Special interest projects relating to spiritual direction
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. A number of these papers are available through this website, organised according to the following categories.
Click on the links below to access lists of papers by category. Some papers are listed in more than one category. (A full list is given following the list of categories). If you are having trouble finding a paper you are looking for, try using the search box at the bottom of the page. New papers are added from time to time, so look out for papers flagged with *** NEW PAPER ***.
(If you find one or more of these papers helpful, you may like to make a contribution to Spiritual Growth Ministries. Donations can be made quickly and easily using your credit or debit card - click here for the Donate to SGM page. Within New Zealand, a donation can be deposited directly via internet banking - click here to contact the SGM Administrator to request our account details).
For a complete list of available papers, arranged in alphabetical order according to title, see below:
> A Christian Earth-Centred Spirituality and Spiritual Direction - Sr Mary Maitland
> A Lay Woman’s Reflection on Marist Spirituality and the interface with Spiritual Direction - Bev McDonald
(This project has also been published in the September 2007 issue no 13, of "Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction" www.sdiworld.org)
> Ambushed at the movies - Jo van den Bogaert *** NEW PAPER ***
> An Introduction to Focusing - Lynne Brown
> Aspects of Samoan Indigenous Spirituality - Emanuela Betham
> Benedictine Hospitality and Spiritual Direction - Anne Cave
> Body Awareness - Allowing Our Bodies To Lead Us In Prayer - Emma Alldridge
> Bridges for Evangelicals: Journeying into Contemplative Spirituality and Spiritual Direction - Elsa McInnes
> Buried Seed: Spiritual Direction and the Vineyard Movement - Fran Francis
> Busy Working Women and Spiritual Direction - Tracy Morgan
> Camino Conversations - Pilgrimage as a Spiritual Practice - Kathryn Overall
> Change - A pamphlet taster - Trish Harris
> Charismatic Gifts and Speaking in Tongues - Christeen Mackay
> Chronic Pain - An Invitation to Spiritual Growth - Sylvia Richardson
> Come and See: Walking and seeing as a way of connecting with God - Vivienne Holt
with Come and see - accompanying pamphlet - Vivienne Holt
> Companioning Directees in Apophatic (Wordless and Imageless) Prayer - Mel McKenzie *** NEW PAPER ***
> Contemplative Prayer, Enneagram and Spiritual Growth - Renate Frei
> Contemplative Prayer Life and Belonging in Church - Margaret Dewse
> Cosmology and Spiritual Direction - Regina Daly
> Counsellor or Spiritual Director - Do I have to Choose? - Rose Jenkin
> Crone, St. Anne and Kuia - Pip Nicholls
> Cycling and Spiritual Experience - Andrew Saunders *** NEW PAPER ***
> Dark Night and Depression - Michael Watson (with associated document to download separately)
> Developing a spiritual direction practice - Vic Francis *** NEW PAPER ***
> Directed Lives - Anne Chrisp (with an Appendix to download separately)
> Discernment in Spiritual Direction - John Axcell
> Divided No More - Journeying Towards an Undivided Life: The life and teaching of Parker J. Palmer and its relevance for Spiritual Direction - Angelika Halstead
> Dwelling in the Saturday Tomb - Heather Simpson *** NEW PAPER ***
> Dreams and Dreamwork - A Life-Giving Spiritual Practice - Lee Ang Kong
> Exploration of Connections between Spiritual Direction and Workplace Chaplaincy - Raewyn Perry
> From Cloister to Café - Ceridwyn Parr
> From Head to Hands - Creative Processes in Spiritual Direction - Alice Wood
> The Frozen Movies and their Potential Application to Spiritual Direction with Young People - May Wong *** NEW PAPER ***
> God is in the Neighbourhood - Bruce Maden
