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This course examines how change takes place in individuals. In addition to theories of personal change, special attention is given to historic examples of personal change.

This course focuses on self-discovery and personal appraisal through a variety of personal and professional assessment tools. Prerequisite: SPIR-500

This course attends to the spiritual life of the student as a whole and wholly unique self, created in the image of God. Students will explore and learn to employ a variety of self-awareness tools to deepen self-understanding and contribute to personal spiritual formation.

Spiritual formation is deepened by the Christian's devotion to God and this devotion is often witnessed through his or her participation in spiritual practices. This course is a multifaceted examination of twelve spiritual disciplines or practices. Students will have an opportunity to learn about historically documented practices through the writings of people known for their spirituality and through their own personal experience of selected practices.

This course attends to the spiritual life of the student as a whole person on a journey of spiritual formation. Students will explore various frameworks for personal growth and change, and learn to assess their own experience of personal change and transformation in Christlikeness.

This course begins the process of change in previously identified areas of need through goal setting and accountability. Prerequisite: SPIR-520

This course attends to the role of personal and corporate spiritual disciplines in the spiritual life of the student. Students will identify the importance of spiritual disciplines, and learn to employ spiritual disciplines in their own personal spiritual formation on their journey to Christlikeness.

This course focuses on the inflow and outflow of a deepening spiritual life which results in difference-making leadership.

This course attends to the importance of planning and accountability in the spiritual life of the student. Students will learn to determine appropriate personal, spiritual, and ministerial goals, develop plans to achieve those goals, and create effective means of moral and spiritual accountability on their journey to Christlikeness.

This course involves the connection of the minister with a spiritual mentor to whose spiritual direction they are willing to submit. The process of growth through mentoring is learned and implemented. Prerequisite: SPIR-540

This course covers the classical inward, outward, and corporate spiritual disciplines, which are carefully placed within the context of an overall process of change. Prerequisite: SPIR-560

This course teaches and fosters the thinking, dispositions, and practices necessary for deeper devotion to Christ. Taught as an intensive retreat, students participate in the daily routines of the monastic life, consisting of silence, solitude, and worship, along with the prayerful reflection it cultivates. Students read and reflect on classic devotional texts, participate in a diversity of spiritual disciplines, and thoughtfully develop a spiritual growth strategy to guide their lives and ministries. The primary aim is to foster life-long devotional practices that increase students' capacity for faithfulness to Christ and to their ministerial vocation.

This course focuses on the accomplishment of change and the goals set at the beginning of the spiritual formation sequence, with particular attention to recovery and or deliverance from obstacles to healthy spiritual growth. Prerequisite: SPIR-570