Course Catalogue 2026-2027

Psychospiritual Care and Therapy Practicum 2 provides students with opportunities to develop the arts and skills required for providing competent spiritually integrated psychotherapy. The course explores both theoretical and applied aspects spiritually-integrated psychotherapy at an integrative level (CASC/ACSS). It is located at the intersection of the theology of caring, grief and loss, and social sciences. The unit emphasizes multidimensional assessments and the different application of spiritual, therapeutic, supportive, educational, and strategies for individuals. Gender, professional identity and professional ethics, and formal spiritual care and counselling in Canada are also examined. The course will highlight significant aspects of the theologies/spirituality of spiritually integrated psychotherapy and provide students with opportunities to develop strategies to improve their skills as psycho-spiritual therapists and further their own professional development. There will be opportunities for students to gain 125 DCC hours. However, it is up to the students to ensure this.

Psycho-Spiritual Care and Therapy Practicum - also known as Supervised Pastoral Education - provides students with opportunities to develop the arts and skills required for providing competent psycho-spiritual care and therapy. The course explores both theoretical and applied aspects CPE/PCE. It is located at the intersection of the theology of caring, grief and loss, and social sciences. The unit emphasizes multidimensional assessments and the different application of spiritual, therapeutic, supportive, educational, and strategies for individuals. Gender, professional identity and "professional ethics, and formal spirltual care and counselling in Canada are also examined. The course will highlight significant aspects of the theologies/spirituality of psycho-spiritual care and therapy and provide students with opportunities to develop strategies to improve their skills as psycho-spiritual therapists and further their own professional development.

Psycho-Spiritual Care and Therapy Practicum -also known as Supervised Pastoral Education -provides students with opportunities to develop the arts and skills required for providing competent psycho-spiritual care and therapy. The course explores both

Psycho-Spiritual Care and Therapy Practicum -also known as Supervised Pastoral Education -provides students with opportunities to develop the arts and skills required for providing competent psycho-spiritual care and therapy. The course explores both

Psycho-Spiritual Care and Therapy Practicum -also known as Supervised Pastoral Education -provides students with opportunities to develop the arts and skills required for providing competent psycho-spiritual care and therapy. The course explores both

This course introduces students to practices of care with an emphasis on systems theories (family systems) in relation to self awareness, assessment, therapeutic planning in psycho-spiritual therapy and counselling. The first part of the course focuses on systems theories. Students will explore their own families and cultures of origin and their social identities as a means to learn the related theories and to develop self awareness (safe and effective use of self) for psycho-spiritual/ spiritual care therapy. In this first part of the course we will also examine and engage Internal family systems. The second part of the course will relate systems theories and intercultural approaches to the therapeutic process in the face of grief and loss, death and dying, suicide, trauma and crisis, aging and dementia. Through their understanding and use of systems theories, students' practice will be deepened in terms of the therapeutic relationship, assessment and treatment in spiritual care/ psycho-spiritual therapy. This course is suitable for students preparing for work in spiritual care/ psycho-spiritual therapy and for students preparing for leadership in congregational or social contexts.

This course is rooted in an ever-deepening awareness that all Christians are, by virtue of their baptism, incorporated into the People of God, and all of them “in their own way share the priestly, prophetic, and kingly office of Christ,” as they carry out their mission in the Church (Lumen Gentium #31). This course seeks to equip students with virtuous leadership skills and an understanding of lay ministry as they discern their place in the servant Church of Christ.

This course explores the development of monasticism in the first millennium of Christianity that continues to inform Christian life today. Attention will be paid to the biblical background and social-cultural context that led to its growth, as well as its relationship to the development of Christian institutions across the diverse cultural realities of the Christian East. The course also studies role monasticism played in the articulation of the liturgical, spiritual and doctrinal tradition.

This course explores the development of monasticism in the first millennium of Christianity that continues to inform Christian life today. Attention will be paid to the biblical background and social-cultural context that led to its growth, as well as its relationship to the development of Christian institutions across the diverse cultural realities of the Christian East. The course also studies role monasticism played in the articulation of the liturgical, spiritual and doctrinal tradition.

Catholic education, catechesis, and schooling are rooted in a centuries-long tradition of educating in faith as articulated in a variety of schools of spirituality. These schools of spirituality influence not only what is taught, but the educational approaches and practices that are used. This course will explore the foundational texts from major schools of spirituality and explore the ways that these have led to a variety of pedagogical practices in the formation of faith. Particular attention will be given to how these spiritual traditions inform the life of Catholic schools and universities, but application to other congregational and other ministerial contexts will also be explored.

Catholic education, catechesis, and schooling are rooted in a centuries-long tradition of educating in faith as articulated in a variety of schools of spirituality. These schools of spirituality influence not only what is taught, but the educational approaches and practices that are used. This course will explore the foundational texts from major schools of spirituality and explore the ways that these have led to a variety of pedagogical practices in the formation of faith. Particular attention will be given to how these spiritual traditions inform the life of Catholic schools and universities, but application to other congregational and other ministerial contexts will also be explored.

This course - Food/Justice, Farming, and Eco-Theology in the City - engages with these theological and ethical perspectives in the context of the Greater Toronto Area. Where does food in the city come from, how does it shape our communities and sense of belonging? Who gets to eat nutritious foods and who goes hungry? How are churches advocating for food justice? How may we decolonize our food systems in an urban environment? The course will focus in on these and other questions in conversation with and informed by (Christian) eco-theology, Ignatian (eco)-spirituality, and Indigenous teachings.