What is the 3-Day Orientation?
Stillpoint offers an exceptional educational experience to introduce you to the ancient art of spiritual direction: the practice of companioning others on their spiritual journey.
This program is designed as a small group, experience-based approach for you to explore your own call to become a spiritual director. Your participation will help you discover how your spiritual life can develop, how spiritual direction work can be a powerful resource for you and others, and how you can discern the next steps in your own spiritual journey.
Who should attend?
The 3-Day Orientation program is an intensive experience of the Spiritual Journey program and is designed specifically for those who already have training and practice in spiritual leadership, such as ordained clergy, chaplains, lay leaders and other soul care workers. This Introductory Orientation serves as a required prerequisite to Stillpoint's Southern California & Online two-year formation program in The Art of Spiritual Direction.
An interview is required as part of the application process to determine whether or not this program is appropriate for you.
This orientation is not for individuals who have completed or plan to participate in the Spiritual Journey program.
What will happen during the orientation?
We will begin in prayer and silence, and enjoy a variety of contemplative practices that illuminate our own spirituality. You will be invited through gentle exercises using prayer, self-reflection, memory, image, movement, journaling and deep listening. You will learn about the ancient ministry of spiritual direction, how directors/companions prepare for their work, and how they cultivate self care and ethical boundaries to sustain themselves. Seasoned spiritual directors from the Stillpoint faculty will facilitate your sharing and participation in small group work.
Program Faculty
When and where is it?
Register HERE.
The orientation occurs Online via Zoom over the course of 3 days in June:
Thursday, June 4, 2026
8:00am - 3:00pm PTFriday, June 5, 2026
8:00am - 3:00pm PTSaturday, June 6, 2026
8:00am - 11:30am
How much does it cost?
Total cost of the program is $450.
The registration fee includes 15 contact hours of small group instruction and a private 30-minute session with faculty.
Participants are responsible for purchasing two books.
Tuition Deadline is May 15, 2026.
Questions?
Contact Stillpoint’s Director of Operations,
Krystle Hart khart@stillpointca.org.
Stacy Parks is a retired physical Therapist and a Stillpoint-trained spiritual director. She lives in New Mexico and serves on the Ghost Ranch faculty of Stillpoint. Stacy also leads retreats for women and helps facilitate a weekly contemplative service. Her special interests include Christian Mystics and mystical experiences, experiencing the divine in nature, and helping others explore new ways of thinking and being with the Holy.
Vel Roman worked in Social Services for 43 years before retiring last year. Vel is a graduate of Stillpoint Spiritual Direction and Stillpoint Group Spiritual Direction Programs. Vel is a graduate of Compassion Based Soul Care: Internal Family Systems as a Model for Spiritual Companions. She is a Certified Veriditas Labyrinth Facilitator and a Certified Trainer in Capacitar practices of Healing and Trauma Recovery, including collective and intergenerational trauma. Vel is a Spiritual Director at the Mary and Joseph Retreat Center in Palos Verdes. Vel enjoys yoga, body prayer, poetry and travel. Vel is active in anti-racism work, particularly within spiritual/religious circles.