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I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
Waikato
I am a fairly new spiritual director in the contemplative tradition. My approach is to sit with you and walk with you on your spiritual journey, asking questions to help you clarify things, deepen experiences and see where God is at work in your own life. I love the metaphor of a midwife – being the one who helps bring birth to something new.
I like to connect with God through nature myself and this is something I foster. We have a large garden which is in the process of being developed as a Quiet Garden – a place where people can spend time being still, connecting with God, letting go of stress and listening. In the future it will be open for structured quiet days as well as for personal retreat times.
I am happy to work with directees over Zoom (though face to face is my preference!) especially with those in the mission space.
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
Kapiti Coast
he hope I hold out for those I companion spiritually is that a spacious enough place will be created that the presence of God is sensed.
I also hold a particular desire to walk alongside ( virtually) people who are working in an overseas context, so they are supported to maintain their spiritual vitality in that setting.
Much of what I experienced overseas through mission life has led me to want to have a specialised knowledge of trauma, and I am still exploring the ways our spirituality helps in recovery from trauma.
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
Spiritual Direction is a space for you to listen to your authentic self. To be seen and heard. To notice the movement of God within your daily life, the highs and lows and the spaces in-between.
I love the imagery of the nest. Where the three of us gather, you and me and the Spirit of God. Here we take pause from the busyness of life, we breathe and rest and listen together. It is a safe space where all are welcome, there is no judgment here.
It is a privilege to be with you on this pilgrimage of discovery and grace, with God as our guide.
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
Central Auckland
I prefer to use the term Companion as I believe I am accompanying a person on their spiritual journey. I like to listen to the person - allow them to 'tell their story' and encouraging them to trust their own personal experiences - reflect upon their experiences and 'seeing' how God is present in the ordinary and sometimes extraordinary daily events of life.
I have been trained through the Spiritual Growth Ministry and have been a Spiritual Director for 15 Years.
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Not presently accepting clients
West Auckland
Not presently accepting clients.
Spiritual 'direction' is accompanying people on their life and faith journeys, helping them listen and watch for 'glimpses' of God's presence in their lives. Some people come to spiritual direction when they are in one of life's many transitions - growth, change, loss, questioning. I love it when people come with lots of questions!
My first role as a spiritual director/companion is to listen: to listen to each person, to hear their stories of joys and sorrows and longings, and to help them discern the sometimes quiet and hidden voice of God within. I encourage 'directees' in whatever ways of prayer best help them spend time in, become aware of, and open themselves to God's presence.
Each person brings unique and precious experience of life and God to spiritual direction sessions. Whether conversation is about relationships, family, study, career, change, church, ministry, health, loss, aging, prayer, or who or where or if God is - spiritual direction touches on the whole of life, including the unfathomable beauty, goodness and mystery we call God.
The people whom I accompany come from many backgrounds, ethnicities and denominations - Methodist, Anglican, Presbyterian, Evangelical, Baptist, and Catholic - all are most welcome.
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Not presently accepting clients
Manawatu-Wairarapa
I aim to be warm and friendly, and to listen well to my clients/directees
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
Central Auckland
It is a privilege to hold a space for another to explore their life and discern together where the Spirit is at work. As I sit with another, we are at an oasis, sharing the life-giving water. Sometimes it feels like dry desert times, difficult dark times or easy joyous times. All are welcome and held as sacred offerings and invitations into the Divine.
Working at Peacemakers Retreat Center we naturally engage with nature through the paddocks, the trees, the animals and birdsong. There is also the option of walking in the Rongoa or the Labyrinth, creating a wholistic experience, allowing God to speak through the land.
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Presently accepting clients
Wellington
Spiritual Direction provides a space and place to 'hear yourself', explore you own, unique story. There is opportunity of process, sit with questions, look for meaning along with expanding your relationship and experience of The Holy One.
I provide a trustworthy, attentive and hopeful environment. This environment will encourage and enable you to see God at work in your every day through beauty, truth and goodness - in yourself and in The Divine's Kingdom
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
Kapiti Coast
I am an ordained Anglican priest with particular interest in both the Celtic Christian heritage and monastic rhythms of prayer.
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
Christchurch
I prefer a holistic approach to faith journeys, where no matter the starting point, I can walk beside someone and hold space for them. Spiritual Direction is a place where deep work can happen, gently, over time.
I have clients who have been with me for 2-3 years, others for a year and still others whom I meet at retreats on a daily basis for the duration of their retreat.
I enjoy interacting with a variety of people and their own very special journeys into faith.
I was brought up in a bi-lingual family, I can offer Spiritual direction in Spanish as well as English.
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Presently accepting clients
Northland
It is a privilege to be involved in the ministry of Spiritual Direction and even though it is primarily one of listening, Spiritual Directors are the ones who can ask the God questions. So whether I work with people in ministry or others on a serious spiritual journey, we will explore the God questions together in relation to spiritual growth.
