ONLINE RETREAT: Delight & Doubt: Holding Hands with Wonder During Times of Uncertainty

Cultivating a practice of delighting in life’s simple pleasures, in savoring and deliberately taking in wonder, is healthy for us and those around us. We all deal with doubt and uncertainty! Living the questions, becoming curious, and allowing for possibility might naturally lead to wonder, to delight, and to a steady state of eyes-wide-open learning—even amid times of difficulty.

Join co-facilitators Marcia Eames-Sheavly and Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer as they aim to live into the Courage & Renewal touchstone, “when the going gets rough, turn to wonder.” It’s a both/and” paradox that opening to uncertainty might help us become more curious, ask questions and open to possibility—deepening our relationship with wonder.

This contemplative poetry writing retreat will be rounded in the Courage & Renewal® approach which you can learn more about in Parker J. Palmer’s book, A Hidden Wholeness.

Dates/Times: December 3, 2026, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. MT  | December 4, 2026, 9 a.m. – Noon MT

    * For newcomers to Circles of Trust® retreats there is an additional Courage & Renewal orientation on Monday, November 30, 2:00—3:00 MT.

Venue: Online, via Zoom

Cost: $160.00 early bird rate before 10/16/26  | $185.00

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ATTUNED: 

I want to meet the world

the way these calendula blossoms

meet the cold.

While everything around them

has wilted or browned,

they lift up their gold and orange faces

like bright earthbound suns—

not with some agenda

to make the world a better place,

but because they are doing

what they are made to do—

to be soft yet resilient,

beautiful and tough,

to carry inside themselves

the seeds for more beauty,

and, when the time comes,

spill them everywhere.

~ Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer