Spiritual Direction and Spiritual Tradition

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Special Interest Projects relating to:
Spiritual Direction and Spiritual Tradition

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 particular traditions of spirituality and their relationship to spiritual direction:

• A Christian Earth-Centred Spirituality and Spiritual Direction by Sr Mary Maitland

• A Lay Woman’s Reflection on Marist Spirituality and the interface with Spiritual Direction by Bev McDonald

• Aspects of Samoan Indigenous Spirituality by Emanuela Betham

• Benedictine Hospitality and Spiritual Direction by Anne Cave

• Bridges for Evangelicals: Journeying into Contemplative Spirituality and Spiritual Direction by Elsa McInnes

• Buried Seed: Spiritual Direction and the Vineyard Movement by Fran Francis

• Camino Conversations - Pilgrimage as a Spiritual Practice by Kathryn Overall

• Charismatic Gifts and Speaking in Tongues by Christeen Mackay

• Contemplative Retreats: Exploring the Benefits to Spiritual Directors and their Spiritual Direction Practice by Samantha Head

• Cosmology and Spiritual Direction by Regina Daly

• Crone, St. Anne and Kuia by Pip Nicholls

• 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

• Ignatian Spirituality and Spiritual Direction by Lilian (Lian Bee) Koh

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

• Incarnational Ministry by Pam Toan

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

• Labyrinth Meditations by Katherine Opie

• Mysticism in the 21st Century by Sally Smith

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

• Post-Evangelicalism and Spiritual Direction by Nola Myles

• Praying With Icons by Andrew J. Brown

• Retreat in Daily Life by Clarissa Vicencio-Wickens

• Sabbath Rest as a Contemplative Practice by Petra Corbett

• Spiritual Direction and Companying in Sacred Spaces by Jutta Chisholm

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

• Suzanne Aubert: Foundress of the Sisters of Compassion by Sr Helen Farrelly

• Taizé Style Music and Contemplation by Christine Scott

• The Importance of Silence to Spiritual Direction by Anna Barker

• The Order of Preachers and Spiritual Direction by Anne Aalbers

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

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