Spiritual Direction Supervision in the Ignatian Tradition

This program provides supervision for practicing spiritual directors who have received coursework or training in spiritual direction but desire a supervised practicum experience.

This small group will meet once per month on Thursdays, 1:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m. through May 2011. (Limited to five participants).

 

Carol Rivers Mullikin is a Recorded Quaker minister and has been a spiritual director for many years. She has worked extensively with the Spiritual Exercises with both groups and individuals.

Carol is an Adjunct Faculty Member at Friends University’s Masters in Christian Ministry Program where she teaches Spiritual Formation. She is a member of Spiritual Directors International.

The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola

Orientation Retreat

The “Retreat In Everyday Life” is for those who want to deepen their prayer lives, feel more connected to God and share their spiritual lives with fellow pilgrims on the way. The Spiritual Exercises are a method for developing a daily prayer practice and learning about one’s interior spiritual movements. Using scripture and other materials, this small group experience meets on Tuesdays (both afternoon and evening groups) approximately twice a month through May 2011. all materials are provided.

Carol Rivers Mullikin is a Recorded Quaker minister and has been a spiritual director for many years. She has worked extensively with the Spiritual Exercises with both groups and individuals.

Carol is an Adjunct Faculty Member at Friends University’s Masters in Christian Ministry Program where she teaches Spiritual Formation. She is a member of Spiritual Directors International.

Adult Faith Formation and the Aging Process

Dr. Richard Johnson is nationally recognized for his pioneering work in Spiritual Gerontology and Maturing Adult Faith Formation.

He is a teacher and a writer and has written many articles and books focused on God’s expansive grace in the maturing years.

Shaking the Dust Off Your Sandals:  How to Best Minister to the five ‘Chronic Problem’ Personalities.

There are five ‘chronic problem’ or difficult personalities that elders can lapse into—depressed, anxious, dependent, delusional and angry.  Even though only 15-20 % of all elders may adopt any of these five personalities, they can give you 95% of the problems that you encounter.  Dr. Johnson will help you learn how to assist these difficult personalities without forfeiting or compromising yourself.

Participants will ...

1. Learn the names and descriptions of the five "chronic problem" personalities that are common among older persons.
2. Learn how to identify the symptoms of each of the five "chronic problem" personalities of the later years.
3. Learn several management/treatment modalities that allow caregivers of whatever sort to better deal with the five "chronic problem" personalities of the later years.

The Spiritual Strengths Finder (SSF) a new Spiritual Direction Tool that Brings Your Directees Beyond the Enneagram

Designed primarily for ministers, clergy, chaplains, spiritual directors, pastoral care personnel and others ministering to elders.

The (SSF) is the most illuminating spiritual development instrument available.  The interplay between and among your spiritual strengths, your shadows and your compulsions determines the degree you will experience God as you walk your own life journey and assist others on their path.

Participants will learn ...

1. The rationale and construction of the SSF, the Spiritual Strengths Finder.

2. The essential features of the SSF, and its varied use in the process of spiritual direction and pastoral counseling.

3. How to interpret the SSF for spiritual growth, weight management, as a healing supplement.

Finding New Light:  The Ten Spiritual Tasks of the Illumination Years, 65 and Beyond

Designed for members of religious congregations and caregivers.

The illumination stage begins in the mid 60’s and extends well into the 70’s, 80’s and beyond.  It is a gradual shift away from functional, ministerial/work roles to new and exciting heights of heart, mind and soul.  Dr. Johnson invites us to live and enjoy this stage of life to our fullest capacity.

 

"Who Do You Say That I Am?" - Mark 8:29

This day, especially designed for clergy, ministers, spiritual directors, chaplains, etc., will explore the question of who Jesus is in our own lives and how, through the gift of imagination, we can deepen our relationship with God. The day will include a talk on the question as it is found in Mark’s Gospel, along with guided prayer, reflection and faith sharing.

 

Marie Schwan, a Sister of St. Joseph, is currently in ministry in the Diocese of Rapid City, SD. She works with the Jesuits who direct the Commissioned Lay Ministry Program and the Sioux Spiritual Center. Marie is available for spiritual direction and retreats and helps facilitate the Lay Ministry program. She has a background in teaching and administration, as well as initial formation in her congregation.

