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What is Spiritual Direction and Companionship?
How Spiritual Directors and Companions Help You on Your Journey
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We Listen for the Essence
Discovering Your True Self and Your Place in the Universe
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SDI is working on initiatives in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice spaces.
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The Many Practices of Deep Listening
SDI supports spiritual directors and companions from across a diverse range of practices.
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For Those Seeking Connection
Considering Life's Biggest Questions
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Ascending The Mountain
The Hallmarks of a Spiritual Director or Companion
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Whoever you are and wherever you are from, you are welcome here.
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Our contemplative community is sustained by its Members. Anybody can become an SDI Member. Benefits include discounts on webinars and conferences, access to our flagship publication Presence Journal, and a public profile on our Find a Spiritual Director or Companion Guide.

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Find a Spiritual Director or Companion

Are you curious about finding a spiritual director to work with? Locating and interviewing a spiritual director is an important step in your spiritual journey. To aid your process in finding a spiritual companion, SDI offers this resource to help you locate and reach out to one of the 6000 spiritual companions listed in our free searchable database below. SDI’s desire is to provide an easy, inviting way for seekers to connect with a spiritual companion, to find a training program and/or a retreat center. Experience the contemplative gifts of deep listening and find a spiritual companion to work with today!

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Stories of Companions

Spiritual direction or companionship inspires people to experience authenticity in their lives as they connect with and explore the ground of all being, that deepest of truths which is beyond life and death and goes by many names, including God, and no name at all.

The spiritual companions of SDI share their stories on our blog. Receive nourishment, learn a new practice, and gain insight into the healing modality of spiritual companionship through one of the stories shared below.

2023 Forest Bathing Journey Highlights

Matt Whitney April 27, 2023

We recently gathered as spiritual companions for our Nature Immersion and Deep Listening Journey in the forests of North Carolina. Each day we engaged in Forest Bathing exercises led by Jeanette Banashak, had spacious time to rest, and quickly formed a nurturing community of friends. We had evening poetry vespers and song with Simon De

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Endorsements

“SD released me from dreaded dualism and binary theologies, it enabled me to be free to be myself and to value my gifts and abilities and to be confident in spiritual discernment.”
Paul Cannon Member for 10 years
“My very first seeker came to me once I finished my training. Eight years later she still meets me every month, rain or shine, in person or on the phone. She finds great affirmation through spiritual direction. Her journey inspires me!”
Maryann ShutanMember for 7 years
“I do enjoy this ministry. The presence of divine energy always is palpable to me and the directees. This is a precious and awe-inspiring experience.”
Susan Worrell
“My personal spiritual directors have been very good listeners. I like to talk things out.”
Nikki WilliamsMember for 4 years
“Almost allowing the flow to come from a fragility. I learn so much from the ones I am accompanying and the mistakes I know I make on the journey. Submitting to the flow of the Spirit has allowed me not to give up on myself and the gift that I might bring to the conversation. Seeing the growth and Joy in our engagement with each other is sooo fulfilling”
Monique Winn
“For me, as a long time therapist, I am relieved when I talk with my own director or interact with a directed because I can speak without fear of diagnosis and listen without having to diagnose”
Phil FarmerMember for 1 year
“I have had many spiritual directors over my life beginning in my twenties until a couple years ago. I also moved around the country a bit necessitating changes. I appreciated having someone to share my heart or insights with or to help me see things from a different angle.”
Joanne MichalikMember for 2 years
“Opened a whole new world of joys and also of pain”
Marita B HoffartMember for 15 years
“My experience is that when we are able to quiet our nervous systems, clear our minds by sharing our joys and challenges and questions, and come to a place of center, wisdom and guidance come.”
Cheryl LyonMember for 6 years
“Every time I offer spiritual direction I feel that I am standing on sacred ground. It amazes me first how an individual is willing to open up their spiritual life and story to me, and how the Spirit will move through our conversation.”
Corinne Cameron
“Having a teacher that knows their own divinity and one learns by transmission”
Imelda McCarthyMember for 4 years
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Digital Refuge – the SDI newsletter with links to our free gatherings, new offerings, the latest Encounters podcast, and a contemplative practice.

Listen – a quarterly contemplative publication with a reflection on spiritual companionship, poetry, and art.

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