In a Circle of Trust ® (and in life) The Touchstones help to create and hold safe spaces where people can risk being themselves. They are reminders of ways of engaging with self and others with generosity, compassion, harmlessness, service, reverence for life and courage.
“Each touchstone alone is an admirable idea. You could devote a day to noticing how it shows up in your life or work; you could meditate on each one for a week or a month. The magic and mystery of this collection of practices come from the chemistry of how they combine to catalyze trust.”
If you would like to spend time exploring each of the touchstones and the quality of presence they can bring to the way you live, work and lead, join Courage & Renewal facilitators Kirsty McGeoch and Noela Maletz for Following the Touchstones Home. This series of reflective online retreats began in 2021, and the following touchstones remain:
#8 Inner teacher: Sunday 31 July, 10am - 1pm AEST
#9 Trust the silence: Sunday 21 August, 10am - 1pm AEST
#10 Observe deep confidentiality: Sunday 18 September, 10am - 1pm AEST
#11 Know that it’s possible: Sunday 30 October, 10am - 1pm AEDT
Each 3-hour retreat will welcome a maximum of 16 participants at a cost of $50 per person per session. It is not necessary to have attended any or all of the previous retreats in the series in order to participate. Similarly, participants are invited to register for any of the upcoming retreats without the requirement of having to attend them all. Registrations are now open for all retreats:
Your facilitators:
Kirsty McGeoch (PhD, MEd, LLB, B.Com) has a few different hats: engaging with schools to embed the 4Cs - creativity, communication, collaboration, critical reflection - in their teaching and leadership practices through her role with 4C Transformative Learning; working at the University of Sydney in pre-service teacher education; and facilitating courses for women leaders in education with the National Excellence in School Leadership Institute. A common thread is her deep interest in reflective practice, which led her to becoming a Courage & Renewal facilitator. In this role, she derives great joy in offering people the safe and welcoming space to tune into their own wisdom for living and leading well, and loves the insights the natural world can bring to this exploration.
Noela Maletz (M Soc Sc BA Dip Ed) is an educator, psychotherapist and visual artist who also loves to write. More than thirty years ago she joined with others to establish a Waldorf School and then a Social Therapy Centre for people with disabilities, in Adelaide, and worked in both of these places. Most of her current work is in private practice, as a psychotherapist, and in growing Courage & Renewal work in South Australia. She is awed by the possibilities and necessities of a life lived as mindfully, wholeheartedly and as kindly as she can manage and is challenged by remembering her many grandchildren’s birthdays.
