BLOG
Tag
- Advent
- Agreements
- Antiphons
- Art & Spirituality
- Beginnings
- Best Practice
- Body
- Book review
- Celebacy
- Climate
- Conversation
- Creative Exercises
- Creativity
- Difference
- Doubt
- Dual Relationships
- Ecology
- Embodiment
- Encounter
- Examen
- Faith Journey
- Faith Shift
- Feminine Divine
- First Sessions
- French Pantoum
- From our community
- Gate of the year
- Grief & Loss
- Growth
- Heart of Christ
- Holy Saturday
- How to
- Image of God
- Inspiration
- Lament
- Language
- Lectio Divina
- Listening
- Malcolm Guite
- Margaret Silf
- Mary Oliver
- Meet
- Mystery
- Neurdiversity
- New Year
- Paschal Mystery
- Peace
- Pilgrimage
- Play
- Poem
Spiritual Direction in a Climate Crisis
Nick Tatchell reflects on the climate crisis and his response to Annette Kaye's Developing Direction workshop.
You do not have to be good
Fiona Koefoed-Jespersen's latest blog post explores the narrative of goodness and how it can suck us dry.
Our life journey with Spiritual Direction
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.
The gift of difference
Following a family interfaith wedding, Nicola Smedley reflects on the gift of difference – both in our lives, and in the Spiritual Direction relationship.
Trusting the Silence
Charles Hippsley talks about the fear we have when using silence with our directees.
My body: sacred space?
Anna Bosatta talks about how she connects with her body as a sacred place and a re-examine her relationship with it.
Examen your practice
Beki Rogers encourages us to look at our journey with our directees and review, celebrate and discuss what has happened over the last year.
Chaos & War: Peace & Encouragement
Andrew Cornish finds encouragement in Psalm 47 in the midst of these unstable times.
National Mourning
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?
Playing in Prayer
What, can we, as directors, offer if we begin to discern that someone’s prayer life might be trapped in a cage of “shoulds”?
Come and See: Postcards and Spiritual Direction
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.
Weeds or Wild Flowers
Roanna Quirke wonders how we can think about the weeds in our lives as unexpected beauty rather than just things to pull out.
Sacred Reading and Spiritual Direction
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.

