Spiritual Direction and Other Vocations

Special Interest Projects relating to:
Spiritual Direction and Other Vocations

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 the relationship of spiritual direction to other vocations:

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

• Developing a Spiritual Direction Practice by Vic Francis

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

• From Cloister to Café by Ceridwyn Parr

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

• 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

• 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

• Missionaries in Isolated Places and Spiritual Direction by Joan Gore

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

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

• Spiritual Direction as a Model for Pastoral Ministry by Brian Hamilton

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

• Take Care of My Sheep by Kathleen Gavin

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

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

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