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These retreats are for those who would like to make the full Spiritual Exercises in a residential form but not as a full month away. The advantage of this method of making the Exercises is that there is time to take in each 'week' of the Exercises and to ‘test’ them with the reality of everyday life. We cannot guarantee the same retreat guide for each stage.

For those wishing to make the full Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius in three stages of ten days each.

Spiritual directors need to reflect on their practice and also be accountable to others about their work. Supervision provides for this, as well as an excellent way to develop one’s skills and to learn.

The aim of this eight day course, which runs three times a year, is to introduce participants to the basic principles of Ignatian spiritual conversation and accompaniment.

Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius ‘I ask for knowledge of all I have received, that stirred to profound gratitude I may become able to love and serve God in all things’ [Sp Exx 233]

To help participants grow in their capacity to offer Ignatian spiritual direction in different contexts. The course recognises that spiritual direction in the Ignatian tradition is discerning, dynamic and personal. The assumption behind the process is that God is at work in the everyday life of each person.

The “Ten Week” course aims to help participants to gain competence and experience in giving individually guided retreats based on the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola through both experiential and theoretical learning.