Hey Seniors, Discern This!
Senior Discernment Events
At Fairfield University, we continue to invest in our senior students to help them get the most out of their time here on campus, and assist them as they consider their future. Drawing from our Ignatian tradition, several programs help seniors "discern" their college experience, their life long passions, and how to make healthy choices for next year and for life.
Senior Retreat - Take a night to invest in YOU!
As a way to celebrate your years here at Fairfield, we invite you to participate in an overnight retreat designed for you, seniors of the class of 2012. This goal of this event is to give you some time to connect with one another, remember and appreciate those pivotal moments, persons, and experiences that have influenced you, and to celebrate the person you have become. We will also provide you practical tools for taking stock of where you have been, where you are currently, and how you might go forward. This event is only available to a few dozen senior students.
Before it all begins to blur into a haze of distant memories we invite you to invest in yourself so that those pivotal memories are well remembered and celebrated, important decisions are well discerned, and future opportunities are fully realized. Grab some close friends and join us. Details below.
Date: Friday, February 24 dinner begins at 6 p.m. to Saturday, February 25, ending by 12:30 p.m.
Location: Wisdom House Retreat and Conference Center, Litchfield, CT (about an hour from campus) www.wisdomhouse.orgFacilitators: Patricia Brennan, George Collins S.J., Conor O’Kane, Joe DeFeo
Registration Process: Sign up by February 10 in the Kelley Center, office of Student Development (see Joe DeFeo or Brigida Salvioli)
Registration must include a $20 deposit (cash or check). Make check to Senior Retreat. Registration is not complete until deposit and Waiver form are submitted. Note this process is first come first serve. Send questions to jdefeo@fairfield.edu
Retreat in Every Day Life: Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius
Are you looking for greater inner freedom, a spirit of discernment, a renewed sense of purpose, direction and meaning in your life? Do you wish you had a clearer sense of God's presence and activity in your daily life? All that is possible if you are willing to invest 30 minutes a day to reflect and pray on what is happening in you and around you and then to meet once a week with an assigned Spiritual Director/Companion who will help you process what you have experienced.
Spiritual Direction
This is an opportunity to meet one-on-one with a dedicated Spiritual Director once a month to prayerfully reflect on and process what is going on in your life. This opportunity is available to all regardless of one's faith tradition or formal faith formation. All sessions are held in the strictest of confidence.
If interested in either opportunity please contact Patricia Brennan, L.P.C. at pbrennan@fairfield.edu or a (203) 254-4000 ext. 7235 to set up an appointment to match you with a director.
Senior Seminars
Wondering about interviews and job offers, apartment hunting or graduating? These sessions provide practical information for seniors who are or will be dealing with finances, debt and more. More information at the Career Planning Center website.
All events are in the Kelley Center, 5:30 p.m. Food will be served. Sponsored by FUSA, University Activities, & Career Planning
- February 14 - Apartment Hunting and Moving Home
- March 6 - Saying Goodbye and Moving Away, "I am graduating, why do I feel weird...?"
- April 14 - Backpack to Briefcase
Theology on Tap
Come enjoy a beverage and conversation at the Levee with faculty, Jesuits, and others while learning about different aspects of how theology and spirituality meet real life. Different speakers each session. All sessions at the Levee.
- February 14, 8 p.m. - LOVE: He Said, She Said with Nancy Dallavalle, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Rob Wething, Assistant Director of Counseling and Psychological Services. Participate in a discussion on Valentine's Day - reflections on the Catholic vision of love and sexuality by a theologian (with a reality check by a psychotherapist).
- February 29, 9 p.m. - How American Catholics Do and Don't fit into U.S. Culture with Fr. Paul Fitzgerald, S.J., Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs.
Senior President's Dinner Series - Sponsored by The Senior Class Gift Committee & Student Activities
Please join Father von Arx S.J. and an esteemed member of the Fairfield Alumni community for dinner in Bellarmine Hall to share stories of your time at Fairfield and to discuss the role you will soon be taking as Fairfield alumni and the importance of supporting Fairfield University. For more information contact Fairfield Fund Coordinator, Kimberly LoPiano at Kimberly.Lopiano@fairfield.edu or (203) 254-4000 ext. 2174.