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Discernment and Ways of Prayer

Father Edward Farrell

Father Edward Farrell was born in Detroit, Michigan and received his BA from Sacred Heart Seminary College and did post-graduate studies in Theology at Gregorian University in Rome, Italy.  Additional post-graduate studies in the Classics and Clinical Psychology were done at the University of Michigan.  Fr. Farrell served as a parish priest as well as on the faculty of Sacred Heart Seminary.  The author of several books, he has also led national and international retreats and workshops.

Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology

Dr. Phil Sternig

Dr. Sternig has been a counselor for more than thirty years.  He is associated with the Psychosynthesis Institute of San Francisco and is a Diplomate with the Institute of Logotherapy in Berkeley, of which he was the Associate Director of Training.  Additionally he received training in Family Therapy from the Chicago Family Institute and has had training in chemical dependency from the Johnson Institute in Minneapolis.  In addition to his private practice in which he specializes in pyschospiritual counseling, Dr. Sternig conducts workshops and gives lectures and teaches Transpersonal Psychology at Cardinal Stritch College and at the Sacred Heart School of Theology.

The Nebraska Five Day Academy for Spiritual Formation is sponsored by the Board of Laity and Discipleship of the Nebraska United Methodist Annual Conference under the authority of The Upper Room.

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