Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary

City: Elkhart

State: IN

Languages: English

Personalized Affiliation: Christianity

Spiritual Spheres: Christianity

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Email: [email protected]

Phone: 800-964-2627

Website: http://ambs.edu

Focus Area: Creative Arts, Education, Grief and Loss, Group Spiritual Direction, Mindfulness/Meditation

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Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, an accredited seminary, offers three courses for those who want to become spiritual directors or to make spiritual guidance a part of their ministry. Whether you're just beginning your work as a spiritual director or honing your skills after years of ministry, our supervised courses will help you pay attention to your inner assumptions, issues, and biases that could damage the relationship between you and your directees.

Spiritual Direction: Foundations is the first level of our supervised program and is offered in person or fully online. The second level of our supervised program includes two nonconsecutive courses offered on alternating years: Spiritual Direction: Mystery and Spiritual Direction: Wisdom.

All spiritual guidance courses are taught by Dan Schrock, DMin, who has over 25 years of experience as a spiritual director. Schrock is co-editor of An Open Place: The Ministry of Group Spiritual Direction and author of The Dark Night: A Gift of God. He received a Doctor of Ministry degree with an emphasis in Christian Spirituality from Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, GA, and has completed a year-long practicum in supervising spiritual directors from Together in the Mystery. He has also worked as a pastor for over 30 years.

To learn more and register, visit ambs.edu/spiritualdirection.

What do past students have to say about our seminars?

"The seminar increased my confidence in my own abilities. It increased my awareness of the presence of God and how to help others have an increased awareness of the presence of God." - Christine Friedel (Advanced Spiritual Guidance Seminar '17-'18)

"Through this seminar, I'm becoming a better listener both to the Holy Spirit and to others. I gained experiences, and now an expectation, that the Spirit will 'show up' in unexpected ways. Finally, I saw that the 'desert' times in life are and can be a source of great growth." - Anne Munley (Advanced Spiritual Guidance Seminar '17-'18)

"The best part of this seminar was the experiential learning component. Almost from day one we were engaging in the practice of Spiritual Guidance. I feel much better prepared to continue practicing Spiritual Direction than I would have after a course that was more focused on theory." - Brian D. Johnson (Spiritual Guidance Seminar '16-'17)

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