Advent Leadership Group Spiritual Direction
For individuals or small groups, and for training and retreat facilitation.
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Deepen your journey with God by entering into a partnership in which prayer, active listening, and discernment inspire spiritual growth. Spiritual direction, also known as soul friendship or spiritual guidance, nurtures and fosters an inner awareness of the movement of God’s Spirit in your midst.
Partnerships can be short term, with as few as four sessions, or long term on an as-needed basis. Meetings usually happen once to twice a month for an hour per session.
Benefits of spiritual direction include:
- Engage God’s call upon your life.
- Establish vocational awareness.
- Enrich your spiritual and prayer life.
- Experience true freedom in Christ by getting past spiritual obstacles and finding forgiveness.
- Explore news ways of relating to Christ using the classic Christian disciplines of contemplative prayer, journaling, fasting, and iconography.
Spiritual Direction retreats:
- Bring diversity and peer discussion to bear on issues pertaining to spiritual growth.
- Advent Leadership Group works with groups and congregations to set up custom itineraries that incorporate worship, recreation, silence and solitude, breakout sessions, and small group exercises.
- Train clergy and lay leaders for the work of ministry by sharpening spiritual disciplines, vocational awareness, and inner reflection.
Spiritual Direction is not counseling, advice-giving or therapy. Partners (directees) are not offered simple solutions, easy answers or told what to do. Rather, Spiritual Direction is a holistic process designed to move directees closer to God while deepening their faith.
Members of the Advent LeadershipGroup who offer Spiritual Direction include:
Joe LaGuardia
Dexter Simpson
Neil Westbrook
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