The Spiritual Director as Anam Cara
The Celtic tradition offers us the wonderful notion of anam cara. In Gaelic the word anam means soul and cara is a word for friend. So...
Ethics & Good Practice in Spiritual Direction
I have been involved in a UK project developing an ethical framework for spiritual direction work, which also relates to spiritual...
Accreditation for Spiritual Directors?
At the moment, in England, Wales and Scotland, there is no form of accreditation for spiritual directors. Other countries such as...
Soul, Spirituality & Psychology
Soul is the most common translation of the Hebrew word nephesh and the Greek word psyche. The biblical meanings of these concepts are...
How to find a Spiritual Director
Finding a Spiritual Director has not always been that easy in the UK. As I discuss in my article Contemporary Trends in Spiritual...
Inner & Outer Journeying
In my earlier post on Spiritual Landscapes I describe the contemplative places where our inner and outer spiritual journeying can come...
Psychological Ways We Can Undermine Our Spiritual Transformation
In my earlier article on Struggling with Prayer: A Psychological Perspective, I looked at ways we can unconsciously resist the change...
Wholeness & Our Unconscious
God calls us to wholeness, through self-transcendence, to embrace our true selves in God - our deepest Ground of Being. Richard Rohr (a...
Knowing God: Wholeness & Self-Knowledge
In our contemporary world, we understand that psychological growth and spiritual growth are intricately linked. A mature relationship...
Contemporary Trends in Spiritual Direction
Today, around the world and across traditions, the ancient spiritual practice of meeting regularly with a spiritual director is growing...
