What is spiritual direction?

Spiritual Direction is an opportunity to meet with a trained spiritual director and spend an hour in conversation and listening prayer together, asking the Holy Spirit to guide and speak into your current spiritual journey – a noticing of God’s presence in the circumstances. It is a confidential place to seek, question, confess, lament and affirm your walk with God.

What spiritual direction is not

Spiritual direction is not pastoral counseling, coaching or mentoring as it does not seek to solve a problem or provide guidance with a specific agenda in mind.

Spiritual direction differs from these valuable ministries primarily in its focus: the intention in spiritual direction is not to help solve a problem, but rather to look for God’s activity within any problems and within the rest of your life experience.

This perspective invites you into deeper relationship with God in the midst of whatever you are experiencing. Spiritual direction is designed to compliment rather than compete with these other vital ministries within the Body of Christ.

What does a session look like?

For those, like me, who appreciate clarity and details, here is an example of what a session might look like:

Whether meeting in-person or via Zoom, we’ll begin the session time greeting one another and lighting a candle to represent God with us.

I’ll beginning with a short passage of Scripture to help us become still and attentive to the Holy Spirit’s active presence. Then offer a prayer for our time.

When you're ready, you begin sharing what's on your heart and mind. A good starting point is “How have you been experiencing God’s presence?” or sometimes simply, “What is bothering you?”

The latter guards against the conversation being “spiritual” in an idealistic or intellectual way and promotes it being real and authentic to your actual life.

Together in sacred trust we listen and respond to how the Holy Spirit seems to be working in you and with you. When helpful, I may offer a question you can contemplate or bring home with you to continue exploring with God in your day-to-day prayer life.

Sessions are usually one hour once a month. They can be in person or virtual.

How to I get started?

I am currently in Year One of Selah, a two-year training program through Leadership Transformation to become a certified Anglican Spiritual Director .

At this time, I am accepting directees who are willing to partner with me through my training portion of the program. My sessions are therefore free-of-charge while I am in training.

Please reach out to me via the contact form to receive more information or schedule a session. Thank you for partnering with me a we learn to listen together!