National Circle of Trust facilitators Jeff Creswell and Sally Z. Hare invite you to join them for a retreat on the ocean to reconnect soul and role. Too often we feel divided in our lives, separated in how we spend our days from our true selves, our gifts, and the work that brings us alive.
This retreat offers a safe space to remember who you are and to experience a Circle of Trust, bringing together the work of Parker J. Palmer with Jeff’s work in teaching and learning and constructing meaning through the Scottish Storyline method and Sally’s work in education and community and lifelong learning.
Taking Your Inner Work into the Outer World offers a space where we can explore our own most profound questions at the heart of our many roles, at home and at work, from family member to community member, including the important role of citizen in a democracy. The facilitators create a safe place for participants to slow down and listen to their own hearts and inner wisdom in a quiet, focused and disciplined space where the noise around us – and within us – can subside.
The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
--- Alice Walker
In large group, small group, and solitary settings, we are invited to reclaim our own power by exploring the intersection of our personal, professional, and political lives, uncovering our own stories, as well as gaining insights from poetry, music and various wisdom traditions.
There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and (will) be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours, clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.
--Martha Graham in a letter to Agnes DeMille
This retreat is for anyone seeking ways to live an undivided life, to live with wholeness.
It is for those who care about their community, their planet, and are seeking a place for personal renewal.
It is for those who are troubled by injustice and violence and are struggling with their own sense of powerlessness.
It is for those who, in Parker Palmer’s phrase, are experiencing “the politics of the broken-hearted,” facing the seeming divisiveness in our democracy, and looking for ways of responding that are creative and life-giving. 
RETREAT LEADERSHIP
Jeff Creswell has been teaching elementary school children and presenting workshops for educators around the world for over thirty years. He has worked with teachers using the Storyline method since it was first brought to the United States from Scotland in 1990. He is the author of a book on the method published by Heinemann Books, Creating Worlds, Constructing Meaning: The Scottish Storyline Method. He first participated in a series of Courage to Teach retreats in 1999 and became a national facilitator in 2001. He has worked with teachers, school administrators, clergy and lay leaders, and cross professional groups.
Sally Z. Hare is a teacher and a learner and a student of community. She earned her doctorate at the University of South Carolina and has completed post-doctoral work in settings as diverse as the Harvard University Leadership Institute, the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, and the Institute of Noetic Science’s Healing Arts of Bali.
She is president of still learning, inc, and Singleton Distinguished Professor Emerita at Coastal Carolina University, where she served for many years as Dean of the Graduate School and Continuing Education and 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, and Kansas, as well as Australia and Canada, and leads circle of trust retreats with educators, physicians, community and non-profit leaders and other professionals.
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 country.
For more information, see
WHEN and WHERE
The setting for the retreat will be the charming Sea View Inn www.seaviewinn. located on Pawleys Island, SC, one of the oldest summer resorts on the East Coast.
The retreat will begin at 5 pm on Wednesday, October 26, and end with the mid-day meal on Friday, October 28, 2011. Participants may stay at the Sea View Inn www.seaviewinn.net for the weekend at discounted rates if you make those reservations when you register. Check with Sally
for more information. 
COST Space is limited to 20 participants.
Programs typically fill well before the deadline.
The registration fee for this retreat is $889
and includes EVERYTHING: all retreat fees, materials, single room with private half-bath, wonderful Southern meals (hot breakfasts, dinner mid-day, and supper in the evenings!), generous coffee and tea breaks.
Please mail your check to still learning, inc, with
attached registration form to
Dr. Sally Z. Hare,
still learning, inc,
p o box 14028,
Surfside Beach, SC 29587.
Register by June 30th to take advantage of the early discount fee of $799. Just indicate on registration form that you have met the qualifying deadline.
For further information, please contact
Dr. Sally Z. Hare, 843-238-9291, couragetoteach@sc.rr.com
or Jeff Creswell, creswell@me.com
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