Services

Individual Spiritual Direction

Individual spiritual direction ordinarily involves a private meeting – in person, by telephone, Skype or Zoom – about once a month for an hour. The session usually begins in silent meditation as both director and directee collect themselves in the present moment. Then the person in direction will share whatever is real and important that is going on in their life. Together the directee and director explore what life’s invitation to the directee may be.

Spiritual direction is an excellent practice for becoming more aware of love's presence, for savoring the goodness in your life, and for sorting out difficult life situations and choices (discernment). Spiritual direction centers around presence, prayer, meditation and the holiness of everyday life. Contact us to schedule a session if you would like to try it out.

Group Spiritual Direction

There are times you may want to experience spiritual direction in community. There are a variety of ways to do this. If you have a group (3 or more) who want to meet together for spiritual direction, give us a call and we’ll talk over some of the options. No matter which form you choose, group spiritual direction involves everyone in the group sharing honestly, listening to others’ sacred stories, and honoring paths that may be quite different from your own.

One incentive for forming a group and finding a spiritual director is that it generally costs less since the financial investment can be split among group members.

Training Program for Spiritual Directors

Teresa Blythe, author of Spiritual Direction 101: The Basics of Spiritual Guidance is now teaching prospective spiritual directors on an individual basis with her new Apprentice Training Program. This former director of the Hesychia School of Spiritual Direction in Tucson has designed a flexible 19-session program that is done at the apprentice's own pace and schedule, and includes the many hours of practical experience and supervision needed to effectively begin a spiritual direction practice. The program is offered to a select few who show the gifts and spiritual maturity needed to be a spiritual director. Graduates receive a Certificate of Completion at the end. Contact teresa@teresablythe.net for a complete curriculum outline.

Compassionate Integrity Training

Compassionate Integrity Training (CIT) is a 10-week program for building the skill of compassion for self and others as we engage in complex systems. Compassionate Integrity Training is a program of the Center for Compassion, Integrity and Secular Ethics (CCISE) at Life University. and is now used as the protocol of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Mahatma Gandhi Institute for Education, Peace, and Sustainable Development's co-sponsored YES Peace program. Contact Teresa at tc@tcjonescoaching.com to sign up for the next class, offered both live and online.

Contemplative Education

Engage with our learning community by attending one of our webinars, retreats, consultations, workshops, presentations, small groups, or online discussions. Keep up to date with our current offerings by signing up for our newsletter.

If one of the following topics interests you, contact us to customize an event for your community. We have led hundreds of educational events over decades on the following:

Ways of Contemplation, Meditation, and Prayer

Relevant Church: The Modern Call on the Christian Life

Creating Compassionate Communities (presentation at World Parliament of Religions)

Self-Compassion: Discovering Authentic Identity & the Foundation for Self-Care

The Science of Motivation and Human Change

Collective and Transformational Leadership

The Meta-Skills of 21st Century Work

The Leader’s Relationship with Self

Transformational Practices for 21st Century Living

Emotionally Intelligent Leadership

Self-Identity and Development

Managing Stress, Learning to Relax

Practicing Mindfulness: A Key to Peace and Effectiveness

Preventing Burnout in Leadership Positions

Developing a Vision, Realizing a Mission

The Science of Compassion

A Woman’s Worth Retreat

Starting a Sacred Space in Your Community

Renewal: A Small Group Model for Churches

Spiritual Direction and the Church

The Skill of Compassion: How We Build It

Feminine and Masculine Spirituality in Spiritual Direction

Spiritual Direction and Gender Identity

Vocational Discernment

Sometimes people come to spiritual direction for one specific purpose: to discover their life's work, whether that means a job in the marketplace, working in one's home, or a new purpose in retirement. A spiritual director can help you sift and sort through facts, needs, strengths, feelings and intuition in order to come to some clarity around your life’s work. We ask the important questions that help you envision where and how you are being invited into action in the world. We will point you to time-tested traditions and principles that have helped many people throughout the ages discern their vocational call. And although clergy, members of religious orders, missionaries and other persons in ministry have long been helped by vocational discernment, it is not a practice limited to people called to full-time religious work. Everyone is called to a good work in the world–office managers, dentists and doctors, lawyers, store clerks, housekeepers and caregivers, etc. and we have helped hundreds of people find where their joy meets the world's needs.