SDI Australia Community
Australians, Join the Global Movement of Spiritual Companionship!
Become part of Spiritual Directors International (SDI) — a worldwide community committed to deep listening, peace, and spiritual companionship. Join the new SDI Australia group!
Featured Event
Spiritual Direction in a Secular Age: Accompanying the Spiritual Seeker of Today
Spiritual companions from Australia are invited to join this free offering, hosted by SDI Australia Convener Jane Mahon. This session will feature a presentation by Dr Stephen Truscott.
Presenter
Dr Stephen Truscott SM PhDÂ is a Marist priest and the Director of the Fullness of Life Centre(Inc.) Perth, Western Australia. He is committed to the psycho-spiritual growth of people. Stephen assists individuals, groups and organisations through counselling, spiritual direction, professional supervision, retreats, organisational reviews and vocational assessment. He also provides professional development seminars and personal growth workshops including the Myers-Briggs, the Enneagram, dream work, organisational spirituality and Open Space Technology.
Register for This Free Event
Why Join SDI Australia?
- Potential to enhance your professional visibility through directory profiles.
- Connect with a global community of spiritual companions.
- Access free educational events and webinars.
- Enjoy discounts on courses, conferences, and resources.
- Participate in group spiritual practices and gatherings.
- Support a worldwide movement for peace, justice, and spiritual growth.
SDI Australia Convener
Jane Mahon
By profession, Jane is a rehabilitation consultant and the director of a national rehabilitation company supporting members of the Australian Defence Force living with injury and life disruption.
She teaches a form of spiritual resilience that is grounded, trauma-aware, and immediately usable. Her approach supports people to steady their nervous system, listen for wisdom, act with integrity, and return to the still point within.
After five years of spiritual direction and deepening contemplative practice, Jane entered Benedictine oblate formation with Benet Hill Monastery in Colorado in early 2023, making her oblation in late 2024 — a commitment to a fifteen-hundred-year-old rhythm of prayer, work, stability, and steadiness.
What she teaches now comes from all of it: the clinical training, the frontline years, and the wisdom of the mystics who worked out how to stay whole under pressure long before anyone called it resilience.
SDI Press - Books by Australian Authors
Philip Carter’s Ordinary Heaven (2024) is a quite extraordinary work that lovingly renders a lifetime of spiritual experience and reflection, honoring this very life and the sacred ministry of spiritual direction.
Spiritual Direction in Australia (2022) is an anthology contribution by ten different Australian authors. It offers writing and reflection from many researchers across a broad discipline of post-graduate studies in spirituality and spiritual direction.
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Ordinary Heaven: Exploring Spiritual Direction and the Journey of Human Life
Enhanced Plan $19.95$14.95Premium Plan $19.95$14.95Student Plan $19.95$14.95Standard Plan $19.95$14.95 -
Spiritual Direction in Australia
Enhanced Plan $19.95$14.95Premium Plan $19.95$14.95Student Plan $19.95$14.95Standard Plan $19.95$14.95
SDI Australia Survey
We are exploring monthly online gatherings for Australian members and friends of SDI, beginning in September. Our hope is to create a warm and thoughtful space for connection, mutual support, conversation, and ongoing formation in spiritual direction and spiritual companionship.
Before we shape these gatherings, we would be grateful for your input.
This short survey should take about three minutes to complete and will help us understand what would be most useful, meaningful, and supportive for the Australian SDI community.
