SDII Application Form - Spiritual Direction Internship Initiative

Admission Requirements:

Completed Application Form
Personal Statement
Personal Interview

Please send completed personal statements to: ii@csjboston.org

Name *

First

Middle

Last

Date

Email *

Address (Street address, City, State, Zip code)

Phone number

Date of birth

Place of birth

Religious affilitation

If you are a vowed or associate member of a Religious Congregation, please give the name of the congregation

Occupation

Place of employment

Please list all the colleges and graduate schools you have attended.

Including: Institution, Location, Dates attended, Degree or certificate earned.

Undergraduate field(s) of concentration:

Graduate field(s) of concentration:

How have you been employed since finishing college? Please list type of work, where, when.

Please list any other ministerial or pastoral activities in which you have been engaged.

Have you received individual Spiritual Direction? For how long? With what frequency? Where? With Whom? How has it been helpful to you?

Please mention your experiences of Individually Directed Retreats: their frequency, lengths, directors, places

Have you made the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius? If yes: did you make the 19th Annotation Retreat in the context of daily life? Did this include individual meetings with a director every week? Was it a Group Experience only? Was it some kind of “hybrid” experience? Did you make the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius by going away for 30-36 days? If yes, Where and with whom did you make this retreat?

List the names of the three persons from whom you will request references.

At least one of these persons who can comment on your potential as a spiritual director should have known and worked with you but not in a teacher-student relationship.

Please compose a statement of about 500 words in which you touch on the following:

a.) Your family background; b.) Your understanding of spiritual direction; c.) What you hope to do as a spiritual director; d.) On the basis of your experience, what do you regard as your principle strengths for this ministry and your areas of development; e.) Why you are applying to the Spiritual Direction Internship; f.) What is the feasibility of your finding 2-3 directees with whom you will meet bi-weekly from late September until mid April.

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