THE ART OF SPIRITUAL WRITING
You can watch the recording of this session here.
A Dynamic and Vital Connection: Theology, Spirituality and Spiritual Direction On Saturday 8 November (10am-3pm, online) we will be exploring our explicit and implicit understanding of the interaction between theology, spirituality and spiritual direction. Our hope is to encourage a renewed interest in and commitment to the dynamic between our inner experience, scripture and the Christian…
https://youtu.be/LwfDKeCL_qQ Watch the video of the first part of ‘Shaping the Emerging Forum’ event on 30 June 2021. In this video (with times of where each section begins) 00.00 Opening Prayers – Alison McTier 08.55 Introduction to the Event including the Forum Vision – Nick Helm 13.45 Something of the Forum’s story so far –…
Support and Resource Group Event with David Runcorn: Telling it Slant Following Jesus could leave even St Paul saying, ‘now we see dimly’. It is altogether too wonderful and beyond human understanding to be reduced to questions and answers. We find ourselves in the quirky, even contradictory world of parables, led down apparent side tracks,…
Streams in the Desert – Julie Dunstan 2 February 2023 As part of the Spiritual Direction Forum UK’s ‘encouraging the creative development of this ministry within the church and in a changing world’, we offer this evening of reflection with Julie Leger Dunstan. To reach out to both the church and the world in these changing…
You can download the slides from Helen’s presentation by clicking on this text
‘The Bright Field – glimpsing God in everyday moments’ You can download the handout and resources list from Alison’s morning here. Alison MacTier’s morning of reflection ‘The Bright Field – glimpsing God in everyday moments’ was part of the Spiritual Direction Forum UK’s ‘supporting and resourcing spiritual directors‘. Saturday 15 April 2023, 10.00 – 13.00. Using the well-known…
Group 3. To advocate and encourage the creative development of this ministry within the church and in a changing world by
Group Members: Julie Dunstan, Chris Chapman, Julia Mourant, Naomi Gates and Sarah Lear
Group 2. To promote and protect good practice by
Group Members: Susanne Carlsson, Nick Helm, Chris Mason, Rachel Overton, Ruth Holgate

We desire

In the same spirit in which Spiritual Direction is conducted, we will endeavour to:

Create a Core Committee
Create three working groups to represent the three faces of the forum
The committee has been operating from the beginning. Current membership is: Nick Helm & Julie Dunstan (co-chairs), Ruth Holgate, Susanne Carlsson, Catherine Williams.
It has:
Group 1. To support and resource spiritual directors by
Group Members: Catherine Williams (Chair), Ray Andrews, Mary Flitcroft, Henriette Howarth, Peter Rainford & Vron Smith