Spiritual Direction

“My Centering Prayer deepened. I used to struggle with the practice. Something has shifted in a quiet, subtle way. Now I am a contemplative.” B.A., Atlanta, Georgia

* ...having difficulty with your Centering Prayer practice?

* ...feeling alienated from God, other people, yourself?

* ...struggling in a dark night?

* ...wanting to pursue a path with skillful teachings on all states of prayer and stages of consciousness?

* ...seeking companionship and guidance from someone who has themselves traveled the journey?

* ...curious about how to live Jesus’ teachings on union and unity consciousness?

* ...interested in learning the hidden treasures in Fr. Thomas Keating’s teachings that enable you to embrace ordinary life, psychological healing and all parts of your humanity, including your body, mind and actions?

………..for support and guidance with your beginning or existing practice of Centering Prayer, other contemplative practices and your developing relationship with God…

* Experienced in individual sessions that respond to the unique spiritual, psychological and life issues you bring

* Establishes, reinforces and deepens your contemplative practice, according to the Path of Centering Prayer

* Focuses on your own unique experience of God

* Extends God’s healing and transformation to your psychological and life issues through contemplative practice

Typical Process: dialogue, mutual assessment of issues, experiential prayer exercise, discussion, identification of ways to integrate the experience outside session.
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Cost: Sliding scale ($40-$70) for 70 minute session

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· Sessions are currently held at the Center for Contemplative Living in Denver, and also in Longmont, Colorado, by appointment.

· A scholarship fund exists to provide financial assistance for Contemplative Spiritual Direction. If you are in financial need, or can contribute to the scholarship fund, please contact David.

What does the spiritual guide do? His first task is to listen...It is only after we have listened for a long time like this that we shall be able to ask the essential question.

Edward Carter

“It changed me profoundly. I discovered new ways to pray, ways of relating to Christ that felt like they were always there in me, waiting to be recognized.” T.P., Denver, Colorado

“David’s gift of deep listening has helped me to recognize solutions, and realize healing, often without much dialogue. I have left these times of contact refreshed, and more able to identify and relax into God’s presence in my own life. As well, I have witnessed firsthand his skillful teaching of contemplative practices as a friend and student in different retreat settings. While his insights and teachings are at once practical and powerful, praying with David always allows me to enter a deeper contemplative state, at times unsettling, at times profound, always loving.” M.A., Fort Collins, Colorado

Then you may be interested in Contemplative Spiritual Direction....

Over the shoulder of the human listener we have been looking at, there is never absent the silent presence of the Eternal Listener, the Living God.

Douglas Steere

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