Discerning Calling
Holy Listening: A Tool for Discerning Calling
The Holy Listening workshop will be focused largely on giving participants a basic understanding of Holy Listening (as distinguished from more typical ways of listening, including Active Listening), and what specifically makes Holy Listening a spiritual discipline. It is understood that most participants will already have a working definition and conceptualization of calling due to the efforts of the C3 Initiative. Thus, faith formation leaders will focus their teaching primarily on how the concept of calling is both informed and expanded by Holy Listening.
The purpose of the workshop is:
The purpose of the workshop is:
- To give participants a basic understanding of Holy Listening as a spiritual discipline.
- To develop participants' capacity for Holy Listening through practice.
- To deepen the experience of Holy Listening with the related practices of Testimony, and Asking Self Awakening Questions.
- To show participants how Holy Listening is connected to the Christian concept of calling.
- To teach participants how to use Holy Listening as tool to hear God’s voice in their community and in their own discernment of calling.
| c3_holy_listening_-_teaching_tool.pdf |
| c3_holy_listening_-_handout.pdf |
| c3_self_awakening_-_handout.pdf |
Holy Listening Webinar from Vibrant Faith on Vimeo.
The Ignatian Examen: A Tool for Discerning Calling
The purpose of the Ignatian Examen workshop is:
- To give participants a basic understanding of the Ignatian Examen as a spiritual discipline.
- To show participants how the Ignatian Examen is connected to the Christian concept of calling from a theological vantage point.
- To teach participants how to use the Ignatian Examen as tool to hear God’s voice in their own discernment of calling.
| c3_ignatian_examen_-_teaching_tool.pdf |
| c3_ignatian_examen_-_ways_to_use.pdf |
| c3_ignatian_examen_-_questions.pdf |
Reflective Writing: A Tool for Discerning Calling
The purpose of the Reflective Writing workshop is to:
- To give participants a basic understanding of Reflective Writing as a spiritual discipline.
- To show participants how Reflective Writing is connected to the Christian concept of calling from a theological vantage point.
- To teach participants how to use Reflective Writing as tool to hear God’s voice in their own discernment of calling.
| c3_reflective_writing_-_teaching_tool.pdf |
| c3_reflective_writing_-_ways_to_use.pdf |
| c3_reflective_writing_-_handout.pdf |
Discovering Your Calling Program/Retreat
Discovering your call is the not the work of one season of life, but is central to each and every stage from childhood through older adulthood. We are called to discover God’s calling in each season of life. This program guides people in discerning God's calling in their season of life.
"Five Cups of Coffee" - Calling Conversation Starter
Everyone wants to spend their lives doing something that has meaning, uses their gifts, and is something that they enjoy doing. God’s call for all people is, first, to be in relationship with God, and second, to work in the world. Frederick Buechner speaks of the second type of call this way: Asking questions can help us unlock our deep gladness and how we experience the world’s deep hunger. Do you know someone struggling to know what God’s call is in his or her life? Invite them to join you for a cup of coffee and share with them in each of these 5 important conversations. You’ll both walk away with more than just 5 cups of coffee. You may both end up with clarity about calling and discipleship.
