Spiritual Directors’ Annual Retreat: Deepening Our Call
“Prayer, Intimacy & True Christian Growth”
Saturday, April 12, 2025
9am – 4pm
Cost: $65 (Be sure to enter your discount code if you attended the Spiritual Director Skill Series in March!)
Sr. Janice Bachman will lead us through this in-person retreat day that provides space for active spiritual directors to reflect on their own experience of prayer and on ways they can encourage those whom they accompany to deepen their experience of God. From the kernel of who God is for you, we will explore prayer as relating, and develop awareness of the signs of true Christian growth in ourselves and in our directees.
The vocation of spiritual directors calls us to an ongoing prayer life. And, spiritual directors can be of significant help to pray-ers as they break out of rigid concepts of prayer which in turn can help break out of a rigid, limited relationship with God. Different ways of discovering God as well as distractions in prayer will be addressed so we can support intimacy and authentic Christ-centered development.
Facilitators
Janice Bachman, OP
Janice Bachman, OP, a Dominican Sister of Peace from Columbus, OH, is a spiritual director and Jungian Analyst. A key area of interest for her is the convergence of analytical psychology and spirituality, and how the two disciplines and their symbols inform the process of analysis, spiritual development and becoming more whole persons. For the past 30+ years Janice has been involved in the training of spiritual directors and has offered a variety of workshops and retreats. Janice has been on the summer faculty of Creighton University’s Graduate Program in Christian Spirituality since 1997. She holds a master’s degree from Creighton University and a diploma in Analytical Psychology from the Ontario Association of Jungian Analysts, Toronto, and an MBA from Xavier University, Cincinnati.
Retreat Details
Contact
Questions: Dominican Center via phone at 616.514.3325 or by emailing programs@dominicancenter.com.
Registration Fee & Information
- Cost: $65
- Lunch is included.
- Promo Codes were provided to those who participated in the Spiritual Director Skill Series. Contact us if you did not receive it.
- Financial scholarships are available – call to request information.
- View Dominican Center Marywood’s Refund Policy
