Classes
2025-02-03 - Class 1 2025-02-24 - Class 2
Forum Posts
2025-02-03 - Forum 1 -Readings (Guenther, Barry & Adesanya) 2025-03-18 - Forum 3 2025-04-21 - Forum 4 - Supervision 2024-04-01 - Forum 5 - Discernment 2025-04-16 - Forum 6
Assignments
Discernment Question
Submit an approximately 300-word document that includes your specific discernment question, a brief background explanation of how you (and/or others) came to this, and an identification of any others who will be participating with you (rather than names, use a descriptor of a role, e.g. “the project coordinator” or a group identity, e.g., “the Church Board/Committee”).
SDI Video Reviews
• Objective: Gain insight into the work of spiritual directors by watching educational videos featuring directors discussing their work. • Steps to Complete: 1. View a minimum of five SDI educational videos at SDI YouTube Channel. 2. Ensure your selected videos total at least 90 minutes and focus on directors discussing their work. 3. Pay attention to how the presenters: ▪ Define spiritual direction. ▪ Are influenced by a particular theology or tradition. ▪ Have received or encourage training or preparation for offering spiritual guidance. ▪ Approach their relationships with directees. SDI Videos Review
Videos Watched and Notes
- SDI Parker Palmer 2015 - 19 mins
- SDI Encounters - Conversation on Spiritual Companionship Through Queer Lenses - 16:42
- SDI Learns From…Cynthia Baga - 10:00 mins
- A Call to Contemplative Solidarity - Fr. Richard Rohr and Rev. SeiFu Anil Singh-Molares - 19:36 mins
- SDI Learns From…The Rev Mary Earle - 9:36
- SDI Learns From…Ron Rolheiser - 9:00
Life/Ministry Contexts
Write and submit an approximately 300-word description of the life/ministry contexts in which you have relationships that hold potential for you to intentionally engage someone in a spiritually focused conversation while “trying on” the perspective of a spiritual director appropriate to that context. 2025-02-17 - Life and Ministry Contexts
Quiet Listening
Quiet Listening Week 2 Quiet Listening Week 3 Quiet Listening - Peer Connection - Delmy - 2025-02-21 Quiet Listening - Peer Connection - Delmy - 2025-02-28 Quiet Listening - Peer Connection - Delmy - 2025-03-07
Spiritual Direction Report Dissertation-Related Integration Paper