Learning, Growing, and Training
Through our variety of programs, we hope that you will find support for your own understanding of Celtic Spirituality and personal growth. All of these offerings will help you to deepen your learning about Celtic spirituality and encourage you to include Celtic and Contemplative practices throughout your life.
Thresholds: Celtic Christian Spirituality and Practice
Thresholds is our central program which includes both learning and practice of the Celtic and Contemplative way. It is a 9-month program and includes The Celtic Christian Perspectives and Practice course, group meetings for discussion and support, readings, writing, and spiritual direction. This is our main offering to help you ground yourself in this ancient practice that has such powerful and essential relevance to our current lives.
The Celtic Christian Perspective and Practice Course
Our online course consists of three classes with two lectures per class. It is designed to help you learn about this perspective as well as develop practices to enhance your own spiritual development. All the classes are pre-recorded and available online so you can watch them at a time that is convenient for you. You can purchase the entire course at a discount or you can purchase individual classes or lectures. Note that the entire course is contained in the Threshold program above. In the Threshold program you will be able to meet with others who are studying this material for discussion so that you can enhance your learning experience.
Soul Friend Training: Spiritual Direction Certificate Program
The ancient Celtic tradition offers a wonderful way of growing spiritually within community through engaging regularly with a trusted friend who is able to support and encourage authentic growth of soul and spirit. A trusted Soul Friend was called an Anam Cara in the Irish language. We offer a 9-month training program for those who want to care for others in a skilled and appropriate manner within this rich Soul Friend tradition. The program offers training in both the Celtic and Contemplative perspective as well as instruction, practice, and supervision as each participant learns to care for friends deliberately and in a manner that encourages them on their own spiritual journey.
One version of a Soul Friend is a Spiritual Director. Our program not only offers training from a Celtic perspective but also leads to a Certificate in Spiritual Direction if you would like to offer care toward others in that capacity as well. This program builds upon the Thresholds Program and thus Thresholds is a prerequisite. After completing Thresholds, you can let us know of your desire to move into this second program. In Soul Friend Training, you will watch and discuss three lectures about the skills needed to do this good work, meet in a group to support one another and practice Soul Friend and spiritual direction skills, read several relevant texts and write reflections and papers to increase your learning, receive personal spiritual direction, offer spiritual direction to others, and receive supervision as you do the work of the soul friend and spiritual director.