Compassion-Centered Spiritual Direction: Internal Family Systems as a Model for Spiritual Companions

Saturday, February 22, 2025
9:00 am – 4:00 pm

Registration for in-person tickets includes parking, lunch & materials and is held at Prothro Great Hall at SMU Perkins School of Theology 5901 Bishop Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75205

Registration for virtual tickets includes Zoom moderation. Zoom link and any handouts will be delivered digitally a few days before the event.

CEUs available

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a contemplative, soulful, and non-pathologizing approach to personal healing and spiritual transformation. This workshop is designed specifically for spiritual companions—spiritual directors, chaplains, pastoral counselors, and other soul-care workers—who want to explore how IFS can be a model and a process for compassion-based soul care that keeps care providers grounded in our own compassionate essence and invites those to whom we provide care into a deeper connection with the sacred and with their own spiritual essence.

Frank Rogers Jr. is a spiritual director, supervisor, certified IFS practitioner, retreat leader, writer, and professor of spiritual formation at the ecumenical and inter-faith Claremont School of Theology. He has taught and written in spirituality, contemplative practice, and compassionate social engagement for over 35 years. His most recent book is Cradled in the Arms of Compassion: A Spiritual Journey from Trauma to Recovery. As the Center for Engaged Compassion Co-Director, he offers and teaches compassion-based approaches to spiritual direction and supervision: centerforengagedcompassion.com.

Registration closes Friday, February 14, 2025, or when capacity is reached.