I offer supervision online as well as in person
Presently accepting clients
Christchurch - Canterbury
Contact details
Supervision Training and Experience
I am a Spiritual Director trained in the contemplative approach to Spiritual Direction. I enjoy working across denominational boundaries.
I am trained in the CAIRA model of Pastoral Supervision. In my supervision practise I endeavour to help my supervisees come to a greater self-understanding by looking at their reactions to the various people and situations they encounter in the course of their ministry. My aim is to help them become more confident and competent in their pastoral ministry.
I am willing to do remote supervision via Skype.
I am a member of CAIRANZ, having trained in 2005/6 and have 20 years of supervision experience. I am also a member of The Association of Christian Spiritual Directors in Aotearoa-New Zealand. For these professional bodies I am required to receive regular Supervision and Spiritual Direction, and I am bound by their respective Codes of Ethics.
Approach to pastoral supervision
I have been an active member of St John’s Anglican Church in Rangiora for over 40 year. I am a Licensed Lay Minister, licensed as a worship leader, preacher, and catechist. I have held several other positions of responsibility within the Anglican Diocese for Christchurch, my parish. I am also a Spiritual Director
I am an Anglican and have been for all my life except for a period in my teens and early 20s when I would have called myself an agnostic.
I am a Benedictine Oblate so aim to live my life according to the principles laid out by St Benedict in his Rule for monastics. I believe that God is always and everywhere active in our lives. I appreciate many of the aspects of Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox theology and have a love of the Desert Fathers and Mothers, and various mystics through the ages.
My spiritual journey started as Evangelical, has moved through Charismatic, and is now firmly rooted in the Contemplative.
Our journey to maturity involves becoming aware of how God is present to us in each situation. I encourage all supervisees to become aware of the feelings that arise for them as they sit with their clients. These inner reactions are fertile subjects for the supervision session.