Graduate Retreats

Upcoming CIL Graduate Retreat – June 2022

Thursday, June 23rd – Sunday, June 26th 2022 in South Salem, NY  This learning retreat is open to all CIL graduates, and will explore themes crucial to both our personal evolution and our participation in the collective. Personal evolution and that of the collective call out as never before to be interwoven. It becomes more and …

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Call and Response in a Time of Pandemic – June 2021 Open CIL Graduate Retreat

Love is responsibility of an I for a You… in this consists the equality of all lovers – Buber We are in a time of great change: climate change, political turmoil, pandemic, social/racial justice. Joanna Macy calls the cataclysmic changes of our time ‘the Great Unravelling,’ each of which has a multitude of tendrils into our outer …

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CIL Summer Retreat June 25th – June 28th 2020: Journeying the Spaces Between

Journeying the Spaces Between CIL Summer Retreat  For the Traveler John O’Donahue May you travel in an awakened way gathered wisely into your inner ground, That you may not waste the invitationswhich wait along the way to transform you Many of us are journeying in the wilderness spaces between a familiar identity dissolving and a new …

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July 2019 Graduate Retreat – Fostering Peace: Personal and Collective Safety and Care

Graduate Retreat – Open to All Grads July 11th – July 14th 2019 “If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.” Tich Nhat Hanh  To thrive requires human connection, both personal and collective. When we are in trusted connection, we desire to know the other …

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