Spiritual Direction and the Contemporary World

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Special interest projects relating to:
Spiritual Direction and the Contemporary World

Each participant in the second year of the Spiritual Growth Ministries Spiritual Directors Formation Programme engages in a project on an aspect the work of spiritual direction in which they have a particular interest.

​The following papers explore the relationship of spiritual direction to life in the contemporary world:

• Ambushed at the Movies by Jo van den Bogaert

• Busy Working Women and Spiritual Direction by Tracy Morgan

• Change - A Pamphlet Taster by Trish Harris

• Cosmology and Spiritual Direction by Regina Daly

• Cycling and Spiritual Experience by Andrew Saunders

• Divided No More - Journeying Towards an Undivided Life: The Life and Teaching of Parker J. Palmer and its Relevance for Spiritual Direction by Angelika Halstead

• Exploration of Connections between Spiritual Direction and Workplace Chaplaincy by Raewyn Perry

• From Cloister to Café by Ceridwyn Parr

• The Frozen Movies and their Potential Application to Spiritual Direction with Young People by May Wong

• God is in the Neighbourhood by Bruce Maden

• Holy Borders & Sacred Threads - Spiritual Direction Across Faith Traditions by Judith Wigglesworth

• Hopeful Resistance: An Enquiry into Contemplative Spirituality, Justice and Social Activism by Steve Tollestrup

• Images of God and Believers from a Muslim Background by Jan Balzer

• Incarnational Ministry by Pam Toan

• Integrating the Active and the Contemplative in the Marketplace: A Glimpse of the Weaving of a Seamless Garment by Lois Bellingham

• Issues in Spiritual Direction with Chinese and Korean Immigrants to NZ by Pauline Causley

• Moving Towards Nonviolence and Peacemaking - The Spiritual Journey by Sharon Corrigan

• Mysticism in the 21st Century by Sally Smith

• Offering Spiritual Direction as a Chaplain to Students by Dianne Stock

• Post-Church Australian spirituality, Crossfit, and the place of Spiritual Direction by Cassie Love

• Post-Evangelicalism and Spiritual Direction by Nola Myles

• Retreat in Daily Life by Clarissa Vicencio-Wickens

• Sacred Hospitality: Creating a Sacred Space for Those Outside the Church by Liz Maluschnig

• Sexual Addiction and Spiritual Direction (with later Addendum) by Andrew Connolly

• Spiritual Direction in a Digital Age: Helping People Connect with God in a Distracted World by Joshua Taylor

• Spiritual Direction and Gay Christians by Ron Larsen

• Spiritual Direction by Email for Missionaries in Isolated Places: An Initial Exploration by Margaret Tooley

• Spiritual Direction Through Faith Stages & Cross-Cultural Transitions by Adrienne Thompson

• Spiritual Direction, the Kingdom and the Emerging Church by Bruce Warwick

• Spiritually Directing LGBTIQA+ People of Faith by Amanda Pilbrow

• The Gift We Offer: Spiritual Direction & the Rebirth of Missional Community in Our Neighbourhoods by Kathy Viney

• The Impact of Skyping on the Spiritual Direction Relationship by Jenny Caston

• The Place and Nature of Spiritual Direction For Generation X by Di Woods (with Appendix 1 and Appendix 2 to be downloaded separately)

• The Poetry of Sam Hunt and the Practice of Spiritual Direction by Tess Ashton

• The Relevance and Engagement of Spiritual Direction for Generation Y by Murray Lucas

• Two Modern Christian Mystics: Simone Weil & Thomas Merton by Joyce Budenberg

• Women of the Millennium by Alison Williams

• Youth and Contemplative Spirituality by Leonie Moxon