> Grief - Susan Chrisp
> Healing Dysfunctional Images of God - Gay Cochran
> Holy Borders & Sacred Threads - Spiritual Direction Across Faith Traditions - Judith Wigglesworth
> Hopeful Resistance: An Enquiry into Contemplative Spirituality, Justice and Social Activism - Steve Tollestrup
> How Counsellor Educators Foster Trainee Counsellors’ Spirituality Awareness and Competence - Watiri Maina *** NEW PAPER ***
> How Directive Should Christian Spiritual Direction Be? - Peter Benge
> How to Integrate the Healing Power of Beauty - Linda Parnell
> Ignatian Spirituality and Spiritual Direction - Lilian (Lian Bee) Koh
> 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
> Into Silence - The Sound of a Gentle Whisper (A prayer resource - with separate Cover Sheet) - Holly Walton
> Issues Facing Returning Missionaries and How Spiritual Direction Can Help - Alison Palmer
> Issues in Spiritual Direction with Chinese and Korean Immigrants to NZ - Pauline Causley
> Journalling in a Nutshell - Barb Harrison
> Jungian Psychology Spiritual Growth and Spiritual Direction - Kathryn Fernando
> Labyrinth Meditations - Katherine Opie
> Living Silence - Mary Ebyarimpa
> Maori Spirituality, Christian Spirituality and Spiritual Direction - Moira McLennan
> Meeting the Spiritual Needs of those with Dementia in Residential Care - Heather Lofthouse
> Metaphors of "Dark Night" in the Writing of Philip Yancey - Geoffrey Skilton
> Mission and the Art of Spiritual Direction - Simon Brown
> Missionaries in Isolated Places and Spiritual Direction - Joan Gore
> Moving Towards Nonviolence and Peacemaking - The Spiritual Journey - Sharon Corrigan
> Music and Spiritual Direction - Philippa Brocklehurst
> Music as a Sacred Experience - Kaye McGregor (with accompanying song brochure)
> Mysticism in the 21st Century - Sally Smith
> Nourishing the soul in burnout - Maureen Harley
> Offering Spiritual Direction as a Chaplain to Students - Dianne Stock
> Offering Spiritual Direction to Extraverts - Shirley Wilson
> Opening Mainstream Supervision to Spiritual and Religious Issues - Agnes Hermans
> Orientation, Disorientation, New Orientation (Brueggemann) - Don Scott
> Poetry in Spiritual Direction - Andrea Williamson
> Post-Church Australian spirituality, Crossfit, and the place of Spiritual Direction - Cassie Love
> Post-Evangelicalism and Spiritual Direction - Nola Myles
> Praying With Icons – Andrew J. Brown
> Praying with the Imagination - Robyn Lewis
> Resistance in Pastors to Spiritual Direction - Jane Wilkinson
> Responding to God through Religious Art - Joanne Garton
> Retreat in Daily Life - Clarissa Vicencio-Wickens
> Sabbath Rest as a Contemplative Practice - Petra Corbett
> Sacred Hospitality: Creating a Sacred Space for Those Outside the Church - Liz Maluschnig
> Sacred Objects Revisited - Sharryn McAuliffe
> Sexual Addiction and Spiritual Direction (with later Addendum) - Andrew Connolly
> A Shared Table: Food and Spiritual Direction - Aluminé Andrew
> Spiritual Abuse - Jeannie Cochrane
> 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 and the Highly Sensitive Person - Judith Lorimer
> Spiritual Direction as a Model for Pastoral Ministry - Brian Hamilton
> Spiritual Direction by Email for Missionaries in Isolated Places: An Initial Exploration - Margaret Tooley
> Spiritual Direction: A Necessary Companion for Spiritual Growth - Ang Gim Har *** NEW PAPER ***
> Spiritual Direction for Those in Ordained Ministries - Murray Mills (with Appendix to download separately)
> Spiritual Direction Through Faith Stages & Cross-Cultural Transitions - Adrienne Thompson
> Spiritual Direction with Adopted People - Helen Tripp
> Spiritual Direction with the Aging - Doreen Riddell
> Spiritual Direction, the Kingdom and the Emerging Church - Bruce Warwick
> Spiritual Directors and Self-Care - Hannah Rowan
