COURSE INFORMATION
Growth in spirituality encounters many impasses, crosses and challenges. The Spiritual Director utilizes his or her spiritual resources to help individuals advance as new challenges arise in spiritual life. As the person progresses, there will be challenges to faith that come in the form of decisions, discernments, encounters, losses, desolations and traps of the devil. This course looks at some of these core issues in spiritual advancement and applies classical Christian spiritual direction guidance to these age-old problems that remanifest in the modern world. This course focuses heavily on Ignatian perspectives in spiritual advancement to face the common problems of everyday spiritual life. The course also includes Dom’s Scupoli’s classic “Spiritual Warfare” as a resource to better understand spiritual advancement as well as spiritual attacks. In addition, there are a variety of video content that accents all the readings with details about the demonic, as well as spiritual combat. The purpose of the course is to not only further one’s knowledge and education in these spiritual exercises and understanding but also to help guide others through the troubled waters of advanced spirituality.
Course Code: SC 691
Contact hours of continuing education = 50
Instructor/Course Authors: Mark Moran, M.A., SC-C, GC-C
Instructor Resume: Access Here
TEXTBOOKS: There is two (2) required textbook for this course.
Ignatian Discernment of the Spirit for Spiritual Direction, by Mark E. Thibodeaux, S.J. Loyola Press, 2020.
- ISBN-10: 0829449582
- ISBN-13: 978-0829449587
Link to Purchase on Amazon.com: click here
The Spiritual Combat: The Classic Manual on Spiritual Warfare, by Dom Lorenzo Scupoli, Holy Water Books, 2020
- ISBN-10: 1950782107
- ISBN-13: 978-1950782109
Link to Purchase on Amazon.com: click here
Additional Reading
There are additional readings which are required for this course. These are provided to students who are enrolled.
TIME FRAME: You are allotted two years from the date of enrollment, to complete this course. There are no set time-frames, other than the two year allotted time. If you do not complete the course within the two-year time-frame, you will be removed from the course and an “incomplete” will be recorded for you in our records. Also, if you would like to complete the course after this two-year expiration time, you would need to register and pay the course tuition fee again.
GRADING: You must achieve a passing score of at least 70% to complete this course and receive the 50 hours of awarded continuing education credit. There are no letter grades assigned. You will receive notice of your total % score. Those who score below the minimum of 70% will be contacted by AIHCP and will be permitted one more attempt to retake the online examination.
BOARD APPROVALS:
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is an Approved Provider for Continuing Education by the South Carolina Professional Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists and Psycho-Educational Specialists licensing board, Provider # 4637. Access information
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals (The Provider) is approved by the California Board of Registered Nurses, Provider number # CEP 15595 for 50 Contact Hours.
This course, which is approved by the Florida State Board Of Nursing (CE Provider # 50-11975) also has the following Board of Nursing Approvals, for 50 contact hours of CE
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the Arkansas Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the Georgia Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the South Carolina Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the West Virginia Board of Examiners for Professional Registered Nurses. CE Provider # 50-11975.
The American Institute of Health Care Professionals Inc: is a Rule Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the New Mexico Board of Nursing. CE Provider # 50-11975.
Course Refund & AIHCP Policies: access here
ONLINE CLASSROOM RESOURCES AND TOOLS
- Examination Access: there is link to take you right to the online examination program where you can print out your examination and work with it. All examinations are formatted as “open book” tests. When you are ready, you can access the exam program at anytime and click in your responses to the questions. Full information is provided in the online classrooms.
- Student Resource Center: there is a link for access to a web page “Student Resource Center.” The Resource Center provides for easy access to all of our policies/procedures and additional information regarding applying for certification. We also have many links to many outside reference sites, such as online libraries that you may freely access.
- Online Evaluation: there is a link in the classroom where you may access the course evaluation. All students completing a course, must, without exception, complete the course evaluation.
- Faculty Access Information: you will have access to your instructor’s online resume/biography, as well as your instructor’s specific contact information.
- Additional Learning Materials: some faculty have prepared additional “readings” and /or brief lecture notes to enhance your experience. All of these are available in the online classrooms.
COURSE OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Guide directees in later phases of spiritual development
- Discern spirits and spiritual movements within oneself and a directee
- Help identify and direct spiritual vocations
- Guide directees in humility and acceptance of God’s will
- Identify states of desolation and consolation within a directee
- Steer directees through phases of aridity
- Direct souls through states of discontent and desolation
- Understand the nature of spiritual warfare
- Train directees in the art of spiritual combat
- Possess awareness of the presence of Satan in the modern world
- Identify the most common tricks of the devil against those more advanced in spirituality
COURSE CONTENT:
A brief abstract of content:
- Twelve Innovative Ideas about Discernment of Spirits
- Employing Discernment of Spirits as a Spiritual Director or Pastoral Counselor
- Resources Helpful to Spiritual Directors, Pastoral Counselors and other Spiritual Helpers
- Ignatian Spirituality
- Vocations
- Discernment
- Discontent and Desolation
- Humility
- Spiritual Combat and Demonic Presences in World
- The First Two Weapons of Spiritual Combat
- The Third Weapon of Spiritual Combat
- The Enemy’s Deceptions
- Virtues
- The Fourth Weapon of Spiritual Combat
- Treatise on the Soul and Inner Happiness