SMI & SMU Contemplative Workshop | Compassion-Centered Spiritual Direction

Name: SMI & SMU Contemplative Workshop | Compassion-Centered Spiritual Direction
Start: 2025-02-22T09:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-02-22T16:00:00-06:00
Location: Prothro Hall

Schedule

Sat Feb 22 2025 at 09:00 am to 04:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Prothro Hall | Dallas, TX

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a contemplative, soulful, and non-pathologizing approach to personal healing and spiritual transformation. A contemporary spiritual path, it deepens our connection to a sacred Source of loving energy; it tends, with care, the cacophony of emotions, impulses, and interior self-chatter that so often swirl within us; and it restores us to our true Self, that reservoir of personal power, expansiveness, and compassion that dwells within every human being.
This workshop is designed specifically for spiritual companions—spiritual directors, chaplains, pastoral counselors, and other soul-care workers—who want to explore how IFS can be a model and a process for compassion-based soul care that keeps care providers grounded in our own compassionate essence and invites those to whom we provide care into a deeper connection with the sacred and with their own spiritual essence.
Frank Rogers Jr. is a spiritual director, supervisor, certified IFS practitioner, retreat leader, writer, and professor of spiritual formation at the ecumenical and inter-faith Claremont School of Theology. He has taught and written in spirituality, contemplative practice, and compassionate social engagement for over 35 years, and is the author of Cradled in the Arms of Compassion: A Spiritual Journey from Trauma to Recovery; Practicing Compassion; and Compassion in Practice: The Way of Jesus. As the Co-Director for the Center for Engaged Compassion, he offers and teaches compassion-based approaches to spiritual direction and supervision. Learn more at centerforengagedcompassion.com.
- Register online at spiritualministries.org.
- Prices are as follows:
$99 - Early Bird Price through Jan 1
$125 - Regular Price through Feb 14
$75 - Students & Online Option
- Registration includes parking, lunch & materials.
- CEUs (.5) available for $15
- Registration closes Friday, February 14, 2025, or when capacity is reached, whichever comes first.