There are over 150 Spiritual Directors in our Association. To find a spiritual director, use the drop down boxes to fine tune your search. Click on the Name to find out more about them. Or scroll through our randomised list.
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Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Presently accepting clients
Christchurch
I am a spiritual director trained in a contemplative/incarnational model of spiritual direction drawn from the Catholic tradition and the world of psycho-therapy. I have worked as a spiritual director for more 20 years.
I work to help those who come for spiritual direction - directees - to find where God is active in their everyday lives and to discern what God is communicating. My role is primarily listening to what my directees bring and then helping them tease out the emerging God activity. Directees then decide how to respond.
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Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Presently accepting clients
Christchurch
My approach to Spiritual Direction flows from a belief that all of life is sacred. As I journey with another with a listening and open heart my hope is that they discover within their life an invitation to grow into the fullness of the Gospel call to live life to the full.
I journey with another in a holistic way recognising the presence of God in body, mind and spirit. I would hope to deepen in the other a heart presence to Life....Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
North Auckland
Spiritual Direction sessions are held tenderly in God. The session is about you and God. I'm there to listen carefully to you and stay tuned to the Holy Spirit. I offer confidentiality, privacy in a safe welcoming space. As you talk about your everyday life experiences - your highs and lows, your relationships, your work, your decisions - I will accompany you as you notice, reflect, explore, question and engage with God.
To assist you to move from head to heart and grow in self-awareness and intimacy with God, I can offer interactive drawing therapy, focusing, dream work, imaginative use of scripture, different types of prayer, music, poetry, finding God in nature.
This is both a joy and privilege for me as I accompany another on their spiritual journey. ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Presently accepting clients
Bay of Plenty
For me Spiritual direction is about listening, offering caring companionship to others as they explore their life's journey. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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. ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Presently accepting clients
Upper South Island
Greetings! working intuitively with Holye Spirite in my heart is how I approach this ministry. I work in other fields too, so my kete is loaded with all of those tools as well, used for mental well-being, and for super-vision of leaders in their fields. If you choose me as your companion on the spiritual journey you could expect it would be a creative yet quiet and contemplative time, it would have intuitive and intelligent process, plus humour where appropriate. Information would also be shared, and pausing in silence to listen to God would be part of the hour we spend together. ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Not presently accepting clients
Central Auckland
Every spiritual-life journey is unique, and no two people encounter God the same way. I love listening to the thoughts, feelings, spiritual experiences, joy, disappointment or deep longing that resides within someone seeking to know God. I am always aware that when someone speaks about their relationship with God, they are in fact speaking to God, not just to me. God listens. That makes spiritual direction a bit like prayer. Sometimes God even responds! My commitment to everyone who sees me for spiritual direction is that I will listen to them, and with them to God. A number of people who see me work in vocational Christian ministry or the charity sector. I have experience in providing ministry supervision in addition to, or alongside, spiritual direction. I am particularly interested in the intersection of spirituality and vocational ministry, though I enjoy working with anyone wanting to deepen their awareness of God's presence in their life. ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Presently accepting clients
Central Auckland
Spiritual Direction is ‘listening to the other’ and ‘enabling’ them by empathetic hearing and provocative questions to recognise God in the ordinariness of their lives including their work, leisure, dreams, daydreams and conversations. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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 ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
Not presently accepting clients
Central Auckland
I like to use the words spiritual accompaniment and I enjoy accompanying people as they try to find where God is active in their lives. It is, I believe, a privileged journey. ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Presently accepting clients
Central Auckland
As a Spiritual Director, I am a soul friend to others. I value accompanying others as they search to deepen their relationship with the divine and grow in their own personal spiritual journey.
I am personally interested in the significance of dreams and how God communicates with us in our spiritual lives as well as the impact of loss and grief on our spirituality. Additionally, I am also interested by different personalities and how they complement and enrich our understanding of ourselves. I believe relationships are essential in helping us recognise ourselves a the unique individuals God created us to be, fostering our growth in compassion and forgiveness.
I appreciate the interconnectedness of body, mind, spirit and the cosmos which adds richness and beauty to each person. For me, “the real Director is the Holy Spirit hidden in the depths of our soul.” Thomas Merton. ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Presently accepting clients
Upper South Island
My approach to Spiritual Direction is informed by Ignatian Spirituality. ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Presently accepting clients
North Auckland
I like the metaphor of being a companion on the journey. Sometimes a new companion can bring a fresh perspective to the path ahead. Perhaps provide an alternative route or a way out of what may
feel like a dry and spirit-less desert.
My approach is contemplative; presence and listening lie at the heart of my work. For this reason, I am comfortable working with people from the broad sweep of Christian traditions. And because of my hospice work, I have an affinity with people who might describe themselves as unchurched seekers or refugees from dogmatism.
“And suddenly you know: It's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.”
Meister Eckhart ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Presently accepting clients
Bay of Plenty
God is the primary Spiritual Director from whom both the Directee and their companion seek divine presence and guidance on the journey of Spiritual Direction. ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Presently accepting clients
Northland
I see spiritual companioning as a form of contemplative practice, during which I try to meet people where they are at. When I work with a new person, I may explore the various 'gateways' she or he uses to connect with the wonder, awe and mystery of life, or what some of us may choose to call 'God'. Then I work to expand and open these gateways by sharing readings, resources and practices, to support a deeper awareness of and connection with Life, with God.... ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
Presently accepting clients
Dunedin
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Presently accepting clients
North Auckland
When I consider spiritual direction, I find myself drawn to the Celtic understanding of spiritual companionship. As an 'Anam Cara' or 'Soul Friend', I have the privilege of walking alongside people as they explore the terrain of their ordinary lives with our hearts attuned for the movement of a loving God there. Together we look for the 'beckoning green finger of God' within the ordinary and everyday. ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Presently accepting clients
Dunedin
I love journeying alongside people of all ages as a companion on the way as they listen to, and feel the movements of God’s Spirit in their lives through prayer, contemplation, silence, nature, workplaces, places of worship, and the chaos, and joys of living fully.
