Wholeness and Undivided Life: Spirituality and the LGBTQIA+ Experience

Anyone with an interest in spiritual growth and LGBTQIA+ life will benefit from attending this online series.  Each session will include small and large group experiential learning, journaling, as well as a presentation.  Friends, allies, spiritual companions, and helping professionals will find it very useful.  The three sessions will focus on:

1. Sexuality and Gender Identity as a process of becoming and living into Wholeness.
2. LGBTQIA+ spirituality: becoming, Intimacy with Self, others, the Divine
3. Underlying principle: Cultural Humility and Allyship.

Sessions take place on Zoom from  6:30-8:30PM eastern, on March 14, 21, and 28.  The suggested Program Offering is $85.00  With an Alternate Option of $35.00  Spiritual Directors seeing their directees on behalf of the Spiritual Life Center, please use the Coupon Code "DIRECTOR" for a $40 discount.  . 

The themes of each session include the following:
  
First Session Themes:

• Wholeness
• Cultural Competence
• Cultural Humility
• Social Location
• Intersectionality
• Introduction to LGBTQIA+ Community History

Second Session Themes:

• Becoming and the Self:lenses from the LGBTQIA+ Experience
• Embodiment and Intimacy
• Coming out as initiatory experience
• Crisis Theory
• Spiritual Trauma, Trauma-Informed Spiritual Care
• Exploring Resources for Support

Third Session Themes: 

• Becoming and the Self for LGBTQIA+ Folks, Families, Friends, Allies
• The Power of Narrative
• Spiritual and Theological Social Location
• Expanding Resources for Support 

The session will be led by Justin Ferko.  Read more about Justin below or on his site.  
The program is a collaboration between Hartford International University and Spiritual Life Center, West Harftord.

To Register

Justin is a Spiritual Pathfinder. In his life experience and training as a Spiritual Pathfinder, he continues to answer the invitation to go out- out into the wild places in his own spirit and life as a gay person, out into the streets, the ecosystems, the places of pain, beauty, and complexity in the world around him. The ancient symbol of a spiral describes this going out and coming back to center on the amazing journey that he calls “Wild Spirit Paths”.

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His goal is to help every client discover their own spiritual path and support them in their work of transformation. He uses the gifts and rocky places in his own becoming as a gay person and his training as a spiritual director and chaplain. His passions include supporting people who identify as LGBTQIA+ in this life process and entering more deeply into healing relationship with Self and nature through spending time in wild places. He supports people from all spiritual and religious backgrounds or no particular spiritual background. He can also conduct sessions in Spanish if preferred.

Justin brings a wealth of experience and insights to this program.  He obtained a Master of Theological Studies, Trinity Lutheran Seminary and Master of Education, Boston University

He has served as Professional Chaplain, 3 1/2 years as professional  Palliative Care Chaplain, Chaplain Residency in Oncology and Transplant at Wexner Medical Center at the Ohio State University

As a Spiritual Director, he was trained with Oasis Ministries for Spiritual Development and is a Supervisor of Spiritual Direction Students with Oasis Ministries for Spiritual Development and OneSpirit Learning Alliance

He also holds an Ordination with Federation of Christian Ministries,  Member Karma Triyana Dharmachakra and Columbus KTC Tibetan Buddhist Center and is a Trained Shamanic Practitioner in Healing Arts with Foundation for Shamanic Studies

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www.wildspiritpaths.com
justin@wildspiritpaths.com