Spiritual Direction and Life Challenges/Stages

Special Interest Projects relating to:
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:

• Becoming a Directee by Lisette Cautley

• Busy Working Women and Spiritual Direction by Tracy Morgan

• Change - A Pamphlet Taster by Trish Harris

• Chronic Pain - An Invitation to Spiritual Growth by Sylvia Richardson

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

• Dwelling in the Saturday Tomb by Heather Simpson

• Grief by Susan Chrisp

• Healing Dysfunctional Images of God by Gay Cochran

• Integrating the Active and the Contemplative in the Marketplace: A Glimpse of the Weaving of a Seamless Garment by Lois Bellingham

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

• Meeting the Spiritual Needs of those with Dementia in Residential Care by Heather Lofthouse

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

• Missionaries in Isolated Places and Spiritual Direction by Joan Gore

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

• Nourishing the Soul in Burnout by Maureen Harley

• Offering Spiritual Direction to Extraverts by Shirley Wilson

• Orientation, Disorientation, New Orientation (Brueggemann) by Don Scott

• Post-Church Australian spirituality, Crossfit, and the place of Spiritual Direction by Cassie Love

• Post-Evangelicalism and Spiritual Direction by Nola Myles

• Prayerfully Exploring Childhood Memories in Spiritual Direction by Jim McInnes

• Resistance in Pastors to Spiritual Direction by Jane Wilkinson

• Sexual Addiction and Spiritual Direction (with later Addendum) by Andrew Connolly

• Spiritual Abuse by Jeannie Cochrane

• Spiritual Direction for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Directees by Linda Piggott

• Spiritual Direction and Gay Christians by Ron Larsen

• Spiritual Direction and the Highly Sensitive Person by Judith Lorimer

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

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

• Spiritual Direction with Adopted People by Helen Tripp

• Spiritual Direction with the Aging by Doreen Riddell

• Spiritual Directors and Self-Care by Hannah Rowan

• Spirituality and Residential Aged Care: With a Special Focus on Dementia by Sheryl James

• Spiritually Directing LGBTIQA+ People of Faith by Amanda Pilbrow

• Story, Wondering and Play: Encouraging spiritual growth with all ages by Cheryl Harray

• The Dark Night of the Soul by Ron Lang

• The Emerging Recognition of Shadow by Marg Shearing

• The Gifts and Challenges of Spiritual Direction with People with Learning Difficulties by Laura Buist

• The Impact of Relationship with Human Fathers on Relationship with Heavenly Father by Mike Enright

• The Mid-Life Journey by Jackie Yap

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

• The Spiritual Care of the Frail & Elderly with Alzheimer's Disease by Ngaire Beehre

• Youth and Contemplative Spirituality by Leonie Moxon