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Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Presently accepting clients
Central Auckland
I have delighted in listening with those who have come up against some life experiences which cause them to question their faith. Those who are new to spiritual direction are very welcome to explore this and learn to become more attuned to God’s voice. ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Not presently accepting clients
West Auckland
I see spiritual direction as a relationship in which one person helps another ‘with a personal understanding of the spiritual life, growth in self-knowledge, and deepening intimacy with God.’ (Janet Ruffing, To Tell the Sacred Tale: Spiritual Direction and Narrative. New York, NY: Paulist Press, 2011, p. 2).
In practical terms, for me this means meeting one-to-one with people, usually monthly, to talk about spiritual issues and to explore where God is in the midst of daily life and work. The term 'spiritual director' might suggest someone who is going to tell you how to live your spiritual life, but that is not how I see it. Rather, the one coming to spiritual direction decides what they want to talk about, and I seek to walk alongside as a companion and a co-discerner. This is something I enjoy and find to be a great privilege! ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
Central Auckland
Years ago, I was struck by the thought that God has all the time in the world for me, that I’m never tiresome or boring, but instead a delight to be with. In spiritual direction I seek to show that sort of generosity to someone coming to me. I want to hear the stories of others and together with them probe where God might be at work in those stories. It’s usually through the narratives of work, relationships and life in general, but it may also be through exploring a dream, or perhaps what seem to be barren landscapes. That has been my experience in receiving spiritual direction, and I enjoy giving others the opportunity to share too. I believe that nothing is beyond the realm of God’s interest, so anything can be brought to our session and aired. ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Not presently accepting clients
Waikato
For me spiritual direction is :
helping someone notice and respond to the work of Love, of grace, in their lives.
sitting with someone as they explore who 'God' might or might not be for them
witnessing someone's struggle and being a non-judgmental companion
supporting someone as they negotiate their relationship with institutional religion
walking alongside a person as he or she discovers more of who they are and who the divine is
being amazed by the movement of the Holy Spirit in a person's life ... ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
Manawatu-Wairarapa
For me spiritual direction/companioning is a place of freedom to notice, share and reflect on life. Anything and everything may be brought to spiritual direction. It is a place to linger with God and with ourselves, in a spirit of curiosity and openness. It’s a place to love questions and engage with them, to wonder and explore. It’s a safe space of deep listening, attentiveness and trust, where both light and dark, joy and struggle, love and fear – all the paradoxes of life – may find expression. ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Not presently accepting clients
Central Auckland
It has always been a delight and a privilege for me to accompany people in walking their personal
faith journey – which may or may not be within a church context. I believe spirituality is intrinsic to our humanity, and is grounded in our very nature of human being-ness and meaning-making.
I see my primary role as providing a safe space for a person to reflect on their life and explore their inner calling, along with the sharing of Christianity’s long and varied traditions of the many paths into the Divine. I believe, with St Thomas Aquinas, that Nature is God’s first Bible, and I personally know Nature’s power to heal, to teach, to reveal… ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
North Auckland
My approach to Spiritual Direction is as a companion who walks alongside another as they seek to unfold the wonder and mystery of how God is being revealed in and through the everyday moments of their life story.
Within a non-threatening welcoming quiet space, and through active deep listening as your companion, is offered the invitation to confidentially explore your relationship with God enabling discoveries and insights that are waiting to be noticed as faith becomes awakened and deepened. ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Presently accepting clients
West Auckland
The time and space is yours, to talk about what you want to, God is present in midst of the whole of life and our faith cannot be separated out from our work and relationships and how we find ourselves engaging with those around us. My approach is to seek to listen, feedback and encourage your sense of God's presence and working in your life(Celtic). I am willing to explore dreams. d
I also manage a Community Hub Space centrally located in Avondale, there are rooms /hall available for hire and could be suitable for spiritual direction and workshops I am involved in working with local charities /restorative justice and charity governance. ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Presently accepting clients
Northland
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. ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
North Auckland
Being a Spiritual Director is such a privilege. To sit with another as they share their struggles, joys, sorrow, desires and questions is to be standing on Holy Ground.
I offer Spiritual Direction from my home, where I offer a place of welcome, warmth, safety, friendship and acceptance. It is a place where you can dare to share and express your thoughts, feelings, questions, desires, failures and successes, free of judgment. It is a time where tears and laughter are welcome. Nothing in your life is out of bounds, all is welcome, even what you might think is too ordinary or too glorious or be ashamed of. It is a time where the masks that we often wear can be set aside and what lies deep within can be slowly revealed. It’s a time where we go deeper, listening for what God might be saying and inviting you too and also a time where you can listen deeply to yourself. ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Not presently accepting clients
Based overseas
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. ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Not presently accepting clients
West Auckland
In spiritual direction I seek to offer a warm and safe space for people to reflect on where the Spirit might already be present, including through noticing what is happening in their ordinary every day lives, and how they might respond and take delight in it. ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Presently accepting clients
Wellington
“Listening with another to the Spirit’s direction.”
“Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.” (Frederick Buechner)
I have the immense privilege of listening to the life that people choose to share with me. I listen to them, I listen with them, and together we notice the Spirit’s direction. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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 ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
Wellington
Spiritual direction is where one person is prayerfully present and attentive to another. Offering spiritual direction is a privileged place where I can encourage people to unpack what is happening in their lives and for them to notice and discover the movements of God therein. In Spiritual Direction I invite a person to sit with God, in an uninterrupted space, where they can listen to God and to their own heart. I welcome the opportunity to support people as a co-listener, as we witness together the emergence of newness and
growth in a person’s life. I am happy to be with those whose spiritual experience is different from mine. In spiritual direction, I also can learn from those who I accompany. ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Presently accepting clients
West Auckland
I approach spiritual direction as one of life’s great and noble adventures as we set out to explore and discover the presence and voice of the sacred in our world and within ourselves. On this path, we learn to listen and respond to a loving God beyond our imagination. This spiritual journey requires that we are equipped with courage and bravery to move beyond our fixed notions in the hope and assurance of deeper insight. On this journey, we hold the world and ourselves with compassion and kind-heartedness. ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
North Auckland
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Presently accepting clients
Christchurch
I enjoy accompanying people in their journey to discover where God is active in their lives and to pay attention to this activity. I am also a counsellor and interested in mental health alongside spirituality. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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. ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
Taupo
In a warm and compassionate environment, we patiently talk, rest or wait for God, as we hunger for His life to come more fully and we ask "What is the truest thing about you?" and "Who are you within God's story?" ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
Wellington
Kia Ora,
I love meeting people individually and giving them the opportunity to receive spiritual direction, especially if they have never tried this before. I am keen to give seekers the option of sessions even if they cannot afford these. Don’t let finances be a barrier.
I have a passion for the outdoors, I love being active and also being still as I listen to the stories of others.
I work at the local hospice. Through this work I am mindful of the many people who are outside the institutional church and yet long to sense their God in the midst of their lives. I specialise in supporting others through times of change, loss and grief. It is a privilege to share together. ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Presently accepting clients
Christchurch
I am a Catholic woman, married with children and grandchildren. I belief in the extravagant, tender and mysterious love of the Trinity. I am a contemplative and my approach to spiritual direction is to offer a hearth space, where ones life and faith can be shared and heard and where the tender motions of Love are noticed.
All are welcome and I also offer creative contemplative retreat days, dream workshops and companionship on silent retreats when requested.
I am also happy to supervise spiritual directors. ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Presently accepting clients
West Auckland
Accompanying someone on their spiritual journey is a great privilege! I seek to offer a place of safety and confidentiality where deep listening and reflection occurs - a space where everyone's unique story can be gently unfolded and honoured in God's presence. ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
Manawatu-Wairarapa
Full Member of Association
Presently accepting clients
Central Auckland
To provide a space where clients can experience safety, acceptance and know they are welcomed by God wherever they are at that moment in life. Where I can offer loving attention to who they are, whatever they bring and offer discernment and insight to help clarify 'where they are'' leading to a place of hope and trust.
I have a particular interest in the Labyrinth as a place of literal journeying involving body, soul and spirit to process and find new quietening, insight and understanding . I have a Labyrinth that I can offer for any Directee for both a Spiritual Direction Session or for their own private use.
Visual symbols are important to me, that I offer by way of 'having out' in my Spiritual Direction Space for the Directee's visit that they may or may not pay attention to. These will be relevant to the seasons of the year , seasons in the Christian Calendar, or just there because of the prompting of the Spirit. I prefer to see clients face to face.
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Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
Christchurch
Having been involved in pastoral leadership for over 30 years, recently transitioning into prioritising spiritual direction and wider involvement across the Body of Christ.
I have a passion to help people grow in awareness and response to God’s Presence within them, around them, in Creation, in all contexts of life. Learning to live from an inner posture of rest and peace has been a life long journey and eager to walk alongside others to grow in the wonder of who we are as Gods image bearers. ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
Waikato
You're invited to share a conversation each month around the things in your life that are important: relationships, work, prayer. The aim is to help you deepen your relationship with God. I will listen attentively to your story, using questions and suggestions to help you explore and deepen your relationship with God and consider the implications for your life. I prefer to proceed at your pace, under the rhythms of grace!!! ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Not presently accepting clients
South Auckland
I believe spiritual direction is primarily about helping the directee listen to God, speak to God, and respond to God's invitations. I work with people to help remove any barriers to this communication with God, and we do that through a variety of ways- through art, the imagination, movement, scripture, silence, and stillness. My deep joy is watching people explore prayer, contemplation, and the whispers of God for themselves through the work of the Father, enacted by Jesus, and breathed on by the Holy Spirit. ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Presently accepting clients
Christchurch
I am a Benedictine Oblate so aim to live my life according to the principles laid out by St Benedict in his Rule for monastics. I believe that God is always and everywhere active in our lives – our spiritual journey involves becoming aware of how God is present to us in each situation. These beliefs form the basis of my spiritual direction practice. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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. ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Presently accepting clients
Manawatu-Wairarapa
Spiritual direction provides a spacious sacred container to hear yourself speak, honour what is true for you and deepen your life. I invite those who come for direction to tell their story and to discern what is most life-giving for them. Together, we explore what is significant or holy, in words or silence or creativity. ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Presently accepting clients
Hawkes Bay
Kiaora koutou...
In 4 words, my approach is: "Live in the present!"
I am shaped by the Ignatian Exercises and the desire to balance contemplation and action as I follow Jesus - but as your spiritual companion, my role is to help you reflect on how your life is being shaped, and to engage with God in that process. ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Presently accepting clients
Wellington
To accompany anyone is a privilege that I take very seriously. My approach is inclusive and grounded in the fact that Jesus is the ongoing Incarnation of God. I respect the sacredness of everyone’s journey and celebrate the diverse ways God speaks to me as I seek to listen to contemplatively. ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
Central Auckland
offer a contemplative approach to Spiritual Direction to men and women from all walks of life. This approach involves above all a spiritual companionship that is characterized by a deep reflective listening with an individual who wants to explore their relationship with God in a safe, secure and sacred environment. My task as spiritual director is to help a person hear their own unique spiritual story in a new light and offer ways of noticing and responding to the activity of God in their life. Through the spiritual process my deepest desire for individuals is that they will grow in their knowledge of God and themselves which will in turn help them fall more deeply in love with God. Life then, becomes all the more meaningful and richer in every way as a result. ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
Christchurch
I am a Mother, Friend, Spiritual director, Spa therapist and Retreat facilitator.
I love all things centred in the Divine, that are simple, nourishing and inclusive.
