The aim of this eight day course, which runs twice a year, is to introduce participants to the basic principles of Ignatian Spiritual Accompaniment.
It will include: listening skills, discernment of spirits, a model of Ignatian accompaniment, spiritual conversation and ways of praying. The course will help deepen and improve one-to-one pastoral ministry, using Ignatian principles based on the Spiritual Exercises which will be valuable in a variety of pastoral settings. This course will also introduce some of the skills necessary for spiritual direction, but while the course may reveal a gift for spiritual direction, it does not provide sufficient training for people to offer spiritual direction.
Course requirements:
Commitment to one’s own prayer life
Experience of receiving spiritual accompaniment on directed retreats or ongoing spiritual direction
To book, please register with St Beuno's.
This residential weekend retreat offers participants the opportunity to explore the human condition through your own life story, in the context of the Gospel and the Christian spiritual life, using mindfulness skills and contemplative Christian prayer.
Join Dr Aidan Cottrell-Boyce and Fr Christophere Ngolele SJ for the second Laudato Si’ lecture. Fr Christophere, a Jesuit priest and SOAS researcher, explores how the displacement of Congo’s autochthonous peoples reflects the “technocratic paradigm” and loss of “integral ecology” described in Laudato Si’.