This webinar is also included in the bundle "Accompanied by the Mystics"
- Mystical Spiritual Companionship
- Entering the Divine Garden with Rumi
- Christian Mystics and Spiritual Companionship
- The Enduring Wisdom of Howard Thurman
- Hildegard of Bingen and Spiritual Direction
A 12-part exploration of the mystical ground that supports our calling as spiritual companions
How does our deeply contemplative relationship with God, the Universe, and our true essence, inform our work as spiritual companions?
And how do our companionees benefit from contemplative immersion as they make their way towards greater spiritual insight and maturity?
These, and other important questions, will be tackled from varied vantage points by leading practitioners of our calling.
How can we understand our place in infinity and what does that mean?
What to Expect
- Topics will include: contemplative practices, entering the Divine Garden, portals to Divine Love, navigating loss, uncertaintiy, and grief, faith and faithlessness, accessing contemplative resources to support others.
- 12 recorded Zoom sessions with SDI's diverse and compelling wisdom teachers from across the mystical and spiritual spectrum
- Access to our Online Learning Platform, with videos, resources, and other content
- Participate at your own pace - all sessions recorded
Living into the big questions: Why are we here? What is our place in the universe?
Mysticism is a form of ultimate experiencing, the greatest portal to our union and communion with forever; with all that was, is, and will be.
There Are So Many Online Courses. Why This One?
Reputable
SDI is the largest and oldest network of spiritual companions in the world. For 30 years we have been creating and curating educational offerings for spiritual companions across religious traditions, and we have our finger on the pulse of the spiritual companionship movement in the US and beyond.
Faculty
Our instructors are the best in the field. You will be in an intimate learning environment with some of the most renowned and sought-after spiritual teachers in the field of spiritual companionship.
Affordable
We are committed to making our courses widely available and accessible. We are keeping the course tuition low and have a generous number of scholarships to give out. We strongly encourage any for whom the cost is a challenge to apply for a scholarship.
Convenient
Watch the lessons when you can, complete the course at your own pace. You will have access to the course content for an entire year after purchase.
Welcoming
This introductory level course is open to all! There are no prerequisites and no required readings. Each session will include a basic primer in the fundamentals of that week’s tradition or orientation. It will be easy to experiment, ask questions, and try out some of the techniques taught in the course.
YOUR HOST
Rev. SeiFu Anil Singh-Molares
El Reverendo Seifu es Director Ejecutivo de SDI y sacerdote budista Zen ordenado, así como director/compañero espiritual practicante y orador motivacional. Es un veterano de numerosas iniciativas interreligiosas e inter-espirituales a lo largo de los años, incluyendo “Seeds of Compassion” (Semillas de Compasión) en Seattle en el 2008, donde fue uno de los presidentes, y como fundador y Director Ejecutivo de “Compassionate Action Network”. Tiene un Máster en estudios teológicos de la Universidad de Harvard. El Reverendo Seifu es orador y conferencista universitario y colaborador clave con la Fundación Nacional de Becas Woodrow Wilson. En su vida anterior, también fue ejecutivo de Microsoft, donde cultivó exitosamente grupos y divisiones internacionales y proporcionó liderazgo a equipos multi-culturales en todo el mundo.
Rev. Seifu is an accomplished speaker and university lecturer and is a key contributor for the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. In a previous life, he was also an executive at Microsoft, where he successfully grew international groups and divisions and provided leadership to multi-cultural teams around the world.
Faculty
Carmen Acevedo Butcher
Carmen Acevedo Butcher is an internationally acclaimed speaker, author, educator, and poet. An award-winning translator, she has made accessible works of Early Modern French, German, Latin, Middle English, and Old English, by writers including the seventeenth-century friar Brother Lawrence, Hildegard of Bingen, Mechthild of Magdeburg, the Cloud’s Anonymous, Julian of Norwich, and tenth-century Benedictine monk Ælfric of Eynsham.
Carmen’s translation of Cloud of Unknowing (Shambhala Pocket Library, 2018) won an Author of the Year award from the Georgia Writers Association in 2010. Her tenth book, Practice of the Presence, is a revolutionary translation of the wisdom of Brother Lawrence, releasing in 2022 from Broadleaf Books.
