Using the 12 Steps of Recovery in Spiritual Direction: A Series for Spiritual Directors
Gain a broader understanding of the 12 Steps of recovery, along with ideas on using them with directees seeking freedom from addiction, compulsive patterns of behavior and self-sabotaging choices.
Every person’s life is lived according to their physical, intellectual, emotional, spiritual and psychological personalities. The spiritual dimension is the organizing center of our lives and clearly holds the potential power and wisdom necessary for transformation in all the other areas. People struggling with addictions of ALL kinds and those seeking healthy changes in their lives can benefit from the profoundly spiritual principles undergirding the 12 Steps of Recovery.
Retreat House Spirituality Center is delighted to partner with Trained Spiritual Director Lee Jarrell for a seminar this Fall on ways to incorporate the 12 Steps of Recovery into your spiritual direction practice. Read more about Lee’s journey and this offering in Feeling Shipwrecked? Insights with Lee Jarrell on Using the 12 Steps of Recovery in Spiritual Direction, a blog post for Retreat House Spirituality Center.
Gathering times (four total sessions) VIA ZOOM:
Friday, September 3, 2021 from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Friday, October 1, 2021 from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Friday, November 5, 2021 from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Friday, December 3, 2021 from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
How will this benefit your spiritual direction practice?
Lee’s desire is to offer practical, easy to understand and helpful insights into the deeply spiritual healing principles found in the classic 12 Steps of Recovery founded in 1935 by Alcoholics Anonymous.
Lee regularly uses these principles with his directees with remarkably reliable results. He simply wants to offer them as another tool for spiritual directors to work with our directees’ longings for inner freedom and wholeness in all dimensions of life.
Lee will cover three of the 12 steps of recovery in each session. It is recommended that participants attend all FOUR sessions. Questions? Email Lee.
Cost to attend all four sessions is $100 per person. * If you cannot attend all sessions, cost is $25/session. Please plan your schedule and pay $25/session when payment link is receive. Payment information will be sent once registration is received. No refunds will be given after September 2. If finances are a challenge, please email us.
*Fifty percent of workshop proceeds will be donated to Retreat House.