Articles

By Eileen Crusan
As practitioners, we learn from our teachers, our own directors and those who come to us.  We understand our primary Guide is the Holy Spirit.  I suggest another essential resource for us is our supervisor, who serves as teacher, mentor and coach. 

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by Martha Corkery
I remember how I braced myself for a critique when I first began supervision. However, I experienced tremendous support and was encouraged to pay closer attention to what was stirring in me as I listened to my pilgrims’ experiences.

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by Nancy Small
This year the Ignatian Spiritual Direction Initiative will be honoring the field of supervision by sharing good news stories. These stories from spiritual directors and supervisors alike will offer personal experiences of supervision and how it helps to ground spiritual directors, guide them to greater interior freedom and inspire personal and professional growth.

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by Nancy Small, JESUITS Magazine, Summer 2024
Planned by a Leadership Team of four Ignatian Spiritual Directors of Color, this conversation created space for participants to engage in honest conversation about their experience as Spiritual Directors of Color and fostered cultural bonds of community. “It was a joy to recognize how the divine is embodied in a certain flavor in us,” shared one participant, “to have a mirroring in the context of cultural community.”

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by dotMagis Editor, IgnatianSpirituality.com
For those new to the experience of speaking to a spiritual director in the context of an Ignatian retreat, Carol Ann Munro shares about her ministry of spiritual direction at Bellarmine Jesuit Retreat House in Barrington, IL.

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by Nancy Small, jesuitseastois.org
We are delighted to celebrate this year’s eight graduates of Fordham University’s Advanced Certificate in Supervision (ACS) program through its Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education (GRE).

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by Nancy Small, jesuitseastois.org
More than eighty spiritual directors completed Ignatian training and formation programs in the USA Jesuit East province this year.

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by Henry Frank, JESUITS Magazine, Winter 2019
Ask ten people about their experiences receiving spiritual direction, and you will hear ten very different responses. Why? Because God moves uniquely in each of our lives, and spiritual direction is all about paying attention to that movement.

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by Brian O’Leary, SJ, IgnatianSpirituality.com
Spiritual direction is a feature of many Christian traditions. In fact, forms of spiritual direction are found in all religions. What distinguishes Ignatian spiritual direction from other approaches?

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