Advanced Certificate in Spiritual Direction
This program is offered online.
The advanced certificate in spiritual direction program is designed to identify the participant's potential for becoming a spiritual director, to assist the participant in discerning a call to this ministry, to formulate a model of spiritual direction and chaplaincy, and to develop the specific skills required to serve as a spiritual director. Graduates of the program serve as high school and college campus ministers, retreat directors, and spiritual directors.
Program Highlights
- Learn with our renowned faculty and international students from more than twenty countries.
- Training features both cognitive and applied learning, and includes resource gathering, modeling, discerning, practicing, demonstrating, case preparation, mentoring, reflecting, researching, writing, and supervised fieldwork.
Program Basics
- The curriculum requires satisfactory completion of 6 courses (18 semester credits).
- All courses can be completed online, on campus, and hybrid.
- See the full program requirements in the Fordham GSE Bulletin
Careers
- Spiritual director or companion
- Retreat Direction
- Pastoral ministry
- Chaplaincy
- Prison Ministry
- Campus ministry
Learning Outcomes
- Students will demonstrate facilities with methods of research in specific theological disciplines for post-graduate and doctoral studies.
- Students will communicate the Christian story competently to make it accessible through a variety of means (e.g. teaching, writing, dialogue, personal consultation).
- Students will articulate the relationship between the Christian tradition and their professional practice and spiritual development.
- Students will articulate a well rounded knowledge and critical appropriation of Jesuit Spirituality and the Catholic intellectual tradition.
- Students will use tools of literary, cultural, historical, and social analysis in the interpretation of various cultures and their relationship to the Christian tradition.