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Spiritual direction, also known as spiritual accompaniment or spiritual companionship, offers an opportunity for you to come as you are, allowing yourself space for an intentional pause to bring your spiritual life into conscious awareness and focus.
-Lynette Davis
The title "Spiritual Director" is misleading; I won't be directing anything. My role is to create a trustworthy space in which your authentic self can show up. Think of my work as that of host, doing what I am able to make you comfortable so that you can, perhaps, go places and learn things about yourself and what the Divine is asking of you that move you out of your comfort zone.
-Mary Linda McKinney
The spiritual director serves as a companion on the journey, listening attentively, without pressure or expectation, to whatever comes to the surface as people seek to give expression to their experience of the holy in their lives.
-April Allison
The intent and hope is to become more attuned to God’s presence – in all areas of life – in order to live more prayerfully and respond to God more faithfully. The director and directee come together to open up to the real director: the Holy Spirit.
-Mary Kay Glazer
What is Spiritual Direction?
It is NOT counseling, therapy, or life coaching. While the larger conversation MIGHT include problem solving, changing behaviors, creating accountability and goal setting, this is not that. A large part of my work is helping clients shift perspective, hear the wisdom in their own words, listen for their soul’s longing and for God’s response. Very often, clients are in the process of discerning a right next step, grieving a loss, or looking for new sources of light and delight.
-Jennie Isbell Shinn
...it has been an absolute gift to be able to chat several times a year with someone wise in the ways of the soul where we have an intentional conversation about faith (and life and whatever else is relevant). it's a safe space and one where there is no judgement - in fact the opposite is the case as I always come away feeling encouraged. for me it is up there as one of the most important spiritual practices that sustains me...misnomer really but it's what it seems to get called - soul friendship or accompaniment is a lot better description. whatever you call it, he says that "the primary focus of the conversation is to help the person track their own particular journey with god" - sounds about right!
-Jonny Baker
Seeking spiritual direction is not about submitting one’s life and faith to some other person’s shaping, or accepting someone else as the authority on spiritual matters. Spiritual directors know that the real "director" is the Divine (God, Christ, the Light, the Spirit, the Inward Teacher). The "direction" happens in the attentive listening of the director to God and to the directee. It also happens in sharing and listening during the direction session, and it happens in the heart, mind, and soul of the directee long afterward. The directee sets the agenda and owns the discernment. The director and directee come together, radically trusting in the One whose presence teaches, guides, and transforms; the One who is directly available and speaks to one’s condition.
-- Patty Levering, “Spiritual Direction as a Resource for Friends”, Friends Journal, December, 2006
Quaker Spiritual Directors:
Quaker Spiritual Directors:
Susann Estle
Susann Estle
"I am a CPE Supervisor, spiritual direction is part of that context. I am also taking a course on Coaching, and hope to branch out to individual care. "
Susannestle@gmail.com
Danville, IN
Lynette Davis
Lynette Davis
"I take a non-directive approach to spiritual accompaniment for (mostly LGBTQIA+) creative changemakers utilizing the expressive arts."
http://sacredpausetoday.com/
hello@lynettedavis.com
Andy Stanton-Henry
Andy Stanton-Henry
"Spiritual companionship - listening, asking questions, making observations, suggesting spiritual practices; learning to see/hear the divine in ordinary life and the movements of our journey. Grounded in Quaker way but ecumenical; guided by open + relational theology; experience working with post-evangelical/deconstructing, LGBTQ, and folks in rural/small town settings."
andy.recoveringabundance@gmail.com
Jefferson City, TN
April Allison
April Allison
"I serve as a companion on the journey, listening attentively, without pressure or expectation, to whatever comes to the surface as people seek to give expression to their experience of Spirit in their lives."
