SDI Educational Events

FREE Spiritual Directors International Event Open to the Public

Spiritual Directors International is a global learning community committed to advancing spiritual direction around the world. Our membership consists of people from many nations and many faiths. SDI provides educational programs, publications, and contemplative practices to support spiritual direction.

Through open and respectful exchange of perspectives, contemplative practices, and patterns of expansive thinking, we seek to enhance competence and connections. The purpose of the learning community is to foster the transformation of individuals, organizations, and societies in light of the holy to promote peace, justice, and the integrity of creation.

FREE public event held at the CoCo Key Hotel (soon to be named DoubleTree by Hilton) 50 Ferncroft Rd, Danvers, Massachusetts, USA  
Please join us. Invite colleagues, friends, family, and spiritual directees. Everyone is welcome!

Thursday Evening, April 19
FREE and open to the public
5:00 p.m. Exhibitor and Conference Bookstore opens
7:00 p.m. Welcome to Spiritual Directors International Cultivating Compassion                         Educational Events
7:05 p.m.  Contemplative Practice
7:15 p.m.  Howard Thurman: Cultivator of Compassion
8:15 p.m.  Cultivating Compassion in Community

Evening Event Details:

Exhibitor and Conference Bookstore
Opens at 5:00 p.m.
Spiritual Directors International provides excellent resources to cultivate compassion and contemplative practices. Please visit the exhibitors and the comprehensive onsite bookstore. The bookstore is open daily, closing on Sunday at noon.

7:00 p.m. Welcome to Spiritual Directors International Cultivating Compassion

7:15 p.m. Howard Thurman: Cultivator of Compassion
Dr. Howard Thurman (1900-1981), was an influential American author, philosopher, theologian, educator and civil rights leader. He was Dean of Theology and the chapels at Howard University and Boston University for more than two decades and wrote 20 books. In 1944, he left his tenured position at Howard University to help the Fellowship of Reconciliation establish The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples in San Francisco, California, USA, the first racially integrated, intercultural church in the United States.

Together we will learn what it means to flesh out the practical dynamics of compassion within the context of community. Presenter: Kirk Byron Jones.

8:15 p.m. Cultivating Compassion in Community

Exhibitor List by January, 2012

More Details: Cultivating Compassion conference, April 19-27
 

Plenary Sessions with John Philip Newell and Rabbi Amy Eilberg
Friday workshops
Friday evening workshops
Saturday workshops
FREE Spiritual Directors International Educational Events Open to the Public
Schedule
Speaker Index

Cultivating Compassion 2012 educational events
April 19:         Leadership Institute
April 19:         Spirituality and Health Care Institute
April 19:         FREE Public Evening
April 20-22:   Cultivating Compassion conference
April 23:         Pilgrimage
April 24-27:   Contemplative Retreats