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.

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.

Gill Sewel remembers one directee who struggled to focus in her quiet time – so she sent her away with 50 postcards to use as prayer prompt. She is now thinking more about how her postcard collection might be useful in this ministry of spiritual accompaniment.

Roanna Quirke wonders how we can think about the weeds in our lives as unexpected beauty rather than just things to pull out.

An insightful and practical blog from Amy Boucher Pye from her Book "7 Ways to Pray" as she talks about sacred reading in Spiritual Direction.

Antonia our Community Warden has written a reflection for Easter and our work as Spiritual Directors

“… Then the Gardener asks, “and what would you like me to do here?” Tell him the work you’d like to see, or perhaps you use his other name of Teacher and ask him what needs to be done.