© 2016 LTI’s Selah Certificate Program in Spiritual Direction

Spiritual Direction Certificate Program

in cooperation with Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

Selah is a ministry of Leadership Transformations, Inc, a parachurch ministry that works co-curricularly with Gordon-Conwell in helping students to grow in soul care experience and ministry. Gordon-Conwell students who desire to receive training in spiritual direction should apply to Selah directly, through Selah’s regular application process. See our website for complete information: http://www.leadershiptransformations.org/selah.htm Course Credit Gordon-Conwell students who participate in Selah during their time as students may be eligible for course credit for doing so. (Currently credit caps at one course, and is based on completing all Selah work and doing a follow-up Independent Study with an approved GCTS faculty member; see Dr. Gwenfair Adams, director of the MASF degree program, for further details about Selah course credit.) Scholarship Assistance A limited amount of scholarship assistance is available for any applicant to Selah who demonstrates need. A small amount of additional scholarship aid may be available to full-time GCTS students; see Dr. Susan Currie, the Director of Selah, for more information. Student Qualifications

• A developmental maturity that demonstrates consistent experience of intentional reflection on your life with God, including some experiential familiarity with the central contemplative practices of meditative Scripture reading, listening prayer, reflective journaling, and personal retreats with components of silence and solitude.

• Previous experience of being companioned in paying attention to your own life in God. (While this may have been experienced primarily as a mentoring/discipling/soul friend model, students enrolling in Selah are expected to be meeting regularly in an intentional spiritual direction relationship with a trained and experienced spiritual director before their Selah training begins.)

• A felt call to (and a demonstrated experience of) offering spiritual companionship to others in their growing attention to God’s presence and shaping work in them. (While this may have been offered in a mentoring or soul friend model in the past, once a student enrolls in Selah they are expected to begin offering formalized spiritual direction to at least 2 people by the beginning of October in the fall of the program’s first year.)

• Commitment to Personal Spiritual Practices: Students will be intentional and regular in their practice of the spiritual disciplines of Scripture reading, prayer, and reflection. Additionally, they will have some sort of identity in/accountability to the body of Christ as a worshiping community.

For more information, contact the Director of Selah, Dr. Susan P. Currie: susan@ltinc.org