Pat McCabe
Pat McCabe (Weyakpa Najin Win, Woman Stands Shining) is a Diné (Navajo) mother, grandmother, spiritual companion, activist, artist, writer, ceremonial leader, and international speaker. She is a voice for global peace, and her paintings are created as tools for individual, earth and global healing. She draws upon the Indigenous sciences of Thriving Life to reframe questions about spirit, sustainability and balance, and she is devoted to supporting the next generations, Women’s Nation and Men’s Nation, in being functional members of the “Hoop of Life” and upholding the honor of being human.
Carl McColman
Carl McColman a spiritual director, retreat leader, and internationally known speaker and teacher on mystical spirituality and contemplative living. He is the author of many books, including The Big Book of Christian Mysticism, Eternal Heart: The Mystical Path to a Joyful Life, y Unteachable Lessons: Why Wisdom Can’t Be Taught and Why That’s Okay. He is one of the co-hosts of the Encountering Silence podcast, and blogs regularly at Patheos, Medium, and his own website, www.anamchara.com. Although he himself is a practicing Christian, his approach to contemplation and mysticism is inclusive and expansive, and he is dedicated to exploring the common ground between faith traditions; he is particularly interested in the connecting points between Christian, Buddhist and Pagan wisdom. Carl lives with his wife, artist Fran McColman, in Clarkston, Georgia, near Atlanta.
Rabbi Amy Eilberg
Rabbi Amy Eilberg is the first woman ordained as a Conservative rabbi by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. She serves as a spiritual director, kindness coach, and peace and justice educator. She recently served as the Coordinator of Jewish Engagement for Faith in Action Bay Area, a multi-faith, multi-racial social justice organization in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to that she served as the director of the Pardes Rodef Shalom (Pursuer of Peace) Communities Program, teaching Jewish civil discourse to rabbis, synagogues and Jewish organizations. Her book, From Enemy to Friend: Jewish Wisdom and the Pursuit of Peace, was published by Orbis Books in March 2014. She is a devoted wife, loving mother to three wonderful grown children, and wildly enthusiastic grandmother to baby Adin.
Shubha Vilas
Shubha Vilas is an inspirational orator, motivational speaker, storyteller and a lifestyle coach. Shubha Vilas was born in 1981 in the Southern part of the Indian peninsula. After a brief stint in the corporate world, he chose to leave mainstream society to live a life of contemplation. Putting his energy into deep studies and interpretation of Vedic Scriptures, he went on to become a monk and a spiritual seeker. Learn more about Shubha here: http://www.shubhavilas.com/about_me.html
Tessa Bielecki
Tessa Bielecki was previously Mother Abbess of the Spiritual Life Institute, a Carmelite community with hermitages in Colorado, Nova Scotia, and Ireland. She now lives as an “urban hermit” in Tucson, near her beloved Saguaro National Park. Tessa is a seasoned retreat leader and the author of numerous articles and five major works: Teresa of Avila: Mystical Writings; Holy Daring: The Earthy Mysticism of St. Teresa, the Wild Woman of Avila; Ecstasy and Common Sense; Season of Glad Songs: A Christmas Anthology, Desert Voices: The Edge Effect, and Sounds True audio learning courses Passion for God y Wild at Heart: Radical Teachings of the Christian Mystics. She is currently working on a memoir.
Imam Jamal Rahman
Imam Jamal Rahman is a popular speaker on Islam, Sufi spirituality, and interfaith relations. Along with his Interfaith Amigos, he has been featured in the New York Times, CBS News, BBC, and various NPR programs. Jamal is co-founder and Muslim Sufi minister at Interfaith Community Sanctuary and adjunct faculty at Seattle University. He is a former co-host of Interfaith Talk Radio and travels nationally and internationally, presenting at retreats and workshops.
Jamal’s passion lies in interfaith community building. He remains rooted in his Islamic tradition and cultivates a “spaciousness” by being open to the beauty and wisdom of other faiths. By authentically and appreciatively understanding other paths, Jamal feels that he becomes a better Muslim. This spaciousness is not about conversion but about completion.
Credits
24 CEU credits available.
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