Nourished Life Retreat
An opportunity to spend two nights away during the first or final months of school, the NLR provides a place for reflection and refocus as you transition out of one year and into the next.
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Rich in the philosophy of Charlotte Mason and the grace and purposes of Christ, sessions and workshops help you celebrate areas your homeschool is strong, understand where and why aspects aren't working, and give you courage to try or add subjects or habits you've avoided.
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The NLR aims to balance instruction with rest, connection with reflection, grace with courage. Come immerse yourself in the gentle yet robust community of homeschooling CM parents. You'll be pleasantly surprised by how much you receive and how much you're able to bless and encourage others with the experience and wisdom you didn't know was inside you.
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Information and notifications about the NLR are sent out via email​, so if you're not already receiving our updates and newsletters, go to the Contact Page and sign up. All information will also be available on this webpage.
For our next retreat, we will be returning to the beautiful forest, river and facilities in Canby, OR. We are working with the lovely staff at Canby Grove Christian Retreat Center to secure a date for our next NLR. We hope you'll be able to join us for all the fresh air, fresh ideas, and fresh connecting that will be in ample supply. ​​​
This retreat was originally scheduled for May of 2025. We are disappointed to share that the NLR has to be postponed. The Lord has answered our prayers in that Canby Grove staff have been very gracious and helpful in allowing us to cancel the current retreat and are had at work helping us to locate an eligible option for rescheduling. Once we have secured a new date, we will be sure to email out new details and post all the information here. ​​​
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​​While it's possible that the theme, speakers and workshops will need to change for the future retreat, these were the details that were fully planned for the postponed retreat. We share them here in hopes that these thoughts might be encouraging and inspiring to you even now. Feel free to write down the quote from Charlotte Mason and meditate on it as you go about planning your next school year.
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Twice Blessed: A Radiant Education. The title of our retreat was pulled from Charlotte Mason's reference to the Merchant of Venice as a comparison to her educational philosophy, "Like the quality of mercy, it is not strained; certainly it is twice blessed, it blesses [her] that gives and [her] that takes, and a sort of radiancy of look distinguishes both scholar and teacher engaged in this manner of education..." The pattern of the retreat was going to focus on the aspects of a parent in connection with their child as a Teacher, Mentor, Philosopher, Friend. The plan was to go layers deep into the teacher and student's experiences of their education, and what happens to the heart, mind, and relationships of the student and teacher as they follow Charlotte's methods through the schooling years.
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Past Weekend Retreats
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