Discernment is more than making good decisions.

It is a way of paying attention to the movements within us and learning how to recognize where they are leading. This retreat introduces participants to St. Ignatius of Loyola’s Rules for the Discernment of Spirits as a practical and spiritual framework for navigating everyday life. Participants will explore the movements of consolation and desolation, notice the patterns that influence their choices, and learn how to respond with greater freedom and clarity. This retreat offers concrete tools for recognizing what draws us toward greater faith, hope, love, and interior freedom, and what gradually pulls us away from them. The Rules of Discernment become companions in moments of uncertainty, transition, temptation, decision-making, and change.

DISCERNMENT: A Way of Proceeding invites you to develop a discerning way of living—one that listens
deeply, notices carefully, and learns to move through life with greater freedom of how God may be leading.