Exploring Your Underground Stream: Going Deeper using Progoff’s Intensive Journal Method

A 5-Week Program via Zoom
Wednesday evenings, January 15, 22, 29 and February 5, 12 from 7:00 – 8:30 EST.

Offered by:
Sally Orcutt, O.P. – WVIS Associate Spiritual Director/Associate Ministry Director
Dr. Shannon Lenet – Spiritual Director

St. Ignatius and his Spiritual Exercises are a path to interior freedom, a path to coming to know ourselves as God knows us recognizing that all of who we are is who God loves. This January you are inviting to go more deeply on this path as we gather for, Exploring Your Underground Stream: Going Deeper Using Progoff’s Intensive Journal Method.

Combining the work of Dr. Ira Progoff (Intensive Journal Method) and Dr. Richard Schwartz (Internal Family Systems), this program invites you to come to understand yourself on a deeper level which includes meeting and dialoguing with your inner child(ren). According to Schwartz, we are all influenced on a daily basis by how these “parts” feel even though we are unaware. According to Progoff, if we follow the trail of the thoughts and feelings that come up over and over in our dialogues, we will see the pattern of these thoughts and feelings.

Each evening will include presentation, time for journaling, small group sharing, and time for questions. Everything shared will be confidential in the group.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: January 13, 2025

OFFERING: $70.00 plus the purchase of a 1″ – 2″ binder for journaling (and paper). Scholarships are available by emailing exec.director@wvis.org.

I Don’t Want To Talk About it: How to invite Healthy Dialogue

Saturday, November 9, 2024 (8:15 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.) via Zoom

Facilitated by: WVIS Associate Spiritual Directors Liz Deal, Sally Orcutt, O.P., and P.J. Scarr

Culturally, secrecy and privacy are misunderstood. The message ‘don’t talk about it’ prompts many of us to suffer in silence and isolation in areas of depression, sexual abuse, trauma, shame and loss. We are told to ‘get over it’. The goal of this seminar is to teach healthy understanding of difficult emotions using theories of formative spirituality and internal family systems theory. As part of this seminar participants will have:

1. Definitions of key concepts,
2. Resources for follow up learning,
3. Handouts for reflection, and
4. Processing time for personal integration.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: November 7, 2024. 

OFFERING: A $50 donation to WVIS is requested. This includes all materials for this program. WVIS seeks to make programs available to everyone who desires to attend. Please email exec.director@wvis.org if you would like to enquire about a partial scholarship.