This workshop for spiritual directors and supervisors explores the role of spiritual direction and prayer in healing trauma. Psychological and physical trauma and abuse deeply affect our ability to be our authentic selves. Prayer and spiritual direction can be powerful ways to help heal our trauma and to experience being fully alive in God. ($960 live out)

God is Love - Love is the Greatest Healer!

A compassionate, caring presence to another fosters physical cures, psychological healing, and spiritual well-being. In this evening workshop we will reflect upon the ways that human and divine love heals body, mind and spirit; experience healing meditations grounded in unconditional love; and explore concrete ways to foster abundant love in your life. ($30 live out)

Surrender Leads to Freedom: Addiction, Co-Dependency and Spiritual Direction

We are all affected by addictive, co-dependent tendencies in our families, work-places, society, and within ourselves, and need greater education and deeper inner healing to be the free, wonderful people we are meant to be! This one-day workshop explores the experience of addiction and co-dependency, recovery from these core wounds, and the role of personal prayer and spiritual direction to address the woundedness, unfreedom, and powerlessness in our lives. ($95 live out)

Apostolic Dreaming Group

What the church most needs at this time are entrepreneurs - people who will risk starting new ventures in ministry, and outreach in new contexts and, in the process, provide new dynamism to the church. Would you like to be part of a group that explores emerging apostolic potential? This group will meet monthly 7.00 pm to 9.00 pm for prayer and conversation. You are invited to come to one or all of the sessions. ($30 per session)

Individual Apostolic Dreaming

Would you like to be supported in bringing your apostolic dream into reality? In these one-on-one sessions we offer you a co-discerner to explore your hopes, potential, resources, skills and help you to navigate the terrain in which your dream is being birthed or renewed. The process will be a combination of spiritual direction, mentoring role and ministry supervision. ($80 per one hour session)

My Experience of the Spiritual Exercises

After making the Spiritual Exercises it is helpful to reflect prayerfully on your experience of the journey. The objective of this week/monthly Saturdays of reflection and sharing is to help you recognise, appropriate, and name more accurately your unique experiences during the
46 Exercises. ($790 live out)

Relational Psychodynamics

This seminar looks at the process of self-awareness, self-exploration and self-understanding. Participants receive a theoretical framework which will give them greater understanding of their own psychodynamics and will enlighten their experience. Two one-weekly intensives or 15 Thusday mornings 10.00 am to 12.30 pm. ($960 live out)

Ignatian Spirituality Seminar and Retreat

This seminar introduces the spirituality of St Ignatius which develops an intimate relationship with Jesus lived in daily life. It can be credited towards the Bachelor of Theology and involves participation in two weekend seminars and a seven week ‘Retreat in Daily Life’. Participants will pray each day and see a retreat guide once each week. ($960 live out)

Ignatian Discernment and Christian Decision-Making

This seminar teaches us how to recognize the better Spirit in our lives and make good decisions. It can be a credited unit towards the Melbourne Bachelor of Theology, and involves participation in two weekend seminars and a seven week Retreat in Daily Life in which participants pray each day and see a spiritual director once a week. ($350 Loyola - live in, $960 Campion live out)

Introduction to Supervision of Spiritual Directors

Supervision focuses on the development of the skills, attitudes and knowledge in both those in formation and members of the ministry. This five-day (36-hour) intensive unit aims to help spiritual directors grow in the competencies necessary to supervise others in the ministry. This program can be done as part of the Graduate Certificate in Supervision (Spiritual Direction). ($960 live out)

PD for Supervisors of Spiritual Directors

This two day workshop is an ideal opportunity for those in the ministry of supervision of spiritual
directors to enhance their skills. Janet comes with a wealth of experience and has published five books and numerous articles on spiritual direction and supervision, and other topics in spirituality. ($350 live out)

Urgings of the Heart: A Spirituality of Integration

In this one-week workshop Wilkie and Noreen will use stories and images to explore and blend the best of spirituality and psychology to help the participants understand how to live in peace with self, others and God. ($960 live out)

By Way of the Heart: Toward a Holistic Christian Spirituality

In the one day workshop we will explore how an embodied spirituality of gospel values can provide a spirituality in which balance is always central. Whether this balance is of values or balance of our own effort and reliance on God; we will explore that it is the effort, rather than result, that is important. ($95 live out)

Group Leadership, Organisation and Spirituality

This seminar helps participants become more aware of the structures and processes at work in collaborative ministry teams. The guiding matrix for this seminar will be the Spiritual Exercises, its spiritual pedagogy and dynamism. ($960 live out)

Peer and Group Supervision

This five-day (36-hour) intensive unit introduces spiritual directors to peer and group supervision which are adjuncts to individual supervision. Group supervision develops the directing skills of the spiritual directors within the group. Peer groups offer opportunities for ongoing formation among spiritual directors. This program can be done as part of the Graduate Certificate in Supervision (Spiritual Direction) ($960 live out)

Supervision Training Program

This is a skills-based training program for experienced spiritual directors (three years’ minimum experience) who wish to become supervisors of other spiritual directors, or who wish to enhance their personal skills in self-supervision and spiritual direction. The course consists of theory and practice and is followed by a six-month practicum. Skype may be used for supervision of interstate and international participants.

Supervision and the Discernment of Spirits

This five day (36 hour) intensive unit aims to help spiritual directors grow in the skills necessary to supervise others involved in the ministry of spiritual direction, with a particular focus on the Ignatian Rules for Discernment of Spirits. The program can be completed as part of the Graduate Certificate in Supervision (SD). ($960 live out)

Finding God in the Dark

In his latest book Finding God in the Dark II Taking the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius to the Movies, Monty uses film as a tool to engage with contemporary culture and the spiritual journey. In this one week seminar Monty and the Sentir Team will explore the use of film in relation to the Key Meditations of the Second Week of the Exercises in which Ignatius invites us to become conscious of decision-making and discernment processes. ($960 live out)