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RESEARCH PAPERS ON ASPECTS OF SPIRITUAL DIRECTION

The following papers on various aspects of the ministry of Spiritual Direction have been written by trainees in our Spiritual Directors' Formation ProgrammeMost are available for download in document form (Microsoft Word). 

Instructions for Downloading
Right
-click on the underlined title of the paper, and then choose:
    'Open' to view the document in a new window, or
    'Save Target As' to save a copy on your disk drive, or
    'Print Target' to print a copy of the document on your printer

Those without underlined titles are available in hard copy at $6.50 each (in New Zealand) - email your request to our Administrator. New papers will be added each year, so check the list again in the future. (Papers are added as they come to hand, so the most recent are last in the list).

The spiritual care of the frail & elderly with Alzheimer's Disease - Ngaire Beehre

Catherine of Sienna - Spiritual Director par excellence - Joan Bennett

The Spirituality of the Desert - John M. Blundell

Praying With Icons – Andrew J. Brown

Mission and the Art of Spiritual Direction - Simon Brown

Spiritual Abuse - Jeannie Cochrane

Directed Lives - Anne Chrisp (with an Appendix to download separately)

Suzanne Aubert: Foundress of the Sisters of Compassion  - Sr Helen Farrelly

Spiritual Direction as a Model for Pastoral Ministry - Brian Hamilton

Ignatian Spirituality and Spiritual Direction - Lilian (Lian Bee) Koh

Spiritual direction and Gay Christians - Ron Larsen

Bridges for Evangelicals: Journeying into Contemplative Spirituality and Spiritual Direction - Elsa McInnes

A Christian Earth Centred Spirituality - Sr Mary Maitland

Spiritual Direction for Those in Ordained Ministries - Murray Mills (with Appendix to download separately)

Post-Evangelicalism and Spiritual Direction - Nola Myles

The Creative Process as a Tool in Spiritual Direction – Patricia O’Donnell

The Communication of God Through His Creation - Brendon Ojala

Issues Facing Returning Missionaries and How Spiritual Direction Can Help - Alison Palmer

From Cloister to Café - Ceridwyn Parr

Spiritual Direction with the Aging - Doreen Riddell

Spiritual Direction Through Faith Stages & Cross-Cultural Transitions - Adrienne Thompson

Dark Night and Depression - Michael Watson (with associated document to download separately)

Resistance in Pastors to Spiritual Direction - Jane Wilkinson

Women of the Millennium - Alison Williams

Offering Spiritual Direction to Extraverts - Shirley Wilson

The Place and Nature of Spiritual Direction For Generation X – Di Woods
(with Appendix 1 and Appendix 2 which need to be downloaded separately)

An Introduction to Focusing - Lynne Brown

Exploration of Connections between Spiritual Direction and Workplace Chaplaincy - Raewyn Perry

How Directive Should Christian Spiritual Direction Be? - Peter Benge

Journalling in a Nutshell - Barb Harrison

Crone, St. Anne and Kuia - Pip Nicholls

Issues in Spiritual Direction with Chinese and Korean Immigrants to NZ - Pauline Causley

Missionaries in Isolated Places and Spiritual Direction - Joan Gore

Temple or Temporal? The Spirituality of the Body - Nita Hill (with separate Appendices)

Chronic Pain - An Invitation to Spiritual Growth - Sylvia Richardson

Contemplative Prayer Life and Belonging in Church - Margaret Dewse

Metaphors of "Dark Night" in the Writing of Philip Yancey - Geoffrey Skilton

Divided No More - Journeying Towards and Undivided Life: The life and teaching of Parker J. Palmer and its relevance for Spiritual Direction - Angelika Halstead

Healing Dysfunctional Images of God - Gay Cochran

Integrating the Active and the Contemplative in the Marketplace: a glimpse of the weaving of a seamless garment - Lois Bellingham

Spiritual Direction by Email for Missionaries in Isolated Places: An Initial Exploration - Margaret Tooley

The Value of God-Focused Times - Colleen Mounsey

God is in the Neighbourhood - Bruce Maden

A Lay Woman’s Reflection on Marist Spirituality and the interface with Spiritual Direction - Bev McDonald
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This project has also been published in the September 2007 issue no 13, of "Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction" www.sdiworld.org)

Sacred Hospitality: Creating a Sacred Space for Those Outside the Church - Liz Maluschnig

Spiritual Direction, the Kingdom and the Emerging Church - Bruce Warwick

The Emerging Recognition of Shadow - Marg Shearing

The Ministry of Spiritual Direction - An Interface between Church & Society - Derek Shore

LATEST ADDITIONS (APRIL 2008) ...

The Long View - Clare Lind

The Order of Preachers and Spiritual Direction - Anne Aalbers

Whisperings of Intimacy - Jo Anastadiadis

Moving Towards Nonviolence and Peacemaking - The Spiritual Journey - Sharon Corrigan

The following booklet is also available from the author Maggie Smith, Hororata, Canterbury, New Zealand:
"Pause and Consider - Appetizers for Prayer"

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