Deep Listening in the Neighborhood 2024-2025

Program Details

THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN CANCELED.

Deep Listening in the Neighborhood is an advanced training in missional spiritual direction and deep listening that immerses us into the heart and movements of The Holy within our particular relational contexts. Through this practice-based cohort, we aim to listen deep into Spirit and wide into our neighborhoods.

In nine online sessions, we will explore:

Deepening my heart as a neighborhood listener
Tending the soul of my neighborhood
Designing a practical, embodied Listening Plan with my neighborhood

Deep Listening in the Neighborhood builds upon prior experiences of spiritual direction and deep listening with individuals or groups. Deep Listening in the Neighborhood sharpens our discernment of God's invitations and inspirations to be a deep listening presence in our neighborhoods.

This next cohort of Deep Listening in the Neighborhood begins ONLINE on Thursday, September 26th from 6-8 pm eastern, and then continues every 2 weeks until early December, with three Thursdays in 2025, concluding on January 23rd.

About the Leaders

Cris Kerekes

Cris received her training in spiritual direction through Tending the Soul and Advanced Gateways to God. Her current work as a spiritual director takes place primarily in nontraditional settings including grocery stores and parking lots, hospital rooms, spiritual formation gatherings, and the online classroom. After a first career as a high school chemistry teacher, Cris earned an MDiv from Northeastern Seminary and completed three units of CPE. She currently enjoys serving as an adjunct professor in spiritual direction at NES, a peer group supervisor for Gateways to God, and a per diem hospital chaplain.

John Kiemele

John Kiemele, PhD, is a wellbeing educator and spiritual director who companions individuals, teaches seminars and classes on spirituality, lifestyle change and deep listening/spiritual direction, leads contemplative retreats, and serves as director of The Listening Collective at Rolling Ridge. John walks alongside individuals and groups assisting them with life-giving connections, wellbeing practices, and contemplative soul care. He is Director Emeritus of a dispersed community of contemplative companions in the greater Seattle area called Selah Center, former Executive Director of SoulStream Initiatives in western Canada, and is an ordained clergy having served congregations across the US and Canada. John received his PhD in education/spirituality with post-doctoral emphases in Spiritual Direction, Mindful Self-Compassion, the Enneagram Spectrum, and Wellness Coaching.