Grace Owens shares her experience with Encounter and the simple yet powerful act of listening.

Rev. Sheena Gabriel reflects on her experience as a Unitarian Minister on the Encounter Course.

Join Dawn Pointing on a journey of rediscovering the kindness of God during dark times. Through a simple chair and a repetitive song, she found solace and strength in the quiet presence of divine love.

Rev. Karen Wellman offers practical guidance on engaging the body in prayer by exploring various prayer postures. This approach encourages a deeper and more embodied experience of prayer.

Mary Monfries invited us to stand at the gate of the year to reflect on where God has led us and what we might be being invited into.

Mirjam Ngoy-Verhage reflects on a profound encounter with a Black Madonna statue in the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Liesse in rural France. She observes how this image challenges perceptions of God and the way people interact with divinity. The presence of a Black Madonna, representing Mary or God as a black woman, is significant, especially for her daughter, who can relate to the image as a young, black woman of dual heritage.

Nick Tatchell reflects on the climate crisis and his response to Annette Kaye's Developing Direction workshop.

Karen Wellman's reflection on her new garden in the Cotswolds and her work in spiritual direction beautifully draws parallels between gardening and spiritual direction.

Fiona Koefoed-Jespersen's latest blog post explores the narrative of goodness and how it can suck us dry.

Ven Catherine Pickford, Archdeacon of Northolt, talks about the importance of spiritual direction in her life journey. She shares how her spiritual directors have helped her through key moments.

Fr Jack Noble reflects on his his time as a Encounter student as he trains as a spiritual director along side being a parish priest.

Following a family interfaith wedding, Nicola Smedley reflects on the gift of difference – both in our lives, and in the Spiritual Direction relationship.

Neil Evans reflects on his journey with God as he retires and steps down as a trustee of LCSD.

Charles Hippsley talks about the fear we have when using silence with our directees.

Anna Bosatta talks about how she connects with her body as a sacred place and a re-examine her relationship with it.

Beki Rogers encourages us to look at our journey with our directees and review, celebrate and discuss what has happened over the last year.

Dr Antonia Lynn reflects on how we as spiritual directors can resist the urge at the beginning of the year to fix our directees.

Maria Manuela Silva reflects on a longing for light as we head into Advent. She asks how we might use the O Antiphons to dwell more deeply.

Andrew Cornish finds encouragement in Psalm 47 in the midst of these unstable times.

Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, has said that the Church has two main jobs: teaching people to pray, and teaching them to die. What role does spiritual direction have in this?