Regina Roman, Amey Upton and Liz Ellmann participated in Sojourner’s Training for Change conference. 

Jim Wallace, President of Sojourners, kicked off the Training for Change conference by inviting participants to find our stories that led to the desire to end poverty and to recall the biblical basis for ending poverty.

Marshall Ganz, PhD, lecturer at Harvard College in public policy, introduced participants to the ways values move to action.

Adam Taylor, senior political director at Sojourners, modeled telling his personal story and how it led him to care about eliminating poverty.

Spiritual Directors International seeks ways to support young adults who are entering ministry with the intention of working on justice issues. By offering spiritual direction to young leaders, we hope to create sustainable ministry and lessen the likelihood of compassion fatigue and burn out. 

 

Rev. Canon Dr. Howard Anderson, Warden of the Cathedral College, and Kathy Spaar, faculty member, share with Liz Ellmann the commitment of National Cathedral to prayer, pilgrimage and spiritual direction. 

In the past year, twenty two participants completed the inaugural “Art of Spiritual Companionship” course sponsored by The Cathedral Center for Prayer and Pilgrimage at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, DC, USA.  The course provides participants an opportunity to deepen their spiritual life and discern with others their gift for spiritual direction.

 

  Renee DeVigne, Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Professorial Lecturer in Law, Regina Roman, and Rosanne O’Hara, Director of Academic Support Services  at The George Washington University Law School met with Liz Ellmann to continue conversations about supporting law students.  

Christina Puchalski, MD, Executive Director of The George Washington Institute of Spirituality and Health (GWISH) and Associate Professor in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences met with Regina Roman and Liz Ellmann to discuss ways that Spiritual Directors International might support physicians, medical students, and other health care providers.  George Washington University is committed to experimenting with ways to provide compassionate listening to medical and law students as they prepare for service in healing and justice.

Our spiritual life is like singing. Most of us can sing, but few of us do it in public. Even fewer can do it in public without embarrassment! Try these simple, soulful, spiritual workouts to help develop your religious voice so that you can--to use the words of the Psalms--"sing a new song to God."

-Rabbi Brian

Can you spend time 'not doing'?  Can you accept change?  If God wrote you an email what would it say?

Spiritual Directors International Member, Rabbi Brian Mayer, Author of "How to Find Out What (the) God (of Your Understanding) Wants from You" has written Ten Simple Exercises for your Soul.  

To view these Ten simple exercises, visit the full article at Belief.net  and let us know,
did these exercises help you?