Are you searching for a multi-faith, creative, spiritually dynamic pastoral care training program?

Shared Path is an 18-month non-residential program with 4 three-day weekends. We offer individual mentorship, local community internship and independent study.

1 credit of CPE is available

Our next session begins September 1999.

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or contact Hassan Suhrawardi Gebel:
89 Lindsay Hill Rd.
Worthington, MA 01098
phone: 413-238-5887
fax: 413-238-7790
hgebel@aol.com.

Students' statements:
"It was a very deep weekend. I felt held in my spiritual understanding and know I can deepen and grow within the community."

"I appreciate the balance between cognitive structure and experiential learning."

"I expected a more academic approach to the work of pastoral care, but what I experienced was deep, profound work on our beings. I am extremely grateful for this way of working."

"This weekend had a great balance of practical skills, personal exploration, intellectual ideas and physical movement."

Teachers' statement:
"The expertise we want to transmit to our students is a comfort in dealing with spiritual matters, a comfort with all religious traditions by following the lead of the client, a comfort with appropriate self-disclosure about one's spiritual life, and, above all, a belief in and respect for the spiritual life of the client. We encourage students and clients to discover that the guidance they need to meet life's challenges and opportunities comes ultimately from within. We seek to train experts in witnessing who are willing to face and struggle with their own spiritual challenges and to recognize in themselves the challenges they find in their clients."