> Spirituality and Residential Aged Care: With a Special Focus on Dementia - Sheryl James
> Suzanne Aubert: Foundress of the Sisters of Compassion - Sr Helen Farrelly
> Taizé Style Music and Contemplation - Christine Scott
> Take Care of My Sheep - Kathleen Gavin
> Temple or Temporal? The Spirituality of the Body - Nita Hill (with separate Appendices)
> The Challenge and the Grace of Spiritual Direction in Ordained Ministry - Lynda Wards
> The Communication of God Through His Creation - Brendon Ojala
> The Creative Process as a Tool in Spiritual Direction – Patricia O’Donnell
> The Dark Night of the Soul - Ron Lang
> The Emerging Recognition of Shadow - Marg Shearing
> The Enneagram in Spiritual Direction - Vincent Maire
> 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 Long View: Reflections and Meditations for the Spiritual Journey - Clare Lind
> The Mid-Life Journey - Jackie Yap
> The Ministry of Spiritual Direction - An Interface between Church & Society - Derek Shore
> The Order of Preachers and Spiritual Direction - Anne Aalbers
> 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 Place of Prayer in Spiritual Direction - Sandra Thomas
> The Poetry of Sam Hunt and the Practice of Spiritual Direction - Tess Ashton
> The Spiritual Care of the Frail & Elderly with Alzheimer's Disease - Ngaire Beehre
> The Value of God-Focused Times - Colleen Mounsey
> Transformed by Grace - Ruth Coyle
> Two Modern Christian Mystics: Simone Weil & Thomas Merton - Joyce Budenberg
> Under the Radar - The Use of Contemplative Collage in Spiritual Direction - Karen Block
> Whisperings of Intimacy - Jo Anastadiadis
> Women of the Millennium - Alison Williams
Click on the links below to access lists of papers by category. Some papers are listed in more than one category. (A full list is given following the list of categories). If you are having trouble finding a paper you are looking for, try using the search box at the bottom of the page. New papers are added from time to time, so look out for papers flagged with *** NEW PAPER ***.
(If you find one or more of these papers helpful, you may like to make a contribution to Spiritual Growth Ministries. Donations can be made quickly and easily using your credit or debit card - click here for the Donate to SGM page. Within New Zealand, a donation can be deposited directly via internet banking - click here to contact the SGM Administrator to request our account details).
- Spiritual direction and the body
- Spiritual direction and church life/ministry
- Spiritual direction and the contemporary world
- Spiritual direction and creation
- Spiritual direction and creativity
- Spiritual direction and cultural identity
- Spiritual direction and the developing journey
- Spiritual direction and discernment
- Spiritual direction and hospitality
- Spiritual direction and life challenges/stages
- Spiritual direction and mission
- Spiritual direction and other vocations
- Spiritual direction practice as ministry
- Spiritual direction and practices of prayer
- Spiritual direction and psychological approaches/issues
- Spiritual direction and recreation
- Spiritual direction and spiritual tradition
- Spiritual direction and women's spirituality
For a complete list of available papers, arranged in alphabetical order according to title, see below:
> A Christian Earth-Centred Spirituality and Spiritual Direction - Sr Mary Maitland
> A Lay Woman’s Reflection on Marist Spirituality and the interface with Spiritual Direction - Bev McDonald
(This project has also been published in the September 2007 issue no 13, of "Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction" www.sdiworld.org)
> Ambushed at the movies - Jo van den Bogaert *** NEW PAPER ***
> An Introduction to Focusing - Lynne Brown
> Aspects of Samoan Indigenous Spirituality - Emanuela Betham
> Benedictine Hospitality and Spiritual Direction - Anne Cave
