seminars and workshops
Religious Experience
Cheryl Bourke pbvm
The varieties of religious experience… revelation: God’s
self-communication… religious experience as the focus
of spiritual direction. A seminar especially for spiritual
directors.
Fourteen Mondays, 9.30 – 11.00 am,
beginning February 13
Cost $290 
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The Human Experience of God
Kathleen Spokes sgs
Through guided reflection on our human experience of
God, we grow in appreciation of both our own
experience and the experience described in some of the
classical writings about God and prayer.
Fourteen Mondays, 9.30 – 11.00 am,
beginning Feb. 13
Cost $290
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Art as Prayer
Therese Quinn rsj
Enjoying our praying: making an art journal, creation of
mandalas, the zen of seeing, playing with clay and
contemplating works of art.
We allow the visual language of line, colour, shapes,
tones and texture to speak and to help us recognise and
accept the life-gifts of our Creator God.
Seven Tuesdays, 1.30 – 3.30 pm,
beginning February 14
Cost $150
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The Psychological Aspects of Spiritual Direction
Sue Richardson pbvm
This seminar presents an anthropological, psychological
and pastoral frame-work for ministry, based on Luigi
Rulla’s theory of Theocentric Self-transcendence.
For spiritual directors and others in ministry.
Fourteen Tuesdays, 9.30 – 11.00 am,
beginning Tuesday 14th February.
Cost $290
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The Experience of Conversion
Robyn Reynolds olsh
Through our life experiences, God invites us to enter
more deeply into our humanity, with all its ambiguities.
In this seminar, we reflect on the experience of
conversion, from the perspectives of theology, human
development theory, and our own personal experiences.
Seven Thursdays, 9.30 – 11.00 am,
beginning April 26
Cost $150
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Let your Life speak
Bridget Agius
‘Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it,
listen for what it intends to do with you.’ This seminar
gently invites a deeper listening to the seasons of our
life, in order to attend to the call within. It is based on
Parker Palmer’s small book, Let your life speak –
Listening to the voice of vocation, and is offered at Heart
of Life with the author’s blessing.
Six Tuesdays, 1.30 – 3.30,
beginning May 8
Cost $130
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Prophetic Voices
Peter Malone msc
Taking inspiration from the great prophets, Isaiah,
Jeremiah and Amos, this seminar invites us to name
contemporary prophets and to discover our own
prophetic voice.
Six Wednesdays, 7.30 – 9.00 pm,
beginning May 9
Cost $130
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Embodied Prayer: Faces of the Soul
Zoe Fitzpatrick pbvm
Our face reveals the soul where the Divine inner life
finds an echo and an image of ourselves.
We are ‘God’s work of art’.
In this reflection day, helped by gentle movement
and sacred body prayer, we hope to merge more
deeply with the Divine and reflect some of the
qualities of the radiance of God.
Saturday May 12, 10.00 am – 3.30 pm
Cost $50
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Embodied Prayer: Shekinah – Divine Indwelling
Zoe Fitzpatrick pbvm
Shekinah (in Hebrew, ‘to dwell’) rests within each of
us. This day reflects on the journeys of three Old
Testament women, Ruth, Naomi and Miriam, to
explore this divine indwelling. We use sacred body
movement, quiet prayer and simple art expression.
Saturday May 19, 10.00 am – 3.30 pm
Cost $50