Here at Seasons Soulcare we are about living a soulful and intentional life.
By slowing down and turning inward towards our heart and indwelling wisdom (God, Sophia the Divine ..) we can hear the places that need attention, healing, more joy, more softening and love. ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Presently accepting clients
Christchurch
Spiritual Direction provides a wonderful opportunity to accompany people on their journey with Our God. I aim to listen, to draw out and ask questions that help another pay attention to God's activity and presence in their lives. I am trained in the Ignatian Tradition and draw on this in my ministry. ...Click here for full details and contact information
Full Member of Association
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
Christchurch
My approach to Spiritual Direction is that of creating a welcoming listening space, where you feel comfortable to share whatever you are most present to in your life experience at this time, whatever that might be. A space where you are deeply heard and together we attend to your awareness of God and Divine Presence in your life, however this is named, and where we can attend to what is seeking to emerge as a way forward in your life.
I have been inspired by the rich tradition of the christian mystics, and draw on a background of contemplative and Ignatian prayer practices in accompanying others. Among other things I have a passion for grandchildren, the awe and beauty of nature, walking, photography, and good films. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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South Auckland
I love to accompany fellow-pilgrims, to hold sacred space, and encourage in-depth conversations that lead to the Holy and find Christ in the midst. I am intrigued by both Ignatian and contemplative approaches to prayer, and liturgical rhythms sustain my spirit.
Amongst those I have accompanied are pilgrims who are of varied ethnicities, gender-diverse, or busy and stretched, those in transition or discernment processes, many who are leaders in faith communities, and some who are deconstructing or losing their faith. Together we seek the gentle, generous and joyous, the creative, curious and kind – the Mystery. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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Christchurch
Spiritual Direction is about exploring how the whole of us - our thoughts, feelings, emotions, body and spirit relate to God/ the Divine/ the transcendent.
Spiritual Direction is a chance to explore with a compassionate and wise listener whatever is going on in your life and deep within yourself. It's an opportunity to uncover your own inner wisdom. Wisdom/God draws near as we slow down and listen, and it can be helpful to do this in the company of a Spiritual Director. I love to accompany people of any, or no, faith. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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Waikato
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Dunedin
We all have a piece of God in us. I believe the more we know ourselves as God created us, the more we know God.
A lot of my SD involves helping people understand themselves and who God created them to be so they can live their lives to the full. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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Bay of Plenty
For me the space when I’m together with another is a place of warmth and hospitality. A place where everything on life’s journey can be brought into the light and love of the Trinity. A place where a person can speak and be heard and respect is given to the sacredness within us. To refrain from offering interpretations and to remain curious and adopt a not-knowing position is important for me. To trust that there is something to be learned from each and every experience shared.
As your companion, to offer what was noticed, appreciated and wondered about as I listened, in an effort to help you increase awareness of your soul’s expressions and the sacredness of your story; a place for both laughter and tears ...Click here for full details and contact information
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Otago Southland
I have been a Baptist pastor for over 20 years, 26 years as a Policeman before that. I now live in Thames in the Coromandel. Happy to meet in person or by video link (Messenger in preference) ...Click here for full details and contact information
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East Auckland
Spiritual Direction is a place to attend to the questions of meaning, purpose, interconnectedness, hope and faith that humans carry with them. My intention in spiritual direction is to craft a space in which we can listen together to the things that matter most to you: your values, your spirituality, your sense of who you are and the work that is yours to do. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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Christchurch
Spiritual Direction/Companionship
Christians believe that our God is a personally-communicating God who wants to have a relationship with us. I understand a Spiritual Director as someone who walks with us as we endeavour to pay attention to the presence of God in our life and respond to what we are hearing and noticing. God is present in the whole of our life, and can pop up in least expected places!
I have been offering spiritual direction/mentoring since 1992, as well as leading Quiet Days and Retreats - including 5 day retreats in the midst of the beauties of the natural world on Stewart Island. I am passionate about helping people grow in their relationship with God. As I move into retirement from employment in parish and chaplaincy ministries, I have more time to give to spiritual direction (and supervision if this is your need). ...Click here for full details and contact information
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North Auckland
I combine three decades of pastoring with my spiritual direction training to provide spiritual direction mainly for men and with a particular focus on pastors and leaders. I practise spiritual direction under the umbrella of Solace, which was formed a decade or so ago by my wife Fran, a spiritual director and leader of the Spiritual Growth Ministries spiritual directors formation programme. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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Kapiti Coast
My approach is to listen deeply to what the Spirit is doing in a person's life ...Click here for full details and contact information
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Dunedin
I enjoy that spiritual direction provides an opportunity to accompany people as they attend to God's presence in their lives. On the road to Emmaus the disciples told the story of their experiences. Don't we sometimes walk without recognising Jesus?
I seek to be a companion who listens, respects and is sensitive to others' insights and journey. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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Wellington
I seem to have been gifted with a sharp intellect and great compassion born out of various moments of suffering in my life. I try as a listener to help my people to see and accept their giftedness and love so that they can acknowledge their lines of stress and learn to accept and grow from them. I use imagery, dreams, drawing, vision, prayer - whatever is best suited to the personality of the person. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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Otago Southland
I encourage the stillness that’s needed for presence and encounter with the Holy Spirit. My desire is that spiritual direction would also result in the living out of a deepening relationship with Jesus, ultimately bringing blessing to others. Conversations are confidential, offering grace not judgement. I welcome an initial informal chat before engaging in regular meetings. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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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. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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East Auckland
As a spiritual director I accompany those who want to become more attuned to God’s presence in their lives. I offer a quiet, hospitable, sacred space to reflect, to explore, to question and to engage with God’s invitations. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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Christchurch
I am professionally trained as a midwife, which I consider informs my whole perspective in offering Spiritual Direction, as God is all ways desiring to gestate in us through waiting seasons and even loss, to bring the mystery of unexpected surprises to birth in our lives.
