Conference on Human Formation 2026
The Complicated Candidate: Navigating Personality in Discernment and Formation
Registration Opens September 2025
August 31 - September 3, 2026
Saint Meinrad Archabbey
200 Hill Drive
St. Meinrad, Indiana 47577
An in-person conference for formation and vocations personnel and diocesan and religious leadership
This fifth collaboration between Saint Luke Institute and Saint Meinrad Archabbey, Seminary and School of Theology brings together experts in psychology and priestly and religious formation to share practical strategies for managing difficult personalities in formation, discernment and leadership.
Workshop Topics Include:
Personality styles vs. disorders
Trauma & personality
Managing transference & boundaries with difficult members
Interviewing for personality problems
Narcissistic, dependent & obsessive-compulsive personalities
Intersectionality: personality & culture