Supervision for Spiritual Directors

Our approach as supervisors isn’t what one would expect from using this title.

Supervision is an essential practice as we walk alongside others. We offer a collaborative approach between peers in a contemplative, compassionate, and evocative framework. This approach helps us listen together in a way that invites greater freedom for you, your directees, and the particular session we are holding together.  

Supervision, as a regular spiritual practice, not only meets the ethical requirement as we host others, but it provides a space to grow in our own practice of spiritual direction. It is important to select a supervisor with whom we feel safe to process what is going on without a need to perform well. 

Using this framework, the collegial aspect of supervision allows encouragement for your ongoing development and formation, mentorship, and space for consultation along the way. We desire to meet you where you are on the journey as a spiritual director and to collaborate on the walking out of your call as a spiritual director. 

Contemplative Reflection Forms (CRF) and Recollected Dialogues are not required if you are not in training but are helpful in this reflective conversation. The goal is for you to hold something lingering in you from a spiritual direction session, and we ask that you make space to reflect on it before we meet so that we can listen deeper together. If you need a form for this type of reflection, here is a link to several supervision reflection forms if it would be helpful for our time together. Just email the completed forms 24-48 hours before our session.