OPEN HANDS, WILLING HEARTS
6-session online course led by Patience Robbins and Margaret Pfeil
March 9-April 13, 2025
What is mine to do? Who am I called to be? Why am I here?
Recognizing and living into one’s call is a lifelong process of discernment. Patience Robbins and Margaret Pfeil invite you to look at your life, no matter what age, and notice your unique contribution to God’s vision.
Join us for the refreshment, vitality and deepening in prayer that is made possible together in this expanded form of spiritual community.
Through storytelling and sharing of their experience, the course leaders will help renew your appreciation of your life and cultivate your attention, receptivity and responsiveness to how the Spirit is leading and guiding from within, through nature, and through the people who mentor and inspire you.
The 6-session course includes:
- Experiential exercises
- Reflection questions and resources
- Audio teachings that can be accessed at any time
- Online course space that provides opportunities for journaling and shared reflection with other participants
“This online course helped me to gently notice and reflect on the totality of God’s movement over the course of my life. New ‘calls’ emerge over the years, but they have their rootedness in what has gone before. I also noticed the wealth of companions who have encouraged my faith. Thinking about who they are and how they inspire me helps define who I desire to become myself.”
– Valerie H.
Patience Robbins
Patience Robbins is a graduate of Shalem’s Nurturing the Call: Spiritual Guidance Program and has been a spiritual director for 35 years. She has been on Shalem’s adjunct staff since 1997 and was the Director of Shalem’s Personal Spiritual Deepening Program from 2003-2008 and Director of the Young Adult Life and Leadership Initiative from 2013-2015. She is the author of the booklet: Parenting: A Sacred Path.
Margaret Pfeil
Margaret Pfeil teaches theological ethics at the University of Notre Dame and is also a founding member of the St. Peter Claver Catholic Worker Community in South Bend, Indiana.
COST & REGISTRATION
Course dates: March 9-April 13, 2025
Registration opens: February 23, 2025
Registration deadline: March 16, 2025
If you are registered, you can access the material for two weeks after the course ends.
Register as an individual.
Enjoy this course at your own pace & connect with others in a members-only space.
Register as a group of 2 to 9 people.
Find a partner or small group & get a discount. During checkout, provide the names of your group of 2-9 people.
Register as a group of 10 or more.
Would you like to bring a Shalem online course to your community?
Learn about our Leadership Discount here.
ACCESSING YOUR COURSE
Once you register, your receipt email from info@shalem.org will have the link to the online course page, which you can view anytime from your computer, phone or tablet. Be sure to adjust your email spam filters to receive emails from info@shalem.org. Having trouble logging in? Visit the How Do I Create/Log into a Shalem Account? page or feel free to contact info@shalem.org.
Action is required if you pay for other people: you must share with them the link to the course page that is located on your receipt.
HAVE QUESTIONS?
If you have questions about this online program or the group and leadership discounts, contact the Help Desk at info@shalem.org.