Margaret Guenther opines a midwife is a 'with woman' who offers her 'with-ness' in keeping another company along the journey, one who provides empathic support; a 'listening into clarity'; and the freedom to explore the 'terra incognita' of the soul's desires. I consider the matrix for this is elicited through the reciprocal gift/trust of soul friendship, that I endeavour to proffer over a wide ranging denominational melange.
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East Auckland
As a spiritual director I offer you presence, space and time, within which to explore your
lived experience of God in everyday life.
Walter J. Burghardt describes spiritual direction as “taking a long loving look at the Real”. I
find this a good description of the opportunity to reflect, lovingly and gently on life, faith
and relationships and discover what is true in our lives, whether we like it or shy away from
it. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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Wellington
I love to accompanying people as we listen to God’s movement together. Spiritual direction for me is to make space for God connection. You are free to bring whatever you would like to bring and we listen together for God’s movement. Your connection with God and how we might make space to grow that is at the centre of my practice. Sometimes to explore or to deepen our experience we may play with drawings, collage or clay, but only if you are up for it!
Other spaces for prayer I offer are quiet days, retreats and prayer spaces. See my website for more information.
I also am passionate about bringing the contemplative prayer to young people.
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Hutt Valley
It is my joy and privilege to journey with people as a co-listener for Presence in their everyday-ness. I love to create and hold a sacred space for this listening exploration to occur. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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Wellington
I love encouraging people to
use all their senses to notice how God is present in their life
become more intimate with God through daily spiritual discipline
tell the story of their relationship with God as it grows and changes
truly know how much God loves them just as they are
I use contemplative listening, silence, interactive drawing, spiritual imagination ...Click here for full details and contact information
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Christchurch
am an Ignatian director, trained in the SEED programme in Christchurch and now in Te Wairua Mahi. My commitment is that the session is primarily between you and God with me offering helpful quiet interventions that may assist us both to listen to the Divine Lover more deeply. In a limited way, I use poetry and story-telling, and I also value the natural world which especially relevant because the space where i meet with you in person backs onto our lovely garden in Pukerua Bay. I call my spiritual direction Facebook page Eccles Unlimited Consultancy because I believe that what you and me and God can do together is unlimited! ...Click here for full details and contact information
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Wellington
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Christchurch
The Spiritual Direction Session is a time when the directee has control of the agenda. They are free to bring any topic that they wish or need to talk about. My role is to listen, reflect back what I am hearing and ask questions to help them reflect on what they are saying. I intentionally listen to them and to Holy Spirit, asking for guidance in how I am to respond. The question "Where is God in this?" is uppermost.
Attending my own Spiritual Direction sessions has been so important in my life My heart's desire is to be able to offer the same support to others that I have received. It is a huge privilege to journey with another as they seek to draw closer to our loving God. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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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 ...Click here for full details and contact information
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Northland
Whangarei based. I have this quote in my Spiritual Direction room to remind me of what I'm about: "...a way of looking and listening, of beholding, marvelling, considering...we are all called to contemplation" (Margaret Magdelen). I love to see the surprising and often unexpected ways God is revealed to be at work to those sitting in conversation with me. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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North Auckland
As your spiritual director I'd be listening with you to all aspects of your life - decisions, work, relationships, dreams, disappointments, joys...the whole shebang, and together we'd be looking for "the holy in the ordinary". I'm trained in a Contemplative/Incarnational model of spiritual direction which is unstructured and lively. Central to the session is you and God. I see myself as an extra pairs of eyes and ears with you; present in the highs, lows and plateaus of ordinary life, looking and listening with you for the invitations of God to you. Not a guru but a sounding board. Not a judge but friend to your soul. Not a teacher but a resource. Not an advisor but a skilled listener. I enjoy kanohi ki te kanohi (face to face) spiritual direction but also love offering retreats and spiritual practice workshops.
I'm Pākeha, Cis, She/her, and doing my best to learn how to be a good ally. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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Wellington
I see spiritual direction as an opportunity for people to bring whatever aspects of their life they wish to share, seeking primarily to explore the question: "Where is God in this?" I hope that through this process, people will have an opportunity to grow in intimacy with God in the way that is right for them. For on-going spiritual direction, I usually see people once a month, but obviously this is arranged to meet the needs of the individual person. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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Otago Southland
I came to spiritual direction in my later years after working as a psychologist for 30 years and after some difficulties in defining the boundaries between the two disciplines I have come to a place where they inform each other and blend well.
The role of companioning someone on their journey into the Loving Mystery of God is a privilege. My intention is to listen deeply without judgement, open to all aspects of being because every part of a person; mental, emotional, relational and spiritual is grist to the mill of life and is an invitation drawing us closer to the realisation of Emmanual (God with us). ...Click here for full details and contact information
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North Auckland
Quiet Space Spiritual Direction - I offer a safe and confidential space for you to come as you are, pause in the midst of the busyness of life and explore...reflect...wonder about yourself, about God, about everything and anything, really. As a spiritual director, my role is to facilitate this space, believing that God speaks in infinite ways - we need only be still. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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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. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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Wellington
I am excited by taking time to notice the small miracles and the grace- filled gifts each day. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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West Auckland
I use two metaphors to describe the practice of Spiritual Direction; that of a midwife, and to borrow the name from the Celtic world, an Anam Cara or Soul Friend. Both invite and allow for ways of companioning and journeying alongside another at their own pace whatever story they may be living and telling, offering a sense of encouragement, care and support while at the same time noticing the movements and presence of God within. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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Wellington
Spiritual direction for me is a conversation about "God in the midst".
That might be about what is or isn't happening in your prayer. It might be about what is happening around you, in family, with friends, the world and discerning God's invitation to you within that. It might be about your own hopes, desires, disappointments, struggles and where God is for you within those.
