The Jesuits in Portugal launched an Ignatian formation program. The purpose is to disseminate and share, in a structured way, the inheritance of the Society of Jesus in four fundamental areas: Ignatian pedagogy, Ignatian spirituality, Ignatian leadership and discernment.

Throughout the year, training modules will be developed that "can contribute to a greater apostolic efficacy and fruitfulness of the works and institutions of the Company and of the Church, with a relevant impact on society," explains Fr Domingos de Freitas, sJ, responsible for this sector. These formations will deepen the Ignatian tools and practices such as the exam, the Ignatian pedagogical paradigm or the discernment.

These formations are addressed to the collaborators of the works and sectors of the Portuguese Province of the Society of Jesus, educators of Jesuit and Ignatian colleges, members of the Christian Life Community (CLC), as well as works, ecclesial movements and people from other communities.

The Casa da Torre in Soutelo and the Casa de Exercícios de Santo Inácio in Praia Grande (retreat Jesuits centers)  offer as part of their respective 2018-2019 Programs, a set of formative possibilities in the abovementioned dimensions, open to the general public.

However, the Ignatian Formation Service is available to accommodate requests and concrete requests that meet the training needs of people who collaborate in Jesuit and Ignatian works in Portugal and other movements or ecclesial groups. This flexibility concerns both the dates / calendar, as well as the training content and its duration.

Father Domingos Freitas, sJ, says that "there is a desire, always dissatisfied, for Jesuit and Ignatian apostolic works to be characterized by a proper course of action that identifies them as being aligned with a set of values, criteria, instruments and differentiating methodologies. "In this way, he adds," there are distinctive marks of this Ignatian proceeding that cannot be invisible or go unnoticed when entering a Jesuit or Ignatian institution. "