Lecture series spiritual counselling
In the lecture series 'Spiritual Counselling', you will learn to guide people on their spiritual path. Use this lecture series as personal deepening or to broaden expertise within your own field. Each individual module in the course concludes with a certificate.
The language of instruction of this lecture series is Dutch. Visit the Dutch page for all information about this lecture series and to sign up.
What will you learn?
Deepening the spiritual process is central. You learn to support people with questions of life, meaning and their relationship to the world. Spiritual counselling aims to offer people insight into their spiritual process. A spiritual director helps people in their search for, and contact with, what moves them most. This search unfolds in life as a spiritual path full of experiences, hesitations, learning moments and new discoveries. On this path, people encounter themselves with all their positive and negative sides. In this spiritual process, however, one need not stand alone. Expert spiritual guides are able to support people on this path.
Modules
It is possible to take the course as a whole, but the parts can also be taken separately as contract tuition. Please note that only after the modules are completed on site, they become available for self-study.
- Module Guidance on the spiritual path: available for self-study.
- Module The spiritual process: available for self-study.
- Module Embodied spirituality: you follow this module live, started autumn 2024.
- Module The practice of spiritual direction: you follow this module live, started autumn 2024.
- Module Passion and Dedication: you follow this module live, started spring 2025.
Upon completion of this course
- You will have developed competencies as a spiritual director to guide spiritual processes.
- You will know how, as a spiritual director, you help people listen and look at what happens in the depths of existence.
- Can you articulate, represent and sustain your own spirituality from an awareness of a personal dependence on the greater whole and an understanding of what moves your deeper self.
- Know how to (critically) engage in spiritual processes.Do you know how to (critically) reflect on your own spirituality in relation to others and in relation to spiritual guidance.
- Have you learned how to adopt a listening attitude in spiritual guidance and can express yourself communicatively effectively.
Flexible study
The above modules are offered within the Spiritual Guidance course. Join the individual modules live (on-site or online), or study at home afterwards and take the courses digitally. You can join at any time. Study flexibly: in the lecture hall or at home on your own time. It's up to you.