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SEMINARS

Term 1 

Religious Experience  -  Siloam Participants

Personal Grace - Siloam Participants

The Experience of Conversion

Art as Prayer

Ethics for Spiritual Directors - Siloam Participants

The Song of the Mystics

Shaping the Parish Liturgies of Holy Week & Easter

Reading Under the Eye of God

Term 2

The Experience of Conversion

Personal Grace  -  Siloam Participants

A Time for Healing

The Red Heart

Dreams - God's Language

Stop, Look, Listen 

Term 3

Discernment  -  Siloam Participants

Ethics for Spiritual Directors   -  Siloam Participants

Ecological Theology  -  Siloam Participants

The Human Experience of God

The Psychological Aspects of Spiritual Direction - Siloam Participants

God Revealed through Sacraments

Term 4

Merton and Mysticism

Dreams  -  Siloam Participants

A Spirituality of the Heart

 

Through out the Year

 Mornings with a Mentor:

Re-imagining Spirituality of the Heart:

 

 

SEMINARS   2009 

Term   1

Religious Experience 

 Siloam Participants only - Cheryl Bourke pbvm  14 Mondays, 9.30-11am Begins.16th. Feb.

Personal Grace

Siloam Participants only - Jen Hall  7 Mondays, 2.30-4pm. Begins 16th. Feb.

The Experience of Conversion

Cheryl Bourke pbvm  7 Tuesdays, 9.30-11am  Begins 17th. Feb.     $105 

Through our life experiences, God invites us to enter more deeply into our humanity with all its ambiguities. In this seminar, we reflect on the experience of conversion from the perspective of theology, human development theory and our own personal experiences.

Art as Prayer

Therese Quinn rsj  7 Tuesdays, 1.30-3.30pm  Begins 17th. Feb.    $140

Enjoying our praying: making an art journal, creation of mandalas, the zen of seeing, playing with clay and contemplating art works. Allowing the visual language of line,color,shapes, tones and texture to speak and to help us recognize and accept the gifts of life of our Creator God.

Ethics for Spiritual Directors

Siloam Participants only -  Philip Malone msc  7 Wednesdays, 1.30-3pm  Begins 18th. Feb.

The Song of the Mystics

Sue Richardson pbvm  6 Tuesdays,  7.30-9.30pm  Begins 24th. Feb.    $120

We open the door on the lives of six medieval women who challenge us with their intelligence, wit and courage when it comes to taking God seriously. This seminar gives them a voice - ever ancient, ever new - and invites us to join with them in 'singing' their song - the song of the heart.

Mornings with a Mentor  Henri Nouwen and Jean Vanier - a spirituality of care.

Lorraine Levins    Tuesday 3rd. Mar. 10am - 1pm. BYO lunch     $25

Shaping the Parish Liturgies of Holy Week and Easter

Frank Andersen msc  4 Thursdays, 4.00-7pm.  Begins  5th. Mar.    $120

Four practical evening seminars for Planners of Parish Liturgy

Re-imagining Spirituality of the Heart  The Heart of Jesus: a thrological perspective

Brian Boyle msc  Friday 6th. Mar.  7.30-9.15pm    $20-00

Reading Under the Eye of God

Kathleen Spokes sgs  4 Wednesdays, 1.30-3pm. Begins 11th. Mar.    $120

In this seminar we will experience the ancient art of lectio divina or sacred reading. We will experience the transformative potential of slow,slow reading as we reflect on a variety of sources including scripture, literature and spiritual writings.

Mornings with a Mentor  Desert Mothers and Fathers - wisdom from the heart

Carole Carmody rsm  Tuesday 31st. Mar  10am-1pm. BYO lunch    $25

 

 

 

 

Term  2

The Experience of Conversion

Cheryl Bourke pbvm  7 Mondays, 2.30-4pm  Begins 20th. April   $105

Through our life experiences, God invites us to enter more deeply into our humanity with all its ambiguities. In this seminar, we reflect on the experience of conversion from the perspective of theology, human development theory and our own personal experiences.

Personal Grace

Siloam Participants only -  Jen Hall  7 Tuesdays, 9.30-11am  Begins  April 21

A Time for Healing

Carole Carmody rsm  4 Wednesdays 10.30am-12.30pm  Begins 22nd. April   $80

The Red Heart

Judith Lynch   4 Thursdays, 10am-noon  Begins 23rd. April    $80

Have you ever wondered why it is that some landscapes have a home feel about them? Do you sometimes feel a deep need to walk by the sea or stand on a mountain? Why is it that one place speaks to us more strongly of God than another? Explore the places and spaces where God has written and pointed your story.

