Personal & Spiritual Growth
Led by: Jo Eaton, Sally McLaren and Brenda McGinn
Applications are invited for...
September 2010 - July 2011 (leaflet
for 2010-11)
N.B. the deadline for applications has been extended into September 2010. There is a third Taster evening arranged for September 15th for all late applications.
A one year ecumenical course, held in a contemplative environment, leading to a deeper awareness of God, self and others. Read a description of the 2004-5 course from a member of that year's group HERE.
Course Content: Two topics per term:
- Praying
- Listening
- Spiritual conversation
- Discernment
- Human being-spiritual being
- Images of God and self
The Course is for those:
- exploring themselves and their relationship with God and others;
- in Ministry of any kind;
- interested in deepening their spiritual life;
- who can commit themselves to full attendance (Previous participants don’t want it to end!).
This is not a ‘how-to’ Course. The topics are explored
in small groups - with facilitated input - but mostly from the spirit,
wisdom and experience of the members of the group using a ‘creative
listening’ method.
Every session starts with an experience of prayer.
Participants summarise their exploration of each topic in a short essay.
Leaders:
Jo Eaton has worked in the Health Service and Hospices as a clinician, manager and counsellor. Trained at Worth and the London Centre for Spirituality, where she has assisted the staff teaching team, she now offers spiritual direction and supervision in Sussex and London. She has been a facilitator of the Personal and Spiritual Growth Course for the last 4 years. Jo is an Anglican.
Sally McLaren is a counsellor and psychotherapist in private practice in Horsham. Previously an active member of a large Baptist church, she now attends an Anglican church. She has participated in and now helps facilitate the Personal and Spiritual Growth Course.
Brenda McGinn is a Catholic. She is a community nurse with hospice nursing experience. Brenda trained at the Catholic Bible School and is a spiritual director. Brenda was a participant in the Personal and Spiritual Growth Course 3 years ago and now joins the team facilitating it.
Applicants are required to attend one of the Taster Evenings as part of your application to the course. Only after these, might you be offered a place on the full course.
each Wednesday for 10 weeks during term time: 19.30-21.30;
+ 1 Saturday per term: 10.00-16.00:
Course Dates for 2010 – 2011:
Wednesdays 19:30-21:30 (half term breaks in brackets)
Taster Evenings:
Wednesdays 7th and 21st July and 15th
September
Term One, 2010:
Wednesdays:
22nd and 29th September
6th, 13th, 20th October (27th is half term)
3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th November
1st December
Saturday:
27th November
Term Two, 2011:
Jan 12, 19, 26
Feb 2, 9, (16th half term), 23,
March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
Saturday:
26th March
Term Three, 2011:
May 4, 11, 18, 25
June (1st half term) 8, 15, 22, 29,
July 6
Saturday:
25th June
COST for 2010-2011: £108 per term - in addition
to the
Deposit £15 (includes the taster evening)