Spiritual Direction and Psychological Approaches

Special Interest Projects relating to:
Spiritual Direction and Psychological Approaches/Challenges

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 psychological approaches/issues:

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

• 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

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

• Contemplative Prayer, Enneagram and Spiritual Growth by Renate Frei

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

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

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

• 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

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

• Grief by Susan Chrisp

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

• Jungian Psychology Spiritual Growth and Spiritual Direction by Kathryn Fernando

• 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

• Nourishing the Soul in Burnout by Maureen Harley

• Offering Spiritual Direction to Extraverts by Shirley Wilson

• Prayerfully Exploring Childhood Memories in Spiritual Direction by Jim McInnes

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

• Spiritual Direction and the Highly Sensitive Person by Judith Lorimer

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

• 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

• 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 - Tay-Marie Yorston

• 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 Role of Shadow Work in Spiritual Direction - Alan Stanley

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

• Whisperings of Intimacy by Jo Anastadiadis