I seek to provide a relaxed, gentle listening space for you to explore what is going on for you and to see where God is for you within that. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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West Auckland
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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. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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Central Auckland
I care about people finding the way to a deeper connection with the God who loves us, but the how and even the desire is often not clear, and life can be complicated. We need a place to pause and reflect in the presence of another. I see spiritual direction as an opportunity to untangle life and our longings in the presence of a companion who is seeking to listen deeply both to the person, and for what might be the nudges and invitations of God in their journey. It can be a place of discovery and fresh insight in the ‘ordinariness’ of life, often coming through quietness or creative means, available to anyone whatever their age or stage. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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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. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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Manawatu-Wairarapa
Over the years I have always enjoyed encouraging, discipling and mentoring people in their life journeys and then when I was introduced to Spiritual Direction I became aware of a deeper companioning which has really enriched my life as I have journeyed with God and others. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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Bay of Plenty
How are God and I getting along lately? What's God up to in me, and around me? God, could you speak a little louder? Where is God? What's God like? How do I make sense of all the stuff happening around me and in this world? What's my part?
Having a conversation with someone is a great way to explore these questions and more, and pay attention to what God might be communicating. And to find the next steps in this mysterious, surprising, sometimes one-foot-in-front-of -the-other, or standstill walk with God. Maybe your questions are before these - like is there a God, how do I find out?
If you are here God is calling you to new ways of being in company with -Love- God's-Self and the adventure of transformation. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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Manawatu-Wairarapa
My approach to spiritual direction is inclusive. I offer a welcoming safe space for anyone wanting to explore their spiritual life, whatever their background, circumstances and perspective. I find art, nature, poetry, music, etc, to be effective facilitators enabling directees to form a deeper communication and relationship with the sacred. I have a heart for those who wonder where they belong and who are facing major life transitions.
I am based in the Wairarapa / Greater Wellington. I am available to run retreats, contemplation and meditation days. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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Waikato
y preferred model of ministry is Mid-wife; coming alongside others to help bring to birth those things waiting within to be realised, named, embraced and expressed in life and ministry.
I believe every person and their journey is unique to them and I am committed to empowering people to explore in their own way, naming not only their experiences and insights but also how they wish to respond to the invitations and challenges therein. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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Northland
I’m passionate about joining others on their journey towards personal wholeness and a deeper intimacy with the Divine. I have a particular interest in spiritual companionship with leaders, staff and students in ministry, mission, training organisations, and those at life’s transitions ...Click here for full details and contact information
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Central Auckland
I love Eugene Peterson's description of a spiritual director as
'someone who will show up, and shut up - just to be there, an honest, prayerful presence with no responsibility to be anything other than what you have become in your obedient lifetime'.
I am probably better at showing up, than in shutting up, but I do seek to be the prayerful presence that listens with attention and intention to God, and the other, and find - in our conversation - that God is indeed at work. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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Bay of Plenty
I am a trained counsellor, so I am coming to you with a variety of skills, most importantly listening and following your lead. I use an approach of gentle questioning and use drawing therapy to help clarify, and find ways that allow you to get a clearer picture of yourself and your spiritual journey. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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Manawatu-Wairarapa
I love the process of Spiritual Direction. Journeying with someone to find the Divine along the path. I enjoy working with someone where they are at, and how they want to proceed. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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Christchurch
Spiritual direction is a sacred space. It is a chance for a person to share of themselves in a caring safe environment, a place where God is the unseen presence in all our discussions.
I was trained by Spiritual Growth Ministries and am an ordained Anglican priest and am currently the vicar of a small Christchurch parish. I love the privelege of sharing with others as they journey with God along the path of life. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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Christchurch
My approach to spiritual direction stems from the Ignatian tradition. I am trained as a spiritual director and a 'giver of the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises.
Ignatian Spiritual Direction is based on Ignatian spirituality, developed by Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556). The Ignatian Tradition leads the directee through a journey of uncovering their deepest desires and discovering who they truly are, that is, a person who is loved by God. The tradition also equips the directee with methods for identifying inner movements, and spiritual growth. These help the directee find the path of their own spiritual journey. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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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. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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Kapiti Coast
Spiritual Direction is a regular conversation in which you are supported to notice and attune to Divine presence active in your life. It is a place to explore the happenings of daily life through the lens of spiritual communion. God is always speaking. It is for us to learn how to tune into this communication. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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South Auckland
My approach to the Spiritual Direction relationship is one of openness, welcome and listening to you and to the Holy Spirit, walking the journey with you as you are led by God's grace. I have a particular interest in working with dreams, and creative expression through colour/drawing. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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North Auckland
My approach to spiritual direction is to listen to ‘your’ stories, to bring prompts or questions that may help uncover deeper meaning. I delight in offering a poem, image or activity which opens space for the insight that comes when we stop ‘thinking’ and let thoughts ‘come’. I trust that God hovers close. I draw each session into the sacred silence, listening to the voice/feeling/image/mood of God. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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North Auckland
Sometimes, we feel like we have hit a brick wall spiritually. Other times one's reality and theology no longer match, and we know something might need to shift; we might need to unlearn, let go, and learn anew. Perhaps these moments are holy invitations – invitations out of something, or invitations into something.
Perhaps part of that invitation is to seek out a spiritual director who will hold space, listen well to your story, notice, and wonder alongside, helping you to recognise and lean into the presence of God within you. Holding such spaces within spiritual direction brings insight and the potential for freedom. It is my pleasure to do so alongside my directees. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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Christchurch
Many of us experience seasons of questioning and even doubt in relation to aspects of our faith, meaning there can be times when we may find ourselves needing to go through a process of deconstruction and rebuilding. This can often be a confusing (or even painful) process. Accompaniment and spiritual companionship can be important when this happens in helping to maintain perspective, live with tensions and mystery, and searching for a sense of God in it all. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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North Auckland
I see life as a journey. We all go on journeys to destinations near and far. We experience new cultures and have wonderful adventures; we may do extraordinary feats or go to unexplored places. But for many of us our journeys go within ourselves.
- Who am I?
