 By taking the spiritual guidance seminar, you will learn how to listen differently. Interaction, we're listening for God. Specifically, you'll learn how to listen with both compassion for the other person and also to listen with contemplative awareness. I'm using the phrase simply to mean slowing down and opening yourself to what God is doing in this time and in this place. The class is structured with a mixture of activities. You'll start offering spiritual direction to people in your home community immediately after the first hybrid week. And you'll receive supervision for that. I will do the individual one-on-one supervision with you and the class will be divided into probably two different peer supervision groups where class members will supervise each other. You'll also do about 10 to 12 different prayer practices and learn to notice what happens. You'll interact with other students through role plays, scenarios and discussions. Yes, there will be some lectures, readings and short papers, but there is a fair bit of interaction in this course. Why will it be so awesome? What a great question. If you're a pastor or you're in some other form of ministry, it will improve how you function in that role. A couple of years ago, the congregation where I work part-time did a major evaluation. When the evaluations came back on me, I realized that most of the positive things people saw on me were actually things I originally learned how to do in spiritual direction.