Heart of Life celebrates its 40th birthday in 2023, having witnessed over 1100 women and men – lay and ordained – graduate from our spiritual formation programs. Our graduates, in their journey of contemplative discernment following the way of the heart, have been listening, discerning, and taking up formation roles in communities across the globe since 1983.
Category: Spiritual Direction
Heart of Life Centre for Spiritual and Pastoral Formation
Ignatian Murmuration – 3 day Online International Conference
On 12-14 May 2022, Jesuit and Ignatian Spirituality Australia is offering a transformative conference to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the conversion of St Ignatius Loyola.
This three-day conference will be an Ignatian murmuration, a series of spiritual conversations using the Spiritual Field Hospital exercises of Michael Hansen SJ during Covid, to make connections with Ignatius in his interior journey of receiving new life in Christ. Receive new life yourself. And do it in enjoyable company.
Heart of Life Centre for Spiritual and Pastoral Formation Program 2022
Spiritual Direction & Supervision Training
Heart of Life Centre for Spiritual & Pastoral Formation is a work of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, was founded in 1983. It offers a ministry in spirituality, the formation of spiritual directors and pastoral supervisors, spiritual direction, pastoral supervision, and reflection events. Because of its international reputation, participants from Australia and overseas attend Heart of Life’s formation programs in spiritual direction, supervision and spiritual leadership. The Centre’s Siloam and Spiritual Leaders programs are accredited by Yarra Theological Union (YTU) and the University of Divinity.
Section 6 – Self-Understanding – Needs
Position Vacant
SUPERVISOR (Part-time) in the Siloam Program for the Formation of Spiritual Directors at Heart of Life Centre for Spiritual & Pastoral Formation. Heart of Life, a work of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, was founded in 1983. It offers a ministry in spirituality, the formation of spiritual directors and pastoral supervisors, spiritual direction, pastoral supervision, and reflection events. Because of its international reputation, participants from Australia and overseas attend Heart of Life’s formation programs in spiritual direction, supervision and spiritual leadership. The Centre’s Siloam and Spiritual Leaders programs are accredited by Yarra Theological Union (YTU) and the University of Divinity. Heart of Life is located in Malvern in Melbourne, Victoria.
Spiritual Direction Training
View this item in your browser ‘Siloam’: Full-time or Part-time Programfor the Formation of Spiritual Directors~ Online and in person ~ 1 Year Full-time (Feb-Nov 2022), or 2 Years Part-time (Feb-Nov 2022 & 2023)Heart of Life Centre for Read More …
Finding Your Inner Contemplative
By Br. John Mark Falkenhain, OSB, Ph.D. From Saint Luke Institute With the enforcement of social distancing and shelter in place orders, many friends and acquaintances have jokingly suggested to us monks: “This probably hasn’t meant a lot of changes for Read More …
Professional Supervision for Spiritual Directors Online Certificate Training
Dale Keenan invites applications by 22 February 2021 to Professional Supervision for Spiritual Directors Online Certificate Training. Dale Keenan is a CSD Member and Director of St Francis Spiritual Direction Formation Program, St Francis College, Brisbane. This course is designed Read More …