Campion CIS - Kew VIC

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Contact us

Tel: 613 9854 811 0
Fax: 613 9854 8100

Bernadette Miles, Director
Campion Centre of Ignatian Spirituality
99 Studley Park Road, Kew VIC 3101
Email: campion@cis.jesuit.org.au

Facilities

Campion has 20 single bedrooms with shared bathroom facilities, a conference room to seat 50, meeting rooms, Chapel and dining room where all meals are fully catered. Our gardens and the surrounding Yarra Bend Park give space for contemplation and gentle walking tracks. Our Conference centre is also available for private hire. Live-in retreats include all meals, bed linen and towels.

Campion Team Members

Patricia Chisholm is professionally qualified in nursing, theology and spiritual direction. Her special interests are Ignatian Spirituality, healing prayer and eight-day individually guided retreats. She is married and the mother of five children.

Ian Dillon SJ is an experienced giver of the Spiritual Exercises and has lived and worked in Papua New Guinea and Australia. He has been an industrial chaplain and is currently chaplain at Jesuit Social Services.

John Doenau SJ is on mission in Manila as the Spiritual Director at EAPI.

Margaret Fahey OLSH has experience in education, pastoral ministry and spirituality. She trained in retreat-giving and spiritual direction at Saint Beuno’s in Wales and at the Heart of Life in Melbourne.

Jan Geason RSM was formerly a teacher and social worker, and now returns to spiritual direction after 11 years in leadership in her Mercy Congregation. She trained in spiritual direction at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, California.

Michael Hansen SJ brings together degrees in Arts and Theology with training in the Spiritual Exercises. His creative and artistic energies enhance the development and practice of Ignatian spirituality. Author of several prayer books, the most recent being ‘The Gospels for Prayer.’

Joan Jennings (Assistant Director) Joan is a psychotherapist with a nursing background. She has completed a Master of Arts in Spiritual Direction. She is married with four grown children.

Thomas Lake-Smith SJ trained as a spiritual director at Guelph in Canada, Milford in America & has worked at St. Beuno’s in Wales. His special interests include lay spirituality, giving eight-day retreats & guiding people in many ways of prayer.

Laurence Leonard SJ is the superior of the Jesuit community at Campion. He did his training in retreat-giving and spiritual direction at St. Beuno’s in Wales. His interests include eight-day individually guided retreats and the Spiritual Exercises.

Bernadette Miles (Director) Bernadette trained as spiritual director after 20 years of computer consulting and business management. She has a special interest in bringing Ignatian Spirituality to parishes and young people. Bernie is married with four boys.

Marea Richardson is a registered Guided Imagery and Music Therapist - music-centred Psychotherapy and Accredited Grief and Loss Counsellor (NALAG). Marea works within a Christian perspective supporting people towards greater emotional, spiritual and physical well being with a particular interest in using and adapting GIM for spiritual growth.

Jennifer Sanders RSJ trained in retreat-giving and spiritual direction at St. Beuno’s, North Wales and as a giver of the Spiritual Exercises at Campion, after thirty years experience in education. Her interests include Ignatian Spirituality, individually guided retreats and the Spiritual Exercises.

Peter Saunders is a pastoral psychotherapist who works at Campion. He is interested in bringing together the insights, gifts and practice of Ignatian spirituality and psychotherapy in an approach that values the whole person.

Richard Shortall SJ has experience in both urban and rural parishes as a parish priest. He is currently undertaking graduate studies in Christian Spirituality at Creighton University, Omaha.

Outreach Team Members

Frank Burke, Joan Cartlidge FCJ, Margaret Fahey OLSH, Beverley Kuster, Anne Priestley RSM, Jacinta Rice CSB.