This service is offered by volunteers from the Network of Spiritual Companions in the Diocese of Coventry.

 The Spiritual Companions in our network offer their time in line with a shared Code of Practice

Spiritual Companions offer a one-to-one listening relationship to help you attend to your life of prayer and relationship with God, giving space to explore questions such as "How is prayer?", "Where is God in your current circumstances?" or "Where do you feel most connected to Love?". 

Spiritual Accompaniment is a space to explore your deepening life with God, and is also a safe place to explore doubts and or faith deconstruction. 

All of us meet regularly with our own companions. And for most of us, it has been such a positive experience over time for us that we have chosen to offer ourselves as companions to others.

We've experienced the power and transforming effect of being listened to and perhaps asked questions that have helped us go a bit further in our spiritual journey.

We have been trained in spiritual accompaniment and are required to work in with our code of practice as well as have up to date safeguarding training and DBS certificates.

Meetings are usually at a quiet location chosen by the companion. Sometime that might be their home, or a quiet area of a local church. Some of us decide to meet while walking over the local fields and woodland (weather permitting!). 

Meetings are generally between 60 and 90 minutes.

Meetings are arranged between once a month to once every 12 weeks or so. It is very rare for meetings to be more or less frequent than that.

Where and when and how often meetings are held is something that pilgrims and companions decide together and can change over time.

We will try to match you with a companion that has space to meet a new pilgrim and that we think might be a good match.

The first step will be to send your details to a potential companion. If that companion thinks that they might be a good fit for you, they will contact you directly and arrange an initial meeting.

At that initial meeting both you and your companion will separately decide if they want to continue. And if either of you decide that this might not be a good fit, just email us at findingaspiritualcompanion@gmail.com and we'll try and find you another companion.

Our emails will come from findingaspiritualcompanion@gmail.com. To ensure that you receive emails from us, please add us to your contacts list or email address book. 

If you do not receive an email from us that you are expecting, please check your junk or spam email folder as it may have gone there.