Your sabbatical, your time!
New Directions offers men and women, priests, religious, and laity, the flexibility to design their sabbatical experience from a variety of options. Your fellow participants are persons with years of experience in ministry who desire to integrate and deepen their spirituality in order to prepare for the next phase of their lives. Here, they find a balance of personal reflection, relaxation and renewal, and updating in theology and spirituality.
New Directions is limited to 15 participants. This number is small enough to allow for interpersonal sharing yet large enough to allow for a diversity of participants. Members become a support for one another. You also have the opportunity to share some of your sabbatical experience with the larger community at the Jesuit School. Often, mutually enriching relationships develop between younger students and experienced ministers.
Over the last several years, nearly two-thirds of New Directions participants have come from countries outside the United States. Students from forty different countries attend the Jesuit School, and one's outlook is immensely enriched and broadened in this culturally rich environment.
New Directions aims for a holistic sabbatical experience: spiritual, social, physical, and intellectual. See the links to the left for more details. For another sabbatical option, see Special Student Status under Continuing Education.