heronrising.com
aprilallison@heronrising.com
Durham, NC
Wade Boswell
Wade Boswell
"At the intersection of spirituality and social justice. "
www.spiritheals.me
wade@spiritheals.me
Greenfield, MA
Connie Lezenby
Connie Lezenby
Constance A. Lezenby
724 Derstine Ave.
Lansdale, PA 19446
lezenby@gmail.com
267-664-3721 (Cell)
Spiritual Director Resume
Connie Lezenby offers individual and small group spiritual direction once a month
in one hour sessions in Lansdale, PA or on Zoom. She works with seekers from
many faith traditions or those beginning a spiritual journey. Through questions
and silent reflection we will explore your unique relationship with God, spiritual
practices that deepen intimacy and the freedom that flows in a life lived in the
awareness of God’s love. Connie has an M.A. degree from Chestnut Hill College
in Holistic Spirituality and Spiritual Direction (1998). She is clerk of the Gathering
Garden Center for Spiritual Life at Gwynedd Friends Meeting. She also offers
companionship for the Ignatian retreat in daily life, silent or dream retreats and
workshops for churches on beginning small spiritual direction groups. Sliding
scale fee. lezenby@gmail.com or 267-664-3721 (cell)
Mary Kay Glazer
Mary Kay Glazer
I love to meet with those who feel God’s invitation into deeper relationship; who long for a more vital relationship with the Divine; who seek to live evermore faithfully. I am accessible to those in eastern North Carolina, and on Zoom. I am also available for spiritual direction supervision, having trained with Lucy Abbott Tucker.
Certified Life-Cycle Celebrant &
Wedding Officiant
Soul Song Ceremonies
NC Institute for Spiritual Direction & Formation
Leadership Team and Faculty
https://ncspiritualdirection.org
Spiritual Director, Retreat Leader, Writer
YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsj3RwLsepVe6TyJHV_9sCQ
Facebook Page
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100047101697718
Invitation to Quaker Eldering
http://www.barclaypressbookstore.com/Inner-Light-Books/An-Invitation-to-Quaker-Eldering.html
Donna Eder
Donna Eder
I offer spiritual guidance to people of all ages and denominations. I am especially drawn to dreamwork, nature meditation, and chanting in my own spiritual practice.
donnajeder@gmail.com
Jeanne-Marie (Jaimie) Mudd
Jeanne-Marie (Jaimie) Mudd
Watershed Ways
Equipping you to flourish through creative, holistic spiritual nurture in the midst of all the volatile uncertainty we encounter. I support those navigating grief, healing religious trauma through both Friendly companioning ways and brief coaching.
jeannemarieMudd@gmail.com
520-975-2087
April Vanlondon
April Vanlondon
"Currently in Spiritual Director Training with Benedictine Center, Quaker Public Minister "
aprilvanlonden@gmail.com
Centerville, IN
Shulamith Clearbridge
Shulamith Clearbridge
Shulamith Clearbridge
Spiritual Director, Workshop & Retreat Leader, Writer
Spiritual Director /Companion, Workshop & Retreat Leader, Writer
No matter what is going on in our lives or in the larger world, there is a spring of peace, personal meaning, and joy available to all of us through a relationship with God. Whether we need practical help to make the connection, need a way into deeper communion, need help finding or releasing a block. or just need occasional check-ins for an ongoing fruitful spiritual practice, a spiritual director or companion can be there for us.
Though I am Quaker, I am an “interfaith” director, which means I will not steer you into any particular spiritual path or religion.
I work by love offering. That means you pay what you can, if you can.
We can meet in person, by phone, or through Zoom. You can find more information on my website: ClearbridgeToJoy.org
Shulamith@ClearbridgeToJoy.org
Boothwyn, PA 19094
Phone: 802.324.9149 (New York/Montreal time zone)
Email and phones don’t fail often, but they do fail. Please try again if you don’t hear from me within a few days.
Zachary Moon
Zachary Moon
www.chaplaincystudies.org
zacharymoon@gmail.com
Chicago, IL
Judd Hu
Judd Hu
"I help people to discover true self through encountering the divine and others. "
Judd works at Providence Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital. He has years of experience in hospice chaplaincy. He speaks Cantonese and Mandarin and describes Taoism and Buddhism are important parts of his formation and spiritual direction approach.
