Group Spiritual Direction

Suggested Donation: $60 per month

Group meets on the second monday of the month, from 7-8:30pm on Zoom.  Once you register, your confirmation email will include the Zoom information. 

What is Group Spiritual Direction? 

Group spiritual direction is an approach to spiritual direction led by a spiritual director who facilitates listening and prayer in a group with as small as three or four people or as large as 10-12 people.  All share a common goal of listening to God and each other. 

Spiritual Direction is the art of Christian conversation and listening carried out in the context of a trusting relationship. A spiritual director is a faith companion who listens to your life stories with an ear for discerning the movement of the Holy Spirit in your life. God is the true guide and director, while the human spiritual director is like a coach or midwife, assisting you in noticing and responding to the inner voice of God. The director will focus attention on your spiritual experience. Therefore, the director will not try to analyze or fix you, even though the conversations may involve deep personal sharing and exploration of your life. Spiritual Direction is a conversation of the heart and uses all our human faculties (intuition, emotion, imagination, senses, and intellect) to discern God’s presence.

How is group direction different from one to one spiritual direction?

Instead of the one to one dynamic in individual direction, group spiritual direction involves a spiritual director who facilitates listening and prayer with a group of people. This dynamic builds upon how the Holy Spirit works uniquely through different parts of the body of Christ.

What Group Spiritual Direction is not: social time, therapy group or Bible study. 

The Benefits of Group Spiritual Direction

Like in individual spiritual direction, group direction enables us to know God more deeply and experience the love of God in community. In group direction we can learn from each other’s spiritual journeys, observe how God works uniquely in our lives and to remember that we are not alone in our doubts, worries, and fears. Sometimes our discomfort is an invitation to a transformative life.