Spiritual direction is about taking time to reflect on your life’s journey with someone who provides support and encouragement along the way. Spiritual Directors accompany people as they learn to explore a deeper relationship with their Higher Power or Spirit. Sometimes you simply need to talk with someone who is also on a spiritual path and can help you discern your path. That’s what a spiritual director does – gently and carefully accompanies you along the journey.
Spiritual direction is not therapy, counseling, coaching or advising. Spiritual direction is listening for and reflecting on the Spirit’s footprints in our lives. Mostly, Spiritual Directors listen and reflect back to you the wisdom of the Spirit within you. We want you to discover for yourself where you are being led.
Individual spiritual direction ordinarily involves a session – in person – about once a month for an hour. The person in direction will share whatever is real and important that is going on in his or her life.
Jon is an experienced Spiritual Director, having received his training through a two-year intensive program sponsored by the Upper New York Conference of the United Methodist Church. He also serves as a member of the Spiritual Director staff at the Consultation Center in Albany and has been an instructor for the Albany Catholic Diocese’s two-year Spiritual Director training program.
Spiritual direction is an excellent practice for becoming more aware of the Spirit’s presence, for savoring the goodness in your life, and for sorting out difficult life situation and choices.
The typical fee to meet with a Spiritual Director is $75 per session.
The spiritual director is concerned with the whole person, for the spiritual life is not just the life of the mind….it is the life of the whole person.
– Thomas Merton
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