Programs - Summer Listings 2 - Brief Article

National Catholic Reporter, May 3, 2002

CALIFORNIA

PLACE: Pasadena, CA
TIME: June 29, 2002
DESCRIPTION: Come hear Joan Chittister
speak on "God, Women and the World:
Telling the Story Another Way." Join other
Christian women concerned about the role
of women in the church today. Attend an
"Ecumenical Gathering of Women," Saturday,
June 29, at First United Methodist Church,
Pasadena, Calif., for a full-day conference to
hear Joan Chittister; to pray together and to
share faith experiences. Honor women's
experiences and stories and create hope for
the future. Early reservations/registrations
recommended. $30 fee includes lunch. For
information, contact Immaculate Heart Community:
(323) 466-2157; fax: (323) 466-2150.
E-mail: ihmla@pacbell.net Web site: www.
gatheringofwomen.org

PLACE: San Miguel Mission,
       San Luis Obispo, CA
TIME: July 26-Aug. 9, 2002
DESCRIPTION: The Monastery of the
Christ, San Luis Obispo, Calif., continues the
school for spiritual directors experiential training.
Participate in daily Eucharist, morning
and evening prayers, singing, labyrinth walk,
small-group sharing, teachings, spiritual direction,
shared meals and recreation. The 2002
staff includes: Abbot David Geraets, OSB; Fr.,
Ray Roh, OSB; Marie J. Disciullo, PhD; Pat
Mitchell, PhD; Steve Coffey, MA; Vangie Santos
and more to be announced. For application
and information please write Abbot David
at: MRC, PO Box 3931, San Luis Obispo, CA
93403-3931. Or phone with address information:
(805) 544-7808 or (805) 546-8286.

COLORADO

PLACE: Mercy Center,
       Colorado Springs, CO
TIME: Year-round
DESCRIPTION: "Vitality: The Capacity
to Live, Grow, and Develop." An intensive
whole-person program that combines the
work of psychotherapy, inner healing, spiritual
direction, body/breath work, dream
work and mandala assessment and professional
educational training for adult life skills
to effect personal life-change. We include a
whole-person approach that helps discern
your personal needs and your capacity for
renewal, life transition, career change, grief
work, anger integration, loss of health, personal
growth and renewal. Your application
helps us to determine with you what resources
would best serve your personal and professional
goals. Mercy Center, Inc., 520 W. Buena
Ventura, Colorado Springs, CO 80907. Phone:
(719) 633-2302; fax: (719) 633-1031.

PLACE: Mercy Center,
       Colorado Springs, CO
TIME: May 6-17 and Sept. 2-13, 2002
DESCRIPTION: Vocation and formation
providers training. Exploration of the Myers-Briggs
Type Indicator and its application to
affiliation and belonging, anger and conflict
management. Learn how to use the Genogram
Family Tree and help candidates explore the
five typologies of a dysfunctional family system.
Learn how to use the Conscious Celibacy
Assessment Inventory and understand
the warning signs of unconscious celibacy.
Understand the mother and father wound
and understand what a person needs to
receive from their mother and father so they
can truly leave home and begin a formation
process. What is healthy sexuality and what
are some gender-related issues? What are
the implications of sexual preference in the
formation process? Week two designed by
the needs and requests of participants and
topics to include: mandala assessment, enneagram
exploration, Call of the soul and archetypal
journey. Mercy Center, Inc., 520 W.
Buena Ventura, Colorado Springs, CO 80907.
Phone: (719) 633-2302; fax: (719) 633-1031.

TEXAS

PLACE: Oblate School of Theology,
       San Antonio, TX
TIME: Aug. 4-9, 2002
DESCRIPTION: "Orientations & Transitions,"
a five-day program-experience for
priests, male and female religious, ages 55 to
75. Designed to address the expressed needs
of many communities and dioceses, components
include interactive conferences on the
conscious transitions of aging, retirement and
personal salvation history. A daily schedule
encourages time and space for personal prayer,
reading, leisure and Eucharist. Write/phone:
Orientations & Transitions, 334 W. Kings
Hwy., San Antonio, TX 78212. Phone: (210)
822-8761. E-mail: gmaw@concentric.net
Or: ebhc@concentric.nat