Continuing Formation

Peer Supervision Groups

HeartPaths Peer Supervision Groups are offered in small groups of eight graduate and practicing spiritual directors who commit to meet once a month for nine months.

This program uses a simple supervision model. Monthly sessions include group prayer, group supervision, peer participation, and consultation led by trained supervisors with several years of experience

Early in May, registration opens for the summer sessions, June thru August. And in late July, registration opens for the groups that start during the 4th week of September. Groups will be held on Zoom or in the Richardson area. Contact Eunice Cheshire at [email protected] for fees, location, times and registration.

Sustain your Prayer– HeartPaths for Graduates

A program of ongoing formation for spiritual directors, 4 Saturday Morning Seminars and twice monthly 90 min. group prayer experiences, late-September until May.

Group Prayer Experiences include various forms of contemplative prayer, journaling and witnessing. Revisit familiar forms like Lectio Divina and Breath Prayer and also stretch by praying with devotional classics (e.g. Teresa of Avila, John Wesley, and Henri Nouwen.)
The four Seminars will include new topics such as “Increasing Your Sabbath” and “For the Love of Boundaries!”
To register: email Brian Hardesty-Crouch at [email protected] to receive details about fees, locations, times and registration.

Beyond the Beginnings

Beyond the Beginnings is a seminar series for the formation and continuing education of graduate spiritual directors. It is presented by Rev. Dr. Bob Gardenhire III, who was the founding director of HeartPaths.

Four six-hour seminars include components of experiential spiritual formation and education in topics relevant to the practice of spiritual direction.

Contact Brian Hardesty-Crouch at [email protected] for details.

Sharing the Holy

“Sharing the Holy” is a Monthly Contemplative Prayer Group for Spiritual Directors that meets on Zoom and provides 90 minutes of spiritual experience. It includes 40 minutes of silent prayer followed by 40 minutes of witness to our experiences in prayer within a confidentiality circle. These groups are limited to 8 to 12 and are led by a spiritual director who holds a certificate in contemplative prayer leadership.

Contact Eunice Cheshire at [email protected] for details.

What they’re saying

“HeartPaths has initiated very powerful yet subtle changes within me and the course my life is taking. For this I am very grateful.”
V. Ganness, Year One student 2017
As a pastor I am pulled in a great many directions. HeartPaths provided an oasis of peace, connection and personal growth. I was reminded of the invaluable importance of simply being in God's presence. I am truly grateful.
Mally Baum, Associate Pastor, Graduate 2014 Trinity Presbyterian Church, McKinney TX
HeartPaths has been a spark of new life and hope in my life. Learning to share my life in spiritual direction and then learning to listen in love to what the Lord has been saying to a spiritual friend, has deepened my faith and increased my awareness of what the Spirit has been saying to me. My life has been enriched.
Rev. Dr. John Blacklock, Graduate 2010 First Presbyterian Church, McKinney, TX.