8-Day Ignatian Silent Retreat Experiencing God: Our interior movements understood using St. Ignatius' Rules for Discernment Fr. Jeff Putthoff
This guided retreat will make use of Ignatian contemplation, imaginative prayer, and the senses to engage in conversation with God. The focus will be on understanding our interiority using the model of Internal Family Systems (IFS) as a means to intimate prayer with God/Jesus/Spirit. We all have parts of us that are sad, joyful, anxious, discouraged, happy, funny, and many more. Having such parts are a natural aspect of adult life and sharing such interior movements in a familiar way with God/Jesus/Spirit is what Ignatian prayer helps us to do.
Our days will consist of two talks and mass. There is ample time to pray. This retreat is practical, encouraging curiosity, connection and compassion with ourselves, and with God. $925 per person (Including lodging and meals).
Bio – Father Jeff Putthoff, SJ Fr. Jeff Putthoff, SJ is a Jesuit priest, deeply interested in creating communities of healing, empowering young people, brain health, and finding God in all things. He has worked as a high school teacher, associate pastor, executive director and high school president, using his unique experience in organizational dynamics, leadership, brain health and Ignatian spirituality, applying it to youth education and organizational life.
He is a retreat leader and a director of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola deeply desiring to help others connect to God. He has directed over 30 directed retreats and 70 preached retreats nationally.
He is a gifted, national speaker on trauma-informed care, organizational dynamics, youth formation, Ignatian spirituality, and leadership.
He is presently raising $7 million in three different dioceses to create 1,200 scholarships for Catholic schools. (Joliet, Venice and Jacksonville)