> Body Awareness - Allowing Our Bodies To Lead Us In Prayer - Emma Alldridge
> Bridges for Evangelicals: Journeying into Contemplative Spirituality and Spiritual Direction - Elsa McInnes
> Buried Seed: Spiritual Direction and the Vineyard Movement - Fran Francis
> Busy Working Women and Spiritual Direction - Tracy Morgan
> Camino Conversations - Pilgrimage as a Spiritual Practice - Kathryn Overall
> Change - A pamphlet taster - Trish Harris
> Charismatic Gifts and Speaking in Tongues - Christeen Mackay
> Chronic Pain - An Invitation to Spiritual Growth - Sylvia Richardson
> Come and See: Walking and seeing as a way of connecting with God - Vivienne Holt
with Come and see - accompanying pamphlet - Vivienne Holt
> Companioning Directees in Apophatic (Wordless and Imageless) Prayer - Mel McKenzie *** NEW PAPER ***
> Contemplative Prayer, Enneagram and Spiritual Growth - Renate Frei
> Contemplative Prayer Life and Belonging in Church - Margaret Dewse
> Cosmology and Spiritual Direction - Regina Daly
> Counsellor or Spiritual Director - Do I have to Choose? - Rose Jenkin
> Crone, St. Anne and Kuia - Pip Nicholls
> Cycling and Spiritual Experience - Andrew Saunders *** NEW PAPER ***
> Dark Night and Depression - Michael Watson (with associated document to download separately)
> Developing a spiritual direction practice - Vic Francis *** NEW PAPER ***
> Directed Lives - Anne Chrisp (with an Appendix to download separately)
> Discernment in Spiritual Direction - John Axcell
> Divided No More - Journeying Towards an Undivided Life: The life and teaching of Parker J. Palmer and its relevance for Spiritual Direction - Angelika Halstead
> Dwelling in the Saturday Tomb - Heather Simpson *** NEW PAPER ***
> Dreams and Dreamwork - A Life-Giving Spiritual Practice - Lee Ang Kong
> Exploration of Connections between Spiritual Direction and Workplace Chaplaincy - Raewyn Perry
> From Cloister to Café - Ceridwyn Parr
> From Head to Hands - Creative Processes in Spiritual Direction - Alice Wood
> The Frozen Movies and their Potential Application to Spiritual Direction with Young People - May Wong *** NEW PAPER ***
> God is in the Neighbourhood - Bruce Maden
> Grief - Susan Chrisp
> Healing Dysfunctional Images of God - Gay Cochran
> Holy Borders & Sacred Threads - Spiritual Direction Across Faith Traditions - Judith Wigglesworth
> Hopeful Resistance: An Enquiry into Contemplative Spirituality, Justice and Social Activism - Steve Tollestrup
> How Counsellor Educators Foster Trainee Counsellors’ Spirituality Awareness and Competence - Watiri Maina *** NEW PAPER ***
> How Directive Should Christian Spiritual Direction Be? - Peter Benge
> How to Integrate the Healing Power of Beauty - Linda Parnell
> Ignatian Spirituality and Spiritual Direction - Lilian (Lian Bee) Koh
> 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
> Into Silence - The Sound of a Gentle Whisper (A prayer resource - with separate Cover Sheet) - Holly Walton
> Issues Facing Returning Missionaries and How Spiritual Direction Can Help - Alison Palmer
> Issues in Spiritual Direction with Chinese and Korean Immigrants to NZ - Pauline Causley
> Journalling in a Nutshell - Barb Harrison
> Jungian Psychology Spiritual Growth and Spiritual Direction - Kathryn Fernando
> Labyrinth Meditations - Katherine Opie
> Living Silence - Mary Ebyarimpa
> Maori Spirituality, Christian Spirituality and Spiritual Direction - Moira McLennan
> Meeting the Spiritual Needs of those with Dementia in Residential Care - Heather Lofthouse
> Metaphors of "Dark Night" in the Writing of Philip Yancey - Geoffrey Skilton
> Mission and the Art of Spiritual Direction - Simon Brown
> Missionaries in Isolated Places and Spiritual Direction - Joan Gore
> Moving Towards Nonviolence and Peacemaking - The Spiritual Journey - Sharon Corrigan
