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.
Some of our members
Biennial Training Event for Spiritual Directors
Every two years we meet together – Our next Training Event will be
21-24 November 2024 in Christchurch. More information
- Sacred Weaving with Susan GillThe process of Sacred Weaving results in a lived integrity; that is a life where all of its components are integrated into the whole. Trinitarian weaving; pondering the various strands of Divine and human personhood. At the 2024 Training Event Susan gathered all these strands into a Sacred Wholeness, embodied in an actual weaving! Susan Gill has lived in different locations of our motu settling back into Canterbury six years ago.…
- Tatau Pounamu – Sacred DoorwayFran Francis presentation at 2024 Training Event Fran Francis has over 17 years experience as a spiritual director and is 8 years into leading the SGM Spiritual Directors Formation Programme. She is married to Vic, they have four adult children, two grandchildren and a bonkers British shorthair. Fran is tauiwi, an Enneagram 7, loves books, films, making stuff, walking (especially pilgrimages); and is a self confessed spirituality nerd. On Saturday evening at our Training Event Fran explored spiritual direction as a tatau pounamu/sacred doorway. The peace-making…
- Catholic Pastoral Letter Re Abuse in CarePastoral Letter on Occasion of the Prime Minister’s Apology to Victims and Survivors of Abuse in Care …Many of you have told us of the horror, grief and outrage you felt as you read the Royal Commission’s report and survivors’ accounts of abuse and the scale of that abuse. The sins and the crimes of our people – priests, religious and lay – working in Catholic settings fill us all…