I have been involved in a UK project developing an ethical framework for spiritual direction work, which also relates to spiritual accompaniment, spiritual mentoring and spiritual guidance. It was put together in consultation with many other publications of guidelines of good practice and ethics from across the world, and across spiritual disciplines, as you can see detailed in the appendix. The project has paused for a while. So, I post here the work I have done on ethics a

At the moment, in England, Wales and Scotland, there is no form of accreditation for spiritual directors. Other countries such as Australia, New Zealand and Ireland do have accrediting bodies that can set standards and offer some form of public accountability. In Canada spiritual directors have a path of certification by a state regulating body. In England, however, anyone can call themselves a spiritual director, whether they have received some form of training or not. Altho