Dreams - God's Language

Sue Richardson pbmv   6 Tuesdays 7.30-9.30pm  Begins  28th. April    $120

Learning to work with our dreams as a way of finding God's presence in our life, inviting us to greater depths of self-awareness,self-acceptance and inner freedom in all our relationships.

Re-imagining Spirituality of the Heart  The Heart of Creation: an ecological perspective

Patricia Foley pbvm   Friday evening  7.30-9.15pm      $20

Mornings with a Mentor   Richard Rohr OFM - vibrant contemplative

Tim Moloney cfca   Tuesday 5th. May  10am-1pm  BYO lunch     $25

Stop, Look, Listen

Geraldine Bachowski   3 Tuesdays  1.30-3.30pm  Begins 26th. May      $60

Mornings with a Mentor   Music - Vaughan Williams - musical chameleon

Jum Miller   Tuesday 26th. May   10am - 1pm  BYO lunch    $25

Mornings with a Mentor   Evagrius of Pontus  - thinking processes and rationalization

Michael Casey OCSO   Tuesday 2nd June   10am -1pm   BYO lunch   $25

Mornings with a Mentor    Mary Ward - a woman of oue times

Angela Slattery ibvm   Tuesday 16th. JUne   10am - 1pm  BYO  lunch   $25

 

 

 

 

Term  3

Re-imagining Spirituality of the Heart:  a Quaker's perspective

Drew Lawson  Friday evening 3rd. July  7.30-9.15pm     $20

Discernment

Siloam participants only -  Sue Richardson pbvm  14 Mondays  9.30-11am Begins 20th. July

Ethics for Spiritual Directors

Siloam participants only - Philip Malone msc  7 Mondays 2.30-4pm  Brgins 20th. July

Ecological Theology

Siloam participants only - Patricia Foley pbvm  14 Tuesdays  9.30-11am  Brgins 21st. July

The Human Experience of God

Kathleen Spokes sgs  14 Wednesdays  1,30-3,30pm  Begins 22nd July    $280

Through guided reflection on our human experience of God, we grow in appreciation of both our own experiences and the experiences contained in some of the classical writings about God and about prayer.

Mornings with a Mentor   Brigid of Kildare - tongued with fire

Claire Griffin csb   Tuesday 28th. July   10am - 1pm  BYO lunch  $25

The Psychological Aspects of Spiritual Direction

Siloam participants only - 14 Thursdays 2.00-4pm  Begins 23rd July

Mornings with a Mentor  Isaiah - Prophet - hope-filled poetic prophet

Mary Reaburn nds   Thursday  13th. August   10am-1pm  BYO lunch   $25

God Revealed trough Sacraments

Paul Spence   4 Tuesdays  4.30-7.30pm Begins 18th. August     $120

For people yearning to deepen their understanding and experience of the Sacraments of Initiation, Healing and Service, through prayer, scripture and reflection.

Re-imagining Spirituality of the Heart:  The Heart of Humanity: a cross-cultural perspective

Robyn Reynolds olsh  Friday evening 4th. September  7.30-9.15pm    $20

 

 

Term   4

Merton and Mysticism

Brian Gallagher msc   4 Wednesdays  7.30-9.30pm  Begins 7th. October    $120

This seminar focuses on Thomas Merton's way of Centering Prayer and the influences of Eastern spiritualities on his practice.

Dreams

Siloam participants only - Sue Richardson pbvm  6 Mondays  2.30-4pm  Begins 12th. October

A Spirituality of the Heart

Sue Richardson pbvm  5 Tuesdays  7.30-9.15pm  Begins 13th. October   $88

Through prayerful reflection we find in our own hearts a solidarity with the human heart and the heart of Jesus.

Mornings with a Mentor  Teresa of Avila and Therese of Lisieux - astute women of prayer

Jen Hall  Tuesday 27th. October   10am - 1pm   BYO lunch    $25

Re-imagining Spirituality of the Heart:  The Heart of God: a contemplative perspective

Brian Gallagher msc   Friday evening 6th. November  7.30-9.15pm   $20

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