Special interest projects relating to spiritual direction:
Spiritual direction and life challenges/stages
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 particular life challenges and the place of spiritual direction in relation to these:
> Busy Working Women and Spiritual Direction - Tracy Morgan
> Change - A pamphlet taster - Trish Harris
> Chronic Pain - An Invitation to Spiritual Growth - Sylvia Richardson
> Dark Night and Depression - Michael Watson (with associated document to download separately)
> Dwelling in the Saturday Tomb - Heather Simpson *** NEW PAPER ***
> Grief - Susan Chrisp
> 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
> Issues Facing Returning Missionaries and How Spiritual Direction Can Help - Alison Palmer
> 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
> Missionaries in Isolated Places and Spiritual Direction - Joan Gore
> Moving Towards Nonviolence and Peacemaking - The Spiritual Journey - Sharon Corrigan
> Nourishing the soul in burnout - Maureen Harley
> Offering Spiritual Direction to Extraverts - Shirley Wilson
> Orientation, Disorientation, New Orientation (Brueggemann) - Don Scott
> Post-Church Australian spirituality, Crossfit, and the place of Spiritual Direction - Cassie Love
> Post-Evangelicalism and Spiritual Direction - Nola Myles
> Resistance in Pastors to Spiritual Direction - Jane Wilkinson
> Sexual Addiction and Spiritual Direction (with later Addendum) - Andrew Connolly
> Spiritual Abuse - Jeannie Cochrane
> Spiritual Direction and Gay Christians - Ron Larsen
> Spiritual Direction and the Highly Sensitive Person - Judith Lorimer
> 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 with Adopted People - Helen Tripp
> Spiritual Direction with the Aging - Doreen Riddell
> Spiritual Directors and Self-Care - Hannah Rowan
> Spirituality and Residential Aged Care: With a Special Focus on Dementia - Sheryl James
> The Dark Night of the Soul - Ron Lang
> The Emerging Recognition of Shadow - Marg Shearing
> The Mid-Life Journey - Jackie Yap
> The Place and Nature of Spiritual Direction For Generation X – Di Woods (with Appendix 1 and Appendix 2)
> The Spiritual Care of the Frail & Elderly with Alzheimer's Disease - Ngaire Beehre
The following papers explore particular life challenges and the place of spiritual direction in relation to these:
> Busy Working Women and Spiritual Direction - Tracy Morgan
> Change - A pamphlet taster - Trish Harris
> Chronic Pain - An Invitation to Spiritual Growth - Sylvia Richardson
> Dark Night and Depression - Michael Watson (with associated document to download separately)
> Dwelling in the Saturday Tomb - Heather Simpson *** NEW PAPER ***
> Grief - Susan Chrisp
> 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
> Issues Facing Returning Missionaries and How Spiritual Direction Can Help - Alison Palmer
> 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
> Missionaries in Isolated Places and Spiritual Direction - Joan Gore
> Moving Towards Nonviolence and Peacemaking - The Spiritual Journey - Sharon Corrigan
> Nourishing the soul in burnout - Maureen Harley
> Offering Spiritual Direction to Extraverts - Shirley Wilson
> Orientation, Disorientation, New Orientation (Brueggemann) - Don Scott
> Post-Church Australian spirituality, Crossfit, and the place of Spiritual Direction - Cassie Love
> Post-Evangelicalism and Spiritual Direction - Nola Myles
> Resistance in Pastors to Spiritual Direction - Jane Wilkinson
> Sexual Addiction and Spiritual Direction (with later Addendum) - Andrew Connolly
> Spiritual Abuse - Jeannie Cochrane
> Spiritual Direction and Gay Christians - Ron Larsen
> Spiritual Direction and the Highly Sensitive Person - Judith Lorimer
> 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 with Adopted People - Helen Tripp
> Spiritual Direction with the Aging - Doreen Riddell
> Spiritual Directors and Self-Care - Hannah Rowan
> Spirituality and Residential Aged Care: With a Special Focus on Dementia - Sheryl James
> The Dark Night of the Soul - Ron Lang
> The Emerging Recognition of Shadow - Marg Shearing
> The Mid-Life Journey - Jackie Yap
> The Place and Nature of Spiritual Direction For Generation X – Di Woods (with Appendix 1 and Appendix 2)
> The Spiritual Care of the Frail & Elderly with Alzheimer's Disease - Ngaire Beehre