Sat, 2022/11/05 - 9:00am
Online and In-Person
Learning Objectives
In this day we shall reflect upon the:
Wonder of our body – bearing God’s image
Wisdom of our body – seeded with Spirit’s callings
Witness of our body - to the mystery of the Incarnation
In this day we shall practice ways to...
Sat, 2022/11/12 - 9:00am
Online
Explore the way you protect yourself when you are triggered by fear or stress and create an idealized version of yourself to present to others. You do this in order to be acceptable to God, others and yourself. Awareness of your own and others’ defence systems can help you be more authentic,...
Sat, 2022/11/19 - 9:00am
Online – Zoom
This module will explore the different ways individuals, men and women express grief and adapt. We will examine the mourning traditions of different cultures and explore a number of different strategies to work through grief with the aim of increasing sensitive and understanding which we bring to...
Sat, 2022/12/03 - 9:00am
Online – Zoom
Discernment is a crucial part of our spiritual formation and a crucial part of walking in the will of God. However, many Christians struggle with discernment, in part because we simply aren’t sure how to do it in a way that makes sense. Complicating matters is the fact that not everyone...
Sat, 2023/01/14 - 11:35am
Online – Zoom
Each Enneagram type has a specific “passion” or emotion that shapes how it expresses itself when we are stressed and tighten against life. The passion is our heart's response and automatically and rigidly governs how we are in the situation at hand, more than we could ever imagine....
Sat, 2023/01/21 - 9:00am
Online – Zoom
This module will explore what it means to grieve and lament, we will learn how to help others in their time of sorrow and loss. Special attention will be paid to the Psalms as a resource for encouragement for those dealing with death.
Learning Objectives
Deeper understanding of key...
Sat, 2023/01/28 - 9:00am
Online – Zoom
This module will explore how spiritual friendship is a foundational aspect of our formation into Christlikeness and the flourishing of the community of God.
Using the lens of Celtic Christianity, and accompanied by several historical soul friends (St. Kevin, St. Brigid, Aelred of Rievaulx, and a...
Sat, 2023/02/04 - 9:00am
Online and In-Person
We have 3 centres of intelligence: head, heart and body. Each centre holds a wisdom unique to that centre. To be fully ourselves, we need to have access to all of our centres, all of our wisdom, to live as the being, the sacred being that we truly are. But the wisdom, especially of our our dominant...
Sat, 2023/02/11 - 9:00am
Online – Zoom
This module will explore the nature of disenfranchised grief by understanding the language of grief and loss. Disenfranchised grief can include suicide, traumatic death, and other losses that are challenging to process because they are unacknowledged avoided, or not legitimized. The second part of...
Sat, 2023/02/11 - 9:00am
Online and In-Person
Music plays a prominent role in our lives. The songs that we attach ourselves to – or that get attached to us – reflect not just our personal preferences but our deepest experiences. The formative power of music is often understated.
As we explore music and spiritual formation, we are...