Phone: 626-559-5793
Email: hujudd@gmail.com
Viv Hawkins
Viv Hawkins
"I offer spiritual direction and integral coaching, particularly to spiritual changemakers and encore careerists. "
Friendviv2@gmail.com
Https://LifeCallsCoach.com
Philadelphia & Zoom
Certified spiritual director by Sisters of Mercy and with SQ21 (Spiritual Intelligence) by Deep Change. Practice mutual accountability groups.
Jennie Isbell Shinn
Jennie Isbell Shinn
"My way of offering spiritual direction aspires to help clients listen for their soul’s longing and for (God’s) holy invitations through deep listening, questions that open to wonder, stories, metaphors, reflected threads, dreamwork, and embodiment practices that engage the body as a source of wisdom. "
www.jennieisbell.com
jennieisbell@gmail.com
West Tisbury, MA
Elaine Emily
Elaine Emily
"Getting in touch with your essence and how to live from that place."
elaineemily1@gmail.com
Berkeley, CA
Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford
ecumenicalhope@gmail.com
Tempe, AZ
Beckey Phipps
Beckey Phipps
“To listen another's soul into a condition of disclosure and discovery may be almost the greatest service one human being ever performs for another.” (Douglas Steere)
baphipps51@gmail.com
Waltham, MA
Rachel Doll O'Mahoney
Rachel Doll O'Mahoney
In spiritual direction I seek to God's movement in you in whatever complexities and riches your life holds.
dollrachel@yahoo.com
610-585-8420
Online and evening meetings welcome.
Virginia Swain
Virginia Swain
Virginia was a spiritual director at the United Nations for 30 years. While there, she developed and implemented Reconciliation Leadership training, based on the needs of the world for leadership formation (www.global-leader.org) The Quaker Reconciliation Leadership workshops (began 2025) and the Leadership Formation for Elders and Ministers (began in 2026) after a successful 2024 pilot supervised by New England Yearly Meeting Programs. A letter of introduction is offered by Friends Meeting at Cambridge.
Virginia supports Friends by prayerfully offering deep listening and response to your soul’s longings, leadings, and vocations. Learn more about her work in her memoir, My Soul’s Journey to Redefine Leadership: A New Phoenix Rises from the Ashes of 9/11 (Xlibris 2016) (Audible 2022).
For more: https://fmcquaker.org/welcome-virginia-swain-2/
508-245-6843; virginiawoodswain@gmail.com
Della Stanley-Green
Della Stanley-Green
"I love to serve as an extra set of ears and eyes to help discern God's movement and call in your life."
dellastanleygreen@gmail.com
Mary Linda McKinney
Mary Linda McKinney
Listening Interfaith Spiritual Direction
friendmarylinda@gmail.com
Faithful Meetings: Spiritual formation for Friends communities grounded in Quaker faith and practices
faithfulmeetings@schoolofthespirit.org
Holly Baldwin
Holly Baldwin
Holly Baldwin, she/her
Journey Toward Light
Spiritual Accompaniment & Retreat Leading
holly@journeytowardlight.com
Liz Peacock
Liz Peacock
Do you feel a spiritual longing? That thirst for something beyond? Maybe you have language for it. Maybe you don't. Either way, I want to walk with you on your personal journey of discovery of the Unknown. I generally meet with directees monthly on Zoom, though I can meet in person if you are near northeast Georgia. I do not charge a fee for spiritual direction.
Lorene Ludy
Lorene Ludy
"a companion to witnessing god "
loreneludy@gmail.com
Lincoln, NE
We are a loosely connected group of Quaker Spiritual Directors who gather with one another occasionally to provide mutual support. We share the names and contact information for any Quaker spiritual directors who want to be listed and do no vetting about qualifications, skills, or affiliations.
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