Spiritual transformation is an intricate work, a supernatural process that God is doing in our lives. This process is composed of spiritual events, experiences, phases, and processes. It is essential to understand that before doing anything, before beginning a new phase, God requires our decision, our conscious agreement, and our full participation. We are always in process.
Spiritual Direction is the ancient art of Christian conversation and listening carried out in the context of a trusting relationship. A Spiritual Director is a faith companion who listens to your life stories with an ear for discerning the movement of the Holy Spirit in your life.
God is the true guide and director, while the human spiritual director is like a coach or a midwife, assisting you in noticing and responding to the inner voice of God and movement in your life. The director is primarily interested in your experience of God and how you can follow God’s call. The process is a spiritual journey into the truth about God, yourself, your relationships, your work and the world.
Below are are some of the biggest reasons to begin Spiritual Direction:
1. Discerning important decisions and life changes.
2. Receive the encouragement, guidance, and companionship you need.
3. Discover, exploring, and integrate spirituality and practices in your life.
4. Explore and interpret your experiences of God.
5. Navigating a time of dryness or darkness - get spiritually unstuck.
6. Become who you were designed to be - uncovering your true self and purpose.
7. Finding a safe space to be heard and spiritually heal past wounds and hurts.
8. Deepen your relationships with God, Jesus, Holy Spirit and others.
My faith/spiritual background.
I am personally anchored within Christian spirituality. I have an affinity with the mystic expressions of all faith traditions. I honour the holy wherever I find it. I am comfortable working with people of faith and with those who consider themselves spiritual but not religious. I seek to listen for the way the Sacred shows up in your life.
My influences
Christ, Julian of Norwich, Franciscan and Ignatian Spirituality, Hildegard of Bingen, Teresa of Avila, Theresa of Liseux, Richard Rohr, Cynthia Borgeault, John O’Donahue, Parker Palmer/Circle of Trust, Mirabai Starr, Native American Spirituality
In the pathway of our lives, we all have uneven places where our foundations were not well built. Traumas and losses can be like diversion or rocky places where we get stuck again and again.
Developmental Soul Care is an invitation to just such a journey into wholeness. The use of spiritual, creative, and life practices invite the Presence of God to bring profound experiences of love and safety. Over time, this can repair the uneven places in our foundations, as new neuro-pathways of experiences are built.
* Revisit your life journey with the Holy Spirit as Guide and Healer
* Invite the Voice of God to instill truths at each life stage.
* Build on current understanding of neuroscience to offer repair to
developmental and attachment issues.
* Bring transformation through an experiential, encounter based approach to your
relationship with God.
WHAT'S THE APPROACH?
Spiritual Practices
There will be an invitation to interact with God through scripture, worship, prayer, and personalized spiritual practices that help you to connect with God at the heart level.
Creative Practices
Your spiritual director will aid you to select key creative practices that deepen your experience of what God is revealing to you. For example: creative journaling; coloring; doodling; sketching; art; flip books with images of significant encounters with God; dance; play. Having fun is an intended part of the process!
Key Developmental Tools
You will be choosing life rhythms, activities and tasks that assist you in experiencing comfort, safety, and love in your relationship with God, others and yourself. Implementing these are part of restoring neurological pathways and experiential truths.
Heal your Soul | Claim your Truth | Love your Life
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