Spiritual Direction.

Welcome.

The terms "Spiritual Director" or "Spiritual Companion" can be a little confusing at first, but the essential message I'd like to start with here is that I am not here to lead you. I am trained to walk alongside you on your inward journey of spiritual development and growth.

The benefits and rewards of what amounts to guided stillness with an emphasis on silence and searching, open-ended questions (the hallmarks of the contemplative-evocative approach, in which I am trained) are many. I have found that most people feel something different happening in their lives after even one session, as I did.

A one-on-one session usually lasts about one hour. I open with a reading (literature, poetry, scripture from any number of sources, or otherwise), after which we both sit in silence until you, the directee, are moved to speak. Maybe what you say is related in some way to the reading, or maybe it isn't. What's important is that we both allow enough silence in our shared space that whatever needs to be said has time to well up and be spoken. We close when everything that has needed to be shared is shared, and then meet again, usually about a month later.

Spiritual Direction is an invitation to grow alongside one another in a shared exploration of the mysteries we face in our lives. And I invite you to join me, for whatever purpose or to fill whatever longing you feel in your heart. I truly belive that love, the divine, the source of creation, whatever you refer to it as, is inside of us just as much as it is "somewhere out there," and I'd love to come together on our mutual search for its role in our lives.