SDI Educational Events

Thank you to all the wonderful volunteers, presenters, participants, and those who surrounded the Cultivating Compassion on the River educational events in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, with prayers. Over five hundred people experienced the flow of the spirit toward justice and compassion during many educational events. View our slideshow from St. Paul.

Join SDI for Emerging Wisdom

         
  Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM                                          Roshi Joan Halifax                              Eve Ilsen and Rabbi Zalman
                                                                                                                                                         Schachter-Shalomi

Mark your calendars for Emerging Wisdom: April 24–May 2, 2014, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. These dates include pre-conference institutes, April 24; conference April 25–27; post-conference local pilgrimage and contemplative retreats the week of April 28, 2014.

For more than twenty years, Spiritual Directors International has been gathering contemplative leaders from around the world and across traditions to teach and learn from each other. Emerging Wisdom will link you with the world of people who are passionate about new understandings of wisdom and compassionate listening. More information will be available soon. Registration opens in September.

Download the event flyer.

If you are interested in being a presenter at this event, please submit a workshop proposal.

We are honored to announce the Keynote Presenters for the 2014 Conference:

Father Richard Rohr, OFM, is a globally renowned ecumenical teacher bearing witness to the universal awakening within mystical and transformational traditions.

Roshi Joan Halifax, a Buddhist teacher, Zen priest, anthropologist, and author, has focused for more than three decades on engaged Buddhism.

Eve Ilsen is a psychotherapist, rabbinic pastor, storyteller, and singer.

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi is widely recognized as perhaps the most important Jewish spiritual teacher of our time, committed to a post-triumphalist, ecumenical and Gaian approach.

Come, learn and grow with us in Santa Fe. Experience and feel the warmth of the spirit as it shines on wisdom emerging for our time. Receive the rejuvenating light of wisdom and allow it to awaken compassion and love in your community, in your hospital, in your congregation, in your ministry, and in the service of becoming people of peace.