Process of Individual Spiritual Direction

• Meet about once a month for an hour. At the beginning or times of crisis one may meet more frequently.
• Begin with quieting prayer
• All of life is appropriate to bring to sessions.
• Willingness to open one’s self to some kind of spiritual practice outside of sessions e.g. prayer, meditation, reflection, journaling, movement, observing nature, spiritual reading deepens the process.

Fees: Negotiated with sliding from $40-$65 / session

The Spiritual Director

Spiritual directors are trained professionals who are committed to be actively involved in their own spiritual journey. They are bound by standards of ethical practice and have requirements for ongoing education and consultation.

Karin holds her sessions in the calming meditation room of her home. The sessions begin with quieting prayer to acknowledge God’s presence in the process and end with some kind of acknowledgement of the Spirit’s presence that session.

Finding the Authentic Self and letting go of the False Self

People bring to spiritual direction the rounded picture of their lives where the focus becomes listening together for what is drawing the directee to greater wholeness - union with the Sacred, to be lived out in the world. This may be a more challenging journey than one would expect. Thomas Keating, a monk and Cistercian priest, who was one of the founders of the meditative practice of centering prayer says that when “one moves toward the light the shadow appears.” There is much to observe in our “little selves” that can become a tyrant in our lives creating difficulties.

Seeking awareness of the Sacred has its challenges as Thomas Keating has pointed out. . .”when one moves toward the light shadows appear.” Yet, it is in this process that growth occurs. Carl Jung has said that “one does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

Karin Grosscup
Spiritual Director, MS, CNS
4801 Portland Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55417
kgrosscup@comcast.net
612-825-4069
About Karin