Bill had been on the faculty of Retreats International Summer Institute, Notre Dame, IN for the past 17 years. A Spirituality of Power for Spiritual Companioning is an opportunity to explore how we think about and exercise power as we companion others. Based on the assumptions that the issue of power is central, not peripheral, to spirituality, the workshop will address different paradigms of human and divine power and their applications to the process of spiritual companioning. Attention will be given to the issues of power that emerge in both the companion and the directee. This experientially based workshop makes use of the role play and small group processing.
Input is shared by all participants and happens in the context of a group conversation.
As co-learners and teachers with each other participants must be willing to share their experiences. Helen Cahill, OP is a Kentucky Dominican who is a full time staff member at Claret Center of Spirituality and Counseling in Chicago. Helen does individual and group spiritual direction, directed retreats, and spiritual direction and formation supervision. She is also adjunct faculty member in spirituality at The Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. Her former ministries include extensive experience in the leadership of her religious community.