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1. Midi Sadhana |
(Jan 11 – March 10) |
Meant primarily for those in leadership position and in formation work, this experiential course aims to heip participants in self-awareness and personal integration so that they can be more effective, life giving and growth promoting in their interaction with others. The course usually begins with basic orientation and community building sessions followed by a Vipassana or Journal retreat that sets the tone of silence and awareness for what follows. Group therapy experience of about four weeks follows immediately after the Vipassana retreat. Additional components of the Midi Sadhana course could be Human Sexuality and Affectivity, Reflections on the Sadhana of Jesus, Challenges of Mid Life.
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| 2. Vipassana Retreat |
(Jan 11 - 22) |
Vipassana is a simple and direct practice of moment to moment observation of the mind-body process through calm and focussed awareness. Observing experiences from a place of stillness enables us to relate to life with less fear and clinging. Seeing the reality of constant change, we begin to accept all aspects of our life with increasing poise and equanimity. Deepening insight helps us see the totality of our being and experience life with greater clarity, wisdom and compassion.
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| 3. Sadhana of Jesus: Fully Human, Fully Alive |
(Feb 28 - March 6) |
The focus of the course is to imbibe the perspectives and vision of Jesus so that we learn what it means to be human. We do this by highlighting Jesus' Life and Teaching - the way He lived. The course helps us challenge certain unhealthy images of God and the human that have crept into religious life due to the distortions of culture and history. This will enhance the development of healthy images of the human and the divine. The net result is certain audacity to believe, to be human.
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| 4. Human Affectivity |
(Feb 16 – 27) |
This course seeks to provide the participants a grounding in the psychological and developmental aspects of human sexuality and emotional maturity with special reference to the celibate way of life. It offers a positive understanding of sexuality affording participants opportunities for inner work and personal exploration into the significance of emotional and sexual maturity.
An essential part of this approach is to point to the life affirming and spiritual aspects of sexuality and intimacy so that one’s affective energies are channeled into his or her daily life and relationships and are at the service of a deeper spiritual life. Formators, especially, spiritual directors of seminaries would be given preference.
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| 5. NLP - Basic |
(April 9 – 21) |
Neuro-Linguistic Programming is a means of personal, social and spiritual growth. NLP offers a detailed and pragmatic model of the processes involved in human behaviour and communications.
It is about how the brain works, how people think, feel, learn, motivate themselves, interact with others, make choices, and achieve realistic goals. The NLP approach to communication can produce the widest range of choices and the ability to CHANGE in order to achieve desired results.
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| 6. Tools of the Spirit |
(April 24 – May 1) |
This course is open only for those who have completed the Basic and Advanced courses of NLP conducted by Dick McHugh.
This seminar aims to enable participants to use NLP to ‘create a world to which people want to belong.’ Every individual yearns to have a deeper relationship with something greater than himself or herself. This seminar offers means which bring our individual minds and nervous systems more in harmony and alignment with the ‘larger mind’ or ‘God-Mind’ of which we are members and thus experience the fruits of the Spirit, namely, love, compassion, joy and peace, in greater measure (Course guide: Dick McHugh SJ).
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| 7. Mini Sadhana , Age Limit: 35 - 55 |
(May 7 – June 15)) |
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Mini Sadhana is a four to five week experiential course that aims at helping participants in self-awareness and inner healing. It is meant for those who would actively seek opportunities for personal growth and spiritual well-being. |
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| 8. Drawing from the Depths |
(May 10 – 16) |
Using the non-analytical, non-diagnostic and integrative approach to life employed in the Intensive Journal, this retreat seeks to help participants learn to work with all of their life experiences, both positive and negative, to develop a basis for important life decisions. |
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| 9. Meaning Through Mid Years |
(Sept 1 - 30) |
As humans we are daily growing and transforming while passing through the various stages of development. The middle years are a time of diminishing physical, intellectual, affective, and spiritual energies. This course, with its emphasis on midlife development, becomes a time to harness together one's scattered and underutilized resources from earlier stages of development and to direct them towards meaningful later years. Besides theory, group processing attends to past issues that might interfere with this meaning-seeking journey and also facilitates conscious choices that could lead to spiritual wholeness. The participants' images and dreams tend to become the vehicle for healing the past and dealing with resistances to a meaningful life ahead.
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| 10. Counselling Skills |
(Sept 5 – Oct 09) |
This course will be geared to imparting training in the basic skills involved in the interpersonal process of counselling and spiritual direction.
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| 11. Midi Sadhana |
(Oct 10 - Nov 28) |
Please see course description under# 1 above.
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| 12. NLP Advanced |
(Nov 7 - 19) |
Please see course description under # 5 above. Only those who have completed the Basic course in NLP may apply for this course.
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| 13. Religious Leadership |
(Nov 29 - Dec 16) |
This course is meant for those who are superiors of religious communities. It aims at helping participants to deepen their understanding of community leadership and decision making process. The course will have components such as management leadership styles and religious leadership styles, Religious Superior as a "sacrament" of the community's union of hearts and minds and will to emission, and the role of consultation, "spiritual ^conversation", representation. The course will also jhelp participants to understand how their own and others' preferred modes of orienting energy, patterns of perception and judgement and 'psychological signatures' affect personal and interpersonal functioning. Participants will also be introduced to skills for managing conflicts that may arise from differing personality styles.
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Admissions |
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1. Application forms are sent out on request. They are also available at our website and may be completed online and submitted. Confidential recommendation of the applicant’s Major Superior is an admission requirement for first time applicants. This is available at the website but has to be printed out and mailed to us directly.
2. Upon receiving your completed forms, you will receive a letter of acknowledgement and information about the status of your admission
3. When admission is granted, a letter of acceptance will be sent to you offering you a seat and containing relevant information regarding fees, how to get to Sadhana Institute, and what to bring with you.
4. If, for some reason, you cancel your admission, your seat is not transferable. It is given to the next person on the waiting list.
Points to be kept in mind:
1. The dates announced include the dates of your arrival and departure
2. We do not accept late arrivals, nor do we allow early departures.
3.Our courses are personally demanding and challenging and yet greatly transforming. They are not meant for those who are seeking rest and relaxation
4. Please send your applications as early as possible as we like to finalize the list of participants at least two months ahead of the program.
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address all admissions related correspondence to: |
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Admissions
Director
Sadhana Institute
Lonavla 410 401 India
Tel.: (02114) 273370
Fax: (02114) 273975
E-mail: sadhana@vsnl.net
Website: www.SadhanaInstitute.org
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