I also run a small retreat house, Chapel House, near Whangarei in Northland, which is a place set apart for people to be with God.
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Presently accepting clients
Waikato
I see offering Spiritual Direction as a privilege. An offering of hospitality - providing time and a welcoming space. A listening, non-judgmental heart and a co-discerning spirit. Celebrating, challenging and cheering you on, as you journey with God on your unique path, and as you craft out a life of balance between full-on everyday living and quiet reflective stillness in your inner chapel.
Lately, God has also brought about the fulfilment of a desire He has placed in my heart to provide a Quiet Space for people hungry for a time away with Him. A time of Reflection and Rest.
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Presently accepting clients
West Auckland
Sometimes two people are better than one in making sense of what life brings our way and moving towards new possibilities and hope. Spiritual direction is a form of spiritual companionship or a way to intentionally deepen your understanding of God, yourself, and the context you live in. It is an opportunity to expand your spiritual practices and skills and grow closer to your True Self and God as your Source.
Not presently accepting clients
Canterbury
We now run a small retreat centre on a 10 acre farmlet in Cooptown hosting individuals, families and groups. If you need a break, to enjoy some country air with ready access to the beauty of the Peninsula, we may be able to provide you with a space to do that.
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Presently accepting clients
West Auckland
I offer a well grounded listening into life of the directee’s whole journey. My heart is to join with the directee to discover in what ways God to seeking to break into their lives.
I enjoy most working with men and young men, those with out of control sexual behaviour as well as Christian leaders, missionaries and pastors offering spiritual direction, counselling and supervision.
I tend to specialise in transitions, grief, spiritual and sexual abuse and trauma, PTST, Religious Trauma Syndrome (RTS), sex addictions, clearing anger, contemplative spiritual practices, debriefing and community development.
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
Upper South Island
I love to offer a variety of creative practices within Spiritual Direction, both one-on-one and in small groups. I'm continually amazed at how God meets people when enagaging our senses creatively, especially through touch, visually and by listening.
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Presently accepting clients
Upper South Island
Abuse survivors, Chaplaincy, Church Leadership, Climate Change, Creativity and Spirituality, Grief and Loss, Hearing God in nature, Men's spirituality, Mental Health, Motherhood/parenting and faith journey, Recovery from Trauma, Social Justice, Sustainability, The Environment, Treaty Partnership, Women's spirituality
A place of holding you and your loved ones in God's presence
. A place _ The Sanctuary, where all that happens is in God's presence
A place of deep listening -.
A place of noticing where your story connects with God's story
A place of discerning , with God, where the Holy spirit is nudging you
A place where we journey together, using the life stories that are part of you
A place where creativity is valued
A place where your whanau is valued
A place where your culture and language are valued.
A place to enjoy God together
A place to be in awe and wonder with our Creator
A Holy space and place
We may sit in The Sanctuary
We may walk on the beach
We may sit beside the river
We may listen to the tui and kereru - or the raindrops
You may rest and refresh and renew in the guest room and around the rohe
In this place there will be karakia . There will be korero. There will be kai and there will be an opportunity to respond with a koha
You may come for an hour a month. You may come for a 5 day retreat
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Presently accepting clients
Auckland
My approach is person centered, creative, exploratory and open to all things, all peoples, all journeys. I have a beautiful room to work in, horses to play with, to see your journey transformed by their presence. I use drawing, play, humour, symbol and dreams. If I know little about what you want to use, I will learn with you, you are my teacher in understanding God's leading in your life.
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Presently accepting clients
Christchurch
It seems to me that the Spirit, Breath, Wind of God is at work everywhere in this beautiful and fallen world; constantly speaking and offering invitations to join with Godself (whatever language one uses for the Divine).
The Spiritual Director's role, as I see it, is to help the one who comes for direction to notice where God is present in their own life and the life of others.
In Spiritual Direction I try to discern the Spirit whispers occurring and to help the one with me to hear those whispers and direct invitations for themselves.
We live in the country but I offer Spiritual Direction in different venues in Christchurch and surrounds and can also do that on line.
Full Member of Association
Presently accepting clients
Christchurch
I like the description Midwife to the Soul. Accompanying another on their spiritual journey is a very old tradition and have found it very vital in my own journey.
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
Dunedin
I see myself as an accompanying person alongside another discovering the presence, voice and discernment of God; what God may be saying through circumstances, personal history, relationships.
We are holistic people, physical, emotional and spiritual and I work with all these aspects of a person's life to increase awareness and a sense of God's presence and working.
Metaphorically I am companion gardener, with you and the Greatest Gardener, uncovering clearing sowing and reaping, pondering and wondering, waiting and being.