For a number of years, Marie directed the Office of Adult Education, Evangelization and Ecumenism in the Diocese of Crookston, MN. She has co-authored the Take and Receive series on scripture prayer based on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius and spent 14 years as associate director at the Jesuit Retreat House in Oshkosh, WI.

Living Centered in an Uncentered World

Day of Prayer

Drawing on Scripture and experience, this prayer experience will focus on how to walk with integrity in the chaos that is the experience of so many of us. The talks will offer insights and ways of praying that will lead to a life lived from the deepest center of our being and help us to relate to others, center-to-center. Guided reflection will help each participant identify what draws her/him off center and how God is inviting us to be a center of healing in our families, our communities and our world. Anyone desiring a deeper spiritual life will find this day helpful.

Marie Schwan, a Sister of St. Joseph, is currently in ministry in the Diocese of Rapid City, SD. She works with the Jesuits who direct the Commissioned Lay Ministry Program and the Sioux Spiritual Center. Marie is available for spiritual direction and retreats and helps facilitate the Lay Ministry program. She has a background in teaching and administration, as well as initial formation in her congregation.

For a number of years, Marie directed the Office of Adult Education, Evangelization and Ecumenism in the Diocese of Crookston, MN. She has co-authored the Take and Receive series on scripture prayer based on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius and spent 14 years as associate director at the Jesuit Retreat House in Oshkosh, WI.

A God-Centered Approach to the Enneagram

Good—Loving—Effective—Original — Wise — Loyal —Joyful —Powerful — Peaceful

The Enneagram proposes that all human personalities fit into nine  types.  Each personality is recognizable by its core essence, a genuine ideal or authentic value.  All of these ideals or values are parts of God’s wholeness.  Jesus Christ, while on earth, exemplified from his very core, all nine of these values. Through Bible accounts of Jesus we glimpse God's intended wholeness for human kind.  Christians put their faith and hope in the potential of becoming like Christ who, through the Holy Spirit, continues to emanate these values.  The Enneagram typology is a helpful tool to assist us to love ourselves and see our need for and our connectedness to others.

Anne C. Regier grew up in Evanston, Illinois. In 1966 she received a BA degree with a double major in art and literature from Colorado Woman’s College in Denver, Colorado.  For ten years she was a member of  Reba Place Fellowship, a Mennonite, and Church of the Bretheren intentional community in Evanston.  While there in 1978 she received a nursing diploma from St Francis Hospital School of Nursing in Evanston.

As an Rn,  Anne worked in home health and as a hospice nurse in Chicago’s North Shore suburbs. After a move to Kansas in 1981,  she worked in long term care at Bethel Home for Aged, Newton, started the first Skilled Nursing unit at Bethel Deaconess Hospital, Newton and for 12 years held different Rn positions at Prairie View Hospital, Newton. Within a short time of one another, Anne’s husband, mother and father all died.  Circumstances around these losses led Anne to take a career break. God opened the way back to her home church in Evanston for a time of healing.  Here she began a masters program at the Institute of Pastoral Studies, Loyola University, Chicago.  In the Spring of ’06  Anne received her MA in Pastoral Studies, MAPS.  Her master’s thesis was, The Excavation of Soul. While at Loyola, she also received certification in The Enneagram Spectrum Training Program.

After graduation, Anne was drawn back to Kansas to be near her son and grandchildren.  She currently lives in Newton and is a member of New Creation Fellowship Mennonite Church.  Since her return,  Anne has offered a series on the Enneagram at her church.

Moral and Ethical Challenges of Federal Decision making

The moral and ethical choices that arise in the workplace can be challenging. This presentation will explore actual moral and ethical choices made in federal policymaking and administration and how the choices were made. It will invite participants to examine the ramifications and complications of these decisions and whether they seem to uphold moral and ethical values.

