One to one spiritual direction

• A spiritual direction session, usually takes an hour once a month. I can meet you in central Wellington or in Tawa.
• Spiritual direction session can be by Zoom if you are not in Wellington.

What else?

Hope to enrich and deepen connection with God in different ways? You might like to talk more about planning a session for your church group:

Facilitate retreats

Retreats are a wonderful way to be away from the hustle and bustle of daily life and develop a space for reflection and a posture of listening to God. However, many use the word ‘retreat’ when they mean another few days of activities, talks and more ‘things to do.’ In retreats we hope to cultivate a way of making space for God to nurture our inner life.

What would happen if there is a rhythm of slowing down, reflecting with authenticity, which in turn helps developing a space of regularly listening to God in your life? You might see God doing work in you – where it matters.

• I can facilitate retreat space and or small group reflections that cultivate listening to God according to the theme of your retreat.
• If your church or group is having a retreat or camp, I can also offer spiritual direction sessions during the retreat and or facilitate a time of reflection and prayer

Prayer stations

Prayer stations can be powerful ways for us to relate to Biblical stories or pray to God using all our senses. As we interact with the station we are ‘learning’ with our whole selves.

Would your church or youth group like to set up a time or space for reflection using creative ways to pray? I would love to help you to set up a sacred space for prayer in your group.

Workshops

Prayer session using creative elements:

Sometimes, connecting with God in creative ways like drawing, shaping clay, writing poetry or making gestures can be refreshing. This is especially so for those of us who find it hard to use words to express our feelings. I can facilitate a prayer using creative medium tailor to your group.

You may not think of yourself as creative, but you don’t need to be an artist to be authentic to God. Let your creativity be a way to talk to God, you might just be surprised at what comes up!

Curious? give it a go!

Here are some examples of creative prayers – left: weaving as prayer, middle and right: collage as prayers.

Experiential workshops

Within the Christian tradition there is a rich history of contemplative prayers. Would you like to know and experience more about contemplative way of prayer? I can lead experiential sessions of different ways of prayer that may enrich your experience of God. A few examples include:

• Lectio Divina
• Contemplation of nature
• Christian meditation
• Imaginative prayer
• Labyrinth prayer
• Centering prayer

Contact me to discuss more about the richness of these prayer traditions, and see if your group would like to try some of them!

Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us.

Roy Adzak