Imagine your future
Second cohort’s visit to Lima, Peru
Join a community of fellow travelers
THE IGNATIAN LEGACY FELLOWS program is an invitation to imagine the next stage of your life. Look back on your career. Find your purpose. Discover your passion. Deepen your faith. Examine the challenges facing today’s leaders in order to help them prepare for tomorrow.
Join our community of seekers, made up of accomplished colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experience. You’ll share in enlightening conversations, develop deep relationships, and form an extraordinary network while traveling the world in an immersive, transformational, and unforgettable journey.
Boston College
Georgetown University
Santa Clara University
Boston College Georgetown University Santa Clara University
PARTNERING UNIVERSITIES
MISSION
To accompany a community of men and women in the second half of life on a year-long pilgrimage as they reimagine and renew their sense of meaning and purpose using the tools of Ignatian spirituality and discernment.
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A gift to yourself
As the adage goes,
“Great leaders never stop learning.”
We’ll help you answer the questions, “What next?” and “How can I share my knowledge and experiences with the next generation?”
Over the course of a year, you will learn thoughtful and contemplative ways to discern societal needs and make a difference in the world. You will also engage with leaders, faculty, and students taking part in exciting initiatives at Jesuit institutions around the world. And you will learn spiritual reflection and prayerful ways to uncover insights on how to use your talents and passions for the greater good.
THE JOURNEY
During our three-part journey, we will look to the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius as our guide.
INWARD JOURNEY
This pilgrimage creates time for a life review, to look back, collect stories, and claim one’s gifts to meet the challenges of rewirement.
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TRAVELERS JOURNEY
Join this Ignatian pilgrimage which values hospitality, accompaniment, storytelling, food, laughter, learned guides, prayer, and spirituality and gain insight for the future.
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INTERGENERATIONAL JOURNEY
Learn and grow with diverse, global Jesuit leaders, meet students in professional, social, retreats, and parishes to listen to their challenges.
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BUILD a community of learning and discover what it means to be contemplative in action.
Walk with the excluded and/or marginalized
Journey with youth to a hope-filled future
Care for our common home and planet
Experience discernment and contemplation
Key Benefits
GROW as you experience the global Jesuit mission and appreciate the richness and diversity of each locale. Destinations include Jesuit universities, international missions in Peru, ending with a culminating pilgrimage to Spain and Italy.
TRANSFORM through inquiry, seeking understanding through observation, conversation, questioning, and listening—not to fix problems—but to engage practitioners as they meet adaptive challenges in their work.
SERVE as knowledgeable and wise counselors, board members, trustees, and volunteers in this period of your life—and join the Society of Jesus as agents of reconciliation to a world in need.
The Flor de Almancaes Community
Ignatian Legacy Fellows deepen their faith and find purpose in the next phase of their lives
At a certain point in life, many people ask themselves a version of this question: “What will my legacy be?”
The answers are many and varied, but for some, the answers take time. Further discovery is required. This is where the Ignatian Legacy Fellows (ILF) program has come into play for many people since September of 2019. Jason Zenk is one of them.
The Ignatian Legacy Fellows are proud to support a life-changing community kitchen in Lima, Peru, which feeds 100 people each day in honor of Fr. Michael Garanzini, SJ. The gifts from the fellows will feed families and empower the women of the community to work and to provide nutritional meals to their families. Each cohort of the ILF program will visit the community kitchen during future visits to Peru.
Who should
participate?
If you are contemplating retirement, transitioning, or already retired, this program may be perfect for you. Past participants have included:
Institutional leaders
C-suite executives
Nonprofit directors
Business owners
Lifelong volunteers
Alumni of Jesuit high schools and universities
Ignatian Legacy Fellows is open to people of any faith tradition, race, creed, and sexual orientation.
Fees are $5,000 a month for ten months beginning January 2023 by credit card or bank transfer. You pay for your own airfare for each residency. Partial scholarships are available.
How to apply
You are are invited to apply now to begin the program later this year. Start the process with your resume and a brief letter of intent. For details on the application process, email Mariann McCorkle, mariannmccorkle@gmail.com.
Learn more
Please contact Mariann McCorkle, Director, Ignatian Legacy Fellows, at 301.807.5369 or mariannmccorkle@gmail.com.
“I am making a transition with the help of this cohort; I am becoming more fully who I am...”
— KELLY DOHERTY, IGNATIAN LEGACY FELLOW
Leadership team
MARIANN McCORKLE is Director of the Ignatian Legacy Fellows program. She has 25 years of experience in major gifts fundraising, higher education, and strategic development. Mariann has worked for several institutions of higher learning, including the Folger Shakespeare Library, Georgetown University, and the University of Maryland.
REV. MICHAEL GARANZINI, S.J. is Chair of the Board of the Ignatian Legacy Fellows. He is president of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU). He also serves as Secretary for Higher Education for the Society of Jesus, and as chair of the board of directors for the International Association of Jesuit Universities (IAJU). Fr. Garanzini was the 23rd president of Loyola University Chicago for 14 years and later served as chancellor.
JOSEPH DEFEO, PH.D. is the Executive Director of AJCU’s Ignatian Colleagues Program that engages senior-level administrators and faculty from across Jesuit Colleges and Universities in North America in learning about the Jesuit and Catholic mission, history, charism, pedagogy, and spirituality, of their institutions. He is a certified spiritual director, supervisor for spiritual directors in training, and has been an adjunct professor at Fairfield University, teaching a course titled, Finding God in all Things.
Board of Directors
Chair
Michael Garanzini, SJ
Vice Chair
Margaret Sherlock
Treasurer
John Micek
Alison Benders
Mark Bosco, SJ
John Egner
Pedro Galatas
Jack O'Connell
Tom Thees
Program Overview
Boston College • Boston, Massachusetts
Georgetown University • Washington, DC
Antonio Ruiz de Montoya University • Lima, Peru
Ruiz de Montoya and Machu Picchu
Santa Clara University Jesuit School of Theology and the Miller Center of Social Entrepreneurship • Berkeley, California
Pilgrimage to Spain and Rome
Engaging the global mission of the Jesuits and honoring St. Ignatius of Loyola • Barcelona, Manresa, and Montserrat, Spain; Rome, Italy
Retreat at location TBD with the fellows in Cohort 3
STM Professor of the Practice Colleen Griffith led the Ignatian Legacy Fellows and program leaders through a guided examen in the chapel in Simboli Hall. (Courtesy photo: Catherine Tatge)