JOHNSON Institute for Spiritual Gerontology and Maturing Adult Faith Formation
Dedicated to the lifelong spiritual development of today’s maturing people of faith
Working with maturing adults in a faith setting … read on
Spiritual Gerontology: Seeking God across the lifespan
As we mature our spiritual pace quickens.
OUR MISSION To educate persons of faith to go out into the vineyards and bring God into the very center of aging ... to hold up the light of Jesus Christ in a | All JOHNSON Institute Programs are offered in both the ...
1) Home-Study Course format AND
2) New Online format ...
(see "see Online format" category)
Taking the courses on either a home-study basis or the new Online format have several very attractive advantages.
1. Cost-Effective:
Transportation, lodging, and meals, not to mention lost time, can double, or even triple the tuition cost of a typical In-Person program.
2. Lasting Resource:
Because the home-study program are all on CDs with generou | Here's a letter from a home-study student that accompanied her last home study course. Her words are beautiful, but the sentiment that she conveys is typical of what our home-study students tell us regularly.
Dear Dr. Johnson,
Please find enclosed the materials for the completion of my eighth course. The enrichment in my personal spiritual development was most valuable; I doubt that any other program would have proved as meaningful for me.
Looking back, I felt that each time I received a package with the next course, it contained a beautiful gift. As I |
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The Well, Wise & Whole Monthly … July/August 2009
The monthly e-newsletter on …
Spiritual Gerontology & Maturing Adult Faith Formation
Official publication of ALAM:
Association for Lifelong Adult Ministry
Richard P. Johnson, Ph.D., PCSG … Edit | JOHNSON Institute Course Descriptions
JI Course 100:
The Essentials of Spiritual Gerontology: Learning How the Later Years are Part of the Living Water that God Has Given to Us, and Coming to a Deep Understanding that “As We Mature Our Spiritual Pace Quickens.”
In-depth training in the emerging sub-specialty of “Spiritual Gerontology – a four-week, eight class hours interactive online course, punctuated by fieldwork, reading and insight activities between live, online class sessions.
Current research into the adult life cycle, and huma | How to Adopt the JOHNSON Institute Parish Faith Formation for Maturing Adults (FFMA) Program
Adoption of the JOHNSON Institute FFMA Program can be made in two ways:
A) The Leadership and Action Team Training Program: Cost $495, consists of two JOHNSON Institute FFMA programs:
1) Progarm 101: A New Vision of Senior Adult Minsitry: The Twelve Core Competencies for Effective Ministry with Maturing Adults, and
2) Program 102: The 12 Keys to Spiritual Vitality: Powerful Lessons in Living Agelessly
These two programs form a core of knowledg |
Mattering At Church Index … MACI
The MACI is designed to measure your sense of ‘mattering’ in five dimensions of your faith community. Simply respond to each of the following 50 items on this 1 to 10 scale.
1. Not at all
2. Only slightly
3. Minimally
4. Mildly
5. Moderately
6. To an average degree
7. To an above average degree
8. Strongly
9. Very strongly
10. To the highest degree
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Dimension I. I feel that specific people in my church …
1. ____ Take special notice of me. | OUR STUDENTS COME FROM
1. Parishes & Christian Churches (of all denominations) and Church Affiliated Organizations.
Laypersons are desperately needed to invigorate maturing adults in their ongoing faith journey. The JOHNSON Institute prepares laypersons to become facilitators of services to maturing adults in their own dioceses, and parishes. Maturing Adult Ministry has for far too long been all but forgotten in the Church; there are senior groups in many churches, but few churches indeed host a true maturing adult ministry. It’s time for vibrant, faith-cen | 
Richard P. Johnson, Ph.D., PCSG
Dr. Johnson is nationally recognized for his pioneering work in Maturing Adult Faith Formation and Spiritual Gerontology.
He is invited into many parishes, dioceses, and religious communities for consultation,
workshops, retreats, and other educational work. Dr. Johnson has given keynote addresses
and presentations in conferences including:
ACA, AADA, NACPA, NOCERC, LCWR, NFPC, NACSW, NACFLM and others.
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Those of us in the spiritual healing professions: pastoral counselors, spiritual directors, chaplains, healing coaches, and other professionals involved in spiritual counseling and healing can now find a means to bring advanced order to your work with clients and driectees.
The spiritual assessment instrument described here allow you to delve deeper into the spiritual lives of those with whom you work.
