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2022 New Contemplatives
The New Contemplatives Initiative seeks to encourage, understand and engage with spiritual directors and companions in the first half of their lives (aged 40-ish or under) by offering a container for vocational support and development.
With our conference theme of “Engage,” these New Contemplatives will play a key role in helping SDI create a truly inter-generational community.Â
Please Help Support Our New Contemplatives Initiative
Generous donors make the New Contemplatives program possible.
More donors are needed to grow the program. Please donate in the secure SDI Store to keep this initiative thriving. Thank you for anything you can do to help support the next generation of spiritual directors and companions.
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.
Enrique Cintrón
Enrique Cintrón is a spiritual director, digital minister, and writer based in Denver. They work primarily with queer and trans folks, helping them to reconnect with spirituality.
Eric Evans
Eric Evans is a spiritual director and composer whose passion is accompanying people in the unfurling sacredness of their respective Realities.
Justin Ferko
Justin Ferko is a gay interspiritual Spiritual Pathfinder, inviting folks into the sacred spaces of thresholds and their relationship with their Higher Power and the natural world.
Joseph Gabrielson
Joseph Gabrielson is a Life Coach and Spiritual Teacher, and is the founder of Divine Heart Ministry. He also has a focus on special needs children, and lives in Edmonton, Alberta.
David Brick
David Brick dances, plays, loves trees and climbing them, works as a Personal Care Attendant, and is in his final year of the Aleph Ordination Program’s training for Jewish Spiritual Directors.
Jodi Lammiman
Jodi Lammiman is an eco-spiritual director whose work explores the intersections between personal change and systems change, and is informed by the rhythms of the natural world.
Wanjiku Mwangi
Wanjiku J. Mwangi is a Teacher and a Spiritual Companion from Kenya. She is the Founder and Lead Teacher at Integrated Living.