Program Topics

• Introduction to spiritual direction
• Theology, scripture, history of spiritual direction
• Arc of a spiritual direction session
• Listening with the heart
• Skills: deep listening to help the story emerge
• Before spiritual direction begins: the initial session conversation
• Discernment
• Common issues in spiritual direction
• Suffering
• Spiritual direction in your own skin
• Ethical considerations in spiritual direction
• Sexuality and spiritual direction
• Where am I now and where to from here
• Supporting your practice of spiritual direction
• Supervision
• Peer supervision