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December 2014

December 10, 2014

Praying Through Advent: Focusing Prayer

You’ve probably heard people say “your body has wisdom.” And maybe you’ve wondered how to...

December 09, 2014

Praying through Advent: Praying Questions

Advent invites us to embrace the mystery of incarnation—God’s action of dwelling in and among...

December 08, 2014

Praying through Advent: The Daily Examen

This Advent, why not keep your eyes open for evidence of God’s love and action...

December 07, 2014

Praying Through Advent: Imagining the Nativity

We began the Advent meditations with the gospel of Luke’s version of the flight of...

December 06, 2014

Praying Through Advent: Prayer of the Heart

Prayer doesn’t have to be all that wordy. Early Christians used to pray, “Come, Lord...

December 05, 2014

Praying Through Advent: The Jesus Prayer

As we focus this Advent on the coming of Jesus, why not pray one of...

December 04, 2014

Praying Through Advent: Write a Psalm

The Psalms are among the most human expressions found in the Bible. Psalms give us...

December 03, 2014

Praying Through Advent: Dialogue with Scripture

We need not approach biblical texts passively. We can communicate with the stories. We can...

December 02, 2014

Praying Through Advent: Lectio Divina

For many Christians, praying daily with scripture is an important devotional practice. There are a...

December 01, 2014

Praying Through Advent: “Here I Am” prayer

If you find it hard to relax into prayer during Advent, try this contemplative exercise....

November 2014

November 29, 2014

Praying Through Advent: Imagination Prayer

Spiritual Direction 101 seeks to offer spiritual directors--and all others interested in spirituality--tools for deepening...

November 25, 2014

If so inclined, you could spend years of your life reading books written about...

June 2014

June 05, 2014

Marketing Your Spiritual Direction Practice

Marketing spiritual direction can be a touchy subject. There are some spiritual directors who abhor...

May 2014

May 05, 2014

Setting your Fee for Spiritual Direction

Spiritual directors need to make a living like everyone else. So, like all freelancers,...

April 2014

April 21, 2014

Finding the Right Space for Spiritual Direction

Spiritual directors must pay special attention to the space they use for direction. It needs...

March 2014

March 07, 2014

Setting up a Spiritual Direction Practice

Once you have received training in the art of spiritual direction and want to get...

February 2014

February 07, 2014

Transference in Spiritual Direction

The psychological term transference is a concept that spiritual directors need to know and...

December 2013

December 27, 2013

Boundaries in Spiritual Direction

Spiritual directors must be clear about limits. Boundaries are important for everyone, but for those...

December 09, 2013

Projection and the Spiritual Director

Because good spiritual directors do a lot of listening and very little personal sharing in...

November 2013

November 18, 2013

What Spiritual Directors need to know about Psychology

Spiritual direction is not psychological counseling but it helps for spiritual directors to know something...

October 2013

October 16, 2013

Supervision for Spiritual Directors

All spiritual directors need to be in a supervision relationship. If you are doing regular...

October 01, 2013

Self-Care for the Spiritual Director

Don’t even think about becoming a spiritual director if you are not willing to be...

August 2013

August 26, 2013

Evoking not Directing

This is for those of you thinking of becoming spiritual directors but who dislike the...

August 12, 2013

Am I a Spiritual Director?

Perhaps you have been reading Spiritual Direction 101 and have been wondering if you are—or...

July 2013

July 26, 2013

The essential practice of Radical Acceptance

One of the hardest spiritual practices in life is accepting that which we cannot change....

July 22, 2013

The essential practice of Body Prayer

A body prayer is any prayer that incorporates movement. It can be as simple as...

July 12, 2013

The essential practice of the Breath Prayer

If we think of God being as close to us as our very breath, then...

June 2013

June 26, 2013

The essential practice of Guided Imagery

If images speak louder than words to you, then your spiritual director may invite you...

June 05, 2013

The essential practice of Centering Prayer

We need to practice stillness in order to become comfortable with it. When the Psalmist...

May 2013

May 28, 2013

The essential practice of Lectio Divina

Have you ever read something that led to such a deep and exciting insight that...

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