The Importance of Taking Off Your Hat While Offering Spiritual Companionship
One of the most liberating things about being a spiritual director is not having an agenda and just trusting the process
June 26, 2020
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Spiritual direction and 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.Â
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.
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Seattle’s CHOP – When Protest Becomes Community
Beyond the physical, CHOP is a rite of mourning. It is not a sad funeral. Rather, it is a boisterous and rowdy wake – a testimony to the will of those still alive, demanding to be seen and heard. It is the concretization of the ideals of Hope and Equity – a modelling of an alternate reality to the capitalist world.
June 17, 2020
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“I Am a Spiritual Midwife”
I am a spiritual midwife: I listen to your words and your body. I ask God to bring me images, sounds, smells and memories of what you are experiencing beyond your spoken words.
June 16, 2020
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A Statement from the SDI Coordinating Council
We condemn racism. We condemn violence. And we stand for strong, principled and, as needed right now, clear, compassionate and resonant responses from our leaders and our communities to the outrages we see around us.
June 7, 2020
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Mystical Hope – A Spiritual Practice
Hope is … an abiding state of being … Become a chalice into which this divine energy can pour; a lamp through which it can shine.
April 19, 2020
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Coronavirus and Human Frailty
We must go down before we can go up. We must die before we can live. Consider the scriptures, the wise teachers, or Life itself, our greatest teacher.
April 1, 2020
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Practice Challenge – A Place to Begin – in the time of COVID-19
Endings are always beginnings. Think of your life story as a circle instead of a straight line and you will see why. This practice, inspired by a poem by Christine Valters Paintner (read it all below), intends to open our awareness to the healing connection between what has been – and who has been – and what is.
March 21, 2020
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Praise Song for the Pandemic
When this has passed may we say that love spread more quickly than any virus ever could, may we say this was not just an ending but also a place to begin.
March 20, 2020
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Spiritual Direction Supervision – A Story about Forgiveness
He was crying – head down, shoulders moving with his sobs – and without knowing what was causing his deep pain – my heart broke. I began to pray for guidance. How to support him?
March 19, 2020
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A Practice of Pre-Forgiveness – Preparing for Unburdening and Healing
Blessings are a form of alchemy; the energetic structure of the words will change the structure of you as a person.
October 11, 2019
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What do Greta Thunberg, Leo Tolstoy, Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. have in common?
“Do you hear what I am saying?” This question is one for us all to discern on and see how it resonates.
September 25, 2019
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Desert Spirituality – “The Place of Great Undoing”
The desert invites us to go into the vulnerable places inside to face and to let go of what we find, to leave the God we know and meet a God we don’t know and can’t possibly imagine.
June 26, 2019
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