SPIRITUAL DIRECTION
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Full Collection of Papers on Spiritual Direction

Arranged in alphabetical order, according to title.

• A Bridge to Abundant Life: Spiritual Direction with People Who Have Been Disempowered in Their Faith Communities by Christine Petrie

• A Christian Earth-Centred Spirituality and Spiritual Direction by Sr Mary Maitland

• A Lay Woman’s Reflection on Marist Spirituality and the Interface with Spiritual Direction by Bev McDonald

• A Place for Spiritual Direction in the New Zealand Church by Sam Bate

• An Exploration of Sexual Desire as a Signpost to Our Hidden Desire for God and How Spiritual Direction Can Help Uncover and Explore This by Marcel Vickers

• Asking Questions that Empower and Deepen Experience of Self and God by Maree Shepherd

• Attachment to God: Practices to Awaken Us to God’s Ever-Present Love in Our Lives by Kathy Bennett

• A Torch and A Thermos (an allegory): Spiritual speleologist Anam Cara goes in search of a more woman-inclusive God by Megan Blakie

• Ambushed at the Movies by Jo van den Bogaert

• An Introduction to Focusing by Lynne Brown

• Aspects of Samoan Indigenous Spirituality by Emanuela Betham

• Awakening Playfulness by Karen McKie

• Becoming a Directee by Lisette Cautley

• Benedictine Hospitality and Spiritual Direction by Anne Cave

• Body Awareness - Allowing Our Bodies To Lead Us In Prayer by Emma Alldridge

• Bridges for Evangelicals: Journeying into Contemplative Spirituality and Spiritual Direction by Elsa McInnes

• Buried Seed: Spiritual Direction and the Vineyard Movement by Fran Francis

• Busy Working Women and Spiritual Direction by Tracy Morgan

• Camino Conversations - Pilgrimage as a Spiritual Practice by Kathryn Overall-Cass

• Change - A Pamphlet Taster by Trish Harris

• Charismatic Gifts and Speaking in Tongues by Christeen Mackay

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

• Come and See: Walking and Seeing as a Way of Connecting with God
  with Come and see - accompanying pamphlet by Vivienne Holt

• Companioning Directees in Apophatic (Wordless and Imageless) Prayer by Mel McKenzie

• Contemplative Prayer, Enneagram and Spiritual Growth by Renate Frei

• Contemplative Prayer Life and Belonging in Church by Margaret Dewse

• Contemplative Retreats: Exploring the Benefits to Spiritual Directors and their Spiritual Direction Practice by Samantha Head

• Cosmology and Spiritual Direction by Regina Daly

• Counsellor or Spiritual Director - Do I Have to Choose? by Rose Jenkin

• Crone, St. Anne and Kuia by Pip Nicholls

• Cycling and Spiritual Experience by Andrew Saunders

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

• Developing a Spiritual Direction Practice by Vic Francis

• Directed Lives by Anne Chrisp (with an Appendix to download separately)

• Directing Someone Like Me: Extending Manaakitanga to Neurodivergent Spiritual Direction Clients by Abigail Vink

• Discernment in Spiritual Direction by John Axcell

• Discernment in the Spiritual Direction of the Desert Tradition by Tracey Hunt

• Divided No More - Journeying Towards an Undivided Life: The Life and Teaching of Parker J. Palmer and its Relevance for Spiritual Direction by Angelika Halstead

• Doorways to the Sacred: The Use of Visual Objects in Spiritual Direction by Karen Haines

• Draw Near to Me - Opening Up the Drawing Process as a Spiritual Practice by Catherine Whaley

• Dwelling in the Saturday Tomb by Heather Simpson

• Dreams and Dreamwork - A Life-Giving Spiritual Practice by Lee Ang Kong

• Experiences of participants who have recently completed the Spiritual Growth Ministries Spiritual Directors Formation Programme by Becs Jamieson

• Exploration of Connections between Spiritual Direction and Workplace Chaplaincy by Raewyn Perry

• From Cloister to Café by Ceridwyn Parr

• From Head to Hands - Creative Processes in Spiritual Direction by Alice Wood

• The Frozen Movies and their Potential Application to Spiritual Direction with Young People by May Wong

• God is in the Neighbourhood by Bruce Maden

• Grief by Susan Chrisp

• Healing Dysfunctional Images of God by Gay Cochran

• Holy Borders & Sacred Threads - Spiritual Direction Across Faith Traditions by Judith Wigglesworth

• Hopeful Resistance: An Enquiry into Contemplative Spirituality, Justice and Social Activism by Steve Tollestrup

• How Counsellor Educators Foster Trainee Counsellors’ Spirituality Awareness and Competence by Watiri Maina

• How Directive Should Christian Spiritual Direction Be? by Peter Benge

• How to Integrate the Healing Power of Beauty by Linda Parnell

• Ignatian Spirituality and Spiritual Direction by Lilian (Lian Bee) Koh

• Images of God and Believers from a Muslim Background by Jan Balzer

• Incarnational Ministry by Pam Toan

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

• Into Silence - The Sound of a Gentle Whisper (A prayer resource - with separate instructions) by Holly Walton

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

• Issues in Spiritual Direction with Chinese and Korean Immigrants to NZ by Pauline Causley

• Journalling in a Nutshell by Barb Harrison

• Jungian Psychology Spiritual Growth and Spiritual Direction by Kathryn Fernando

