Join us for a prayer retreat scheduled and planned by our leadership team, or allow us to work with you to create a retreat with your group or team, incorporating the offerings and spiritual practices that are best tailored to the pressing questions, needs, and opportunities before you.

These retreats give space to take a deep breath, slow your thoughts, and simply be with God. You may choose to pray, rest, sing, create art, or just listen. The time is yours to craft with God. Read Scripture or a devotional reading. Engage. Our creativity retreats add the dimension of exploring and playing with art mediums in a prayerful way.

Our retreat offerings include responsive scripture reading, worship, and solo time in prayer. Beyond these elements, retreats can include a blend of or emphasis on any of the following:

Cultivating Presence: Attuning to the Father’s Heart
Center your heart through led prayers, sacred texts, and scriptures with reflective prompts from our spiritual director and life coaches. Then break away to listen, journal, rest, and explore the burning questions and invitations God has set before you.

Outdoor Escape: Awakening Prayer through Time in Nature
Enter into beautiful scenic landscapes for prayer walks and hikes or settle in a quiet or comfortable place for solo prayer time outdoors. Use this space to allow God to take the questions stirring in your heart deeper still.

Co-Creators of Beauty: Activating Prayer through Art
Whether you’re a seasoned artist or someone who simply enjoys exploring new areas of creativity to connect more deeply with God, our art integration prayer retreats will invite you to create prayer collages, art journals, and more.

Does your team or group desire to create a retreat? Please feel free to review the options under the above tab, Prayer Retreats. Your retreat may include any of the options included there or incorporate ideas of your own for exploring prayer and forming a team of leaders that is grounded together in God and refreshed. Let us work with you to create a customized leadership team prayer retreat that best serves your team, season and desires. We recommend a minimum of three hours but a day retreat of about six hours can be beneficial. These retreats may also be blended with our leadership training or team building workshops. See more about our training resources under our Individual and Team Leadership Training tab further down on this page.

“Times of extended retreat give us a chance to come home to ourselves in God’s presence… On retreat we rest in God and wait on him to do what is needed. Eventually we return to the battle
with fresh energy and keener insight.”
Ruth Haley Barton, Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership

Our Blog
Our blog offers reflections and inspiration for the transformative journey, interweaving our everyday experiences and pursuit of spiritual formation, leadership development, life coaching, and community development. Here, we welcome you to dialogue with us. Share the insights you’ve learned, engage with the topics on our blog, and offer new questions and lessons from the roads you’ve traveled.

She Inspires: Leadership Features
We are developng our Unleash page to feature the courageous voices and stories of incredible women in leadership who are cultivating, deepening, and unleashing their influence in the communities they serve.

Are you longing to take your goals and dreams to the next level? To see with fresh eyes where you are and where you want to go? To name and overcome obstacles? To capture creative ways to make your vision and calling a daily reality?

Individual coaching may be a great fit for your professional and personal transformation! Be sure to check out our coaching page for more information about coaching and to view our coaching packages.

Please contact us for more information or a 30 minute complementary coaching consultation:

Sarah Bond – ICF Certified Coach, ACC
Jan Kern – ICF Certified Coach, ACC, Certified Transformational Coach, C-IQ Enhanced Skills Coach

Invite your team to benefit from the coaching process. We offer creative space for your team to hear one another’s goals and dreams for accomplishing your mission together. And we can leverage your team interaction with coaching questions and tools, which can provide new clarity, unity, and redefinition to your shared values.

Let us tailor team coaching to your specific goals, and draw from our life coaching training in emotional and conversational intelligence, strengths coaching, participatory approaches to community development, and the DISC or other complementary assessments.

Or, combine your favorite prayer retreat offerings with team coaching to create a contemplative prayer planning process that can ground you or your team in prayer as you seek God’s vision and strategic next moves for your work and those you are called to serve

Be sure to check out our coaching page for more information about coaching and the Voice of Courage coaches. Also feel free to contact us for more information or to schedule an exploratory conversation to design an event for your team.

Sarah Bond – ICF Certified Coach, ACC
Jan Kern – ICF Certified Coach, ACC, Certified Transformational Coach, C-IQ Enhanced Skills Coach

Spend a day with our leadership team and other leaders in your community, with space provided to learn, discuss, and engage with new ideas and practical tools to transform and inspire your leadership. Our leadership trainings draw from the spiritual formation practices, coaching questions, and leadership tools we share on our blog and other portions of our website.

Topics include but are not limited to:

A Coach Approach to Leadership
Asking powerful questions with a posture and heart that inspires, affirms, joins, and equips your team and constituents for activation and transformation.

Participatory Development
Empowering approaches for community transformation and social justice.

Theology of Your Community
How to assess the strengths and opportunities in your target community or population. What is God’s letter of invitation to you on behalf of those you serve?

Conversational and Emotional Intelligence
Integrating positive psychology and an understanding of neuroscience for more effective leadership.

Your Voice, Your Story, Your Influence
Discovering your voice in your writing, speaking, and leading.

Sign up on our contact page to receive news of upcoming leadership trainings or to schedule a training for your organization or team.

Sarah Bond – ICF Certified Coach, ACC
Jan Kern – ICF Certified Coach, ACC, Certified Transformational Coach, C-IQ Enhanced Skills Coach

Do you gain fresh energy and a renewed sense of direction when you connect with women who share your vision for leadership and transformation?

Join a Cultivate Conversations Meetup in your area and glean from the synergy of new partnerships with women who share your interest in business, leadership, art, or ministry. Exchange best practices, deepen your multigenerational awareness, and construct collaborative and individual strategies for fulfilling your mission as a leader.

The Voice of Courage team integrates tools from group life coaching, conversational intelligence, community development, and spiritual formation that will jumpstart your creativity and enrich your professional network.

Please contact us with questions or interest in a specific focus or location for a future meetups. Examples: discussions of business ethics, team development, creative isolation, non-profit concerns, community intervention strategies, and social justice.

We personally facilitate live meetups in the greater Sacramento area and can support a meetup out of area using Zoom.

Sarah Bond – MA Urban Community Development; ICF Certified Coach, ACC
Jan Kern – ICF Certified Coach, ACC; Certified Transformational Coach; C-IQ Enhanced Skills Coach