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Spiritual Care: Cultivating a Listening Heart

$25.00

Rev. Paul Scaglione, M.Div., offers ways to cultivate the listening and self-reflection skills needed to accompany others on their spiritual journey.

Product Description

Overview

Listening is one of the most important elements of spiritual care for others. It is tempting to offer quick, ready-made solutions when we encounter someone who is struggling spiritually. However, the story a person shares is critical to their own communication with and understanding of God, as well as to your own spiritual growth.

Rev. Paul Scaglione, M.Div., offers insight from over 40 years’ experience as a pastor and trained spiritual director into how to cultivate the listening and self-reflection skills needed to accompany others on their spiritual journey.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will:

  1. Identify the skills needed for listening to others’ spiritual challenges;
  2. Deepen their awareness of their role as a companion in others’ spiritual journey; and
  3. Discover how self-reflection is essential to our ability to provide spiritual support for others.

Who Should Participate

Priests, deacons, men and women religious, lay ministers, and those involved in vocations, formation, or clergy and ministry personnel needs.

Reflection Questions

Questions for reflection and discussion prior to the learning session are provided below.

  1. How much time do I spend in silence on a typical day?
  2. How does it make me feel when someone truly listens to me?
  3. What is my greatest obstacle to listening to another person?