Personal Spiritual Deepening Program

After 15 years of offering this program as a year-long program based in Washington, DC, Shalem is offering Personal Spiritual Deepening in a format customized to your local setting. See below or click here or on the side bar for programs being offered near you.

"God is not very far from any one of us, for it is in God that we live and move and have our very being." - Acts 17:27

"This program has drawn me back towards who I really am and allowed me to begin remembering and expressing my authentic way of prayer and adoration."

Lydia Paterson

"I wanted to grow-up into a sense of authenticity - not compartmentalized religion. I needed help in believing in what was going on inside me and in following its challenges. The sense of ongoing prayer support in the PSDP was very important to me, as were the individual freedom to follow my heart, the mentoring, and the insistence on spiritual direction."

Jack Willis

About The Personal Spiritual Deepening Program (PSDP)

The Personal Spiritual Deepening Program is a resource for those wishing to integrate a contemplative orientation - a stance that encourages moment by moment awareness and openness to God's grace - in all the changing circumstances of daily life. This program supports not only personal spiritual deepening but also growing compassion for others and encourages individuals to connect what is happening in them with where they sense they are called to act in the world.

Who Might Be Interested in This Program?

This program is for anyone, anywhere, who feels drawn to contemplative spirituality and who:

Desires a deepened relationship with God and to live out of that relationship;
Wishes to develop or deepen a consistent spiritual practice;
Wants the regular guidance of a spiritual companion for daily contemplative living;
Seeks authentic spiritual community and support;
Is eager to learn within a broad ecumenical Christian framework, enhanced by the wisdom of other traditions;
Longs to be a transforming presence in the world.

Program Components

The Personal Spiritual Deepening Program: Living in God is comprised of experiential learning, supported at-home enrichment activities and spiritual practices, assigned readings, spiritual community, and an opening retreat day. All of the following are important aspects of the program. We expect participants, through prayer and dialogue with their spiritual directors and program leaders, to integrate these components in a way that will best serve their spiritual deepening. Topics include Listening and Transformation, Spiritual Community, Discernment, Earth Awareness and Sacred Activism.

PSDP Offerings Near You

PSDP is now being offered throughout the United States and South Africa via Shalem's associate faculty members. Click on the location below to see details about the local offerings.