SFTS will match you with a supervisor who will work with you until you complete the program. You are always welcome to contact the director of the program with any concerns, problems, or questions, but for many things, your supervisor may be the first person you contact with a question. Supervision is meant to provide support and guidance. Even directors that have been working for many years usually work with supervisors with whom they can discuss their directees and their own questions and problems.
Her or his job is to help you become the best director you can be. This means that in supporting you, they will also indicate places where you need growth or to attend to an issue that is hampering your ability to be a good director.
Sometimes this will include a recommendation that you seek therapy or some other support beyond what the program can give. It may be that in the course of supervision you and your supervisor begin to discern that this work is not an ideal fit for you.
Your supervisor will be dedicated to your well-being and the well-being of your directees and will support you as you go through the program, becoming an ever more confident and wise director or — occasionally — discerning that another path suits you better.
Your supervisor is a member of a supervision team. This team will check in with each other and with the director two or more times a year and support one another in the work with their supervisees. Here as elsewhere in the work of supervision, the work is held in strict confidence. Students Focusing on Spiritual Formation Students whose focus is formation rather than direction will enter with a wider variety of vocations in mind.
There is therefore not the same kind of set curriculum to the practicum in spiritual formation. Students will be assigned a supervisor and will work with this person to design a project on which you wish to work as the practicum component. You will design the project, schedule check-ins, and discern what criteria are appropriate to assess progress.
Spiritual Direction All students are required to be in spiritual direction. Typically, people meet once a month with their director. The fee for spiritual direction must be negotiated between you and your director and is not included in the price of the certificate or diploma. Naturally, since this is a program in spiritual direction and formation, we are committed to the value of this process. In the Christian tradition and other spiritual traditions , work with an anam cara spiritual friend , director, or confessor is considered an essential element of the spiritual path.
The spiritual journey takes us on a difficult and sometimes confusing journey. We encounter the difficult mental patterns that shape us, we may surface hidden patterns that direct us like secret and not always kind puppeteers.
We may find ourselves triggered by the people we work with in ways we do not understand or even recognize. We may become unnecessarily self-doubting or overly uncritical of our abilities and experiences. It is essential to have a close guide in this work. It is crucial that this guide be a skillful one and one with whom you enjoy good rapport.
This might be a topic you raise with your supervisor if you are confused about how your own spiritual direction is going. I have seen what you want; it is there — a Beloved of infinite tenderness. It is unique in the depth of supervised practice it makes available and in its emphasis on academic course-work to complement spiritual formation. Participants in the diploma add online academic courses to each retreat module to integrate academic study with practical experience.
Learn More. There are many ways to provide spiritual friendship to others, the community, and the world. For some, this will take the form of spiritual direction: prayerful companionship with others on a spiritual path.
The certificate provides study and practical experience for those who desire training for a vocation in spiritual direction. Masters in Consciousness Studies Program. The Call to Spirituality is a Call to a State of Being This unique program is dedicated to educating spiritual seekers and leaders through offering an extraordinary distance education program in Consciousness Studies which focuses on the fusion of science with spirituality, leadership, education, psychology, philosophy, and most of the major religions in the world.
Science of Mind Courses. Practitioner Training. Personal Development Courses. It focuses on the art of putting together worship services, baptisms, weddings, communions, life transition services, funerals, dedications, and holy seasons. It will have a brief overview of homiletics, hermeneutics, exegesis, Christology, and some of the key elements that a person who leads people in the liturgical movement of the sacred will want to know.
These students may be non-traditionalist, non-christian, Christian, Other, or Nones, and yet will be conducting services for the public, families, and individuals.
Each of the 4 courses will focus on the very theoretical life-blood of the Supervisor. Whether the student is a supervisor in training, or a supervisor educator fellow, or a candidate there will be specific theoretical elements that the would-be future supervisor will need to know at this point in their educational journey. This certification program intends to assist them in just that. What is your theory of education? What is your theory of personality psychology?
What is your theory, philosophy, or theology of teaching? How do you integrate these three seemingly diverse areas? These are the educational building blocks of this series of courses. The holistic model, social systems model, and family systems models have been the hallmarks of Social Work. Most likely the social work practitioner has heard a myriad of times of the need for the integration of a bio-psycho-socio-spiritual ontology of the human being.
Who better to add the spiritual component to this holistic model then those who specialize in spiritual care? This series of courses focuses on 1 the social worker as spiritual being, 2 spiritual assessment, 3 spirituality vs. The student who begins taking courses in Clinical Pastoral Psychotherapy is a student who has a primary interest in counseling from a PsychoSpiritual perspective.
Each of the courses offered in this certification program can be transferred into our Doctor of Theology in Clinical Pastoral Psychotherapy, and yet they do not have to. For some people a professional certification is to submerse their intellect and praxis in this holy and sacred field.
Simply put, someone who practices Clinical Pastoral Psychotherapy wants to go to greater spiritual depths with the people that they assist in a spirituo-therapeutic way. The Council makes no evaluation of the administration, faculty, business practices, financial condition, or quality of the offerings by this institution. Any person desiring information about the requirements of the act or the applicability of those requirements to the University may contact the Council at P.
Box , Olympia, WA or by email at degreeauthorization wsac. Apply Now. University of Theology and Spirituality. Find Out More. Winter Begin your Master or Doctoral Program today, or continue in the course direction you already started. Our next set of course are:. Master Programs. Master of Theology in Chaplaincy. Master of Theology in Spiritual Direction. Master of Theology in Thanatology. The topics were very interesting and provided the intellectual stimulation and rigor I was looking for.
I have always wanted to do more study and this program, with the ability to participate online, was very timely for me. I also found writing the essays enjoyable. I was able to explore particular aspects of the subject that had caught my attention and was encouraged to apply what I was learning. My faith has deepened over my four years of study.
I have always approached my faith in a thoughtful way and this program has given me some helpful tools with which to assess the direction my thoughts take me in. I also feel more confident in expressing my beliefs, especially when I seem to be going against prevailing opinions.
I think it has also helped me as I accompany people on their spiritual journeys and as I prepare sermons. I have found the faculty I have dealt with to be very approachable and usually responsive to emails. Most have replied promptly and all have adapted to having online students in class very well. I have appreciated the support of the Program Director, Cliff Knighten in particular.
He has bent over backwards at times to iron out any problems I have encountered. He has been very responsive to emails and has been a delight to deal with. It would have been impossible to complete my degree without his help. I was also at a time in my life when I was able to devote time to study. There were very few hiccups and the sound technicians who worked it all at the OST end were generally attentive and quick to rectify any problems. I would definitely recommend this program for anyone who is interested in spirituality and its development, and anyone who is interested in various expressions of mysticism.
It was good to have the background development of Christian Spirituality presented in a systematic way, and to see where and how the individual mystics contributed to our understanding of God, prayer, and humanity.
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