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  • April 2026

  • Mon 13

    Spiritual Companioning On The Margins – A Six-Part Series

    April 13 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am PDT Recurring
  • Wed 15

    The Poet as Spiritual Companion 2: Rainer Maria Rilke as soul-companion with three luminous women: Lou Andreas-Salomé, Etty Hillesum, and Marina Tsvetaeva

    April 15 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am PDT Recurring

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  • Wed 22

    SDI Educators Gathering – April 2026

    April 22 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm PDT

    Join us on April 22nd, 2026, from 11 am to 12:30 p.m. PST for the Spiritual Director Educators Gathering. This SDI Educators Gathering will explore contemporary transformational processes and themes that have not always been fully integrated into past spiritual direction training programs. The Center for Engaged Compassion (CEC) has identified three processes of transformational

  • Thu 23

    SDI Canada Gathering – April 2026

    April 23 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am PDT

    The Enneagram as a Listening Lens: A framework for noticing patterns without typing others Andrea Calvert guides us through using the Enneagram to detect the patterns we miss in our busy day to day lives. Event is open to all spiritual directors and companions in Canada. Facilitated By Andrea Calvert hales from Ontario. She is

  • Thu 23

    SDI Europe Gathering – April 2026

    April 23 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm BST

    We are delighted to invite you to our second SDI Europe community gathering, facilitated by Kate Keefe, Rev. Seifu and Rev. Soko Mackay. If you are a spiritual director or spiritual companion living in or rooted in Europe, we warmly welcome you to join us this April. This gathering is an opportunity to come together

  • May 2026

  • Thu 7

    SDI 2026 Online Conference – The Light of Spiritual Direction and Companionship

    May 7 @ 7:30 am - May 9 @ 4:30 pm PDT
  • Wed 27

    Wisdom of the English Mystics: An SDI Pilgrimage

    May 27 @ 8:00 am - June 2 @ 5:00 pm PDT
  • June 2026

  • Wed 17

    SDI LGBTQIA+ Gathering – June 2026

    June 17 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am PDT

    This one hour session is for those that identify as This session is for those that identify as LGBTQIA+, including nonbinary, gender fluid, genderqueer, bi-gender, and agender spiritual directors and spiritual companions who would like to connect with other LGBTQIA+ spiritual directors and spiritual companions.. (Please note this meeting is intended for those who identify […]

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