The Institute of Spirituality in Asia (ISA) in partnership with the Southeast Asia Interdisciplinary Development Institute (SAIDI) – School of OD offers modules and courses that would develop the students’ skills in Organization Development as they deepen their spirituality, their scholarly insights, and their academic skills through the M.A. and Ph.D. Programs in Organization Development major in Transformative Spirituality.

ISA seeks to discern and deepen the meaning and relevance of transformative spirituality in the Philippine and Asian context. Through hermeneutic, critical and methodical reflection, it tries to make the experience of transformative spirituality and cultural diversity fruitful for the mission of the Church and for the renewal of the society.

ISA intends to develop a liberating, intercultural and transformative spirituality by combining the experiences of students from a diversity of cultures in the Philippines and Asian context with ISA’s scholarly expertise in research and teaching.

The M.A. and Ph.D. in Organization Development major in Transformative Spirituality programs prepare students to practice spirituality in an independent way and share insights into the relationship of spirituality and their own personal lives. Students will acquire a broad knowledge of the field of spirituality and more detailed knowledge on Carmelite Spirituality and in the varied spiritualities in the Philippines and in Asia.

As in every discipline, the study of Organization Development major in Transformative Spirituality has its material and formal objects. The material object presents the phenomenon of lived spirituality. The formal object provides and sharpens the ‘eye’ of the researcher for the basic processes, the dynamics that are at work in the field of lived spirituality. It provides the ‘discernment’ for deeper insight in spiritual forms, texts, orientations and interventions. The formal object is a way of looking that is conatural to the lived spirituality.