Special interest projects relating to spiritual direction:
Spiritual direction and spiritual traditions
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 traditions of spirituality and their relationship to spiritual direction:
> 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)
> Aspects of Samoan Indigenous Spirituality - Emanuela Betham
> Benedictine Hospitality and Spiritual Direction - Anne Cave
> Bridges for Evangelicals: Journeying into Contemplative Spirituality and Spiritual Direction - Elsa McInnes
> Buried Seed: Spiritual Direction and the Vineyard Movement - Fran Francis
> Camino Conversations - Pilgrimage as a Spiritual Practice - Kathryn Overall *** NEW PAPER ***
> Charismatic Gifts and Speaking in Tongues - Christeen Mackay *** NEW PAPER ***
> Cosmology and Spiritual Direction - Regina Daly
> Crone, St. Anne and Kuia - Pip Nicholls
> Holy Borders & Sacred Threads - Spiritual Direction Across Faith Traditions - Judith Wigglesworth *** NEW PAPER ***
> Hopeful Resistance: An Enquiry into Contemplative Spirituality, Justice and Social Activism - Steve Tollestrup
> Ignatian Spirituality and Spiritual Direction - Lilian (Lian Bee) Koh
> Images of God and Believers from a Muslim Background - Jan Balzer *** NEW PAPER ***
> Incarnational Ministry - Pam Toan
> Integrating the Active and the Contemplative in the Marketplace: a glimpse of the weaving of a seamless garment - Lois Bellingham
> Labyrinth Meditations - Katherine Opie
> Mysticism in the 21st Century - Sally Smith
> 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
> Retreat in Daily Life - Clarissa Vicencio-Wickens
> Sabbath Rest as a Contemplative Practice - Petra Corbett *** NEW PAPER **
> Spiritual Direction, the Kingdom and the Emerging Church - Bruce Warwick
> Suzanne Aubert: Foundress of the Sisters of Compassion - Sr Helen Farrelly
> Taizé Style Music and Contemplation - Christine Scott
> The Order of Preachers and Spiritual Direction - Anne Aalbers
> Two Modern Christian Mystics: Simone Weil & Thomas Merton - Joyce Budenberg
The following papers explore particular traditions of spirituality and their relationship to spiritual direction:
> 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)
> Aspects of Samoan Indigenous Spirituality - Emanuela Betham
> Benedictine Hospitality and Spiritual Direction - Anne Cave
> Bridges for Evangelicals: Journeying into Contemplative Spirituality and Spiritual Direction - Elsa McInnes
> Buried Seed: Spiritual Direction and the Vineyard Movement - Fran Francis
> Camino Conversations - Pilgrimage as a Spiritual Practice - Kathryn Overall *** NEW PAPER ***
> Charismatic Gifts and Speaking in Tongues - Christeen Mackay *** NEW PAPER ***
> Cosmology and Spiritual Direction - Regina Daly
> Crone, St. Anne and Kuia - Pip Nicholls
> Holy Borders & Sacred Threads - Spiritual Direction Across Faith Traditions - Judith Wigglesworth *** NEW PAPER ***
> Hopeful Resistance: An Enquiry into Contemplative Spirituality, Justice and Social Activism - Steve Tollestrup
> Ignatian Spirituality and Spiritual Direction - Lilian (Lian Bee) Koh
> Images of God and Believers from a Muslim Background - Jan Balzer *** NEW PAPER ***
> Incarnational Ministry - Pam Toan
> Integrating the Active and the Contemplative in the Marketplace: a glimpse of the weaving of a seamless garment - Lois Bellingham
> Labyrinth Meditations - Katherine Opie
> Mysticism in the 21st Century - Sally Smith
> 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
> Retreat in Daily Life - Clarissa Vicencio-Wickens
> Sabbath Rest as a Contemplative Practice - Petra Corbett *** NEW PAPER **
> Spiritual Direction, the Kingdom and the Emerging Church - Bruce Warwick
> Suzanne Aubert: Foundress of the Sisters of Compassion - Sr Helen Farrelly
> Taizé Style Music and Contemplation - Christine Scott
> The Order of Preachers and Spiritual Direction - Anne Aalbers
> Two Modern Christian Mystics: Simone Weil & Thomas Merton - Joyce Budenberg