Spiritual Direction Training – Canada
Schedule
Spiritual Direction Training - Canada
Two residencies each year
1st Residency Curriculum
October 25 – November 1, 2006
- The Spiritual Autobiography
- Foundations I – Spiritual Direction as a Helping Relationship
- Foundations II – The Verbatim Tool and Theological Reflection
- The Labyrinth Walking Meditation as a tool in Spiritual Direction
- Introduction to Spiritual Direction in the Ignatian Tradition
- The Application of Jungian Psychology in Spiritual Direction
- Spiritual Direction with the Chronically Ill
- Introduction to Dream Work in Spiritual Direction
- Methods of Christian Contemplative Praying
2nd Residency Curriculum
May 23 – 30, 2007
- Spiritual Direction Case Studies
- Group Spiritual Direction
- One-to-One and Peer Group Supervision
- The Abiding Image: Poetic Expression in Spiritual Guidance
- Spiritual Guidance in the Carmelite Tradition
- Truth Telling and the Desert Experience
- The Practice of Discernment in Spiritual Direction
- The Use of Personality Typology Theory in Spiritual Direction
- Dealing with Transference/counter-transference in Spiritual Direction
- Identifying the feminine with the Divine Image and Likeness
3rd Residency Curriculum
October 24 – 31, 2007
- Spiritual Direction Case Studies
- Prayer and direction with Sacred Scripture
- Spiritual Growth: Crafting Poetry as a Mode of Prayer
- The Spiral of Transformation
- Encountering Shadow and Complex in Spiritual Direction
- The Interior Journey: Jung, Teresa of Avila and the Kataphatic Way
- John of the Cross and the Apophatic Way
- Survey of Non-Christian traditions: Buddhism, Hinduism, Sufism, etc.
4th Residency Curriculum
May 14 – 21, 2008
- Spiritual Direction Case Studies
- Spiritual Direction with the Dying and Survivors
- The Spiritual Guide in the Eastern Christian Tradition
- Celtic Spirituality
- Anamcara: the Soul Friend Model in Spiritual Direction
- How to Develop a Spiritual Direction Practice
- Dreams: Aid to Healing and Discernment
- Thomas Merton: Contemporary Icon of Individuation and Wholeness
- Native American Spirituality and the Sweat Lodge Experience
- The Enneagram as a tool in Spiritual Direction