Fran 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 tradition of Māori gives us the “greenstone door” – a way to peace; tatau pounamu is also “the sacred doorway of the light” while from our Christian tradition we have the door on which Jesus knocks, Teresa of Avilà’s creepy shadowed doorway, and let’s not forget JRR Tolkien’s mysterious hidden-in-plain-sight door into the Mines of Moria; metaphors galore for what we do, and how we do it. Fran hopes the session might also turn out to be a sacred doorway of insight for us.
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