Spiritual Direction and the Body/Sexuality

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Special interest projects relating to:
Spiritual Direction and the Body/Sexuality

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 spiritual direction in relation to embodiment and sexuality.

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

• An Introduction to Focusing by Lynne Brown

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

• At Home with God in Creation - Courtnay Walsh

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

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

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

• Cycling and Spiritual Experience by Andrew Saunders

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

• Nourishing the Soul in Burnout by Maureen Harley

• Reflections on Contemplative Spirituality as an Antidote to Burnout - Naomi Greene

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

• 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

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

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

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

• Whisperings of Intimacy by Jo Anastadiadis