2021-10 October Session

Write:

Write reflection paper.

Due September 23

Prompts are:

• How are the Jungian insights as Don Bisson related them shifting your spiritual direction practice?
• How do you maintain focus on the spiritual while attending to the psychological aspects present in your sessions?
• How have you dealt with transference/counter-transference in your practice? 

Reflect/Journal/Prepare:

• Get in touch with a personal experience that has a psychological dimension such as: a significant dream, a relationship issue, emergence of a painful memory. If you were to have a direction session with a person who had a similar experience, how would you- as director- handle the session differently from the way a therapist might?

Meet:

• Mentor group meeting with Quads: This time with Quads we suggest you bring an issue from the above “Get in touch” suggestions to your quad direction session.

Read:

Assigned readings for October:

• Sacred is the Call: Chapters 12, 17, 20
• Culture and Social Structures
• Contemplation and Action
• The Marginalized
• Implications for Spiritual Direction
• Acronym Handout
• Spiritual Direction in a Cross Cultural Setting
• Spiritual Direction Scenarios in Today’s Landscape (Case Studies)
• Walk With Me: Spiritual Direction With the LGBTQ+ Community

View Online Courses:

Link to videos.