GROUP SUPERVISION FOR SPIRITUAL DIRECTORS (SP-8275)

In this course, students (spiritual directors) will increase their own self-awareness and freedom, which will allow them to create a safer space and to be more fully present with their directees. Through presenting their spiritual direction cases in a peer group, they will notice their initial reactions after a spiritual session, explore and uncover their deeper feelings, and embrace the reasons underneath those feelings with other group members. Students will be given the opportunity to be the directee, and the group will respond contemplatively to whatever the directee chooses to present.

Students will also learn how to read classic Christian books with an inner attentiveness to the movement of God’s Spirit in their outer and inner lives and as spiritual directors. As Henri Nouwen writes about spiritual reading, “With that attentiveness we will allow God to read us and to explain what we are truly about.” This spiritual reading for understanding the writings of mystics in the Christian history of spirituality will shape students’ dispositions and contemplative inner space as they let themselves be read by the Holy Spirit. Course is available for 1.5-3 units. [Fundamentals of Spiritual Direction; Auditors with faculty permission]