FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What is Soul Companionship?
The practice of an ancient art that provides an opportunity for focused attention on one’s relationship with God in a safe, confidential space of deep listening in the context of a unique one-to-one relationship. Most people have an inner knowing or nudge when they are being called to this inner work.
What happens during an appointment?
Soul Companionship is not therapy, is not pastoral counseling and cannot substitute for either. Often a person might be actively involved in a simultaneous therapeutic relationship. In the appointment a person shares his/her own personal experience of God and probes this relationship as it is developing. Topics of discussion may include: images of God, cultivating presence, prayer styles, probing relationships, growth in spiritual maturity.
Benefits include:
When might a person seek Soul Companionship?
Confidentiality:
Confidentiality is essential to the process and both persons must be able to count on it.
Choice and Fit:
I see this as an inter-spiritual, inter-faith ministry for myself and thus I am open to working with all souls. Because this is a one-to-one relationship, the fit between the two persons must be felt and mutually sensed as complementary for both persons.
When someone deeply listens to you
it is like holding out a dented cup
you’ve had since childhood and watching
it fill up with cold, fresh water.
When it balances on top of the brim
you are understood.
– John Fox
http://poeticmedicine.org/poetry.html
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The practice of an ancient art that provides an opportunity for focused attention on one’s relationship with God in a safe, confidential space of deep listening in the context of a unique one-to-one relationship. Most people have an inner knowing or nudge when they are being called to this inner work.
What happens during an appointment?
Soul Companionship is not therapy, is not pastoral counseling and cannot substitute for either. Often a person might be actively involved in a simultaneous therapeutic relationship. In the appointment a person shares his/her own personal experience of God and probes this relationship as it is developing. Topics of discussion may include: images of God, cultivating presence, prayer styles, probing relationships, growth in spiritual maturity.
Benefits include:
- Integrating one’s own life experience though the lens of conscious awareness, contemplative listening and spiritual conversation
- Becoming exposed to new and creative practices to feed the soul
- Cultivating acceptance and understanding of the cycles and seasons of one’s spiritual journey over time using silence and waiting
- Exploring the patterns and obstacles which may block or inhibit becoming the person we long to be
- Valuing of the interior life and a sensitivity to healing, new growth and openness to change
When might a person seek Soul Companionship?
- when confronted with life’s transitions
- when exploring vocational paths and new directions
- when reconciling questions and complexities
- when integrating painful experiences which require healing
- when in need of challenge or accountability
- when in need of an objective, compassionate listener
- when dissatisfaction stirs new thinking and one is groping for ways to express new growth
Confidentiality:
Confidentiality is essential to the process and both persons must be able to count on it.
Choice and Fit:
I see this as an inter-spiritual, inter-faith ministry for myself and thus I am open to working with all souls. Because this is a one-to-one relationship, the fit between the two persons must be felt and mutually sensed as complementary for both persons.
When someone deeply listens to you
it is like holding out a dented cup
you’ve had since childhood and watching
it fill up with cold, fresh water.
When it balances on top of the brim
you are understood.
– John Fox
http://poeticmedicine.org/poetry.html
Interested in learning more? Leave me a question or comment on my contact page >
