Mini Sabbatical & Renewal Programs

20^th October 2019 – 29^th November 2019 (6 weeks)

26^th April 2020 – 12^th June 2020 (7 weeks)

18^th October 2020 – 27^th November 2020 (6 weeks)

11^th April 2021 – 29^th May 2021 (7 weeks)

17^th October 2021 – 27^th November 2021 (6 weeks)

1. Prayer: Encounters with God / Presence of God / Consolation (We Remember & Give Thanks) and Desolation / Healing Spiritual Shame: Beyond Guilt to Giftedness

2. Prayer Method: Awakening the Soul Within / The Contemplative Way / Contemplation (St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. John of the Cross, St. Theresa of Avila, Thomas Keating)

3. Spirituality: Praying with the Mystics: John of the Cross, St. Theresa of Avila, St. Clare of Assisi, Padre Pio, Marthe Robin, Hildegard of Bingen, Julian of Norwich, Thomas Merton, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Dorothy Day, Catherine Doherty / Healing Our Images of God

4. Self-Knowledge & Self-Acceptance: Inner Explorations for Personal healing / Celebrating our Sacred Story / Family Assessment: Exploring Family Blessings & Burdens / Healing the Past and Releasing Creativity

5. Healing the Whole Person: Body, Mind and Soul / Exploring Family Systems Through the Genogram or Family Tree / Developing your Genogram or Family Tree / Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

6. Healing Emotions: Emotions: Help or Hindrance / Constructive handling of emotions / Learning about emotions, common causes, and our responses or reactions / Factors of Emotional Intelligence (EI) / Developing a self-awareness of competencies (personal, social) / Healing Trauma and resolving Grief, Anger, Fear, Anxiety, Shame, Guilt and Frozen Feelings, …

7. Healing Family Relationships: Healing the Father and Mother Wound / Healing Childhood Wounds / Healing Formation or Community Wounds

8. Life Transitions: Tour of Mid-Life Transitions / The polarities within me / Post-Modernism (21^st Century) / Personal and individual identity vs. Collective and cultural identity / Articulating Vision and Mission statements.

9. Human Sexuality and Celibate chastity: Conscious Celibacy / Truth or Consequences / Dreams, Archetypes and Shadow Work or Explorations

10. Non Violent Compassionate Communication (NVC): Compassion Carrying the Oils of Gladness & Joy / Sacred living: Silence, Solitude, Listening with the Heart

11. Stress and Ministry Burn-Out: Conscious Living, Loving and Being / Healing Addictions and Compulsions and Unearthing Potentials.

12. Discernment and Mission Re-Entry: Discernment and Choice-making / Spirituality & Recovery: all addictions and compulsions / Mission Re-Entry.

COST

Accommodation & Feeding is KES 2,200 daily (self-contained rooms)

Tuition fees: KES 12,000 (paid once)

NB:

Bookings to be done with a deposit of 10% (non-refundable)