Kaleidoscope

A comprehensive resource for understanding the various components of spiritual direction.

Early mystics of the Near East and northern Africa created the monastic traditions and were the first psychologists, exploring various practices to test the human capacity. In medieval times, spiritual direction was common in the Roman Catholic monastic traditions. It extended significantly into Protestant Christianity in the late twentieth century by predominantly white and affluent organizations. Spiritual direction has progressively become a global, multi-religious and interfaith practice.

This book is a comprehensive and concise text from a spiritual director of color, offering inclusive resources and tools to spiritual directors of many faiths and for people of diverse cultures and traditions. Core skills such a deep listening, hospitality, and discernment are presented with cutting-edge lessons on internal liberation, systemic trauma, and imaginative discovery. Spiritual direction is taught by more than 100 educational institutions and spirituality centers in the US alone, but typical curriculum generally does not reflect current cultural reality and growing diversity. This is a textbook for anyone who studies spiritual direction as both preparation for and deepening of their calling.

Auteur

INEDA P. ADESANYA is an American Baptist minister and spiritual director. Ineda holds masters degrees from San Francisco Theological Seminary and Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. She provides spiritual direction, retreats, an annual Spirituality and Hermeneutics Forum, and a weekly blog. She teaches at the Interfaith Chaplaincy Institute, and is a pastoral counselor and spiritual director for the Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, SFTS, and in private practice. She lives in Oakland, California.

Contenu

Foreword

Therese Taylor-Stinson

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Ineda Pearl Adesanya

Part I: Foundations
1 Soul Care: A Brief Historical Overview and Nature of Spiritual Direction

Maurice J. Nutt

2 Who Do You Say I Am? Reflections on the Presence of Spirit

Ruth Takiko West

Part II: Art of Spiritual Direction
3 Creating Authentic Sacred Space

Gibbon Bogatsu

4 Contemplative Listening

Ineda Pearl Adesanya

5 Knowing the Guest: Crossing Over and Coming Back

Daeseop Daniel Yi

6 The Gift of Discernment
Betty Wright-Riggins with Ineda Pearl Adesanya

Part III: Contemporary Matters
7 Discovering the Creative-Imaginative in the Spiritual Direction of Color Experience:
Storytelling, Creativity, Imagination, and Dreams

Naisa Wong

8 Internal Liberation

Therese Taylor-Stinson with Paula O. Parker

9 Social Trauma and Public Spirituality: A Womanist Relational Ethic of Spiritual Practice

Phillis Isabella Sheppard

Part IV: Professional Matters
10 A Feast of Losses:
Being Present While Experiencing Pain

Maisie Sparks

11 Getting My Side Hustle On: Developing a Spiritual-Direction Practice

Consuella L. Brown

12 Final Principle and Lasting Fundamental: Supervision as Pathway to Wholeness

Daeseop Daniel Yi

Afterword

Diana L. Hayes

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