This live-in seminar workshop is held usually during the summer vacation at Sacred Heart Retreat House & Seminar Center in Novaliches. The program is composed of the following modules:
Module 1 FOUNDATIONS OF IGNATIAN RETREAT-GIVING AND SPIRITUAL DIRECTION
Foundational to the ministry of retreat-giving and spiritual direction is a deep experience of God’s love and the experience of accompaniment that helps one to notice, relish and respond to God’s person and action in oneself and one’s world. Hence, every applicant to our Directors’ formation modules are required to go through an individually-directed retreat preferably guided by a CIS formed director.
Module 2
FUNDAMENTALS OF IGNATIAN RETREAT-GIVING AND SPIRITUAL DIRECTION IN A COMMUNITY AND INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT
This second module of the Formation Course formally introduces participants to the ministry of retreat-giving and spiritual direction as a ministry practised with the intent of animating individuals, communities or even whole institutions. The participants are guided through conferences, case studies, real case spiritual direction demonstrations and workshops aimed at providing basic knowledge, skills and dispositions on spiritual direction and retreat-giving whether in individually-directed retreat formats or conference retreat formats. Module 2 of the Summer Formation course is also offered on a staggered basis as the Study Circle on Spiritual Direction and Ignatian Retreat-Giving.
Module 3
SUPERVISED RETREAT-GIVING EXPERIENCE 1
[INDIVIDUALLY-DIRECTED RETREAT FORMAT]
The Summer Formation courses provide occasions for supervised retreat-giving experiences in Modules 3 and 5 respectively. Module 3 focuses on providing a practicum experience for Individually-directed retreats. Participants are guided through a review and deepening of the learnings of Module 2 and then initiated into directing 1-3 retreatants making a 4 day individually-directed retreats, while receiving one-on-one supervision with our Center staff or associates. After the practicum, participants gather together for appropriation sessions on retreat-giving. Only those who satisfactorily completed Module 2 qualify for this third module.
Module 4a
“COMING HOME TO OUR FUNDAMENTUM”: EXPLORING THE EXERCISES OF THE FIRST WEEK
As an exercitant enters the Spiritual Exercises, St. Ignatius guides her into praying over the fact of her creaturehood, and on her creaturely existence as founded on God. This process initiates the exercitant into a foundational experience of love and brings her to come home to God who continues to offer his children healing, mercy, conversion and a call to service. This 8-day recollection-workshop is designed to help participants to gain a conceptual map of and an insight into the dynamics of the First Week of the Spiritual Exercises. The process seeks to guide participants through conferences, reflective reading, personal and common prayer, faith sharing and spiritual direction, whether one-on-one or in groups. This offering of Module 4A should help beginning directors make sense of the dynamics behind the Exercises of the First Week— creaturehood, evil and sin, and most importantly the experience of being rooted and grounded in God’s unconditional love. We invite our participants to go through the prayers of the First Week, engage each other in spiritual direction, and receive instruction in basic Scripture and psychology as they tread aspects of the the First Week journey of the Exercises alongside fellow pilgrims and guides.
Module 5
SUPERVISED RETREAT-GIVING EXPERIENCE 2: CONFERENCE AND SEMI-DIRECTED IGNATIAN RETREAT FORMATS
Ignatius recognized that the Spiritual Exercises need to be adapted to the exercitants or retreatants depending on their age, level of maturity, education, potential and talents. In the 21st century, we also recognize that apart from the retreatants’ demographics, we need to take into account the retreatants’ cultural context in giving the Spiritual Exercises. The one-day recollection or week-end conference retreat format of the Spiritual Exercises is an adaptation that continues to attract beginners in the spiritual journey in different sectors of society. This workshop is designed to help the participants become more equipped in designing a one-day recollection or week-end conference retreats in the Ignatian tradition and that are suited to their respective clientele.
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