LCDSD offers a flexible program for spiritual directors to review basics such as active listening, good practice, and learn new skills like creative responses. Refresh your practice with practice group to help grow and increase your confidence.

LCDSD offers a flexible program for spiritual directors to review basics such as active listening, good practice, and learn new skills like creative responses. Refresh your practice with practice group to help grow and increase your confidence.

If you’’re interested in training as a spiritual director, come to our open evening for Encounter, our 3 year Formation Programme in the Art and Ministry of Spiritual Direction

LCDSD offers a flexible program for spiritual directors to review basics such as active listening, good practice, and learn new skills like creative responses. Refresh your practice with practice group to help grow and increase your confidence.

As Spiritual Directors, we are often invited to sit alongside strong emotions - grief, shame, anger, joy - and the deep experiences that evoke them. This session explores how we relate to such emotions: which ones we’re most comfortable with, which ones we avoid, and what personal or theological influences may have shaped those responses. What images of God might our directees (or we ourselves) hold that repress the expression of emotion, and where might those images come from? We’ll consider the events in life’s journey - loss, injustice, love, celebration - that stir such feelings, and reflect on how to offer a safe, compassionate, and accepting space where these emotions can be named, held, and even welcomed.