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December 2014

December 02, 2014
For many Christians, praying daily with scripture is an important devotional practice. There are a...
December 01, 2014
If you find it hard to relax into prayer during Advent, try this contemplative exercise....

November 2014

November 29, 2014
Spiritual Direction 101 seeks to offer spiritual directors--and all others interested in spirituality--tools for deepening...
November 25, 2014
  If so inclined, you could spend years of your life reading books written about...

June 2014

June 05, 2014
Marketing spiritual direction can be a touchy subject. There are some spiritual directors who abhor...

May 2014

May 05, 2014
  Spiritual directors need to make a living like everyone else. So, like all freelancers,...

April 2014

April 21, 2014
Spiritual directors must pay special attention to the space they use for direction.  It needs...

March 2014

March 07, 2014
Once you have received training in the art of spiritual direction and want to get...

February 2014

February 07, 2014
  The psychological term transference is a concept that spiritual directors need to know and...

December 2013

December 27, 2013
Spiritual directors must be clear about limits. Boundaries are important for everyone, but for those...
December 09, 2013
Because good spiritual directors do a lot of listening and very little personal sharing in...

November 2013

November 18, 2013
Spiritual direction is not psychological counseling but it helps for spiritual directors to know something...

October 2013

October 16, 2013
All spiritual directors need to be in a supervision relationship. If you are doing regular...
October 01, 2013
Don’t even think about becoming a spiritual director if you are not willing to be...

August 2013

August 26, 2013
This is for those of you thinking of becoming spiritual directors but who dislike the...
August 12, 2013
Perhaps you have been reading Spiritual Direction 101 and have been wondering if you are—or...

July 2013

July 26, 2013
One of the hardest spiritual practices in life is accepting that which we cannot change....
July 22, 2013
A body prayer is any prayer that incorporates movement. It can be as simple as...
July 12, 2013
If we think of God being as close to us as our very breath, then...

June 2013

June 26, 2013
If images speak louder than words to you, then your spiritual director may invite you...
June 05, 2013
We need to practice stillness in order to become comfortable with it. When the Psalmist...

May 2013

May 28, 2013
Have you ever read something  that led to such a deep and exciting insight that...
May 16, 2013
Reflecting on our lives is the heart of spiritual direction. Our life is where we...
May 01, 2013
Spiritual direction is a specialty ministry. It is designed to assist those who long for...

April 2013

April 01, 2013
In spiritual direction as in much of life, you have to be careful. While most...

February 2013

February 18, 2013
When you enter a spiritual direction relationship you are entering a world in which there...
February 11, 2013
Although there is no governing body overseeing and monitoring spiritual directors, there is a code...
February 04, 2013
The first session with a new spiritual director can sometimes feel as awkward as a...

January 2013

January 28, 2013
If you live in a metropolitan area, you will probably have lots of spiritual directors...
January 14, 2013
Intuition is an inner knowing that is not necessarily based on cold, hard facts. Some...
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