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.

Supplementary workshop on safeguarding in Spiritual Direction. Build on Level 1 training with focused, practical insights.

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

 In this session, we’ll explore how to help directees discern and live into a personal Way of Life that aligns with their values, vocation, and season of life.

We’ll reflect on ancient monastic wisdom as well as contemporary applications of this practice. You’ll learn how to hold space for discernment, structure, and sustainability in Spiritual Direction. This workshop is ideal for Directors who want to support others in crafting a life-giving rhythm that holds both structure and grace.

Those we accompany in spiritual direction come with myriad images of God—images gifted to them, images imposed upon them, images that bring deep comfort, and images that create tension or struggle. God is rock, shepherd, father, mother, spirit, source-of-all-being—and sometimes God is “I don’t know.” In direction, we are invited to hold these shifting divine imaginings with reverence, compassion, and curiosity.

This session explores how Ignatian spirituality, rooted in desire, discernment, and deep encounter, can enrich the practice of Spiritual Direction. We’ll draw on insights from neuro-theology and the science of identity formation to reflect on how God works through our minds, emotions, and embodied experiences.  Drawing from the wisdom of Ignatius of Loyola and the Exercises, we’ll consider how practices like the Examen, discernment of spirits, and imaginative prayer can foster authentic encounters with God in daily life. We will also explore how desire can be more than a personal feeling, it is a spiritual compass that leads us into God’s transforming love.

A series of three interactive and reflective sessions, aimed particularly at graduates of Encounter, but open to all community members, that seeks to:

1. reground new (or weary!) spiritual companions in their practice,

2. empower you to develop your unique charisma,

3. reconnect you with a vision for spiritual direction in the church and wider community.

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.

Dementia is part of every community, and as Spiritual Directors, we are increasingly likely to encounter its impact; whether walking alongside someone with advancing dementia, or accompanying family, friends, or caregivers as they navigate shifting realities. This workshop invites us to explore the changing patterns dementia brings, both in the lives of those we accompany and in our own understanding of presence and connection.

Supplementary workshop on safeguarding in Spiritual Direction. Build on Level 1 training with focused, practical insights.

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.