Individual Spiritual Direction

Individual Spiritual Direction is an opportunity for you to explore God’s presence in your life directly with a spiritual director. It can help you to slow down, learn to listen, discern direction in life’s difficult and ordinary times, explore life’s deeper issues, and move toward achieving greater consistency between deeply held values and the actions you take. It’s a conversation with the Spiritual Director about day to day living and how the Spirit influences one's beliefs and values and is active in one's life.

Through conversations with the Spiritual Director, participants experience an awakening or deepened awareness of God’s presence. They become more attentive and responsive to the spirit not only during the conversations, but as they live their everyday lives. It helps them to be mindful of the Spirit’s influence and helps them to live by their spiritual beliefs.

God is always present and active, but often we are oblivious-too busy reacting, not fully living! Spiritual Direction allows us to turn up the volume on God’s presence, tune in more precisely.

Directees often feel more alive; more attuned to experiences, their significance and with an increased ability to savor. They also mention feeling more insight into their inner thoughts, processes and feelings. And they find a greater understanding toward the movement of the Spirit within or of areas of void in their life needing further attention.

Spiritual Direction is available in several different formats including:

Some people choose to meet individually with their Spiritual Director for monthly scheduled sessions. Usually 45 minutes to an hour. Learn more or sign-up for Individual Spiritual Direction.
Rather than the individual attention, some choose to join a group. Learn more about Group Spiritual Direction.
Others take a retreat from their regular schedule to truly focus on their experience. They meet with their Spiritual Director daily and utilize the offerings of our campus to fulfill their experience. Learn more about Retreats.

About our Trained Spiritual Directors Our spiritual directors have either a masters or doctoral degree and a certificate in spiritual direction. Each year Christine Parks, CSJ; Gertrude Maurer, CSJ; Laura Smith, CSJ; Virginia Jones, CSJ; Elizabeth Tompkins and Steve Doughty provide spiritual direction to individuals from many faiths and many walks of life.

For more information about individual Spiritual direction contact us or call (269) 381-6290, ext. 285

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