Psychospiritual Wholeness Journey of self-discovery and
self-transformation – the course offered here -was very useful for me as it enabled
me to understand my true self and thus to continue working on my psychosexual
and psychospiritual integration.
The Mature Spirituality for today and the seventeen
characteristics of it gave me the guidelines to live a meaningful, purposeful
and a more fulfilling life.
Learning about Process Spirituality is a great help for me
to recognize the Presence of God in everyday reality of my life.
Midlife Dynamics, Sexuality, Celibacy & Intimacy, and
the Psychological Dynamics of the Spiritual Journey helped me to understand ‘me’
clearly at this stage of my life.
The topics: “Spirituality and the Evolving Cosmos,” “Stories:
Ours, Jesus’, and the Universe’s” helped me to understand that the Universe is
God’s Body and everything in the Universe is inter-connected, inter-dependent,
and is evolving.
A careful study of the Gospel of Mark threw light on my
understanding of Jesus.
Group Therapy helped me to see my shadow side and continue
working on it to integrate it. The weekly recollections, writing of response
papers and the intensive journal enabled me to integrate the week’s
experiences.
Spiritual retreat and integration was the vital aspect of this
programme. Retreat experience of “Wilderness and Paradise” strengthened me to surrender
myself to God’s workings and to experience His Presence in my life. An
eagerness is developed in me to know more about Jesus of Nazareth. The individual
help I received here helped me to open myself up for healing.
For me Group Therapy experience was the most useful. I
encountered my true self here. It was painful and frightening. Yet, I could
look into myself and see the real me with the help of the therapist and the
group.
The therapist’s timely interventions and guidance with
understanding and personal care was great help for me to understand my
self-destructive beliefs and to break them down and to reframe my
experiences/events of the past, developing a new behavioural pattern, and to
continue exploring myself.
It gave me a great desire to come to a new life pattern with
new attitudes and thus to increase my life satisfaction and to bring about
fulfilment in my ministry. My decision to engage in continuous self-exploration
is the outcome.
I felt that I could have come here for a little longer
programme of nine weeks. Within the given time, however, I have gained the
maximum. I don’t think that something more could have made the programme more
useful because the time was utilized in the most effective manner, arranging it
meticulously aiming at the participants’ benefit.
I felt warmly welcomed to Sumedha Centre and without any
difficulty I became part of it. I enjoyed the hospitality of Fr. Jose, Fr.
George, Br. Binit and the supportive staff.
Accommodation, Food, Services and Facilities were excellent.
This is my overall view of the programme.
DG
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