Spiritual companions do not listen in a vacuum. Life is interactional, and our bodies continually respond, in the moment, to the people and situations we experience. When we learn to welcome, befriend, and trust our body’s felt senses, our ability to welcome and listen to others with ease and groundedness expands. Inner Relationship Focusing invites us to befriend our body’s “freshly felt sense” as a means to wisdom, inner healing, and living whole. 

In this 2-part, online series, Kim Isaak will teach spiritual directors to use Inner Relationship Focusing to welcome, describe, and relate to a bodily felt sense and the partial selves that arise in us. Participants will practice companioning others in their listening while noticing what arises within our own bodies. We will learn to acknowledge and honor what does not feel at ease in ourselves as we listen to another. And we will learn a structured process to listen to our bodies and befriend what is there before, during, and after offering a contemplative listening space for others. As we return to the practice of Inner Relationship Focusing, spiritual companions can find ease in listening with their whole bodies while maintaining a contemplative presence for others.

Sacred Ground Center for Spirituality and Loyola Spirituality Center look forward to bringing you Kim Isaak’s gentle and deep wisdom as she helps us explore Inner Relationship Focusing as a Spiritual Companion.

Kim Isaak serves as a spiritual director, spiritual direction supervisor and pastor at Restoration Ministries, which she helped establish in 2007. She is a certified Inner Relationship Focusing Teacher and Professional. Kim has a special interest in grief, loss, trauma, wholeness and the body so that we can hear and tell stories in ways that heal and lead us forward towards newness of life.

We will meet by Zoom Monday September 30, 2024 and Monday October 14, 2024 from
6:30-8:30pm

Cost: $60