FAQ & Help

Here you’ll find answers to our most common questions in regards to using the SDI website, and about a few changes with Membership and with Revista Presencia. To read the answer to a question, click the arrow to the right of the question.

Conexiones Rápidas

Afíliate o Renueva tu Afiliación

Become a new member of SDI or renew your current membership

My SDI Store Account

Access all your member resources and purchase history

Member Resources

Links to frequently-used resources and tasks across the website

SDI Membership

Instructions on how to log in to your account, renew your membership, and more.

Simply go to this page, and once you’re there, select the Membership level you are renewing, and purchase!

Memberships – SDI Companions

 

You can follow this simple tutorial to upgrade your current SDI Membership – Membership Upgrade Tutorial (sdicompanions.org)

Membership is the lifeblood of our organization! See our Benefits of Membership page aquí.

Click on “Mi Cuenta” under the MEMBERS tab. Fill in your username and password. Your username is your e-mail address you used to purchase your membership.

Click aquí to have your password e-mailed to you. If you experience difficulty, you may also email our Membership Services Team at [email protected].

Click on “SHOP” on our top navigation bar and it will take you to our SDI Store where you can find all our offerings. If you hover your cursor over the “SHOP” option, it will reveal a menu of options which can afford you a short-cut to what you want. We recommend browsing our store with curiosity – wandering and wondering. See what resonates.

Click on Become a Member and see the different tiers to choose which one works best for you.

Presence is available in digital format on our website for all Members. Enhanced and Premium Membership Tiers will continue to receive the print edition of Presence in the mail. The web edition is easy to read on-line. And the environmental cost is far lower when we don’t print and use snail mail. Going digital also means the ability to search to find the topics you want. 

Find a Spiritual Director/Companion Guide

Formerly known as the Seek and Find Guide, the Find a Spiritual Director/Companion Guide is our directory of over 6000 spiritual directors and companions, formation training programs, and retreat centers.

It’s still here. For clarity, we just re-named it “Find a Spiritual Companion” It’s improved to make it easier to use and to search with. And it still has listings for training programs and retreat programs as well as the most complete listing of spiritual companions in the cosmos!

A Public Profile in the ‘Find a Spiritual Companion’ Guide is available to Neptune, Jupiter, and Cosmos Memberships. Venus (Student) Memberships do not receive a Profile.

We’ve created a tutorial video that will walk you through all the steps towards making your profile display in the Guide.

YouTube video

 

We recommend you fill out all your important information pertaining to your companioning practice, but the followiing two fields are mandatory to make it display (you’ll find these under the ‘FASC Profile’ menu in ‘My Account’:

  1. The “Display Record” field must be set to “Yes”
  2. The “Display Name” field must have some text there (this should be your name, or the name of your Retreat Center or Formation Training Program.

We also highly recommend you double check the location fields (City, State, Country) which are located in the ‘SDI Contact Info’ menu of My Account. If there’s nothing there, then your record won’t be searchable by location.

A Public Profile in the ‘Find a Spiritual Companion’ Guide is available to Neptune, Jupiter, and Cosmos Memberships. Venus (Student) Memberships do not receive a Profile.

We’ve created a tutorial video that will walk you through all the steps towards making your profile display in the Guide.

We recommend you fill out all your important information pertaining to your companioning practice, but the followiing two fields are mandatory to make it display (you’ll find these under the ‘FASC Profile’ menu in ‘My Account’:

  1. The “Display Record” field must be set to “Yes”
  2. The “Display Name” field must have some text there (this should be your name, or the name of your Retreat Center or Formation Training Program.

We also highly recommend you double check the location fields (City, State, Country) which are located in the ‘SDI Contact Info’ menu of My Account. If there’s nothing there, then your record won’t be searchable by location.

Adding a photo really personalizes your profile on Find a Spiritual Companion Guide! Thankfully, it’s a simple task:

  1. In the ‘Members’ Menu in the top bar, select ‘My Account’
  2. In the left-hand column, select ‘FASC Profile’
  3. Click the purple button to ‘Add Image’
  4. Find a nice photo of yourself, and select it.
  5. Click the purple ‘Update’ button at the bottom of the page.
An SDI Profile is a unique webpage on the SDI website, containing your Find a Spiritual Companion Profile information (if you are a Neptune, Jupiter, or Cosmos Member). Here’s a video on how it works:

Sometimes it can take a little time for the database to update. If you made a change and after a few hours you don’t see it, contact our Membership Services Team at [email protected].

Just email us at [email protected] . We are happy to add categories that match your particular orientations.

Just click on “Find” in our navigation bar and you will be taken to our Guía de Búsqueda y Descubrimiento:. This is a searchable database of thousands of spiritual directors and spiritual companions who are available to work with you.

A spiritual director is a type of spiritual companion. We believe the term “companion” is broader and more inclusive, and points to the heart of the work, which is to walk alongside with others as friends, listening to and honoring the sacred stories being told. We recognize also that spiritual companionship can happen in a myriad of vocations and modalities, and so use the term as a more inclusive way of offering welcome to those who have not specifically trained as a spiritual director.

SDI Website

How to interact with the SDI website.

If you are logged in to the website with your SDI Account, simply click the arrow next to your name in the Navigation at the top of webpage, and select “My Courses”

Below is a video tutorial on how to access your Webinar or Course, 

We always respect your privacy. We never offer your information to a third party for sale or otherwise. If you are a member and you don’t want your name listed, then you can elect to keep it private.

Just email us on [email protected] o [email protected] . Or call us on 425-455-1565. Our office hours are 8:00am-4:30pm Monday-Friday (Seattle time). We look forward to helping you!

Technical Troubleshooting

How to diagnose problems with Zoom for webinars and courses.

We have created a page full of Zoom Tips and Troubleshooting, so please look that over before contacting our support team. For basic advice, please refer to the list below:

Best Practices

  • Connect with an ethernet cable for faster internet (as opposed to WiFi).
  • Make sure you have the most updated Zoom Software.
  • Use Google Chrome or Safari as your browser.
  • Quit high bandwidth programs not needed during live classes.
  • Have the Zoom phone numbers on hand as a backup connection (if available).
  • Use a comfortable headset during the session.
  • Remove or turn off sound generating devices (landline telephones, cell phones, fans).
  • Should you choose to be on video, check your lighting so that your face is visible and not shaded or backlit.
  • If you have any trouble connecting to Zoom during class, you can connect with our Membership Services team via the chat link in the lower-right corner of this webpage. Or, you can connect by email at [email protected] for additional support.

We send e-mail reminders to all participants of a webinar, usually a few hours before it begins. But if you want to plan ahead, you can set up a reminder in your Calendar. If you have a Google account or Microsoft Outlook, then you have free tools available to you. Click here to read the tutorial on how to create reminders in Google or Outlook.

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