Meet our Facilitators
The Center for Courage & Renewal has a growing network of more than 270 active facilitators throughout the United States, Australasia, Canada, Latin America, the United Kingdom & Republic of Ireland, and Spain. Each facilitator is carefully prepared using the Circle of Trust® approach, which they carry forward into their communities by offering retreats, consultation and professional development programs.
Anne Courtney
Anne has been creating self-reflective spaces for over 20 years. She supports and coaches individuals to listen deeply to themselves and navigate a life-giving way forward in self-integrity. She has been training people to become coaches for 17 years, mainly using an ontological approach (the study of 'being'). A retreat facilitator for more than 10 years, she creates safe communal spaces for people to intentionally take time out of their everyday lives using the C&R Circle of Trust approach. She has over 25 years of experience in the community sector as a manager, social worker and youth worker, and is also now a celebrant who creates meaningful ceremonies that mark significant milestones and transitions.
[email protected] 0478 221 026 Linda Berlach
Linda is completing the Courage and Renewal Facilitator Preparation Program. She currently works as a medical educator & coordinates the first year Personal and Professional Development Program at Fremantle Notre Dame School of Medicine. Linda brings to this work her career experience in Occupational Therapy, pastoral care, chaplaincy, community building & spiritual formation. Wellbeing practices and inner work are a passion. She loves growing things, animals, yoga, dance and the thrill of year round daily ocean swims.
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Michael Prince
Michael has over 30 years of experience working with leaders in Australia, and Asia-Pacific as a manager, consultant, leadership coach, writer and poet, working with a wide range of sectors, with a particular passion for working in developing countries and in nurturing new ways to lead and engage in government and across the political system in Australia and beyond.
michael@aashaconsulting.com.au 0407 275 977 Verity Byth
Verity is completing the Courage and Renewal Facilitator Preparation Program. She is an experienced coach of leadership teams who want to make change work for their organisations and communities. She has worked across Australia and around the world, bringing innovative ways of working to IT, product, strategy and HR teams. She is a researcher and author as well as a textile artist.
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Sharon Cooke
Sharon works in the space of individual/family coaching, group facilitation and reflective supervision. FamilyWorks is a practice founded on a relationship-focussed approach to supporting families, and those working with families, during the early years while the attachment relationship is in formation. Sharon draws on Circle of Trust principles, particularly her capacity to wonder, when facilitating Mother-Baby Nurture a government funded reflective group for parents struggling to care and connect with their new baby.
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Anne, Michael, and Sharon are Facilitators who have been prepared by the Centre for Courage and Renewal.
Meet our Community of Practice
The purpose of the C&R WA Community of Practice is to steward, nurture and grow the C&R community and work in Western Australia.
- Nurture a collaborative C&R community in WA that grows and learns together.
- Grow and extend the credibility and profile of C&R work, principles and practices in workplaces and communities (Marketing & PR).
- Develop and maintain the flow of resources required (financial, in kind and volunteer) to enable this community and work to thrive.
- Uphold the integrity of C&R principles and practices in everything we do while developing a distinctively Australian flavour.
- Develop and maintain an appropriate annual calendar of public events that enables the community and work to thrive and grow.
- Regularly identify the strategic priority areas that need attention to develop the community and work and ensure the required action is taken and resourced.
- Ensure and maintain useful, collaborative relationships with the Australasian C&R Steering Group/Community and the Centre of Courage & Renewal in the USA.