Carmen Valdés

Carmen Lourdes Valdes is a faculty member of Loyola School of Theology. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Education from Assumption College, Makati; a Master of Arts in Educational Management from De La Salle University, Manila; a Master of Arts in Theology from the University of San Francisco, California; and a Doctor of Philosophy in Spirituality from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California. He is engaged in teaching, theological formation, spiritual accompaniment, retreat direction, and pastoral counseling. She is associated with the Sacred Springs Dialogue Institute of Spirituality and Sustainability, an institute within LST dedicated to theological reflection and formation in response to the ecological crisis, with particular emphasis on ecological conversion and the vision of Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’. She has served as adviser and examiner for graduate students in spirituality, pastoral theology, and related fields at LST. Her academic and pastoral interests include spirituality, spiritual accompaniment, pastoral counseling, retreat direction, and ecological theology.