Ignatius called the experience of the sheer grace of God ‘consolation’, and constrasted it with the ‘desolation’ that results from self-obsession and self- absorption. Explore different ways of understanding and reponding to these ‘movements of the spirits’.
A spiritual conversation is any conversation where God is encountered, from spiritual direction and the Ignatian Exercises themselves to a casual exchange that opens on to deeper meaning and grace. Experience that moment when wonder strikes, energy is found and new horizons are revealed.
What is the relationship between spirituality and psychology: between how we understand and care for the mind, and how we encounter God? And what can spiritual direction, psychotherapy and counselling learn from one another?
From the beginning, men and women have had to take decisions, to make choices: what have I got to do? Or, what should I do? What is good; what is bad? To take good decisions or to make good choices they rely on their experience: what went well; what did not? They rely also on their conscience, that most intimate centre of a human being.