Internship

Overview

The spiritual direction internship is a unique, two-year, learning and discernment program using resources from a wide variety of religious traditions. Beginning in the fall of even numbered years, classes meet weekly on Wednesday evenings for three hours from September to May. The primary learning is experiential and comes through didactic sessions, an interfaith website with links to many traditions, receiving and offering spiritual direction and individual and peer supervision. This learning is supplemented by reflection papers, an annual overnight retreat and semi-annual day programs with the larger community of directors. The focus and content of the Internship program follows the guidelines for training in spiritual direction established by Spiritual Directors International. As the program progresses, the intern, with the help of the Leadership Team, assesses and discerns the intern’s call to the ministry of spiritual direction. Those who discernment does not lead to a call to the ministry of spiritual direction will have developed gifts and skills that will be helpful to their work in other settings and ministries.

Click here for our 2012-2014 Internship Brochure.

Check out a sample of our Internship website:

www.sdinternshipsitesample.wordpress.com

For more information or to arrange for a “meet and greet” appointment

contact Andree Grafstein at internship@spiritlifectr.org.

LEADERSHIP TEAM AND PARTNERS

The Internship program is taught and facilitated by an experienced team of

men and women who have training in spiritual direction, supervision of spiritual

directors and other related areas of expertise. The Team invites several “post-internship”

men and women to make a two-year commitment to partnering with the Leadership

Team in the intern peer supervision groups. Partners continue to develop their skills

in supervision and in facilitating peer supervision groups and are mentored by a Team

member.

Internship Staff

Andrée Grafstein, Coordinator
Oscar Brocmeyer

Louise Colletti
Rose Petronella

Internship Partners

Denise Bartlett
Lori Bedard

Shoshana Kay
Trudi White