Offering spiritual direction and resources for spiritual growth
 
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Group spiritual direction

Contact me to facilitate group spiritual direction sessions at your parish or meeting place.  Possible themes to choose:

A. Covenant Discipleship Group

  • Methodists invented this form of spiritual support.
  • Each member creates personal goals for spiritual growth.
  • Members present these to the group as their covenant with God.
  • Each month, one or two people share in-depth how they are living their covenants, difficulties encountered, breakthroughs, graces received, etc.
  • Others respond with encouragement, clarifying questions, leading questions.
  • Members maintain a bond of prayer to support each other between meetings.
B.  Seeking Balance through Benedictine Spirituality    
  • Explore Benedictine Spirituality through prayer, readings, and discussion.
  • Topics include Lectio Divina, Rule of St. Benedict, Liturgy of the Hours, Work and Prayer (Ora et Labora), Stewardship of cultural and natural resources.
  • Meet regularly for prayer and discussion.
  • Alternate with meetings to share progress and challenges in seeking balance in everyday life.
C.  Integrating Spirit, Body, and Nature        
  • Group meets regularly for prayer, light yoga, discussion, possibly nature walks.
  • Study ways we become dis-integrated and ways to integrate vital dimensions of ourselves, including our connections with human community and the natural world.
  • Study Christian and Buddhist teachings on integration, growth toward wholeness, right relationship.
D.  Remaining Centered in Times of Transition or Stress