Upcoming events
Sacred Pause: Our Annual Examen
At the start of each new year, we make space as an LCSD community for a sacred pause in our ministry as spiritual companions. Through guided meditation, creative reflection and time to share together, we’ll prayerfully reflect on the year just past: what we have noticed in our practice, what we have learnt, and where we have encountered God in the ministry of accompanying others. From this place of attentive reflection, we’ll look towards the year ahead and listen for what God may be inviting us into as spiritual directors.
Gates of Grief
Traditionally, Lent invites us to enter the wilderness, confront our mortality, and sit with our brokenness. This year, we will navigate that wilderness using the framework of psychotherapist Francis Weller’s Five Gates of Grief. Weller reminds us that sorrow is not a disease to be cured, but a vital apprenticeship that expands our capacity for joy.
Visibility: Making ourselves available
This workshop invites us to explore a different way of thinking about visibility. We will consider how making ourselves visible is not about drawing attention to ourselves. Rather, it is about making ourselves available to those whom God may be inviting us to accompany. Through teaching, personal reflection, and group discussion, participants will be encouraged to discern practical and faithful ways of increasing the visibility of both their own ministry and the wider ministry of spiritual direction within their communities. This workshop is for spiritual directors who long to serve well, trust deeply, and make themselves available for the work God is already doing.
Members’ Event - Finding God's Feminine Side
In this LCSD Member session, spiritual companion and author Catherine Cowell will join Fiona Koefoed-Jespersen for a conversation on discovering the beautiful, but often overlooked feminine imagery for God in the Bible and an exploration of why our view of God has been so masculine, why that imbalance might be a problem and what we might want to do about it.
Members’ Event - Wisdom Calls: A Lent Retreat
A Lenten retreat for members. This is a sacred pause during Lent to reflect on the invitation of Wisdom in your life and your ministry.
Members Event- Treasures of the Dark: An Advent mini-retreat
Members only event: Advent Retreat