Seizing the Moment: Towards a More Inclusive Spiritual Direction

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This webinar is a gateway for you to explore more inclusive approaches to spiritual companionship, to offer welcome to folks from all walks of life, and to expand our own definitions of spirituality. Let’s explore together the changing landscape of spirituality, transcend boundaries, and imagine together new ways of offering the profound healing of our calling.

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A Five-Session Webinar

Seizing the Moment

It’s time to break open the boxes around our calling and extend our hearts to a hurting world.

Ask yourself these questions about your spiritual companionship practice:

If you notice any curiosity around these questions, this webinar might be for you...

This webinar is a gateway for you to explore more inclusive approaches to spiritual companionship, to offer welcome to folks from all walks of life, and to expand our own definitions of spirituality. Let’s explore together the changing landscape of spirituality, transcend boundaries, and imagine together new ways of offering the profound healing of our calling.

Dates

September 27, October 4, 11, 18, 25, 2023
11AM – 12:30PM PST 
2PM – 3:30PM EST 

Duration

7 hours (total)

 

Webinar will be recorded.

Diane Millis

Tara Owens

Rev. Dr. Felicia Black

Martin Jiminez

Laurie Wevers

Gabriela De Golia

with Matt Whitney

+ YOU!

Committed to Inclusivity

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As spiritual directors and companions, we’ve dedicated our lives and service to the awakening of all beings everywhere, including ourselves.

However, the truth is there are still barriers when it comes to helping others understand the benefits of spiritual companionship.

Those who come to us as clients already have some sense and confidence talking about their spiritual journeys. What about all those for whom the notion of spirituality can evoke images of rigidity, exclusivity, or even skepticism? For those unacquainted with our calling, our practice may be considered unserious, or inadvertently associated with a spiritual or religious institutional paradigm that they mistrust, and our narratives may fall flat.

Meanwhile, generations of people are moving through the world craving solace in an uncertain world, seeking connection and community where traditional spaces for this have dissolved.

We know the need for spiritual accompaniment, but we often default to prescribing our own medicine, without fully recognizing the ailments. Indeed, what we perceive as ailments may in fact be opportunities for us to listen, and if need be, change how we offer support. The role of spiritual directors and companions has never been more crucial, and yet our self-created boundaries often inhibit our ability to break through and be part of the transformational help we so desire to offer.

It’s time to break open the boxes around our calling and extend our hearts to a hurting world.

This webinar is a gateway for you to explore more inclusive approaches to spiritual companionship, to offer welcome to folks from all walks of life, and to expand our own definitions of spirituality. Let’s explore together the changing landscape of spirituality, transcend boundaries, and imagine together new ways of offering the profound healing of our calling.

We will learn from a diverse group of presenters how we might offer ourselves in service such that we invite, and accompany, the vast spectrum of human experience, better acknowledging the spiritual fluidity amongst us.

We will create new narratives for our work in the world. We will seek to unshackle our practices from labels and language, that we might better align with the contemporary heart’s yearning for meaning and connection.

As life-long learners, we should be continually asking the question - how do we invite more people into awakening and transformation? How do we help many others see that their lives - the joys and sufferings and everything in between - have deep meaning and are part of a greater story? Come join us for a five-part webinar in which we gather – in safety and curiosity – to ask this question for today, now, in this moment.

We are bringing presenters in our community with hearts for emerging generations and the dawning spiritual paradigms to facilitate a five part webinar series, in which we invite YOU, the SDI Community, to participate and play a role in continuing to explore new possibilities and new frontiers for our calling.

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In This Webinar Series, You Will:

Sessions

Session I (September 27): Diane M. Millis PhD: Accompanying Young Adults Through Their Spiritual Terrain

Session II (October 4): Rev. Dr. Felicia Black and Gabriela De Golia: New Contemplatives and the Wisdom of Emerging Generations

Session III (October 11): Tara Owens: Supporting the Role of the Spiritual Director When the Walls Come Down

Session IV (October 18): Martin Jiminez: Mentoring and the Spirituality of Young People

Session V (October 25): Laurie Wevers: Spiritual Direction as Community

When

The webinar series will run 4 consecutive Wednesdays: September 27, October 4, 11, 18, and 25th 2023 –  11 AM Seattle/Los Angeles, 1 PM Chicago, 2 PM New York, 11 PM London; Thursdays September 28, October 5, 12, 19, and 26th: 6 AM Hong Kong, 9 AM Sydney, Australia.

Find your own local time here.

But if that timing doesn’t work, you can enjoy the webinar any time you like.

Each session is recorded so you can watch at your convenience.

Presenters

Diane M. Millis PhD

Diane Millis serves as a teacher, author, spiritual director, and retreat facilitator. Her most recent book, Re-Creating a Life, published by SDI Press and named one of the best spiritual books of 2019, introduces approaches to deep listening and story tending. Diane aspires to cultivate spaces for belonging, inclusion, and equity through story. For more information, visit dianemillis.com and on Instagram @dianemmillis.

Tara Owens

Tara Owens is the executive director of Anam Cara Ministries and co-director of Together in the Mystery, leads the Anam Cara Apprenticeship, a relationally-delimited spiritual direction training, and teaches rabbinic-style Scripture study groups. The author of Embracing the Body and At Play in God’s Creation, you can connect with her around supervision or anything else.

Martin Jiminez

Martin Jimenez, MDiv is the Program Director for Pivot Northwest, a nonprofit that empowers young adults in faith communities around the Pacific Northwest. 

Rev. Felicia Black

Rev. Dr. Felicia Black is an ordained Interfaith/Interspiritual minister and professor of education. Her work focuses on the identity development of women from BIPOC communities. She most recently facilitated the 2023 New Contemplatives Cohort.

Gabriela De Golia

works at the intersection of spirituality and collective liberation, supporting people in honoring the divinity within and beyond to help usher a new world into being. Gabriela provides spiritual care at thebetwixtandbetween.com.

Laurie Wevers

Laurie Wevers is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and spiritual director living outside Washington, DC and works with clients at the intersection of religion and trauma. Laurie provides care and counseling at Willow Tree Wisdom and Therapy Services.

Matt Whitney

Matt Whitney is the Creative Director for SDI and will be the Zoom MC for this webinar.

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