Our Compassion-Centered Spiritual Direction Cohort – Year Two.

Our Year One cohort has found great success in introducing the rich benefits of bringing IFS into a spiritual director’s personal life, and now, we are introducing our Year Two cohort which will continue our journey of becoming Christ-centered spiritual directors who fully utilize the many tools of IFS within our work as directors. Like our mentor, Dr. Frank Rogers, teaches us, we call this: Compassion-Centered Spiritual Direction.

Our goal is to encourage, equip and support a network of Christ-centered spiritual directors who 1) use IFS as a tool of self-awareness for ourselves, and 2) bring the insights and tools of IFS into our work as spiritual directors.

Five all-day training modules – Nine months – One comprehensive opportunity to continue our pursuit of IFS study and the application of its tools within our spiritual direction practice. We will combine teaching and conversation with an increase of hands-on practice. In each module, we will do “live” triad work and focus more time on group supervision sessions, as we, as directors, bring our first-hand spiritual direction experiences to the group. All work is on-line and done in a small-group, interactive, cohort setting.

***Each module will run from 9 AM to 4 PM (U.S. Eastern Time Zone)***

OUR YEAR TWO REQUIRED READING LIST:

In Year Two, we are asking students to pick 3 books from the following list of 6 resource books, and throughout the school year, write-up and post in Box a one-page report on each book you have chosen. That way, by year’s end, we will have a valuable collection of book reports on file for all of us to benefit from. Choose 3 books from the following titles:

No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model, Richard Schwartz

Altogether You: Experiencing personal and spiritual transformation with Internal Family Systems therapy, Jenna Riemersma

The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom, Henri J.M. Nouwen

Journey to Shalom: Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Freedom In Sacred Stories, Molly LaCroix

Litanies of the Heart, Gerry Ken Crete

Boundaries for Your Soul: How to Turn Your Overwhelming Thoughts and Feelings into Your Greatest Allies, Alison Cook and Kimberley Miller

* This training is for those who have completed an accredited two or three-year training program in Christ-centered spiritual direction and have completed our Compassion-Centered Spiritual Direction – Year One course. Questions? Drop us an email.

Our 2025-2026 Year Two cohort will be limited to 12 trained directors* Fill out the application form below, hit SEND, and we’ll send you instructions on how to submit your deposit…

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