Living Simply, Gratefully, Poetically: Ignatian Rhythms in Spiritual Direction — with Kent Ira Groff
February 10, 2010
4–6:15 p.m. (3:30–4 p.m. — check-in, fellowship and refreshments)

St. John’s Cathedral
1350 Washington Street
Denver, CO 80203 (at 14th and Clarkson). Parking is available: off Washington St southbound between 14th and 13th Avenues; off Clarkson St northbound between Colfax and 14th Avenues; and on nearby streets.

www.spiritualdirectioncolorado.org
learning@spiritualdirectioncolorado.org

Spiritual Direction Colorado
8235 S. Ireland Way, Aurora, CO 80016-1919
Carolyn@spiritualdirectioncolorado.org

How can you accompany people yearning to be genuine in a cluttered, fear-based culture? Ignatian spirituality weaves simplicity and gratitude, intellect and imagination, scripture and discernment. Poetry is primal speech, the language of metaphors that both guide and companion us—even unknowingly—to express the soul. Focusing on fewer words allows for pauses to integrate heart, mind and will. Through contemplative questions and companioning another in this workshop, your life may morph into a poem with repeated rhythms—call and response, suffering and celebration.

Presenter  Kent Groff, a spiritual director, retreat leader, and poet writer, is founding mentor of Oasis Ministries and former adjunct professor at Lancaster Theological Seminary (PA). Drawing on two decades of training spiritual directors and time spent in India and primal cultures, his new book Facing East, Praying West: Poetic Reflections on the Spiritual Exercises (Paulist Press) offers poetry for retreats and spiritual companioning