About Us
Rev. Teresa Cowan Jones
Working as a spiritual director since 1997, Teresa Cowan Jones is also an executive and personal coach, an ordained progressive minister, faculty for the Hesychia School for Spiritual Direction, and founder of The Compassion Coalition and the Breakthrough Leadership Institute, a transformational leadership and community development initiative.
She founded Sacred Space, a secular and interfaith community that builds skills of compassion through contemplative practices to fuel social justice, a community model replicated in 16 cities and 6 countries.
A fellow in the Harvard University's Spiritual Innovator Cohort and the Public Voices Fellowship, she is also author of over one hundred tools for effectiveness and Building Compassionate Communities. Teresa holds a B.S. in Psychology and a Master of Divinity with highest honors from Vanderbilt University (1996). A professionally trained coach informed by neuroscience and behavior change science, she has served as coach and faculty with state representatives of the Center for Progressive Leadership, a national nonpartisan leadership organization developing high-potential political leaders, Director of Spiritual Wellness at Canyon Ranch Resorts, and an instructor at the Center for Integrative Medicine.
Teresa is a certified facilitator in Compassionate Integrity Training (CIT) and was founding and lead coach for CIT at the Center for Compassion, Integrity and Secular Ethics at Life University. A former pastor and chaplain, she also developed and taught university courses in sociology and has twenty-seven years of professional experience in leadership development in both the public and private sectors. She can be reached at tc@tcjonescoaching.com.
Ethics
We abide by the ethics outlined by Spiritual Directors International.
As ordained ministers, we are required by law to report any and all suspected child abuse, dependent adult or elder abuse. Under AZ law, we must notify the appropriate authorities immediately if and when we suspect a minor, dependent or elder is being abused.
If a client is threatening serious bodily harm to another person or persons, we must notify the police and the intended victim. If a client is in danger of committing suicide, we will make every effort to get that client to safety.
Additionally, our Code of Ethics as a spiritual director requires that we work periodically with an experienced spiritual direction supervisor who will help us become better spiritual directors. In supervision, no names or specific identifying characteristics are shared.
Some general content from a session may be shared so that we may learn more about ourselves and grow as spiritual directors. The content in the case studies we present to our peer supervisors is kept in the loop of confidentiality. Clients, however, are not bound by any code of confidentiality. They are free to share anything from our sessions with another person.
