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  • Start Here
    • About John
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  • Online Classes
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    • Begin Again Podcast
    • John’s Books
    • Book Club
    • Whiteboard Talks
    • Suggested Reading
    • Frameworks
      • What is Grave’s Spiral Dynamics?
      • The 5 Stages of Conflict
      • Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development
      • Bloom’s Taxonomy
      • The Dark Night of the Soul
      • Erikson’s Stages of Development
      • What is the Enneagram?
        • 1: The Reformer
        • 2: The Helper
        • 3: The Achiever
        • 4: The Individualist
        • 5: The Investigator
        • 6: The Loyalist
        • 7: The Enthusiast
        • 8: The Challenger
        • 9: The Peacemaker
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What is Group Spiritual Direction?

Spiritual Direction is the ancient practice of sitting with someone trained theologically and otherwise to listen with you to the events of your life to hear where the Spirit might be inviting you.

It transcends and includes pastoral counseling and what you might get over a good lunch with a close friend. Often, the director has a history of doing ministry themselves, is deeply immersed in the long and wide tradition of Christianity, and helps you get closer to the “abundant life.”

With twenty years of professional ministry, a Master of Divinity, and a Master of Theology (focused on Spiritual Direction and Developmental Theories), I hope I can be of service to you.

For some, spiritual direction 1:1 can be intimidating, so doing it with a few people feels more accessible. This is also one way to help a group decide where Spirit might be inviting them.

Only on Fridays.

Step 1.

Set up a time with me through the Calendly App.

Step 2.

We Zoom call our session, touch base, do silent Centering Prayer, chat through whatever the Spirit brings, do silent Centering Prayer again, ask “What is the next right step you believe God wants you to do?”

Step 3.

In the next week, I send a summary email to you about all that we talked through, including links to books, videos, and other things that might be helpful.

Step 4.

Go back to Step 1 and we can set up another time, at a frequency of your choosing.

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  • Philadelphia, PA
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