Enrichment Session for Spiritual Directors: Identifying Your Own Voice as a Spiritual Director

Online Enrichment Sessions for Spiritual Directors

Sundays, 1:00-4:00pm EST – Zoom

February 23, 2025: Paul Burgmayer, Ph.D

Identifying Your Own Voice as a Spiritual Director

An afternoon of exploration into your spiritual direction practice

Ever find yourself questioning why you do certain things as a spiritual director? Is it habit? Training? Or simply what you feel is expected? Have you ever considered changing your approach? Maybe you’re drawn to being more contemplative.  Or less serious – allowing a bit more laughter into your sessions. Perhaps you’re interested in finding a different balance between exploring your directee’s prayer life and their everyday life. What if you tried breaking one or two of the rules you learned in training to see what new possibilities arise?

Your growth as a director doesn’t stop when formal training ends. During our time together, you’ll reflect on the evolution of your practice, compare notes with other spiritual directors, and explore adjustments to your practice that might uncover deeper connections with God and the person before you.

During our online session, topics to be explored include:

• How our training has shaped our practice
• Experiences since our training that have changed us
• Aspects of our practice that feel comfortable or uncomfortable now
• A look to historical spiritual direction practices for new perspectives on ours
• Considering alternative methods like the enneagram or focusing to explore a directee’s inner life
• Crafting a personal plan going forward based on insights gleaned from our discussions

Does this sound intriguing? Maybe even fun? If so, join us for an afternoon dedicated to exploring your spiritual direction practice. Let’s see what emerges with lots of introspection, discussion, and a little bit of learning.

Additional Session

April 6, 2025: Tricia Way

Listening as a Radical Act of Love, Healing, Justice, and Transformation

This session will offer Spiritual Directors an opportunity to join together in community and reflect deeply on the content, quality, and impact of our listening in the work that we do. Tricia Way, co-author of The Little Book of Listening and facilitator with JUST Listening, will guide us in thinking about what hinders our ability to listen presently and what can strengthen it. We will also contemplate the radical potential of listening from a place of presence with ourselves and another person, opening space for love, healing, justice, and transformation to emerge from the listening encounter. There will be time for personal reflection as well as large and small group discussions during our time together in this enrichment session.

Register here for April 6