Special interest projects relating to spiritual direction:
Spiritual direction and the contemporary world
Each participant in the second year of the Spiritual Growth Ministries Spiritual Directors' Formation Programme engages in a project on an aspect the work of spiritual direction in which they have a particular interest.
The following papers explore the relationship of spiritual direction to life in the contemporary world:
> Ambushed at the movies - Jo van den Bogaert *** NEW PAPER ***
> Busy Working Women and Spiritual Direction - Tracy Morgan
> Change - A pamphlet taster - Trish Harris
> Cosmology and Spiritual Direction - Regina Daly
> Cycling and Spiritual Experience - Andrew Saunders *** NEW PAPER ***
> Divided No More - Journeying Towards an Undivided Life: The life and teaching of Parker J. Palmer and its relevance for Spiritual Direction - Angelika Halstead
> Exploration of Connections between Spiritual Direction and Workplace Chaplaincy - Raewyn Perry
> From Cloister to Café - Ceridwyn Parr
> The Frozen Movies and their Potential Application to Spiritual Direction with Young People - May Wong *** NEW PAPER ***
> God is in the Neighbourhood - Bruce Maden
> Holy Borders & Sacred Threads - Spiritual Direction Across Faith Traditions - Judith Wigglesworth
> Hopeful Resistance: An Enquiry into Contemplative Spirituality, Justice and Social Activism - Steve Tollestrup
> Images of God and Believers from a Muslim Background - Jan Balzer
> Incarnational Ministry - Pam Toan
> Integrating the Active and the Contemplative in the Marketplace: a glimpse of the weaving of a seamless garment - Lois Bellingham
> Issues in Spiritual Direction with Chinese and Korean Immigrants to NZ - Pauline Causley
> Moving Towards Nonviolence and Peacemaking - The Spiritual Journey - Sharon Corrigan
> Mysticism in the 21st Century - Sally Smith
> Offering Spiritual Direction as a Chaplain to Students - Dianne Stock
> Post-Church Australian spirituality, Crossfit, and the place of Spiritual Direction - Cassie Love
> Post-Evangelicalism and Spiritual Direction - Nola Myles
> Retreat in Daily Life - Clarissa Vicencio-Wickens
> Sacred Hospitality: Creating a Sacred Space for Those Outside the Church - Liz Maluschnig
> Sexual Addiction and Spiritual Direction (with later Addendum) - Andrew Connolly
> Spiritual Direction in a Digital Age: Helping People Connect with God in a Distracted World - Joshua Taylor *** NEW PAPER ***
> Spiritual Direction and Gay Christians - Ron Larsen
> Spiritual Direction by Email for Missionaries in Isolated Places: An Initial Exploration - Margaret Tooley
> Spiritual Direction Through Faith Stages & Cross-Cultural Transitions - Adrienne Thompson
> Spiritual Direction, the Kingdom and the Emerging Church - Bruce Warwick
> The Gift We Offer: Spiritual Direction & the Rebirth of Missional Community in Our Neighbourhoods - Kathy Viney
> The Impact of Skyping on the Spiritual Direction Relationship - Jenny Caston
> The Place and Nature of Spiritual Direction For Generation X – Di Woods (with Appendix 1 and Appendix 2 which need to be downloaded separately)
> The Poetry of Sam Hunt and the Practice of Spiritual Direction - Tess Ashton
> Two Modern Christian Mystics: Simone Weil & Thomas Merton - Joyce Budenberg
> Women of the Millennium - Alison Williams
The following papers explore the relationship of spiritual direction to life in the contemporary world:
> Ambushed at the movies - Jo van den Bogaert *** NEW PAPER ***
> Busy Working Women and Spiritual Direction - Tracy Morgan
> Change - A pamphlet taster - Trish Harris
> Cosmology and Spiritual Direction - Regina Daly
> Cycling and Spiritual Experience - Andrew Saunders *** NEW PAPER ***
> Divided No More - Journeying Towards an Undivided Life: The life and teaching of Parker J. Palmer and its relevance for Spiritual Direction - Angelika Halstead
> Exploration of Connections between Spiritual Direction and Workplace Chaplaincy - Raewyn Perry
> From Cloister to Café - Ceridwyn Parr
> The Frozen Movies and their Potential Application to Spiritual Direction with Young People - May Wong *** NEW PAPER ***
> God is in the Neighbourhood - Bruce Maden
> Holy Borders & Sacred Threads - Spiritual Direction Across Faith Traditions - Judith Wigglesworth
> Hopeful Resistance: An Enquiry into Contemplative Spirituality, Justice and Social Activism - Steve Tollestrup
> Images of God and Believers from a Muslim Background - Jan Balzer
> Incarnational Ministry - Pam Toan
> Integrating the Active and the Contemplative in the Marketplace: a glimpse of the weaving of a seamless garment - Lois Bellingham
> Issues in Spiritual Direction with Chinese and Korean Immigrants to NZ - Pauline Causley
> Moving Towards Nonviolence and Peacemaking - The Spiritual Journey - Sharon Corrigan
> Mysticism in the 21st Century - Sally Smith
> Offering Spiritual Direction as a Chaplain to Students - Dianne Stock
> Post-Church Australian spirituality, Crossfit, and the place of Spiritual Direction - Cassie Love
> Post-Evangelicalism and Spiritual Direction - Nola Myles
> Retreat in Daily Life - Clarissa Vicencio-Wickens
> Sacred Hospitality: Creating a Sacred Space for Those Outside the Church - Liz Maluschnig
> Sexual Addiction and Spiritual Direction (with later Addendum) - Andrew Connolly
> Spiritual Direction in a Digital Age: Helping People Connect with God in a Distracted World - Joshua Taylor *** NEW PAPER ***
> Spiritual Direction and Gay Christians - Ron Larsen
> Spiritual Direction by Email for Missionaries in Isolated Places: An Initial Exploration - Margaret Tooley
> Spiritual Direction Through Faith Stages & Cross-Cultural Transitions - Adrienne Thompson
> Spiritual Direction, the Kingdom and the Emerging Church - Bruce Warwick
> The Gift We Offer: Spiritual Direction & the Rebirth of Missional Community in Our Neighbourhoods - Kathy Viney
> The Impact of Skyping on the Spiritual Direction Relationship - Jenny Caston
> The Place and Nature of Spiritual Direction For Generation X – Di Woods (with Appendix 1 and Appendix 2 which need to be downloaded separately)
> The Poetry of Sam Hunt and the Practice of Spiritual Direction - Tess Ashton
> Two Modern Christian Mystics: Simone Weil & Thomas Merton - Joyce Budenberg
> Women of the Millennium - Alison Williams