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Inspiration Station
Healing Words and Prayers During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Prayers for healing across traditions
Ritual Blessing for Washing Your Hands
A beautiful Jewish blessing about hand washing
What Is Spiritual Guidance? Students' Views
What do students of SGTI say spiritual direction is?
Listening to Myself Telling My Story
At the Spiritual Guidance Training Institute, we value and celebrate the power of story.
Unmasked
Little boy. Knees so busy under your school khakis. Your dried millet stalk prods an old bicycle tire, bare of tread, along a rocky footpath…
On Being a Pilgrim
Last year, my partner and I became “dual pilgrims” after walking the Camino de Santiago in Spain and the Kumano Kodo in Japan.
A Warm Welcome to Our Emerging Spiritual Guides
Eleven individuals joined us in Chicago for a sumptuous week of learning and day pilgrimages to various holy houses.
Attending and Facilitating Inter-Religious Gatherings
Learn about three different ways to go about growing together as one interconnected community.
Perennial Wisdom Weekly
At SGTI—we sift and sort to unearth universal wisdom that can benefit us all.
Expanding Our Offerings, Stepping Into the Circle of Love
The world is in such great need of healing and many of its citizens are ailing, feeling spiritually uncertain, isolated or unsupported.
What Goes on As I Listen
One of the ways we practice deepening our listening is to reflect on how we are doing with our own listening in various contexts.
Engaging Children in Their Humanness
When we pursue the spiritual life, we pursue the human life. What does it mean to be human? And, what does it mean for a child to be human?
How Do You Grow a Heart As Wide As the World?
At SGTI, we assist our students in developing "sacred listening."
Multiple Religious Labels
At SGTI, we celebrate the multitude of religious identities as well as the identities of race, ethnicity, class, gender, ability, sexual/attractional orientation, age, socio-economic class, work, education, veteran status and more.
Congratulations to Our Graduates!
On a January day in 2019, we celebrated the graduation of SGTI's first cohort of interfaith/interspiritual guides.
Contemplative Practices as Expressed by Current Students
At the SGTI we have been impressed over and over again by the beautiful and honest reflections that have been submitted to us.
The Mindful Pilgrimage
Full of quotes and wisdom from interfaith and interspiritual leaders, this book helps you start or end your day with intention for the journey.
SGTI in Chicagoland News
Voyage Chicago recently featured SGTI’s Jeanette Banashak
Interspiritual Meditation, Part 5
Hindu Meditation - Part 5 of a 5-part series
Interspiritual Meditation, Part 4
Christian Meditation, Part 4 of a 5-part series
