Courses in Ignatian Spirituality
ISI offers various opportunities to learn more about Ignatian spirituality through courses focusing on the basic principles and practices. Course themes include overviews of prayer and praying, discernment, learning about St Ignatius and other Ignatian principles.
Conversation
Spiritual conversation requires attentive listening to oneself, to others, and to the Holy Spirit. It is an experience of sharing life experiences that opens us to a see all things new in Christ.
Companions in the Way: formation for guiding the Spiritual Exercises
Program description:
This ten month formation program prepares spiritual directors to guide others through the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius with care, humility, and depth. The program attends closely to the structure, movements, and intentions of the Exercises while forming directors in the interior dispositions necessary for faithful accompaniment. In keeping with ISI’s commitment to freedom for mission, participants are invited into ongoing personal and spiritual formation throughout the program.
The Art of Companioning: Ignatian Insights for Spiritual Directors
At the heart of spiritual direction lies the sacred art of companioning—walking with another as God labors within their story. Drawing from the Ignatian tradition, this workshop offers spiritual directors an opportunity to reflect more deeply on the interior dispositions, practices, and graces that shape faithful accompaniment.
Through prayer, reflection, and guided conversation, participants will explore themes such as presence and reverence, listening beneath words, discerning the movements of consolation and desolation, and trusting the freedom of the Holy Spirit. Attention will be given not only to what we do as spiritual directors, but who we are becoming in the act of companioning.
Prayer in Practice
ISI's Prayer in Practice offers a monthly opportunity to join an online guided meditation: a chance to meet, pray, listen, and speak from the heart. The forty-five minute prayer sessions will meet via Zoom at noon (Central Time) the first Friday of each month.
Workshop: Giving Witness
This practicum is designed to form lay persons, Jesuits, priests, religious sisters and brothers, involved in or moving into the ministries of parish missions, days of reflection, or preached retreats rooted in the Ignatian spiritual tradition. The practicum will be held Monday, June 8 - Friday, June 12, 2026. Early bird registration deadline February 27, 2026.
Spiritual Companioning
The Ignatian Spirituality Institute is privileged to work with several Ignatian spiritual companions. Through our application and interview processes, we are sometimes able to help seekers and directors find one another.