• Labyrinth Meditations by Katherine Opie

• Living Silence by Mary Ebyarimpa

• Māori Spirituality, Christian Spirituality and Spiritual Direction by Moira McLennan

• 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

• Mission and the Art of Spiritual Direction by Simon Brown

• Missionaries in Isolated Places and Spiritual Direction by Joan Gore

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

• Music and Spiritual Direction by Philippa Brocklehurst

• Music as a Sacred Experience by Kaye McGregor with accompanying song brochure

• Mysticism in the 21st Century by Sally Smith

• Nourishing the Soul in Burnout by Maureen Harley

• Offering Spiritual Direction as a Chaplain to Students by Dianne Stock

• Offering Spiritual Direction to Extraverts by Shirley Wilson

• Opening Mainstream Supervision to Spiritual and Religious Issues by Agnes Hermans

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

• Poetry in Spiritual Direction by Andrea Williamson

• 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

• Praying With Icons by Andrew J. Brown

• Praying with the Imagination by Robyn Lewis

• Resistance in Pastors to Spiritual Direction by Jane Wilkinson

• Responding to God through Religious Art by Joanne Garton

• Retreat in Daily Life by Clarissa Vicencio-Wickens

• Sabbath Rest as a Contemplative Practice by Petra Corbett

• Sacred Hospitality: Creating a Sacred Space for Those Outside the Church by Liz Maluschnig

• Sacred Objects Revisited by Sharryn McAuliffe

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

• A Shared Table: Food and Spiritual Direction by Aluminé Andrew

• Spiritual Abuse by Jeannie Cochrane

• Spiritually Directing LGBTIQA+ People of Faith by Amanda Pilbrow

• Spiritual Direction in a Digital Age: Helping People Connect with God in a Distracted World by Joshua Taylor

• Spiritual Direction and Companying in Sacred Spaces by Jutta Chisholm

• 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 as a Model for Pastoral Ministry by Brian Hamilton

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

• Spiritual Direction: A Necessary Companion for Spiritual Growth by Ang Gim Har

• Spiritual Direction for Those in Ordained Ministries by Murray Mills (with Appendix to download separately)

• Spiritual Direction in the Church by Kelly Capps

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

• Spiritual Direction with Adopted People by Helen Tripp

• Spiritual Direction with Parents of Gender Diverse Children by Catherine Richardson

• Spiritual Direction with People Who Struggle to Think in Colour by Lindy Nevill

• Spiritual Direction with the Aging by Doreen Riddell

• Spiritual Direction, the Kingdom and the Emerging Church by Bruce Warwick

• Spiritual Directors and Self-Care by Hannah Rowan

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

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

• Suzanne Aubert: Foundress of the Sisters of Compassion by Sr Helen Farrelly

• Taizé Style Music and Contemplation by Christine Scott

• Take Care of My Sheep by Kathleen Gavin

• Te Whare Tapa Whā Māori Health Model and Spiritual Direction by Katrina Tulip

• Telling Our Story by Janet Green

• Temple or Temporal? The Spirituality of the Body by Nita Hill (with separate Appendices)

• The Challenge and the Grace of Spiritual Direction in Ordained Ministry by Lynda Wards

• The Communication of God Through His Creation by Brendon Ojala

• The Creative Process as a Tool in Spiritual Direction by Patricia O’Donnell

• The Dark Night of the Soul by Ron Lang

• The Emerging Recognition of Shadow by Marg Shearing

• The Enneagram in Spiritual Direction by Vincent Maire

• The Gift of Dreams by Tay-Marie Yorston

• The Gift We Offer: Spiritual Direction & the Rebirth of Missional Community in Our Neighbourhoods by Kathy Viney

• 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 Impact of Skyping on the Spiritual Direction Relationship by Jenny Caston

• The Importance of SIlence to Spiritual Direction by Anna Barker

• The Long View: Reflections and Meditations for the Spiritual Journey by Clare Lind

• The Mid-Life Journey by Jackie Yap

• The Ministry of Spiritual Direction - An Interface between Church & Society by Derek Shore

• The Order of Preachers and Spiritual Direction by Anne Aalbers

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

• The Place of Prayer in Spiritual Direction by Sandra Thomas

• The Place of Spiritual Direction in a Local Chinese Church in Singapore by Liaw Chin Chen

• The Poetry of Sam Hunt and the Practice of Spiritual Direction by Tess Ashton

• The Relevance and Engagement of Spiritual Direction for Generation Y by Murray Lucas

• The Role of Shadow Work in Spiritual Direction by Alan Stanley

• The Sense of Touch: Using Clay and Spiritual Direction by Kaye Bustin

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

• The Value of God-Focused Times by Colleen Mounsey

• Transformed by Grace by Ruth Coyle

• Two Modern Christian Mystics: Simone Weil & Thomas Merton by Joyce Budenberg

• Under the Radar - The Use of Contemplative Collage in Spiritual Direction by Karen Block

• Understanding the Practice of Spiritual Direction in End-of-Life Care: A Qualitative Study of Nine Practitioners - Charity Chu

• Using and Creating Outdoor Spaces to Meet with God by Jenny McDowall

• Using Julian of Norwich - 14th C Mystic - in Spiritual Direction by Caroline Talbot

• Whisperings of Intimacy by Jo Anastadiadis

• Women of the Millennium by Alison Williams

• Youth and Contemplative Spirituality by Leonie Moxon