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IIC: 137 Live Q&A with Fr. Boniface Hicks on Spiritual Direction and Personal Formation
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Summary
Fr. Boniface Hicks joins us once again as we continue our series on integrated personal formation, this time with a Q&A from our live audience. Fr. Boniface answers a wide range of questions about spiritual and pastoral formation, including: 1) What counsel can you give to those who have experienced poor spiritual formation, especially from formators who only acknowledge the spiritual realm? 2) How do you deal with St. Ignatius of Loyola’s “evil spirits” from the IFS perspective? Would this involve a more compassionate approach to temptation? 3) How do you leverage parts in spiritual direction when your director has no experience with IFS? 4) In the context of Colossians 1:15-20, can you share how your inmost self holds space for an encounter with Jesus and some of your exiled parts? 5) Can spiritual direction be positive and productive if the directee has a strong hiding part or protectors that don’t want to be transparent with the director? 6) Can you talk about the prophetic timing of human formation in the context of Pastores Dabo Vobis, given the cultural issues of the meltdown of the family, marriage, etc.? 7) How do different kinds of suffering relate to our parts? 8) In resisting spiritual bypassing, is there not also the risk of bypassing the spiritual, bypassing the walk with Jesus? Is there a way to navigate this?
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Past Episodes
- IIC 136: Spiritual Direction and Personal Formation with Fr. Boniface Hicks
- IIC 135: The Tree of Catholic Personal Formation: An Integrative Model
- IIC 134: Looking at Integrated Personal Formation Through a Mathematical Lens
- IIC 133: Models of Integrated Personal Formation -- Catholic Style, with Matthew Walz, Ph.D.
- IIC 132: Live Q&A with Dr. Gerry on His Book, "Litanies of the Heart"
- IIC 131: On God's Role in your Human Formation
- IIC 130: Grounding IFS in Catholicism-- Litanies of the Heart by Dr. Gerry Crete
- IIC 129: Relating Well with "Borderline" Family Members with Dr. Gerry Crete
- IIC 128: Recovering from "Borderline Personality" with IFS
- IIC 127: Understanding Borderline Personalities through Internal Family Systems
- IIC 126: Borderline "Personalities": Your Questions Answered by Dr. Greg Bottaro
- IIC 125: Borderline Personality According to the Conventional Secular Experts
- IIC 124: Your Parts, IFS, And War: An Experiential Exercise
- IIC 123: Relating Well with Narcissistic Family Members with Dr. Gerry Crete
- IIC 122: Narcissism and Gaslighting--What Catholics Should Know