Application

 Deadline Extended

 Now Due: Thursday, April 27 at 3:00 PM ET

Application Fee: $120

Kol Dodi is a Jewish Spiritual Director Training Program grounded in IJS’s contemplative and contemporary core spiritual practices for cultivating awareness of mind, body and heart, and for attuning to the Voice of the Beloved. 

This program incorporates multidisciplinary approaches to contemplative soul companioning, drawing from both Jewish wisdom and the field of spiritual direction, with the aim of supporting the formation of self as a Jewish spiritual director. Towards this end, Kol Dodi’s formation program and curriculum center the theory and practice of Jewish spiritual direction. The training includes teaching from core and guest faculty; regular support and supervision from mentors; chevruta (peer-based learning partners); small group experiential practice; mindfulness and embodiment practices; creative process and expressive arts; trauma-attuned spiritual care, and sacred activism, amplifying the connection between the inner life and our outer work as creative partners with the Divine.

Kol Dodi Jewish Spiritual Director Training is committed to providing a learning community that welcomes people from diverse racial, religious, cultural and spiritual traditions, as well as participants who embody sexual and gender diversity, disability and multigenerational perspectives. We ask the demographic questions below in support of this commitment. 

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Note:  It is a requirement for admission to Kol Dodi that participants will have been in spiritual direction for at least 6 months prior to the start of the program in October 2023. Participants must also remain in spiritual direction for the duration of the program. Here is a suggested list of spiritual directors if you need assistance finding someone with whom to work.

Disclaimer: The spiritual directors listed here are not employees of or affiliated with either IJS or the Kol Dodi Jewish Spiritual Director Training program. Your arrangements with a spiritual director are independent of IJS and the Kol Dodi training program.

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Before completing this application, please take some time to reflect on the questions below. Discernment is an ongoing process, and we ask that you pause to reflect on why you feel drawn to this discipline and if you feel called and ready to apply to this training program at this time. If your responses are yes, we welcome your application and look forward to receiving it. 

We strongly recommend that you write your responses to these questions in a separate document (e.g. a Google or Word doc). When you are ready, cut and paste your responses into this form. This form must be filled out all at once; it will not save your work as you go. Thank you!