Courses

Growth in Prayer and Reflective Living - GPRL

Do you want to grow closer to God, deepen your prayer life or want to make choices that are in tune with God’s dream for you?  If so, the course Growth in Prayer and Reflective Living (GPLR) may be for you. This 1 year course is open to all and no expertise in prayer or reflection is required.  

Planned to start in September 2024

To find out more please visit the ISC Geneva GPRL Information page

Spiritual Accompaniment

Spiritual direction, or accompaniment, has been defined as ‘help given by one Christian to another which enables the person to pay attention to God’s personal communication to him or her, to respond to this personally communicating God, to grow in intimacy with this God, and to live out the consequences of the relationship.’

Willam A. Barry, SJ and William J. Connolly, SJ.

To find out more please visit the ISC Geneva Spiritual Accompaniment page

Spiritual Conversations

Participants develop skills to enter into conversations on life, death, joy, illness, relationships, God and the spiritual side of life. Those who work in church visiting, hospital or other chaplaincy work or just conversing with friends are able to be more comfortable talking about some of life's serious subjects. Teachers, and those working in various capacities in the hospitals and social work have found the insights and skills gained through the course invaluable to their practice.

The course is based in the Jesuit tradition of St Ignatius Loyola and explores the attitudes, skills and ways of listening and discerning contained in good spiritual conversation. It is a requirement for those going on to train in Spiritual Accompaniment / Direction.

Participants for this course should have completed the Growth in Prayer and Reflective Listening Course or made the Full Ignatian Spiritual Exercises or taken part in some other equivalent experience.

To find out more about this online course please visit the ISC Geneva Spiritual Conversation  Information page