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LEARN TO DISCERN: HOW TO MAKE WISE DECISIONS
(this program is open to students and nonstudents)
Hartford International University and the Spiritual Life Center (West Hartford) will once again partner to offer the five-session online program called “Learn to Discern”. This program introduces you to the process of discernment and helps you to apply it to decisions you may face. The program leaders will make presentations and provide printed resources on the following topics:
I really want to serve God, but I am not sure exactly which career God is calling me to: Chaplain? Nurse? Peacebuilder? And which organization shall I work for? How do my personal life and my need for income fit in with my studies? I’m really confused! Can anyone help me sort this out?
We all face a number of very important decisions—decisions that affect the course of our lives. Discernment is a time-honored spiritual practice that helps us listen to the Divine and to our hearts as we explore choices we might make.- Forming the question to be discerned
- Prayer practices for discernment
- Dimensions of human experience to consider
- How temperament, values and principles can guide us
- Making a wise choice and implementing it
- Confirming the outcome
We will form discussion groups consisting of 6-8 participants and an experienced leader. These groups will help you focus your question and explore relevant factors. You may share as much or as little with the group as you wish. We will meet from 1: 30 to 3:15 on 1st and 3rd Mondays: 2/6, 2/20, 3/6, 3/20, and 4/3 of 2023.
Learn to Discern will be facilitated by Dr Agnes Curry and Rev Oscar Brockmeyer. The program is offered free to current students of HIU and the Boston Theological Interreligious Consortium as a non-credit, co-curricular opportunity. The fee for others is $245. No one will be turned away for financial reasons.
Contact person: Oscar Brockmeyer, [email protected]