> Music and Spiritual Direction - Philippa Brocklehurst
> Music as a Sacred Experience - Kaye McGregor (with accompanying song brochure)
> Mysticism in the 21st Century - Sally Smith
> Nourishing the soul in burnout - Maureen Harley
> Offering Spiritual Direction as a Chaplain to Students - Dianne Stock
> Offering Spiritual Direction to Extraverts - Shirley Wilson
> Opening Mainstream Supervision to Spiritual and Religious Issues - Agnes Hermans
> Orientation, Disorientation, New Orientation (Brueggemann) - Don Scott
> Poetry in Spiritual Direction - Andrea Williamson
> Post-Church Australian spirituality, Crossfit, and the place of Spiritual Direction - Cassie Love
> Post-Evangelicalism and Spiritual Direction - Nola Myles
> Praying With Icons – Andrew J. Brown
> Praying with the Imagination - Robyn Lewis
> Resistance in Pastors to Spiritual Direction - Jane Wilkinson
> Responding to God through Religious Art - Joanne Garton
> Retreat in Daily Life - Clarissa Vicencio-Wickens
> Sabbath Rest as a Contemplative Practice - Petra Corbett
> Sacred Hospitality: Creating a Sacred Space for Those Outside the Church - Liz Maluschnig
> Sacred Objects Revisited - Sharryn McAuliffe
> Sexual Addiction and Spiritual Direction (with later Addendum) - Andrew Connolly
> A Shared Table: Food and Spiritual Direction - Aluminé Andrew
> Spiritual Abuse - Jeannie Cochrane
> 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 and the Highly Sensitive Person - Judith Lorimer
> Spiritual Direction as a Model for Pastoral Ministry - Brian Hamilton
> Spiritual Direction by Email for Missionaries in Isolated Places: An Initial Exploration - Margaret Tooley
> Spiritual Direction: A Necessary Companion for Spiritual Growth - Ang Gim Har *** NEW PAPER ***
> Spiritual Direction for Those in Ordained Ministries - Murray Mills (with Appendix to download separately)
> Spiritual Direction Through Faith Stages & Cross-Cultural Transitions - Adrienne Thompson
> Spiritual Direction with Adopted People - Helen Tripp
> Spiritual Direction with the Aging - Doreen Riddell
> Spiritual Direction, the Kingdom and the Emerging Church - Bruce Warwick
> Spiritual Directors and Self-Care - Hannah Rowan
> Spirituality and Residential Aged Care: With a Special Focus on Dementia - Sheryl James
> Suzanne Aubert: Foundress of the Sisters of Compassion - Sr Helen Farrelly
> Taizé Style Music and Contemplation - Christine Scott
> Take Care of My Sheep - Kathleen Gavin
> Temple or Temporal? The Spirituality of the Body - Nita Hill (with separate Appendices)
> The Challenge and the Grace of Spiritual Direction in Ordained Ministry - Lynda Wards
> The Communication of God Through His Creation - Brendon Ojala
> The Creative Process as a Tool in Spiritual Direction – Patricia O’Donnell
> The Dark Night of the Soul - Ron Lang
> The Emerging Recognition of Shadow - Marg Shearing
> The Enneagram in Spiritual Direction - Vincent Maire
> 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 Long View: Reflections and Meditations for the Spiritual Journey - Clare Lind
> The Mid-Life Journey - Jackie Yap
> The Ministry of Spiritual Direction - An Interface between Church & Society - Derek Shore
> The Order of Preachers and Spiritual Direction - Anne Aalbers
> 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 Place of Prayer in Spiritual Direction - Sandra Thomas
> The Poetry of Sam Hunt and the Practice of Spiritual Direction - Tess Ashton
> The Spiritual Care of the Frail & Elderly with Alzheimer's Disease - Ngaire Beehre
> The Value of God-Focused Times - Colleen Mounsey
> Transformed by Grace - Ruth Coyle
> Two Modern Christian Mystics: Simone Weil & Thomas Merton - Joyce Budenberg
> Under the Radar - The Use of Contemplative Collage in Spiritual Direction - Karen Block
> Whisperings of Intimacy - Jo Anastadiadis
> Women of the Millennium - Alison Williams