 

Janet S. Potts received her Law Degree from the Santa Clara University School of Law in Santa Clara, California.  She is a member of the Bar in both California and the District of Columbia.  She has extensive experience in both the Congress and agencies of the Federal Government.  In the House of Representatives she was the Chief Counsel of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations and Counsel to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.  In the Executive Branch, she was the Senior Counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice Attorney General for Antitrust and the Counsel to Secretary Dan Glickman at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. 

Janet currently is a consultant on federal government affairs and makes presentations for the Government Affairs Institute at Georgetown University.

The Gospel of To Kill A Mockingbird

This year To Kill a Mockingbird is celebrating its 50th Anniversary. Harper Lee’s evocative and compelling novel is narrated through the eyes of a young southern girl, Scout Finch. Reflecting on her memories of Atticus, her father, brother, Jem, and next door neighbor, Dill, we are presented with many powerful images. Racial injustice, the fabric of community-life, familial love, the role of “remembering,” suffering and redemption are just a few. Through informal discussion we will explore the characters, values, symbolism and redemptive acts that make this an American classic. This discussion group will include questions to ponder, sharing and viewing video clips of key scenes.

Carol Rivers Mullikin is a Recorded Quaker minister and has been a spiritual director for many years. She has worked extensively with the Spiritual Exercises with both groups and individuals.

Carol is an Adjunct Faculty Member at Friends University’s Masters in Christian Ministry Program where she teaches Spiritual Formation. She is a member of Spiritual Directors International.

Respect for Human Life: Confronting a Culture of Violence

This workshop will focus on the destructive nature of aggression in the home and the nature and forms of domestic violence—verbal, sexual, physical and economical.

 

Father Dahm is a Dominican priest of the province of St. Albert the Great.  He is currently the coordinator of Peace and Justice for the Dominicans in North America and associate pastor of St. Pius V parish in Chicago where he recently concluded 21 years as pastor.  While pastor at St. Pius V, a large Hispanic parish, he developed the largest parish-based domestic violence program in the US and he is the cofounder of the Chicago Archdiocesan Committee on Domestic Violence.  

He is the author of two books:  Power and Authority in the Catholic Church, and Parish Ministry in a Hispanic Community.

Day of Prayer - Becoming Grateful in all Things: No Exceptions!

This offering is an opportunity to explore in the heart the practice of gratitude in your own life.  How might you become more fully formed in gratitude as an instrument of inner transformation?  How might we replace anger, perceptions of scarcity, being a victim, comparisons, and competition with an attitude of loving gratitude?  How might we be graced to see the blessings in all situations and relationships and extend this healing to the broken world? 

This retreat will include a contemplative rhythm of worship, input and personal reflection.

Kathryn Damiano is a Quaker and life long contemplative. As a teacher of in-depth spiritual life studies and retreat leader, she sees her ministry as working for peace and justice through spiritual formation.

Kathryn has been a spiritual director for 25 years.

 

The True Self and the False Self

The term, "false self," has been used in recent years by many spiritual writers to describe the system of consciousness we all develop as a reaction to growing up in a world of conditional love.  It is a mask we wear (often without even knowing that we do so) and its roots stretch deep into the unconscious.  Sustained by a variety of attachments and addictions, the false self system is our primary obstacle to experiencing God and becoming the person we were created to be.  Like the wheat that grows with the weeds in Jesus' parable, the expression of our true self is often distorted by our false self conditioning.  In this workshop, we will, in light-hearted manner, unmask the false self system by examining its attributes and characteristics.  The more we see it for what it is, the less we become identified with its operations, enabling us to realize more deeply the mysterious true self that we already are. 

As part of this workshop, we will review the meaning of terms like God, soul, spirit, self, ego, and others that are often used in a variety of ways.

Philip St. Romain, M.S., D. Min., is the author of 20 books on theology, prayer and Christian spirituality.  Currently, he serves as a spiritual director and retreat director at Heartland Center for Spirituality in Great Bend, KS.  

His Doctor of Ministry project in 1995 was entitled, God, Self and Ego: Discerning "Who's-who" on the Spiritual Journey.  It is published by Lulu press.

Find out more by visiting www.philstromain.com.