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Spiritual Directors’ Association of Kenya (SpiDAK) understands Spiritual Accompaniment (SA) as support offered by one believer to another believer, “that enables the latter to pay attention to God’s personal communication to him or her, to respond to this personally communicating God, to grow in intimacy with this God
FIND SPIRITUAL DIRECTORWe are commited to provide spiritual guidance to individuals who are seeking support in their faith journey.
We offer webinars open to all, and special training for Spiritual Directors.
We increase accessibility to spiritual direction provided by members of SPIDAK.
Christian Spiritual accompaniment is a one-to-one helping relationship that has God-experience of the directee at the heart of the process.
God-experience, for a Christian, could take a very precise form as the experience of God in Jesus Christ.
A contemporary definition captures this meaningfully: “Christian spiritual direction, then, [is] help given by one believer to another that enables the latter to pay attention to God’s personal communication to him or her, to respond to this personally communicating God, to grow in intimacy with this God, and to live out the consequences of the relationship” (Barry & Connolly, 2009, p.8).
Spiritual accompaniment is an indispensable tool in our growth in spirituality.
While spiritual accompaniment is not a substitute for any of these possible interventions, it assists the directee to grow in their personal relationship with God – in responding to the God who moves them from within towards Himself.
Spiritual Director is a Christian, male or female, a member of the clergy or a lay, who is trained in the art of Spiritual Accompaniment.
Their training in Christian Spiritual Accompaniment often follows a particular tradition of spiritual direction – the most influential of them being the Ignatian Tradition. They are usually aware of other traditions as well (Benedictine, Carmelite, Salesian). They are not usually experts in psychology but often are familiar with psychological dynamics in one’s spiritual journey and are able to do referral.
The Spiritual Director is committed to their own spiritual journey, while being mindful of their own vulnerability, seek spiritual accompaniment and committed to ongoing supervision. They are bound by a Code of Practice.
They are available to accompany other Christians for a small fee.
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