Association of Christian Spiritual Directors

Do you feel called to a ministry of spiritual direction?
Do you have spiritual direction clients and are having ongoing supervision?

The Association provides the NZ based professional organisation for you to join.
Join the ACSD to find spiritual and professional sustenance for your SD ministry.

We offer support, collegiality, accountability and resources
to support your work as a Spiritual Director.

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Find a Spiritual Director

Over 150 Spiritual Directors

Some of our members

Kathryn Overall Spiritual Director

Andrew Saunders Spiritual Director

Holly Walton Spiritual Director

June Hurley Spiritual Director Dargaville

gabi daly spiritual director

Arthur Bruce Spiritual Director

Rachel Kitchens Spiritual Director

Elizabeth Beazley Spiritual Director

Lyndall Brown Spiritual Director

Glenda Prosser Spiritual Director

Vic Francis Spiritual Director

Anne McCracken Spiritual Director

Bev Phillips Spiritual director

Diane Gilliam-Weeks Spiritual Director

eamon Butler Spiritual Director

Kathy Torkington Spiritual Director

Petra Corbett Spiritual Director in Taupo

Kathy Viney Spiritual Director

Janna Young Spiritual Director

Vincent Maire Spiritual Director

Sr Margaret Anne Mills Spiritual Director

Linda Burson Swift Spiritual Director

Jeannie Cochrane Spiritual Director

Jenny Caston Spiritual Director

Jemma Allen Spiritual Director

Carol Grant Spiritual Director Dunedin

Agnes Hermans Spiritual Director Whangarei

Anne Chrisp Spiritual Director

Kathryn Fernando Spiritual Director

andrew Connolly Spiritual Director

Joanne Garton Spiritual Director

Regina Daly Spiritual Director

Jovita Parker Spiritual Director

Mary Betz Spiritual Director

Maureeen Lamb Spiritual Director

Fran Francis Spiritual Director

Gay Cochrane Spiritual Director

marion Fairbrass Spiritual Director

Andy Edwards Spiritual Director

Sue Pickering spiritual director

Margie Upson Spiritual Director

Rosemary Blackwell Spiritual Director

Di Woods Spiritual Director

Chris Lee Spiritual Director

Christeen McKay spiritual director

Bev Marsh Spiritual Director

Adrienne Thompson Spiritual Director

Margaret Harris spiritual director

Rose Jenkin Spiritual Director

Lew Marsh Spiritual Director

Adrienne Dunlop spiritual Director

Helen Tripp Spiritual Director

Jocelyn Dale Spiritual Director

Donna Peterson spiritual director

Sheryl James Spiritual Director

Katherine Opie Spiritual Director

Colin Renouf spiritual director

Chris Hartley Spiritual Director

Renate Frei Spiritual director

Trish O’Donell spiritual director

Hannah Rowan Spiritual Director

Margaret Young Spiritual Director

Ron Lang Spiritual Director

Jo Anistasiadis Spiritual Director wellington

Bev McDonald Spiritual Director

Maxine Hartley Spiritual Director

Liz Farrands spiritual Director

Jim Corbett spiritual director

Vicki Paulin Spiritual Director

Jill Montgomery spiritual director

Joy Campbell spiritual director

Bev Van der Westhuyzen Spiritual Director

Ken Fahey Spiritual Director

Jo van den Bogaert Spiritual Director

linda Piggott spiritual director

Murray Adams Spiritual Director

Jill Keir spiritual director

Jeannie Martin Blaker Spiritual Director

Regina Daly Spiritual Director

Karen Haines Spiritual director

Elinor Galbraith Spiritual Director

Sandy Neal Spiritual director

Jan Balzer spiritual director

Paul Reet Spiritual Director on his bike

Nikki Bull Spiritual Director

Kathy Orr-Nimmo Spiritual Director

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Jim McInnes Spiritual Director

Megan Blakie Spiritual Director

Susan Gill Spiritual Director

Watiri Maina Spiritual Director Nelson

Liz Smythe Spiritual Director

Peter Hart Spiritual Director

Amanda Pilbrow Spiritual Director

Mary Allan Spiritual Director

Helen-Gray Spiritual Director

Mary Ebyarimpa spiritual director

Irene Maxwell-Curnock Spiritual Directpr

Leonie Moxon Spiritual Director

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Jules badger Spiritual Director

Jenny McDowall Spiritual Director

Murray-Lucas Spiritual Director

John Pettit Spiritual Director

Angelika Halstead spiritual director

Shannon Mawdsley Spiritual Director

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Marion Baker, Spiritual Director

Jeff Whittaker Spiritual Director

Donald Scott Spiritual director

Sue Thirkettle spiritual Director

Jenny Dawson Spiritual Director

Heather Sangster Smith Spiritual Director

Lori Brudvik Lindner Spiritual Director

Sandy Thomson Spiritual Director

Jacinda Lilly Spiritual Director

Lois Baldwin spiritual director

Laura Buist Spiritual Director

Samantha Head Spiritual Director

Margaret Shearing Spiritual Director

Lynda Wards Spiritual Director

Nicky Browne Spiritual Director

Kevin Gallagher Spiritual Director

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Kaye Bustin Spiritual Director

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Judith Wigglesworth Spiritual Director

Alumine Andrew Spiritual Director

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Lizzie Wootton Spiritual Director

Christine Petrie Spiritual Director

Marcel Vickers Spiritual Director

Heather Lofthouse Spiritual Director

Lyn Gallagher Spiritual Director

Phil Cody Spiritual Director

Tay-Marie Yorston Spiritual Director

Emma Aldridge Spiritual Director

Bex La Spina, Spiritual Director

Jenny Williams Spiritual Director

Eddie O’Connor Spiritual Director

John Hebenton tssf Spiritual Director

Becs Jamieson Spiritual Director

Heather Penzel, Spiritual Director

Steve Tollestrup spiritual director

Lindy Nevill Spiritual Director

 

Biennial Training Event for SpiritualDirectors

Every two years we meet together – Our next Training Event will be
1-4 October 2026 at Nelson Girls College

Flourishing with the Divine
Flourishing Place, Flourishing People, Flourishing Practice

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  Holding the Still Point: The Future of Spiritual Direction and ACSD
  Tuhia ki te rangi, tuhia ki te whenua, tuhia ki te ngakau o tangata, ko te mea nui, ko te aroha. Te hei mauri ora The Association of Christian Spiritual Directors finds itself at an exciting yet challenging threshold moment. The landscape around us is shifting—church life is unsettled, the wider culture is restless, and many are seeking meaning in unfamiliar places. In such a season, the task of spiritual…
• Executive Report on past two years
  April 2023 – end of March 2025 presented at BGM 2025 Your Executive At the 2023 BGM Watiri Maina, Colin Renouf, and Jenny Dawson joined the Executive and they have been valuable members. Currently Anne Chrisp (completed 4 years), Lew Marsh and Steve Tollestrop (completed 6 years) are resigning or retiring from the Executive. Under the proposed updated constitution there can be a minimum of six and a maximum of…
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  To everything there is a season…
  Devotion for ACSD BGM 16 August 2025 Anne Chrisp Before we begin the meeting proper, let us pause…. We come from weekend activities, from family and leisure…from the tasks and concerns of lifeWe come with a sense of commitment and belonging to this association,With gratitude for the ministry of spiritual direction.We come with the knowledge that this ministry rests on something more –On mystery, on God. Let us acknowledge these…