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Supervision Formation for Experienced Spiritual Directors

This illume Course for supervision formation welcomes experienced spiritual directors into a rich professional transformational process. The focus is the furthing of each participants ability to listen contemplatively and respond compassionately in both the spiritual direction and supervision settings. All engaged course participants will leave the formation experience with a deeper understanding of the supervision process, the confidence and skills to facilitate supervision, and a far greater ability to access the unique spiritual director and supervisor they desire to be.

Spiritual Direction Supervision Formation

Using The Experience Circle and Montessori Human Tendencies as organizing structures, this course will be interactive and experiential in nature. Group size will be limited to 20, so that the supervisor in training has ample opportunity to participate in lively discussions, interactive exercises, and extensive observation and practice sessions.

This course can be uniquely designed to meet the needs of the hosting site. The recommended structure is a five-day format offered in three parts:

• PART I: 2.5 days

• PART II: 6 to 12-month practicum, 2 participant/instructor sessions, & 1 remote gathering

• PART III: 2.5 days

Autumn Domingue is the founder of Autumn Domingue: Spiritual Direction and Coaching, a contemplative private practice devoted to the arts of spiritual direction, life coaching, supervision, formation, and mentoring. Autumn is passionate about helping others discover their spiritual essence and the ways it is woven through relationships, work, and ministry. She holds a Master of Arts in Pastoral Studies as well as certificates in Spiritual Direction and the Supervision of Spiritual Directors. Autumn serves on the spiritual direction formation team at Aquinas Institute of Theology. Autumn lives in Hunt, Texas, with her husband David, their youngest son Luke, and the many boys and young people that work and attend the summer camp where they reside.