UMS : Unit: DD8706Y

Content

Developing from DD8705Y, this unit provides students with the opportunity to undertake spiritual direction under appropriate supervision and to reflect critically on that experience.

Students continue their ministry of spiritual direction and their ongoing focus on: a contemplative approach to spiritual direction; the nature and boundaries of the relationship of direction; confidentiality and appropriate consent; procedures for referral; the environment and protocols for spiritual direction; the nature and boundaries of the supervisory relationship; and the different theories and praxis of spiritual direction.

Each student will direct a retreat under supervision as part of this unit.

Unit code: DD8706Y

Unit status: Approved (Major revision)

Points: 24.0

Unit level: Postgraduate Foundational

Unit discipline: Spiritual Direction

Delivery Mode: Blended

Proposing College: Yarra Theological Union

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Learning outcomes

1.	Reflect critically on the nature of relationships in spiritual direction
2.	Critically rticulate the impact of accompaniment on human and spiritual development, in particular, in relation to their own experience of spiritual direction as director and directee
3.	Critically demonstrate an ability to articulate their capacities and limitations as developing spiritual directors within the context of group supervision
4.	Critically integrate their theoretical learnings, their ministerial practice and their personal development
5.	Critically evaluate the key elements of leading a retreat and be able to put them into practice

Unit sequence

Pre-requisites: DD8701Y, DD8703Y and DD8705Y Co-requisites: DD8702Y and DD8704Y

Pedagogy

Lectures, tutorials, supervised practice of spiritual direction

Indicative Bibliography

Barry William A., and William J. Connolly. The Practice of Spiritual Direction. New York: Seabury, 1982.
Buckley, Michael. The Structure of the Rules for Discernment of Spirits, The Way Suppl. 20, Autumn 1973, 29-37.
Conroy, Maureen. Looking into the Well: Supervision of Spiritual Directors. Chicago, IL: Loyola University Press, 1995.
Gallagher, B. Set me Free, Australia: Coventry Press, 2019
Gallagher, B. The Eyes of God. Australia: Coventry Press, 2020.
Keating, Thomas. The Huan Condition. New York: Paulist, 1999.
Larkin, Ernest. Silent Presence. New Jersey: Dimension Books, 1981.
May, Gerald G. Care of Mind, Care of Spirit. San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row, 1982.
May, Gerald G. Will and Spirit: a Contemplative Psychology. San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row, 1982.
Ruffing, Janet K. Spiritual Direction: Beyond the Beginnings. New York: Paulist, 2000.

Assessment

Type	Description	Word count	Weight (%)
Verbatim Report	10 x 300 word critical reflection reports	3000	50.0
Workplace evaluation	1000 word critical reflection	1000	10.0
Workplace evaluation	1000 word case study	1000	20.0
Personal & Professional Evaluation	1000 word personal and professional self-evaluation	1000	20.0

Approvals

Unit approved for the University of Divinity by Prof Albert Haddad on 9 Aug, 2022

Unit record last updated: 2022-08-09 09:27:48 +1000