About This Series

Join us for a special Ignatian series led by Elizabeth Liebert, SNJM, PhD, co-author with Annemarie Paulin-Campbell of The Spiritual Exercises Reclaimed: Uncovering Liberating Possibilities for Women, 2nd Edition.

This groundbreaking book reclaims the heart of the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises through the richness of women’s experiences. Acknowledging obstacles faced by women encountering the Exercises, this revised edition does justice to women’s experience across cultural contexts and generations, offering liberating possibilities for women worldwide.

This program provides fresh perspectives and offers new insights for spiritual directors accompanying women through the Spiritual Exercises. Drawing from her book, co-author Elizabeth Liebert, SNJM, PhD explores barriers that women from various cultures and contexts often encounter in the Spiritual Exercises and invites spiritual directors to discover ways of accompanying women that are transformative and liberating. Through the use of input, personal reflection and group conversation, this program offers twisdom for all spiritual directors who accompany women and men facing obstacles in their spiritual lives that flow from situations of oppression and injustice. Elizabeth, who also co-authored the first edition of Spiritual Exercises Reclaimed: Uncovering Liberating Possibilities for Women  over twenty years ago, draws from the deep well of her Ignatian wisdom and experience with the Spiritual Exercises.

All registered participants (including those who register after the series has begun) will receive a link to a recording of each session.

A 20% discount on the cost of the book is available to program participants who purchase the book through Paulist Press. We will email you the code along with other program information once your registration has been received.

From the book’s foreword:

“The authors…. empower and embolden women, from a variety of cultural backgrounds, faith traditions and geographical locations, to reclaim the gems of the Spiritual Exercises and create even more exciting, transformative and liberating possibilities for women and men who study, make and give the Spiritual Exercises.”

– Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator, SJ, Outgoing President of the Jesuit Conference of Africa and Madagascar.

Each session will offer input, reflection, and small/large group conversations.

• Session 1: The Spiritual Exercises: Week 1 (Sept. 19, 2023, 12pm-3pm ET)

• Session 2: The Spiritual Exercises: Week 2 (Oct. 17, 2023, 12pm-3pm ET)

• Session 3: The Spiritual Exercises: Rules for Discernment of Spirits (Nov. 14, 2023, 12pm-3pm ET)

• Session 4: The Spiritual Exercises: Weeks 3 and 4 (Dec. 12, 2023, 12pm-3pm ET)

The series will be recorded and all registered participants will receive a link to view each recorded session.

Sessions:

To Register:

The cost for this series in $100. You will receive a link prior to each workshop to participate live via Zoom. You will also receive a link to view the video recording after each workshop, in case you are unable to participate live or wish to review the discussion later.

We hope to make this series as accessible to as many people as possible. If you have questions about the participation fee, please contact us at ueaois@jesuits.org.

About the Program Leader:

Elizabeth Liebert SNJM, Ph.D. is A Roman Catholic Sister of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary who earned her doctorate in Religion and Personality at Vanderbilt University. She has spent over thirty years offering resources to future leaders of the church to help them understand and deepen their own spiritual grounding and to extend their ministries of spiritual nurture and care of their congregations and other ministries. Elizabeth is the first Catholic sister to have served as dean of a Presbyterian seminary.

In addition to establishing formal courses of study in Christian spirituality and Ignatian discernment, Elizabeth has authored and co-authored several highly affirmed books on spiritual disciplines including Way of Discernment: Spiritual Practices for Decision Making and Soul of Discernment: A Spiritual Practice for Communities and Institutions.

Elizabeth serves as an Affiliate Faculty at SFTS/Redlands, the Jesuit School of Theology and Lancaster Theological Seminary, as a member of the Doctoral Faculty at the Graduate Theological Union and as formation director for her religious congregation.