Spiritual Direction

Spiritual Direction is a safe non-judgemental space to be listened to—and heard—while you explore your path toward personal wholeness and deeper intimacy with God.

It is a sacred conversation that asks "where is God present and active in my life?"

Despite the name, Spiritual Direction is none directive. The role of a Spiritual Director is not to tell you what 'spiritual direction' your life should take. Rather, it is to support and accompany you on your journey to help you discern the path God is inviting you to travel.

As you share your journey, the Spiritual Director listens deeply and intently to notice and discern the movements of God in what you say. They draw your attention to these movements and give you the freedom to explore and reflect on them further to see where they may lead.

As you explore your journey in this way, you will begin to recognise how God is present and active in your life, and how he is gently leading and inviting you into your own particular way of being in the world.

Spiritual Direction will help you explore, nurture, and deepen your relationship with—and awareness of—God. It is a regular spiritual practice—like prayer—that helps you grow spiritually.

There may also be specific reasons you want Spiritual Direction, for example:

• You want ongoing Spiritual Direction to keep your life oriented toward God.
• You want to reorientate your life toward God after loosing your way in the busyness of life.
• God has become more real and alive to you and you want to nurture this new relationship.
• You're going through difficulties and want help with the question "Where is God in all this?"
• Your prayer life feels stale or dry, and you want to explore the cause, or look at new ways of praying.
• God may seem absent and you're having difficulty discerning his presence in your life.
• You need to make an important decision and need help to discern the right path.
• You want to discern your vocation.
• You want a Spiritual Director to take you through short retreats in daily life, periods of guided prayer, or the Spiritual Exercise.
• You want to talk to someone who will listen to your spiritual experiences seriously without judgement.
• You want to explore and express your beliefs without the fear of your faith community judging or rejecting you.