Spiritual Companion, Retreat Facilitator & Teacher
Creating spaces for soul care and contemplation
I’m passionate about integrating faith and spiritual practices into everyday life in ways that allow our intentions and actions to flow out of Love rather than fear. I offer spiritual accompaniment through Individual and Group Spiritual Direction, Retreat Facilitation, and Workshops.
I am a certified Spiritual Director trained in the Jungian Mystical Christian tradition through the Haden Institute. I am a member of Spiritual Directors International and Mennonite Spiritual Directors of Eastern Canada. I have deep roots in the Anabaptist Mennonite tradition and have served as a church planter and pastor in the Mennonite Church of Eastern Canada. I have rich experience working with leaders and faith communities during times of change and discernment.
It is with great joy and passion that I serve as a Spiritual Director and Spiritual Formation Circle Facilitator for Soul Care a growing community founded by Cathy AJ Hardy. I am also Associate Director and Faculty member for the Soul Care Spiritual Direction Training Program.
My work is trauma-informed and committed to ecumenism, diversity, and inclusion. I endeavour to create welcoming, safe, and brave spaces for spiritual discovery, transformation, and growth. I am fluent in Enneagram wisdom and in Internal Family Systems.
My own spirituality is shaped by my devotion to the Way of Jesus, by daily contemplative practices flowing out of a variety of traditions including Celtic, Desert, and Ignatian streams, by life shared in community, and by the Earth and her seasons. At home in the Niagara Region, I love to hike local trails, grow veggies, read, and gather family and friends around my table. My husband of 28 years and I love spending time with our young adult daughters and watching them grow and flourish in life.
A Masters of Science degree in Human Communication and 18 years as a Speech Language Pathologist helped to shape my love for the ways that fresh language and enduring stories can help us understand, articulate, and embody the truth of our being with integrity and freedom.
I am a trained Circle Way practitioner and Circle wisdom is woven throughout my work. I believe that everyone has a voice and there is room at the table for us all.
I have completed the Holding Space coach and facilitator program and have great depth of experience navigating liminal space within my personal life and alongside others. I have come to know that the liminal spaces in our lives - chrysalis times of darkness and disintegration, times of uncertainty and unknowing - can be powerful times of unlearning, transfiguration and growth.
I am committed to accompanying you during these times without fixing, judging, or shaping the outcome. Yet with deep compassion, support, and gentle invitations, I believe inner knowing and wisdom will awaken.
“Here’s the deal. The human soul doesn’t want to be advised or fixed or saved. It simply wants to be witnessed — to be seen, heard and companioned exactly as it is.”
Parker Palmer
It would be an honour to walk with you.
Be in touch for a free exploratory conversation to see how I can support you or your community at this time.