Seek and Find: A Worldwide Resource Guide of Available Spiritual Directors is the first-ever comprehensive, global listing of available spiritual directors.
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The Purpose of the Seek and Find Guide
Members are already in the guide!
I’m a member but I don’t see my name in the Seek and Find Guide. Why would this be?
Seek and Find Expanded Listing
Timely Updates
Print Version
Seek and Find Guide Comments and Suggestions
Questions seekers might ask
What do I do if I get a bad feeling about someone who calls me?
A prospective spiritual directee wants to know about an engagement agreement. What’s that?
Why aren’t e-mails listed for every spiritual director?
The Purpose of the Seek and Find Guide
Remember when you first sought a spiritual director? Spiritual Directors International’s desire is to provide an easy, inviting way for seekers to find and contact a spiritual director. Often, this a vulnerable time for a seeker. Therefore Spiritual Directors International asks that all spiritual directors listed in the Seek and Find Guide respond to inquiries within 48 hours and invite seekers to interview at least one other spiritual director during their search process, if appropriate.
The Seek and Find Guide will only list spiritual directors open to receiving new directees. Many members of Spiritual Directors International are not actively available for spiritual direction. If you are not available to seekers and new directees, please remove your name from the Seek and Find Guide. Some reasons you may not want your name listed:
- You are an intern in formation.
- You are a busy faculty member.
- Your current time availability does not allow for new directees.
- You are retired from offering spiritual direction.
- You do not want to receive inquiries about spiritual direction from the general public.
Even if you remove your name from the Seek and Find Guide, you remain a full member of Spiritual Directors International.
Members are already in the guide!
As a member of Spiritual Directors International, your basic information will appear in the Seek and Find Guide unless you ask not to be included.
The basic information displayed will be your name, spiritual affiliation, city, province/state/territory, country, postal code, and telephone number. You do not need to do anything if you are available for spiritual direction and the listed information is correct.
Please update changes to your personal information in the Seek and Find Guide.
I’m a member but I don’t see my name in the Seek and Find Guide. Why would this be?
In the past, some members indicated that they did not want their name to appear in lists or directories. In keeping with their wishes, we have not included those people in the Seek and Find Guide. Also, members who have indicated that they were not currently available for spiritual direction are also not included in the Seek and Find Guide. Only currently available spiritual directors are included in the Seek and Find Guide.
It is easy to have your name added. If you are a member, please use the Seek and Find Guide update form, to indicated that you do want to be in the Seek and Find Guide and that you are available for spiritual direction. You can access the Seek and Find Guide update form at any time.
Finally, only active members will appear in the Seek and Find Guide. If you sent your Seek and Find Guide update form, waited a week for the website to be updated, and you still do not see your name listed, your membership may have lapsed. You can find your membership renewal date on the address label of our latest mailings to you. If your membership has lapsed, you’ll need to renew your membership and may do so in the web store.
If you are an active member who has sent an update form and still are not finding your listing, please contact the office, seekandfindhelp@sdiworld.org.
Seek and Find Expanded Listing
Say more!—expand your listing:
Seek and Find: A Worldwide Resource Guide of Available Spiritual Directors
All members of Spiritual Directors International receive a FREE basic listing in the Seek and Find Guide. But does that tell your whole story? For only USD$25.00 per year, you can purchase up to one hundred extra words, allowing you to share much more about your ministry.
For example, you can include things such as:
- a description of your ministry
- your e-mail address or website
- your enrichment, formation, and training program name(s)
- the days or times you are available for spiritual direction
- whether you are available as a trained supervisor.
Why not expand yourself? Find more information about the expanded listing service here.
Purchase an expanded listing here.
Timely Updates
The online Seek and Find Guide will be updated regularly to add new spiritual directors and to accommodate spiritual directors who make changes to their free basic listing. A reason for changes might include a change in telephone number or taking your name off the list when you are not currently available for spiritual direction due to an extended time of sabbatical, vacation, illness, or other reasons.
Print Version
Once all the online information is updated and complete, Spiritual Directors International will publish a limited number of paper copies of the Seek and Find Guide and offer it as a resource to theology schools, retreat centers, hospices, and members of Spiritual Directors International. The fee for purchasing copies of the print version has not yet been determined.
One of the benefits of the Seek and Find Guide is that seekers might actually call you up. But every light side has a shadow side. Some of the seekers are probably filled with questions, and you might be caught off guard by that. But really, questions are a good thing. In fact, Spiritual Directors International recommends that seekers spend time discerning an appropriate person to ask to serve as their spiritual director. Examples of questions you may be asked are posted on the Spiritual Directors International website on the Find a Spiritual Director page.
What do I do if I get a bad feeling about someone who calls me?
It is normal and important to ensure we are in a safe place whenever we meet someone who is unknown to us. Just as prospective spiritual directees have questions about who you are as a spiritual director, it is wise for you to take precautions and interview the prospective spiritual directee by telephone before agreeing to meet with him or her. After learning about their reasons for seeking spiritual direction, mindfully choose where to meet for the first time. If you have any reservations, it might be prudent if you met in a populated public place for your initial session. Consider taking a mobile telephone with you. Do not rely on the other person for transportation. Always let someone else know when you are meeting a new directee for the first time, and when you are expected to finish. At the very least, write down some information (place and time) about your meeting, so there is a record in case of an emergency.
A prospective spiritual directee wants to know about an engagement agreement. What’s that?
An engagement agreement spells out the expectations and the boundaries of the spiritual direction relationship. It is always a good practice to use an engagement agreement. You can see a sample agreement on the Spiritual Directors International website, by clicking here.
Why aren’t e-mails listed for every spiritual director?
Three reasons: Spam, membership preferences, and pastoral telephone conversations.
Unfortunately, when e-mail addresses are listed, members receive unwanted spam and solicitations. This is partially why the option for an e-mail contact was placed in an “expanded listing” field. A member can choose to add their e-mail, along with any text that is intended to help seekers.
Moreover, there are many reasons people join Spiritual Directors International. Some members are not spiritual directors and do not wish to be listed. To honor these members, Spiritual Directors International will remove their names from any list at their request.
Finally, Spiritual Directors International encourages a personal pastoral telephone conversation between a seeker and potential spiritual directors to help promote a safe and meaningful first encounter. The telephone may or may not be safer than e-mail, but it does appear to be more pastoral.