This course will meet Wednesday evenings from 6:30 - 8:30 pm (central time) beginning Feb. 3, 2027 and ending April 7, 2027. (There will be no class on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 10.)

(2/3, 2/17, 2/24, 3/3, 3/10, 3/17, 3/24, 4/7)

• Students must have made the Spiritual Exercises in their full form (either the 30-day retreat or the Extended Ignatian Exercises over at least 32 weeks).

• Students should also be spiritual directors who have been practicing for at least one year.

To be certified by Sacred Ground to direct others in the EIE, one must take this course and direct at least two people in the EIE under Sacred Ground supervision.

Susan Stabile is an experienced spiritual director and retreat director trained in the Ignatian tradition, who offers retreats and other programs of spiritual formation in parishes, retreat houses and other venues around the country. She teaches in the second year of Sacred Ground’s program for the training of spiritual directors and also trains people to direct the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. She is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the University of St. Thomas School of Law and a Professor Emerita of the University of St. Thomas. Susan previously served as Director of the University of St. Thomas’s Office for Spirituality and co-directed a Lilly Grant secured by St. Catherine University to bring contemplative practices to congregations and parishes.  Susan is the author of numerous publications, including Growing in Love and Wisdom (Oxford University Press 2013).

Dan Johnson has practiced spiritual direction for over 25 years and is the Managing Director at Loyola Spirituality Center. Dan was introduced to Ignatian Spirituality early on in that practice and has since gone on to study its application in spiritual direction at Creighton University in Omaha. Through the years, Dan’s practice as a spiritual director has been bi-vocational. Early on he worked in construction management during the week and would do direction in the evenings and on weekends. Dan has been an instructor and group facilitator for the spiritual direction training program at Christos Center for Spiritual Formation, where he also served four years as executive director.