Spiritual Direction — Listening for Spirit Through Exile & Change

DESCRIPTION

This offering is spiritual direction, not therapy, coaching, or astrology.

Spiritual direction is a practice of attentive, contemplative listening, sitting with lived experience and learning to notice how Spirit is moving, speaking, or inviting our response.

These sessions are offered as an optional add-on for participants of Exile & Return, and are interfaith, non-doctrinal, and new-paradigm in orientation.
Instead, you are accompanied as you listen more deeply to call of Spirit. You are not advised, analysed, or told what to do.

WHAT THESE SESSIONS SUPPORT

Spiritual direction may be especially supportive if you are:

• living through exile, loss, or rupture
• holding grief, anger, or confusion toward Spirit or the sacred
• discerning next steps after something has ended
• seeking meaning rather than answers
• longing for a quieter, truer relationship with Spirit
• rebuilding trust after spiritual or institutional harm

We release certainty, to anchor into discernment, presence, and relationship.

WHY I CAN HOLD THIS SPACE

I come to spiritual direction as a trained listener and contemplative practitioner, with long experience sitting alongside people in grief, transition, and spiritual rupture.

My background includes formal mentoring in Spiritual Direction (Spiritual Directors International – New Contemplatives), alongside study and practice in grief tending, counselling skills, dreamwork, ancestral lineage healing, spiritual ecology, and multiple religious and mystical traditions.

My approach honours a pluralistic understanding of the sacred, what I often refer to as Spirit or GodS, welcoming many names, stories, and ways of encountering the divine.

I do not interpret Spirit for you. I sit with you as you learn to listen.

HOW IT WORKS

• 50-minute private sessions on Zoom
• Held in a contemplative, listening-centred format
• Scheduled at a mutually agreed time
• Camera on or off — your choice
• Completely confidential

This is not therapy, pastoral oversight, or crisis support.

CHOOSE YOUR OPTION

OPTION 1 — SINGLE SESSION

A one-off spiritual direction session for those who want to explore a question, experience, or moment of discernment.

£40
One 50-minute session

OPTION 2 — THREE-SESSION DISCERNMENT ARC (Recommended)

Spiritual direction often deepens over time.
This option offers a gentle arc of accompaniment, allowing space for listening, reflection, and integration between sessions.

Sessions can be used across the Exile & Return journey or shortly afterwards.

£105
Three 50-minute sessions
(£35 per session)

There is no obligation to “decide” anything by the end — this is simply a held space to listen more fully.

AVAILABILITY

To keep this work spacious and ethically held, spiritual direction sessions are offered in a limited number for this cohort.

IMPORTANT NOTES

• Available only to participants of Exile & Return
• This is a reflective, discernment-based practice, not advice-giving
• Please seek appropriate professional support for acute crisis situations.

FAQ

Is this religious?

No, this offering is interfaith and non-doctrinal.

Spiritual direction here is about listening, discernment, and relationship with Spirit, however you understand or name that. You do not need to belong to a religion, and no belief system will be imposed.

People from many backgrounds are welcome, including and not limited to religious, spiritual-but-not-religious, mixed-faith, questioning, or post-institutional.

Do I need a faith background?

No.

You do not need a defined faith, theology, or spiritual practice to take part.
This work meets you where you are, including uncertainty, rupture, or loss of faith.

Spiritual direction is about attention and presence, not certainty or doctrine.

Will you tell me what Spirit is saying?

No.

I do not interpret Spirit for you or give answers.
My role is to sit with you, listen carefully, and help you notice what is already stirring, asking, or inviting response within your own experience.

Is this therapy or counselling?

No.

This is a contemplative, discernment-based practice.
It does not replace therapy, pastoral care, or crisis support.