Related Educational Experiences
Psychotherapy Practicum
Each of our students becomes the Parish Counselor for a year in a Roman Catholic Parish. Responsibilities there include seeing clients in the parish offices, maintaining a clinical file on each client, marketing the program, collecting fees, and at times, a Psycho educational mini-workshop.
Through the more than twenty years of this practicum, we have developed an approach to training that is holistic and communal. Body, Mind and Spirit are central to our work with each other, as well as with clients. Together, supervisors and students form a treatment team, optimizing available resources for the sake of our clients – and for each other. From a psychodynamic and experiential foundation, we are dedicated to nurturing each other as persons doing therapy. The supervisors are dedicated to supporting each student in finding an approach to therapy that maximizes his or her unique personal style and gifts.
We create the learning community on Thursdays. Individual supervision is scheduled in the morning. Each student gets two hours. Beginning at noon, we have a three hour group process in which the facilitators participate as peers. This includes lunch together, an hour of case discussion in a peer supervision format, and an hour of personal time where we stay connected with what is happening in each others’ lives.
Spiritual Direction Internship
The Spiritual Direction Internship is designed for persons who feel called to accompany others on their life journey. The focus is how to be with directees as they reflect on life and their relationship with God, self and others.
This nine month process takes place one day a week allowing interns to continue with other responsibilities. The internship is experiential in nature. Its content unfolds in the context of group process and reflection, not lecture. The Internship experience also includes one-to-one supervision, peer group supervision, assigned readings, and practice in the art of Spiritual Direction. It is limited to approximately eight persons.
The internship begins with a three-day intensive in mid-September and meets one day a week through mid-May.
Sacred Dance
Sacred Dance engages our own interior longings and invites us to step into silence. It is the beginning of gathering within us the depth of our human reality. Movement offers us an opportunity to find unity between our body, spirit and soul. Sacred Dance is prayer – prayer is dance.
Group Supervision for Formation and Vocation Ministry Personnel
Group supervision allows persons engaged in formation/vocation ministry to focus on their experience and relationships as they companion new members in community. The focus of supervision is the experience of the persons being supervised and the interior movements they notice within themselves as they companion others. Each group meets once a month and is limited to eight persons.
Workshops/Presentations
Aware of the need for continuing education, the Claret Center Staff offers workshops, seminars and presentations throughout the year on a variety of timely topics. These workshops are available at Claret Center and at other sites when requested.
Retreats
The Spiritual Direction Staff is available for individually directed retreats throughout the year at Claret Center. Staff members are also willing to lead retreats for individuals and/or groups in other settings. Claret Center has a retreat apartment for persons desiring either directed or private retreats.
Consultation/Facilitation
Claret Center offers consultation and group facilitation in such areas as leadership groups, formation communities, conflict management, effective decision-making, religious communities’ chapters, parish staffs and parish councils.
Claret Center Diagnostic and Assessment Services
For many years, Claret Center has offered assessments to individuals and religious communities. We are pleased to expand those services to include a wider array of psychological, educational, and vocational assessments and consultation choices.
Our assessment team is directed by Dr. Kevin Van Eron, a licensed clinical psychologist on staff at Claret Center. Dr. Van Eron has over a decade of educational, psychological, emotional, behavioral assessment and consultation experience. He will work with clients to determine their assessment needs, and then tailor a process that best assists them in answering questions, identifying strengths, developing areas of challenge, as well as setting goals and implementing plans for growth.
Who might benefit from assessments?
- Individuals considering entering or adapting to community life
- Students from pre-school through graduate school who are experiencing problems with learning
- People struggling with memory, attention, or concentration concerns
- Individuals experiencing troubling emotions, such as anger, sadness, or anxiety
- Job-seekers hoping to gain better insight to talents, interests, and career direction
- Anyone who wishes to better understand life interests, resources, and areas in need of growth
All testing services are provided at a low cost and are coordinated with insurance plans, whenever possible.
Please give us a call to discuss how our assessment services might be of assistance to you. Our number is (773) 643-6259, extension 29.
