Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a contemplative, soulful, and non-pathologizing approach to personal healing and spiritual transformation. This workshop explores how IFS offers a model and process for compassion-centered spiritual direction that deepens connection with the sacred, with others, and with our own spiritual essence.

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 is a virtual event for CCSV Spiritual Directors who are Members of the Center, also, Friends of the Center who are spiritual directors or on the training path. Registration not required.

​Frank Rogers is a spiritual director, supervisor, 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 30 years, and is the author of 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.

EVENT DETAILS
Zoom link:  Click here to join the meeting
Meeting ID:  862 0534 2591
Password:  296454

Wilderness or Wonderment? Using the Labyrinth to Refresh the Spirit and Nourish the Soul 

Walking the labyrinth, or using a hand-held one, can help us quiet our minds so we can listen to our hearts. It helps us find our natural pace and allows us to enter the “in-between” world where insights flow, intentions are renewed, and a bigger picture of one’s life is nurtured. 
 
The virtual labyrinth experience will offer reflection, a hand-held labyrinth meditation, storytelling and a time to be together in community. Bring a hand-held labyrinth or click here to print one from CCSV's website. The online app Labyrinth Journeys is also excellent.

ABOUT LAUREN ARTRESS
The Reverend Dr. Lauren Artress is Canon Emeritus of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco and the author of Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Practice, and The Sacred Path Companion: A Guide to Walking the Labyrinth to Heal and Transform (Putnam/Riverhead Books, New York). Her latest book The Path of the Holy Fool: How the Labyrinth Ignites Visionary Powers is inspired by her thirty years of work with the Labyrinth at Chartres Cathedral. Visit Dr. Artress and Veriditas to find out more about her lifelong work in healing and spiritual transformation.

​EVENT DETAILS
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83664401201pwd=Q3dnV2RNVFpLWWV2czRBOFlKeWo3UT09
Meeting ID:  836 6440 1201
Passcode:  427235

Registration is not required. If you are on CCSV's email list, you will receive the Zoom invitation in advance of the event and again on the day of the event.

WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT continues to be CCSV's resource to the community now in the form of a monthly blog post — the first post is scheduled for Friday, February 5th!

We post content for all who are interested in receiving spiritual support for connection and renewal on the spiritual journey, as well as, trained spiritual directors. 

Our blog features articles, contemplative quotes, art and poetry, and news of upcoming offerings in the community with the opportunity to share posts. Our content is authored by CCSV Spiritual Directors and guest presenters including writings from spiritual leaders and teachers who want to share with us from their area of expertise. 

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