Spiritual direction is a safe place to explore your questions and concerns about your inner life and spirituality.

At the heart of spiritual direction is a carefully cultivated contemplative stance from which to view the activity of God in your life.  A Spiritual Director seeks to listen carefully for those signs, and will accompany you as you share the stories about your spiritual journey, helping you to notice God’s presence and activity along the way, as well as your personal reactions and responses to them.

The practice is hospitable, confidential, and grounded in a range of spiritual exercises that have been tried and tested by people of faith for hundreds of years.  Spiritual Direction is aimed at helping you grow in prayer and live into your calling as a child of God.

What will happen?

Most people meet with a Spiritual Director face to face, but these days it is possible to conduct sessions over the phone or via video conferencing.  A session usually lasts for about an hour and generally takes place about once a month.  Every meeting is confidential, and the spiritual director will help guide the dialogue through attentive listening and thoughtful questions.

What Spiritual Direction is not.

People unfamiliar with spiritual direction can sometimes confuse it with other helping ministries.  Pastoral Counselling is a service many religious leaders will offer to people who seek their help, usually as they struggle with issues of life and faith.  Psychotherapy in its various forms is intended to help people solve personal and interpersonal issues.

Spiritual direction differs from these 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 the person’s life experience. This perspective invites you into deeper relationship with God in the midst of whatever you are experiencing.