Taking time to review your experience of spiritual direction can deepen self-awareness, renew your relationship with God, and clarify the invitations ahead. This reflective guide helps directees and spiritual directors explore the past year’s spiritual journey, assess the role of spiritual direction, and discern next steps with honesty and grace.

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?

What, can we, as directors, offer if we begin to discern that someone’s prayer life might be trapped in a cage of “shoulds”?

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.