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Listen offers you a wide market for advertising.

 

Listen is international in scope and outreach. Listen is read by more than 15,000 seekers and subscribers and can be found in retreat centers, spiritual direction enrichment, formation and training programs, and theological libraries, around the world. In addition, Listen is posted online, and read by countless seekers through the Internet and social media outreach.

 

Listen is an inviting informative publication that is published four times per year — January, April, July and October. Each issue features articles on spiritual direction and guidance; prayer and practice, and ideas for contemplative, holy living.

 


Who reads Listen?

 

Listen attracts a variety of readers from all over the world.

 

Its readers include:

 

  • Spiritual seekers and spiritual directees

     

  • Spiritual directors and guides
  • Retreat leaders
  • People involved in enrichment, formation and training of spiritual directors

     

  • Pastoral counselors, hospice workers, health care professionals, campus ministers
  • Lay, religious, and ordained
Its institutional base includes:

 

  • Retreat centers and houses

     

  • Spiritual life centers

     

  • Seminaries and rabbinical colleges, colleges and universities

     

  • Dioceses and other ecclesiastical institutions

     


What might be good to advertise?

 

Opportunities for Ongoing Spiritual Growth:

 

  • Retreats and sabbaticals

     

  • Professional days, days of prayer and reflection
  • Formation and training programs
Books, literature and media (CD’s and DVD’s) that focus on:

 

  • Spiritual direction

     

  • Spiritual growth and related issues

     

  • Prayer
  • Art and poetry
  • Formation, training, mentoring and supervision

     

  • Relationship with the Divine

     

  • Various aspects of your religious tradition

     

  • Inspirational reading
Educational Opportunities:

 

  • Degree and certificate programs in ministry, spirituality, and spiritual direction

     

  • Internships for spiritual directors and supervisors

     

  • Workshops on supervision, MBTI, Enneagram, focusing and bio-spirituality, dreamwork, 12-step methodologies, working with abuse and dysfunction

     

  • Courses on spirituality, theology, adult development, scripture, prayer, contemplation

Questions?

 

If you have any questions about advertising in Listen, contact Pegge Bernecker You may reach her at: Listen [@] sdiworld.org

 


Spiritual Directors International
PO Box 3584 Bellevue, WA 98004-3584 USA
Phone/Fax: 425-455-1565/6

 


Advertising rates for Listen: A Seeker's Resource for Spiritual Direction

 

Rates are per each issue.  Circulation is 15,000, and available in a FREE pdf download for one year on the Spiritual Directors International website. 
(Measurements are in inches; rates are in U.S. dollars

 

FULL PAGE
8.375 by 10.875
$1080.00 (black and white)
$225.00 additional for design and typesetting
(The printable area of the page in Listen is 8.375" by 10.875". The bleed size is an extra 0.25" around the ad, so the total image size for a bleed in Listen should be 8.875" by 11.375".)

HALF PAGE
6 1/2 x 4 1/4 (horizontal)
$648.00 (black and white)
$125.00 additional for design and typesetting

QUARTER PAGE
3 1/8 x 4 1/4 (vertical)
$360.00 (black and white)
$75.00 additional for design and typesetting

BUSINESS CARD
3 1/8 x 2 (horizontal)
$264.00
$75.00 additional for design and typesetting

 



EVENT LISTING
6 lines of up to 40 characters each.
See Samples Here.
$60.00

FEATURED PROGRAM “Paid Advertisement
$720.00

 

Mechanical requirements

 

PDF or TIF format  is preferred.

 

Ads may be submitted in camera-ready, hard-copy format.

 

All hard-copy ads must:
* be Laser-printed at a minimum of 300 dpi.
* have a clear mechanical border that conforms to the size of the ads listed above.

 

Ads that are not camera-ready or exceeding specified size will be adjusted at an additional charge.

 


Terms/Conditions and Discounts
The advertiser understands that space is reserved on a first-come, first-served basis. For that reason, advertising orders are binding after the closing date. Cancellations or changes in orders are not accepted after that time. Advertisers canceling after this date will be billed for space ordered.

The advertiser agrees submit to Spiritual Directors International final advertising copy by the due date indicated. Alterations requiring additional work will be charged at current rates. When no other copy is provided by the advertiser by the due date, Spiritual Directors International may insert a previous advertisement from Listen or Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction

Every effort will be made to afford advertisers the position desired; however, under no circumstances is position guaranteed, nor is advertising accepted subject to position. Advertising must be paid for regardless of position.

Payment in full is due within 30 days of the initial invoice date. Advertising privileges will be suspended on accounts over 90 days past due.

Discount applies for insertions of ­one ad placed in more than one issue:

(No discount is available for the Global Resource or Global Event listings.)

1 ad 1 insertion no discount
1 ad 2 insertions 5% discount
1 ad 2+ insertions 7.5% discount

 

To receive any discount, you must state the number of insertions at the time of your initial reservation.

Payment can be made by Check, or online through our secure payment form.

 


Deadlines

 

 

(Closing date) Reserve by

 

Copy due

 

January issue

 

Oct. 9

 

Oct. 19

 

April issue

 

Jan. 9

 

Jan. 19

 

July issue

 

April 9

 

April 19

 

October issue

 

July 9July 19

“Global Resource” SAMPLES

36 characters for the top bold resource line
1. 40 characters for the regular unbolded lines
2. 40 characters for the regular unbolded lines
3. 40 characters for the regular unbolded lines
4. 30 characters for the e-mail address line or other information
5. 30 characters for the Web site line or other information

AZ Ecumenical Inst. for Spiritual Directors

Ecumenical Christian formation program
for those answering a call to companion
others as spiritual directors.
Scottsdale, AZ 85253; aeisd@aeisd.org
480-948-0707 ext.124; www.aeisd.org

Bethany Spirituality Center
Highland Mills, NY 10930
Ministry of Religious of Jesus and Mary
Spiritual Direction, Retreats, Sabbatical
845-460-3061; fax 845-928-2320
www.bethanyspiritualitycenter.org

Servant Song Ministries
Retreat House & Spirituality Center
720 East Greene Street
Waynesburg, PA 15370
Telephone and fax: 724-852-2133
www.servantsongministries.org

www.smallsmallacts.com
Note cards with original photography.
Finding the Sacred in the Ordinary.
Useful for meditation focus.
No minimum order.
Free shipping.

New Resource for Spiritual Directors
A Spiritual Directors International Book
Candlelight: Illuminating the Art of
Spiritual Direction by Susan S. Phillips
For faculty, students, and learners
US$26.00; www.sdiworld.org 

Reserve your space now

Due to spam coming through our Form at unusally high rates, our form is down at the moment.  We apologize for any inconvenience.

To reserve a spot in Listen Newsletter, please send an e-mail to:

ads {at} sdiworld.org

Subject:  Reserve my ad in Listen.

Please include the following:

Your Name
Your Institution
Which Issue you'd like to place your advertisement in (January, April, July, October)
What size Ad you'd like (Full, Half, Quarter, Eight, Resource Ad)
Additional Comments

We will respond as soon as possible.  Thank you!


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