Spiritual Direction Training – Canada
Schedule
Spiritual Direction Training - Canada
Two residencies each year
1st Residency Curriculum
October 20 – October 27, 2010
- The Spiritual Autobiography
- Spiritual Direction as a Helping Relationship
- The Verbatim Tool and Theological Reflection
- The Labyrinth as a tool in Spiritual Direction
- The Application of Jungian Psychology in Spiritual Direction
- Introduction to Dream Work in Spiritual Direction
- Methods of Christian Contemplative Praying
2nd Residency Curriculum
May 18– 25, 2011
- Spiritual Direction Case Studies
- Group Spiritual Direction
- One-to-One and Peer Group Supervision
- The Art of Spiritual Direction
- Spiritual Direction in the Second Half of Life
- Spiritual Direction in the Carmelite Tradition
- Spiritual Direction in the Ignatian Tradition
- The Practice of Discernment in Spiritual Direction
- The Use of Personality Typology Theory in Spiritual Direction
- The Feminine Faces of God
- Dealing with Transference/Counter-transference in Spiritual Direction
3rd Residency Curriculum
October 19 – 26, 2011
- Spiritual Direction Case Studies
- Prayer and Spiritual Direction direction with Sacred Scripture
- The Abiding Image: Poetic Expression in Spiritual Guidance
- The Spiral of Transformation
- Encountering Shadow and Complex in Spiritual Direction
- Teresa of Avila and the Kataphatic Way
- John of the Cross and the Apophatic Way
- Survey of Non-Christian traditions: Buddhism, Hinduism, Sufism, etc.
- Body Prayer and Yoga
4th Residency Curriculum
May 9 – 16, 2012
- Spiritual Direction Case Studies
- Spiritual Direction with the Dying and Survivors
- Celtic Spirituality
- Anamcara: the Soul Friend Model in Spiritual Direction
- Crafting Poetry as a Mode of Prayer
- How to Develop a Spiritual Direction Practice
- Dreams: Aid to Healing and Discernment
- Thomas Merton: Contemporary Icon of Individuation and Wholeness
- Native American Spirituality
- The Enneagram as a tool in Spiritual Direction