Application for Program

In order to be admitted to the Residential Program in Spiritual Direction, it is necessary to furnish the Program Director with:

1. A brief spiritual autobiography indicating the pattern of development in the candidate's spiritual life and present sense of God (2-3 pages).
   A guide to writing this autobiography is available via this link.
2. A brief statement indicating the reasons for undertaking the course (up to a page).
3. A letter of recommendation from your Spiritual Director and/or Minister/Pastor/Priest
4. A registration fee of $50 that is unrefundable but will be deducted from the tuition fee for the current year.
   

Please send application to Suzanne Dunbar (Address below)

Prerequisites for the Program

There are a number of desirable prerequisites for the program.
It is recommended that those applying for the program show some evidence of the following:

• their giftedness and sense of call to the ministry of spiritual direction

• capacity to listen empathetically and sensitively

• sufficient life experience to enable them to respond with wisdom to people from different walks of life and with different levels of experience

• an openness to learning from their own and others' experience

• a mature Christian faith and an openness to other faiths

• a love of and a commitment to prayer

• receiving spiritual direction themselves for a period of time

As well as these prerequisites, it is expected that during the four years of the program that participants will:

• continue in on-going spiritual direction outside the program

• be engaged in directing others where possible

• be in regular supervision if they are directing others

It is also strongly encouraged that

• each participant make a retreat each year

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