Event Location: Online - Zoom
Event Type: Tyndale Spiritual Formation Centre
This course will introduce students to the power of imagination and story in spiritual growth. We will explore how stories, fairy tales and myths speak to patterns in our lives. By the end of the class, students will become familiar with the importance of a sanctified imagination, why story is so critical in spiritual growth as well as ways and means of engaging with story personally and in community.
Learning Objective
- A self-awareness of what populates our own stories
- Consider a model of spiritual formation that includes story
- Become familiar with engaging the human faculty of imagination to continue to
- Find and redeem our stories in the greater narrative of God’s love
- Think critically about hearing and engaging with one another’s story
Lyndsay Thompson, M.Div., RP.
Lyndsay is an instructor at Tyndale Seminary in the Clinical Counselling and Thanatology programs. She is also a registered psychotherapist and who works primarily with kids and families and individual adults. She is working on a Doctor of Ministry in Spiritual Formation with a focus on the use of imagination, story and somatic experiencing for spiritual growth.