Set an intention - What do you want to receive from this course? Why are you here? What is it you need for your spiritual journey right now?
Create your learning space so you can best relax and engage with the content - this may mean finding a quieter space, a comfortable seat, a journal, cup of tea or coffee, light a candle, burn some incense... what are the things that help you connect, add them to your environment during this course.
Value and enrich your own faith tradition whilst listening and learning from other faith traditions.
Each module begins with a meditation, which is just a moment to pause, connect with your breathing, and identify how you are showing up. I will guide you through how to do this, but as a preface, it is quite simple, natural and something I would want you to be comfortable doing. If you can prioritise this each time you start a module it will put you in a different frame of mind and an openness to receive what might be yours in the session.
The Spiritual Almanac - A practice that runs right through, and is encouraged daily whilst you are in the course, is to start writing your own Spiritual Almanac. An almanac is a scientific journal of sorts, that collates dates and data to provide research and evidence. My encouragement is that you purchase a new notepad or journal and use this daily at night to reflect on when you felt a sense of spiritual connection in your day? What was happening? Who were you with? What ideas did you have or images did you see? What resonated with you and why do you think? The entries are meant to be shorter and succinct. By the end of the course you will have a record and a map of all the ways you have sensed your soul connecting with God and the world around you. Simply by paying attention and writing a short note about it.
Homework - additional to the Almanac will be a reflection, a question or a practice for you to take up in between modules.