Nourished Life Retreat
An opportunity to spend up to two nights away, the NLR provides a place for reflection and refocus as you wrestle through your school year.
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.
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.
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.
November 6-8th, 2026!!!
We will be returning to the beautiful forest, river and facilities in Canby, OR. Options for staying both nights, one night, or commuting in are available on our registration page. 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.
Mosaic: A thousand precious stones
This theme was built around the understanding that it is not one action, choice or habit that forms the education we intend to lay out for our family. An education is always a multi-faceted picture, requiring us to work with deliberation while trusting the process. The best assurance, and what gives the joy and hope in the process, is the discrete hand of the Holy Spirit who carefully shapes, colors, and places each element that we clumsily prepare. In the process and reflecting back, we find opportunity to stand in awe and rejoice that our Lord is the Master Artist and is building a mosaic of His choosing. May our participation in this process be a blessing for us, our family, and our Maker. Join us at the NLR Weekend where we will hold up many of these elements that go into our family's education, in order that we can inspect, understand, and find precious these stones of the educational life we are helping build.
Speakers, schedule, lodging and attendance details are all on the Retreat page. Head over there for all the lovely details.
You should know...
Our CMNW Team and the Retreat Planning Committee are both volunteer groups. Not a single person makes any money on the experiences and materials we provide. In fact, we each give hundreds of hours of our time, and many of us have given a lot of money, in order to offer these teachings and writings to our CMNW community. We give this time and money because we care so much about home education and the families who are bravely seeking to provide their children with a better life, education, and spiritual foundation, than are available in the public schools.
Please join us and help us by simply reading and sharing the purposeful material that we create. By contributing and adding your own voice to the affirming and uplifting community. And by showing up at events so that your warmth, experiences, hard-fought choices, and creative mind can be in this web of amazing Charlotte Mason educators.
Past Weekend Retreats
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