Offerings

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Workshops:

Parenting with courage, humility and love.

Designing Learning Environments that illuminate humanity.

Building Leadership & Community Circles that nurtures

growth, supports change, inspires solutions, transforms lives.

Retreats...

Offerings...

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Do Not Miss this Extraordinary Event - One that will bring hope, inspiration, and community to these challenging times.

March 23 -27, 2025 Searhing for Truth-Tellers in Sacred and Storied Places. Historic Savannah, Georgia. This is a very speacial retreat that brings together truth-telling, history, and healing as ways to open perspective and pathways that support us in challenging times. I am honored to be joined in this retreat by Gullah Geechee Master Truth-Teller and Historian, Sistah Patt Gunn, and by Dave Ellis, an internationally recognized expert in the fields of generational trauma, ACES, and healing. Do not miss out on this extraordinary opportunity that includes performances by the local group the Saltwata Players, guided visits to historic sites, delicious meals, accomodations in a historic building which is now Hotel Indigo, and time in community to debrief our feelings and experiences throughout the retreat. For additional information and registration click on the link below!

https://couragerenewal.org/programs/searching-for-truth-tellers-in-sacred-and-storied-places/

What We Offer...

Workshops:

We schedule workshops open to everyone, as well as design workshops that respond to the interests and needs of organizations and communities.

An example of our Workshop Themes:

Designing Learning Environments that illuminate humanity and create a foundation for health and success. How do we define "Learning Environment"? We are persuaded that every "environment" provides a space for learning" - this includes our home, work, places of worship, community, and school environments.
What's Your Story? An invitation to knowing your organization and/or community by understanding who is in the room, what is each individual's lived experience, and how together you support your mission and vision, creating a more honest, open, and caring environment that will support successful outcomes and well-being.

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Professional Development Coaching:

We focus on Human Awareness Coaching, building skills necessary for living in alignment with one's values - integrating mindfulness practice into the ways we communicate, think, and act.
We believe that at the core of our potential and an organization's potential is relationship. The relationship we have with ourselves and others'. If our core relationships are not positive and healthy, we cannot expect to sustain positive outcomes.
Relationship is foundational to the Learning Environments and Communities we establish for ourselves and others.

Leadership, Dialogue, and Benevolent Community Circle Facilitation:

New Initiatives: The Benevolent Community Initiative is rroted in the meainng of the word "bene" - wishing another well" and grounded in the cornertone value of benevolence which we see as deeply connected to integrity. The health of one's integrity, combined with a moral compass, nourishes the soul and spirit. It provides the foundation for a life of purpose, meaning, and connection. This initiative represents an intentional "Way of Being" that fosters relational trust and uplifts values such as kindness, empathy, compassion, generosity, and honesty. It does so through the sharing of personal stories, learning from lived experiences, and embracing the lessons of history as pathways toward individual and collective healing. Central to this approach is the commitment to holding space for one another with are and respect. A key principle of the Benevolent Community Initiative is the understanding that Eldership is not defined by age, but by wisdom, integrity and the ability to model a positive and resonate form of leadership. Elders hold values that illuminate our shared humanity and inspire others to build communities grounded in trust, mutual respect and benevolence. Through these practices we aim to create communities where relational trust flouishes, empathy deepens, and healing becomes possible - not only for individuals, but for the collective. By holding space for one another, space where we equally hold another's dignity, learning from the past, and embracing the power of shared stories, we can build a benevolent community that reflects the best of what it means to be human.
Our Workshops, Circles, Dialogues, and Retreats are Open to ALL who believe that we can cultivate communities rooted in compassion, nurtured by diversity and shared humanity, educated by history and lived-experiences - Communities that believe that by listening to each other and working together we can resolve the issues that divide us, and solve the problems of today and tomorrow that most concern us. Open to ALL who believe that together we have the heart, imagination, and talent to create a healthier future for all of our communities.

(See pages for Benevolent Community of

Delaware and Benevolent Community of

Savannah for more details)

We Need To Talk: Building Leadership & Community Circles that practice human awareness, nurtures growth, supports change, inspires solutions, and transforms lives through honest and respectful dialogue.