Here is a listing of the Spiritual Assessment Profiles offered by the JOHNSON Institute. You may order any of these profiles directly on this site. You will be sent the | JOHNSON Institute offers TWO Professional Certificates
1. Professional Certificate in Spiritual Gerontology (PCSG)
2. Professional Certificate in Maturing Adult Faith Formation(PC-MAFF)
Either of Both of these Certificates is a Potent Measure of Added-Competency
Here’s a way for you to bring added excellence into your ministry … earn your own PCSG or PC-MAFF.
JOHNSON Institute is proud to award any student who successfully completes ten (10) of our 14 programs the PCSG or the PC-MAFF< | JOHNSON Institute offers fourteen separate programs all covering various aspects of God's expansive love for maturng adults (Boomers, Builers, and Elders). Click on any one of these programs for a full description. Personally complete any ten(10) of the 14 programs and earn either your PCSG (Professional Certrificate in Spiritual Gerontology)or your PC-MAFF (Professional Certificate in Maturing Adult Faith Formation.
PLEASE NOTE: While the pictures of the programs show cassette tapes, please know that all programs are now on CDs and NOT on |
| ALAM--The Association for Lifelong Adult Ministry
Greet a New Day in Maturing Adult Ministry!
Membership in ALAM is FREE FREE FREE!!!
You 'join' ALAM when you sign-up to receive the FREE monthly publication, Well, WIse & Whoole Monthly, right here on this page. Simply type in your current e-mail address and you are then a member of ALAM.
Currently theere are over 2500 menbers of ALAM who…
• Help harness the tremendous spiritual power in adults that is all too often left undiscov | You Have A Tough Job
Knowing how to proceed in confidence with the job of assisting your maturing community members is not easy. Because you may be responsible for the ongoing formation of the senior members of your community, you’re confronted with a potentially confusing situation. You can never be totally sure that you are providing them with the tools necessary for effective living and faith-filled development. So what are you to do? I’ve devoted much thought, energy, and resources to this very issue, and I would like to propose a solution for you.
Reli |
A Specific Parish Plan for
Faith Formation for Maturing Adults (FFMA)
Steps to Successful Parish FFMA
Successful organization and construction of a vibrant FFMA progresses along these steps:
1. Recruit FFMA Coordinator or Co-coordinators
2. Recruit FFMA Action Team
3. FFMA Action Team Training and Motivation
4. Identify Content Facilitators
5. Census and Needs Assessment
6. Establish Parish FFMA Learning Center
7. Invite ALL Maturing Adults to Specific Programs
8. Outreach and Service Programs Identification | Spiritual Needs of Maturing Adults
The following are the 20 spiritual needs of Maturing Adults. Each of these needs is thoroughly described in article printed in successive issues of The WELL, WISE & WHOLE Monthly, one need in each issue. Each issue of The Well, Wise & Whole Monthly contains a description of another spiritual need.
Our Spiritual Needs
Our spiritual needs emerge developmentally innervated with our physical and psychological needs. Our spiritual needs are felt as “Yearnings of the Soul” that require our advancing a | 
Well, Wise & Whole: Faith Formation Programs After 50 Video Series
The first comprehensive faith formation video series specially designed for
maturing adults in the second half of their life.
Never before have we had a faith formation series especially for maturing adults. That’s because never before have we had an adult faith formation curriculum exclusively dedicated for maturing adults, aged 50 and older.
Now, for the first time, Dr. Johnson has revised and a |
JOHNSON Institute(JI) now offers TWO professional certificates:
1. Professional Certificate in Spiritual Gerontology (PCSG): For persons who currently work with senior adults, or would like to work with elders in a faith-based organization: skilled care facility, assisted living, retirement community, hospital, home care, hospice, spiritual direction, Christian counselors and social workers, chaplains, consecrated religious, priests, ministers, elder caregivers, family members … really anyone who would like to look through the eyes of Christ as they interact wi | Discovering Your Spiritual Strengths:
The Spirit power source of your personality, and wellspring of your health
Richard P. Johnson, Ph.D., LPC
Retreat Director
Dr. Johnson has been a practicing therapist for over 30 years. He is nationally recognized for his pioneering work in health enhancement across the lifespan. He is regularly invited to share his therapeutic work in faith communities and settings across the nation. His fresh ideas and enthusiasm for the spiritual aspects of health enhancement have inspired many to discover the life and l | |
JOHNSON Institute Launches New Online Teaching Format
JOHNSON Institute Begins a New Era!
Beginning January, 2010 you can take any of the 14 JOHNSON Institute courses right on your computer. It’s simple, easy, cost-effective, and so convenient.
Aging is part of the living water that Christ offers us each day.
· You can take any and all JOHNSON Institute courses online.
· You may take only one course, or all 14 … it’s totally up to you.
· You may begin your studies with any course … there |