- What am I here for?
- Is there a God?
- Who is God?
- What is life all about?
I see it as a privilege to listen alongside you for movement of the Sacred. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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As a Spiritual Director I see myself is as a companion who walks alongside another at their own pace, helping them to discover the wonder and mystery of the Divine through the everyday moments of their life story. In a non-threatening and non-judgemental but welcoming quiet space online, deep listening is offered, where you can confidentially explore your relationship with the Divine, and notice, reflect, question and engage with the Divine.
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Manawatu-Wairarapa
I love having the privilege of accompanying others on their spiritual journeys, helping them to notice the God moments/grace moments and become more attuned to God's movement within their everyday lives.
It is my desire to create a safe space where we acknowledge God's presence and directees can feel listened to and feel free to raise whatever they need to grapple with, explore, celebrate or wonder without judgement.
To listen to another in such away, that I can assist them to hear what God might be saying, his invitations to them and their response.
When someone approaches me seeking spiritual direction, I like to invite them to come and meet with me first, either face-to-face or online, so that we can get to know a little of each other before deciding if I am the most suitable person for them at this time. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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Wellington
I welcome all people in their beautiful diversity of faith, sexuality, age, ethnicity and gender. And I'll be led by what you're bringing to the sacred space. We co-listen to the Spirit together. It's important to me that dignity of everyone is upheld, we all have stories, sometimes messy, sometimes confusing and we all still bear God's image. We can forget this in the midst of the hard stuff, so lets try to remember again together. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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East Auckland
Spiritual Direction is a sacred space where stories are honoured, not fixed, and where the individual's humanity is embraced as part of their connection to a loving God. It unveils the divine within everyday moments through quiet questions, reflection, and discernment. It is holy hospitality, welcoming the entirety of one's being – joys, hopes, fears, dreams, decisions and doubts. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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Presently accepting clients
Central Auckland
When you come to spiritual direction, you are opening yourself to hear God’s invitation to grow in the ‘unforced rhythms of grace’. As I walk alongside you on your faith journey, my role is to offer you the gift of safe space and deep listening. You bring your experiences, and together, we discern and celebrate the Sacred in the everydayness of your life. My prayer is that you grow in self-awareness and developing intimacy with God. ...Click here for full details and contact information
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
Upper South Island
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
North Auckland
Would you like to become more self-aware as you reflect on your life story and grow your awareness of the “Holy in the ordinary”? Do you notice the moments of grace in your life? Are you searching for practices that will help you connect more deeply with the Sacred? Would you like to respond to the inner invitations that arise in your life of faith?
Whether you're curious about Spiritual Direction or feel a strong pull towards it, this is a welcoming space for you. Your background and beliefs are not barriers; they enrich our collective exploration. You will be embraced with love and acceptance as we embark on this journey together. ...Click here for full details and contact information
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
I am not hierarchical and see myself as an experienced spiritual companion who would accompany you on your spiritual growth journey. I approach it with a non-judgmental strength based focus. My background has been in educational leadership and the dimension I find easiest to work with is the mind rather than the heart. However, connection with the heart is an aspect of my growth. I am well read and I am happy to work across cultures and across ages. My secondary school background means that I am very keen to connect with young people. I wished I had a spiritual director 20 years earlier. God at the centre, humour and family are very important to me. I have personally been encouraged and strengthened holistically by spiritual direction both in my personal life and in my work. ...Click here for full details and contact information
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
Christchurch
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
Wellington
Stepping into the regular practice of spiritual direction saved my faith by providing me with a safe space to take the lid off the box I had put the God of my limited understanding into. The God of my unknowing leaped out and embraced me! I’m so grateful that I had a spiritual companion accompanying me on that journey as I discovered that God is so much more expansive and gracious, loving and kind, than I had previously allowed. Having someone who listens with curiosity and compassion, and who continually provides a scaffolding of care and hope as I wonder, wrestle, rest, question, explore, discern, wander, re-orientate and wonder again, has been the missing piece to my faith. Finding a new language and way of being with God within the contemplative tradition reshaped and reinvigorated my spiritual life, deepening my relationship with God. Could God be inviting you into a similar journey? It would by my joy and privilege to accompany you.
My direction practice is called "Be". With the tagline 'Time for you, with God, accompanied by another.' ...Click here for full details and contact information
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
Christchurch
It is important to me that the directee is leading the way in what she/he wants to talk about and that they feel comfortable.
Together we are looking for God/the Holy Spirit/Jesus in the directees day to day life - in the good places and in the bad ones, in the happy ones and in the sad ones. The aim is to grow closer to the One they believe in, and to find comfort and strength to face life’s challenges. I believe that in learning how deeply they are loved they will also come closer to finding their True Self.
Sometimes images, art, stories, and the interpretation of dreams, etc. are effective tools I use in guiding my directees to find their own truth. If it feels appropriate, I draw on the wisdom of the Enneagram to help them understand themselves better. ...Click here for full details and contact information
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Presently accepting clients
Christchurch
I see Spiritual Direction as being a companion in accompanying others to become aware of what God is doing in and around them so that they can respond to, and partner with God in it and therefore take pleasure in seeing what unfolds.
Its being fully present to another through listening Incarnationally as they explore their life's journey, asking questions that enables self reflection, understanding and growth. ...Click here for full details and contact information
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
Otago Southland
It’s my great pleasure to share in people’s journey with God. I assume that God is already at work in your everyday life and my role is to listen, notice and wonder with you. I am endlessly amazed at how close God wishes to come. I also hope to provide a safe place to say what “shouldn’t be said”. It is important for people to have a place to question everything, ...Click here for full details and contact information
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Not presently accepting clients
Central Auckland
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
Bay of Plenty
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Not presently accepting clients
Bay of Plenty
As a spiritual director, it is my privilege to companion people as they reflect on the spiritual dimension of their lives.