Strategic Planning for Social-Profits - Taking a Relationship based approach to supporting the building of organizations who focus on creating better communities.

Retreats:

We will custom design a retreat to respond to your organization's needs.

And...

You are invited to join us for one or more of our current offerings. We facilitate retreats for Create Safe Space Inc. Lori is an independent, professional Facilitator, prepared by the Center for Courage & Renewal, using the Circle of Trust Approach®, Founded by Parker J. Palmer.

To receive an application for a retreat offering please send us an email: director@createsafespace.org, indicate the Retreat you are interested in and we will email you the forms and any additional information.

Scheduled Retreats with a focus on Social and Racial Justice and Benevolent Community:

Continuing: Benevolent Community, 2021-2022 Cohort 1

This Group began meeting in June 2021 during the Covid pandemic, and through deep dialogue and story-sharing we forged a path to building benevolent community that met in Retreat in June 2022. We are a group who live in different places throughout the United States. Together we are now writing a book on our experience that speaks to the value of benevolent community and providing a framework for others to create and nurture Benevolent Communities of their own. We continue to meet on-line the fourth Thursday of every month

https://couragerenewal.org/programs/searching-for-truth-tellers-in-sacred-and-storied-places/

May 16-18, 2025 Delaware Benevolent Community Weekend Circle of Trust Retreat The Virden Retreat Center, Lewes, DE

This retreat is for those in Delaware who are/or have been participating in Benevolent Community Circles, and/or were participants in the Delaware Benevolent Community Summit. Retreat will begin at 5:00 pm on Friday and conclude on Sunday at noon. Retreat Tuition includes accomodations, meals (beginning with Friday Dinner, Saturday B,L,D, Sunday Breakfast), dedicated meeting space, and retreat materials. $820

This Retreat will be co-facilitated by Lori Yadin and Natasha Warsaw, both independent Courage & Renewal Facilitators prepared by Parker J. Palmer and the Center's Leadership Team.

Additional information will be added soon.

June 15, 2024 - Savannah, GA Benevolent Community On-Line Circle Day - Courage In Community (via zoom) Circle Day Experience, providing an opportunity to consider the value of community and its connection to sustaining humanity and democracy. We will begin at 1:00 and conclude at 4:00 pm. Fee: $40

August 10-14, 2025 Montgomery and Selma, Alabama

Searching for the Soul of Social Justice in Sacred and Storied Places, Sunday afternoon - Thursday noon Healing and Justice Retreat, Registration will open soon

August 22-24, 2025 Exploring The Gifts of Benevolent Community, Savannah, Georgia - Venue to be announced

Using the wisdom found in Parker J. Palmer's Books: Healing The Heart of Democracy and On The Brink of Everything, this weekend retreat will challenge us to think about legacy as a responsibility we hold in building benevolent communities and caring for future generations. This weekend retreat is great companion to the Benevolent Community Courage In Community Circle Day Experience, providing an opportunity to consider the value of community and its connection to sustaining democracy. This Retreat will begin on Friday, August 22 at 5:00 pm and conclude on Sunday, August 24 at 12:00 noon. Details and Registration Information will be posted soon.

September 2025

How To Talk About Race, A Four-part Dialogue Series via ZOOM,

7:00 - 8:30 p.m. Workshop Fee $180

October 2025 - dates announched soon - Timeless Truths: Prophetic Messages for Contemporary Challenges. A Circle of Trust Retreat

Scheduled Women's Retreats:

November 2025

Harvesting Life: Soul-Work for every age and stage of life. A Courage & Renewal Women's Day Retreat, beginning Sunday at 10 am and concluding Sunday at four. Savannah, Georgia, Venue and Fees to be posted soon. For information please contact Lori - director@createsafespace.org.

January 2026 C.L.A.S.P - Benevolent Community Women's Network will launch

Scheduled Retreats for Personal and Professional Development:

September 2025 - dates will be announced soon

How To Talk About Race, A Four-part Dialogue Series via ZOOM,

7:00 - 8:30 p.m. Workshop Fee $250

November 2025 Savannah, Georgia - Venue to be announced

Sanctuary - Designing Benevolent Community Day Retreat