Mini-Course Bundle
Save $12 by purchasing all three mini-courses in a bundle
Save $12 by purchasing all three mini-courses in a bundle
Save $12 by purchasing all three mini-courses in a bundle
Please note: These mini-courses were originally created for the Light House community and are available inside the community as an added benefit to membership. We have made it available for purchase now for those who want and need deeper support and connection to their contemplative way of being without yet becoming a full member of the community.
The Invitation-Based Life
Invitations arrive in our life like letters in a mailbox or a package on our doorstep. Something has been presented to us, and we’re invited to take it in, say yes to it, and work with it—or not.
Who is the inviter, and who is the invitee? How do we notice invitations when they come? What is the purpose of these invitations? What do we do with them when they arrive? And why is it valuable to live an invitation-based life in the first place?
In this mini-course facilitated by Christianne Squires, founder of the Light House community for contemplative women, you’re taken on a gentle journey to explore these questions and to notice the invitations you’ve historically tended in your life and the ones you're tending now.
Module 1
1.1 The Invitation-Based Life
1.2 The Inviter and Invitee
1.3 Our Free Agency
1.4 Internal and External Invitations
1.5 Tending the Invitations
1.6 In-the-Moment Invitations
1.7 Our Fuller Becomingness
Module 2
2.1 Invitations You’ve Tended
Module 3
3.1 Invitations You’re Tending Now
PLUS: An 8-page workbook
Your Way of Discernment
As contemplatives, we talk a lot about invitations, discernment, and inner knowing. These things define how we choose to live and the posture we desire to hold toward our lives and decisions.
But what does discernment look like for you? Have you learned what your ways of inner knowing and discernment are? When you’re in a place of discernment, do you know how to find the wisdom you seek?
This mini-course guides you through a process of self-reflection and noticing so that you discover your own way of inner knowing, led by Christianne Squires, founder of the Light House community for contemplative women. It also includes a bonus module of things to consider if you’re sitting in a space of active discernment at the moment.
Module 1: Understanding Discernment
1.1 What Discernment Is
1.2 The Reality of Our Humanity
1.3 Spiritual Reality
Module 2: Your Way of Discernment
2.1 Make a List
2.2 Pause and Honor
2.3 Name What Unfolded
2.4 Somatic Noticing
2.5 Foundational Spiritual Experiences
2.6 Your Spiritual Language
2.7 Notice Patterns
Module 3: When You’re in Discernment
3.1 Your Ways of Discernment Here
3.2 Data Gathering
3.3 True Self, False Self
3.4 Consolation and Desolation
3.5 Two Goods and “The More”
3.6 Companionship
PLUS: A 10-page workbook
Supernova
What do you do if the way you’ve been bearing your light in the world is changing in a major way? What if you’re discerning an invitation toward something quite new?
The process of discernment and then living into such a change is hard. It carries with it unique challenges and emotions. We have to lean hard into discernment in a place like this, and the support of an intentional discernment and reflective process can be invaluable in this place and help us find our way.
This mini-course offers you that support and guidance you need. The self-reflective and discerning process provided in this mini-course allows you to notice and name what’s happening and to begin to find your way forward. Along the way, you’re provided with the gentle companionship of Christianne Squires, founder of the Light House community for contemplative women.
A change like this is monumental. It’s like a supernova, where a star changes from one form to another. Receive the support you need as your light becomes something new.
Phase 1: Main Sequence
Phase 2: Loss of Fuel
Phase 3: Increased Pressure
Phase 4: The Transition
PLUS: A 21-page in-depth workbook with more than 35 questions for discernment and reflection