Dr. Bob Harrison presented to the associate spiritual director’s at WVIS. Included in his discussion was the work he and Susie Pace had put into recruiting writers and co-editing the WVIS Reflections for the 2018 Advent Season 2018 West Virginia Institute for Spirituality Advent Reflections
He encouraged those present interested in writing for the 2019 Lenten Reflection project to contact him.
Sister Carole Riley, CDP, Ph.D. presented a workshop Saturday on Self Disclosure and Silence. The program goal was to help participants define, discuss and evaluate the role of silence in contemporary society .
Posted on Friday, November 9th, 2018 in Uncategorized
These reflections are offered to assist you on your spiritual journey during this Season of Advent.
Reflections for the Season of Advent 2018 – click the following to take you to the reflection booklet:
2018 West Virginia Institute for Spirituality Advent Reflections
Posted on Saturday, October 20th, 2018 in Uncategorized
January 17-20, 2019: Intensive Workshop: Methods of Directing the 19th Annotation Retreat in Everyday Life Flyer: Retreat in Everyday Life 19th Ann 2019
Online course for Spiritual Directors
Formation of the Heart: Dispositions in Spiritual Direction Ministry
a five-month online course for Spiritual Directors taught by Sister Carole Riley, CDP, Ph.D., LPC, Fellow – AAPC, Executive Director of The West Virginia Institute for Spirituality. The dates of the course offerings are listed below.
This course explores and integrates Adrian Van Kaam’s Human Formation science’s phasic formation and dispositions of the heart, and the dynamics of the spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Supplemental readings from Schemel’s Beyond Individuation to Discipleship and Maureen Conroy’s Looking Into the Deep Well, assist the participants in developing advanced discernment insights, increased self-awareness, and skills for developing materials for spiritual direction ministry.
The course has five meetings of 90 minutes each, or a total of 7.5 hours, and is equivalent to one credit graduate work. A practicum of 3.5 hours is required, along with two hours of personal individual scheduled planning and consultation with the course instructor.
The course will be offered on these dates via ZOOM from 8:30 EST to 10:00 AM.
January 11, 2019 February 1 March 1 April 5 May 3
Please contact Sister Carole Riley with your interest at wviscr@aol.com
Posted on Friday, January 19th, 2018 in Uncategorized
Posted on Thursday, January 11th, 2018 in Uncategorized
Have you attended one of Sr. Carole Riley’s workshops and wished you had taped her presentation?
Now, many of her recorded programs are available for purchase. Click below to see which programs are available.
Sister Carole Riley, CDP, Ph. D. Programs
Posted on Thursday, February 16th, 2017 in Uncategorized
Click here for the Almost Heaven Registration Brochure: 2019 Almost Heaven Retreats WVIS Brochure
Almost Heaven Retreats 2019
With anticipation, we are preparing for our 2019 Almost Heaven Summer Retreat at The West Virginia Institute for Spirituality, located at 1601 Virginia Street, East, Charleston, WV 25311. Click above to download the Almost Heaven Retreat Registration Brochure. Retreats will be offered from May 24 through July 14, 2019.
The directed retreat is a silent time in which the retreatant is guided through a prayer experience by a personal spiritual director. The retreatant meets daily with the director to reflect upon the prayer experience and to discern in the light of the experience how to proceed. The material for prayer is Scripture. If you have never made a directed retreat, a Friday evening through Sunday morning is a recommended introduction. A weekend retreat is helpful in preparing retreatants to make longer retreats such as a 3 to 8 day retreat, or the thirty day experience.
We hope you will register soon so we can guarantee a space for you. If you would like more information or the opportunity to talk more about this, call (304) 345-0926. Our facility accommodates only 15 retreatants at a time. Our meals always include a vegan option and the facility is air conditioned.
We look forward to welcoming you this summer,
Sister Carole Riley, CDP, Ph.D.
Executive Director
West Virginia Institute for Spirituality
Posted on Wednesday, February 1st, 2017 in Uncategorized
Part-time help needed: cooking, cleaning, maintenance.
If interested contact Sr. Carole Riley
**Volunteer your time at WVIS:
filing, housekeeping, cook a meal, answer the phone, weed the garden
**Purchase Gift cards from:
Walmart, Kroger, Sam’s Club, Amazon for house and retreatant needs.
**Monetary donations: coming soon you will be able to use your credit card to send a donation to WVIS.
**k-cups for Keurig: regular and decaf coffee, herbal teas
Do you shop online? If so, your online shopping can benefit WVIS. Here’s how:
1. www.igive.com/button/
Add the i.give button to your browser – register and indicate you wish your shopping to help the West Virginia Institute for Spirituality. There are many stores on the igive site. A percentage of your purchase will be sent to WVIS by those participating stores.
2. You can shop smile.amazon.com, which is the exact same as Amazon.com.
However, when you go to smile.amazon.com, they will donate 0.5% of all of your purchases to a charity of your choice. This is not tax deductible, but also not an additional expense.
Posted on Thursday, September 15th, 2016 in Uncategorized
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