Starting Spiritual Direction: A Guide to Getting Ready, Feeling Safe, and Getting the Most Out of Your Sessions - Softcover

Mabry, John R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1944769951 ISBN 13: 9781944769956

Publisher: Apocryphile Press, 2017

Synopsis

Are you about to start spiritual direction?Are you wondering just what you are getting into?Would you like to know how to get the most out of your sessions?In spiritual direction, two or more seekers enter sacred space to dream, explore, and discern a path toward personal wholeness and deeper intimacy with the Divine. Along the way, they talk about just about everything that happens in life—work, play, relationships, personal struggles—but always the question comes back to a central question: how is the Divine wooing us, calling us into deeper and deeper intimacy? This book is written specifically for new clients—sometimes called directees. If you are new to spiritual direction, then this book is written for you. In it you will find everything you need to know before stepping into a spiritual direction session for the first time. By the time you finish it, you will have a good grasp on what this ministry is about, what you can expect in a session, what you can expect from your spiritual director, and how to make sure you make the best use of your time.

About this title

About the Author

The Rev. John R. Mabry, PhD has been a spiritual director for nearly twenty years. He is the director of the Interfaith Spiritual Direction Certificate Program at the Chaplaincy Institute in Berkeley, California, and served as the editor of Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction from 1997–2003.

Edition details

• Publisher: Apocryphile Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1944769951
• ISBN 13: 9781944769956
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 108