summer intensive

June 29-30th, 2024

10a-4p EST | 2p-8p UTC

Brooklyn, NY

About The Retreat

 

At Courage we focus on building communities and cultures of compassionate, truth-telling, healing-centered, visionary and transformative practice. We believe that by building caring and courageous cultures of practice, we strengthen the relational tissue of our movements for liberation and justice. 

Our annual summer intensive offers participants an intimate, restorative dive into our movement-based model for building cultures of practice, which we call CourageRISE. 

We hope you will join us.

Who This Training is For

This two-day intensive “reset” is designed for all working for justice and liberation looking for a chance to restore, reset and re-imagine new ways forward. 

The program meets in person on Saturday and Sunday, June 29th and 30th, 2024 in Brooklyn, NY. 

Stay tuned for online conversations and workshops leading up to the retreat!

All are welcome. 

What You'll Learn

Our annual intensive is designed to help you:

    • deepen your capacity for belonging and compassion;
    • develop a stronger anti-oppressive lens;
    • rest and restore;
    • reclaim your creative and visionary capacities; and
    • work for and on behalf of all.

What to Expect

We gather in community and work to build a culture of practice rooted in Courage’s movement-based method, CourageRISE. Through contemplative and somatic practice, reflection, story, movement and art, we’ll learn tools and practices to help resource us in our lives, our relationships and our work.

What Folks Say

the Fellowships

We are committed to building multi-generational communities.

We are excited to offer a  summer fellowship emerging leaders (ages 18-25), and a wisdom circle fellowship for wise elders. 

Fellowship recipients will attend our 8th Annual Summer Intensive as honored guests.

Interested fellows must be able to attend the full, two-day program.

What it Costs

We offer a sliding scale registration fee for our courses and workshops in service of economic justice. See above for more information about our Emerging Leaders and Elders Wisdom Circle Fellows!

We understand that access to resources is a result of institutionalized white supremacy, capitalism and colonization. A sliding scale fee structure allows white folks and others who have systematically benefited from these unjust and inequitable systems to practice reparations within our community by acknowledging Black, Indigenous and People of Color for their generations of stolen land and resources.

We also know that privilege is intersectional and that not all white folks have access to generational wealth or class privilege. We ask that you take your privilege and access to resources into account when determining your registration fee. 

Sponsor: $500

We ask white folks and those with class privilege and access to financial resources to consider paying our sponsor fee. These registrations help us make our sliding scale and reduced options possible and sustainable. Thank you in advance for your generosity! (And if you have the means to support others’ tuition, please consider making a tax-deductible donation below.)

 

Sustainer: $400 ($350 by May 1st)

We ask white folks and those with class privilege (eg raised in middle-upper class homes and/or making over $62,000 per year), access to financial resources and/or access to organizational professional development funds to please consider paying the full course fee. 

Scholarship Rate: $300 ($250 by May 1st)

We invite those with less class privilege (eg making less than $62,000 per year and/or raised in working class homes) or with limited financial resources or recent financial hardships to consider paying our scholarship fee. This reduced rate is offset by folks paying our sponsor fee. 

BIPOC Rate: $200 ($150 by May 1st)

We invite BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) folks to register at this rate. 

Tuition Relief Available

Should you have need more support, please do not hesitate to ask! We do believe it is important for everyone to contribute to our community, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. 

Support Our Community

Our participants understand that building better communities takes an investment of time and money. We make our trainings as affordable as possible. We offer a sliding scale for this retreat and all other Courage trainings in service of economic and racial justice.

We have never turned anyone away for lack of funds. We offer scholarships, work exchanges and help fundraising. Yet to keep our work going, we rely on donations from our community. 

We are excited to ask you to be part of this community offering practice. We are especially committed to making healing spaces accessible to BIPOC and working class folks at little to no cost. This means we need to raise funds to support tuition and scholarships.

Please join us in practicing reparations in action!

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March

save the date announcement!

April

priority registration deadline

May

early bird registration by may 8

June

program launches!


Meet the Team

This year’s program will be led by Brooke Lavelle and Maha El-Sheikh!

The Summer Intensive serves as a pre-requisite for our Relational Facilitators Program. If you’ve already taken a program with Courage, this requirement does not apply.

Registration

The program meets in person on June 29th and 30th, 2024. 

Register by May 8th to receive our early bird discount! Registration closes Friday, June 16th.

Due to the nature of the program, we are not able to process refunds. In the case of a family or personal health emergency, we are able to credit your tuition to another Courage event within one year from registration.

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Talk With Us

Curious if this program is a fit for you? 

Please join our open house on May 5th to learn more! Sign up for our newsletter and follow us on social media for the latest updates and news about other opportunities to connect with our team.

Our team is also available to answer your questions. Feel free to be in touch!