The primary relationship in the room is between you and God, One-ness, Love, or whatever your language for the transcendent is. I desire to serve that relationship through deep listening, open questions and creative enquiry. I won’t tell you what to think or believe. Rather we look and listen together for the ‘sound of the genuine’ within your own soul and the holy invitations that are present in the midst of your ordinary life. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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.
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I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
Christchurch
Every person is a mystery, even to themselves! The mystery of the universe speaks uniquely and personally to each of us. I seek to offer space for another to feel free to give expression to this dynamic in their life - and listen to these movements of God with them and where it may be calling or guiding. I see my role as 'Accompanying' another. I've personally found that spiritual direction in my own life has been transformative and my desire is to 'hold space' for others to experience this freedom. Life is an ongoing deepening adventure. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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. ...Click here for full details and contact information
Rainer Maria Rilke famously wrote, “Be patient to all that is unsolved in your heart … live the questions now”. In Spiritual Direction I find myself forever moved by the humility and beauty of others’ questions, wonderings and celebrations about the holy in everyday life. Spiritual direction is a warm and curious companioning to help you trace your desire for the sacred, voice the questions, notice the invitations, the absences, and allow that which is painful to be held before God. I believe we are met by the grace and kindness of God in every circumstance of life and time with a spiritual director helps us to welcome this more deeply. ...Click here for full details and contact information
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
Taupo
We explore together where God sits with you today by offering a space to reflect and examine God's activity and your response. There may be the use of quietness, the psalms and art as entry points into your inner life - seeing how they mirror your experience. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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. ...Click here for full details and contact information
Presently accepting clients
Canterbury
The Te Wairua Mahi (the spirit who works)Course has formed my practice of Spiritual Direction, graduated 2020.
I provide safe space and deep listening for the directee as they share their everyday experiences and walk with Jesus, assist the directee to notice the divine in their lives and to go deeper in the areas that give them most joy.
Nursing background which enhances holistic approach to spirituality. ...Click here for full details and contact information
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
Upper South Island
Often when we begin, or when we are on our spiritual journey, we come across an ‘intersection of uncertainty’ - not knowing which way to turn, feeling the need for meaningful guidance. My sense is spiritual direction is, by its’ nature, a supporting guide on our pilgrimage to knowing and growing our spiritual selves. In spiritual direction you will find yourself chaperoned by a director and guided by the spirit of Love. There is deep listening, prayer, parables, dreamwork, enneagram and discernment in this sacred container. And, overtime, awareness of self and spirit develops; telling markers, symbols and associations announce their place, their nurturing value in your spiritual formation. Your uncertainty of which way to turn gains clarity, all the while moving you farther along on your spiritual journey. Slowly, and assuredly your meaningful relationship with God unfolds……. and it is good. ...Click here for full details and contact information
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Trained and offers supervision
Presently accepting clients
Kapiti Coast
Spiritual direction has been hugely formative for me, and I feel privileged to be able to offer it to others. I provide a warm and relaxed space marked by respect and perceptive listening. My prayer is that I can help someone to open to the Infinite Love that indwells us all, and to find unique responses to that Love. I might use scripture and other wisdom writing, images, poetry, silence, creative expression, movement and drawing. ...Click here for full details and contact information
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
Central Auckland
Abuse survivors, Chaplaincy, Climate Change, Creativity and Spirituality, Disability, Grief and Loss, Hearing God in nature, Interfaith, Mental Health, Motherhood/parenting and faith journey, Recovery from Trauma, Social Justice, Spirituality of ageing, Sustainability, The Environment, Treaty Partnership, Wellness, Women's spirituality
Deepening our relationship with God is the journey of a life time & perhaps beyond! My intention is to provide a warm, welcoming, safe space for you to explore and deepen your relationship with God. I find it a profound privilege to accompany people as they explore God's presence in their lives. Spiritual Direction is a sacred space for you and God. Sometimes it is only when we step out of the busyness of our lives and take time to talk about our relationships, work, whanau, hobbies, & passions, to someone who truly listens, that we begin to attune to and become more aware of God's presence within the extra-ordinaryness of our lives. ...Click here for full details and contact information
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. ...Click here for full details and contact information
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
South Auckland
Spiritual direction will provide you with dedicated time and a confidential space where you can plumb the depths of your personal/spiritual life at a pace that is suitable to you.
As spiritual director i consider my role as partnering with you as you traverse and travail the heights and depths of your personal/spiritual journey, encouraging you to notice and attend to the invitations and movements of the Holy amidst your life experiences and current journey. In Pukekohe or online ...Click here for full details and contact information
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
Northland
It is an absolute privilege being a Spiritual Director. I am an active listener and have a compassionate heart. I aim to companion my directees in their life's journey to discover who they are as people who are loved and accepted by their Creator. I endeavour to help them to listen to what the Spirit is calling them to and how God is communicating God's self to them in their daily lives. I do this though my open questioning and deep listening. ...Click here for full details and contact information
I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
Manawatu-Wairarapa
I see myself as a companion on another's spiritual journey, being present with the Holy Spirit and my experiences on my faith journey and being enriched in it by the other.
The image of the road to Emmaus is how I see my approach to spiritual direction, where the one seeking direction is Cleopas, I am the other disciple walking alongside and listening to Cleopas, with the Holy Spirit is present.
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I offer Spiritual Direction online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
Christchurch
I offer a confidential, non-judgemental and expansive space: to explore and ask questions; connect faith with your daily life (and vice versa); and deepen your relationship with God (the animating force of the universe, Source of Life and Love, and whatever reference you use). Open to gender inclusive God-concepts and language. Open to everyone regardless of church affiliation (or none).
I somewhat liken a spiritual director to a spiritual ‘life coach’: we help people explore and develop a meaningful spirituality or faith in the context of their life. Our time together is usually an hour once a month and is self-directed (what you do and don’t share and explore is up to you). My primary role is to listen and reflect back in helpful - and non-judgemental - ways. ...Click here for full details and contact information
