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Spiritual Direction
Supervision
A 12-Week Online Course with Lucy Abbott Tucker
Lucy Abbott Tucker, SDI co-founder and worldwide expert on spiritual direction supervision, has agreed to offer the SDI community a 12-week online course on supervision.
For the first time ever, experience and receive Lucy’s Supervision Training in an online setting.
This is a chance to join one of SDI’s living wisdom teachers and dive deeper into a subject at the heart of our calling.
Lucy has taught on this subject around the world, but it’s often hard for people to pay for the travel and hotel costs to attend her workshops. Now, this online course, starting January 2022, makes learning about supervision not only more convenient, but also more affordable.
This course will provide a program in the practice of supervision for spiritual directors. The sessions will include input, discussion, and practice for the work of spiritual direction and spiritual companionship.
Since writing Spiritual Direction Supervision: Principles, Practices, & Storytelling over 18 months ago, Lucy in her subsequent teachings has gained new insights and wisdom in the practice of Supervision, which include self-care, hints to giving and receiving feedback, secondary trauma and a new model of supervision.
What to Expect
- An Online Training for Spiritual Directors who wish to become Supervisors, or for those seeking to improve and build on their Supervision skills.
- 12 Weekly Zoom sessions with Lucy Abbott Tucker - Master Supervision Instructor and Mentor
- Access to our Online Learning Platform, with videos, print resources, and other content
- New tools to cultivate online community with your peers
- Participate Live or at your own pace - all sessions recorded
Schedule
Twelve live weekly 2-hour courses, Tuesdays, 8am-10am Pacific (10am-Noon Central, 11am-1pm Eastern) beginning in January 2022. Exact dates and outline below.
Students can participate live or watch at their convenience later.
Course Outline
January 4 – Why and What of Supervision
January 11 – Definitions and How they Function
January 18 – The Continuum of Relationships and the place of Supervision
January 25 – Stages of Supervision
February 1 – What constitutes effective Supervision?
February 8 – Some Models of Supervision – Part 1
February 15 – Transference and Counter-Transference, Secondary Trauma
February 22 – Some Models of Supervision – Part 2
March 1 – Models of Transformation
March 8 – Development of and Changing of God images
March 15 – Some ideas for Peer Supervision Groups
March 22 – Some thoughts from Maya Angleou, final question and answer session.
Credits
24 CEU credits available.
Faculty
Lucy Abbott Tucker
Lucy Abbott Tucker has been a member of SDI since its inception. She began her ministry of spiritual direction at the Institute for Spiritual Leadership, Chicago. She worked there preparing women and men for the ministry for 32 years. Since 2015 she has been doing freelance work in spiritual direction and supervision. She believes spiritual direction has the power to help heal our world and values the opportunity to support spiritual directors in this work.
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