Spiritual directors are trained to listen for meaning in everyday life.
TERESA ELDER HANLON, MA, DMin | Please call or text: 403-359-0812 | teresa.hanlon[at]gmail.com
Teresa offers those who come an opportunity to be listened to with care. She is a spiritual director, retreat facilitator, ordained pastor of an inclusive Catholic community, healing prayer minister and holds a Doctor of Ministry researching the experience of “not being listened to” in the lives of incarcerated women. She welcomes all people and is comfortable with Indigenous spiritualities, with listening to people of all denominations and no religious denomination, with those living with addictions and grief, and with people of all genders and sexual orientations. The practices of silence, observing nature, opening dreams, praying with scripture, poems and/or pondering Melanie Weidner’s Listen For Joy Art Cards complement Teresa’s meeting directees empathically, with unconditional love.
VINCENT HANLON MD | 403-331-9314 (call or text)
Trained in spiritual direction at the Hesychia School of Spiritual Direction at the Redemptorist Renewal Centre near Tucson, AZ. He is a retired physician, a writer and photographer with interests in mindfulness, burnout and resilience, and career transitions.
SHARON HOLTMAN | Cell 403-382-8585, or 403-223-3950 | sharonanneholtman[at]gmail.com
Sharon completed her SD training in 2018 at Haden Institute in Ontario. She also graduated from Together Enabling Adults in Ministry (T.E.A.M) at the FCJ Centre (Calgary) in 2011. Social justice has been a key part of her life; she has served on many boards including Aboriginal Co-Chair for Child and Family Services Authority. “Her greatest joy lies in helping others discern and deepen their spiritual journey.”
VALERIE KOOT | 493-360-1609 (text or call) | vjkoot@gmail.com
I completed my training with the Studion School for Spiritual Direction in the spring of 2023. I offer a non-judgmental and welcoming space for you to speak freely and feel fully. I am curious, open-minded and patient. Everyone’s story is important and sharing your story with another person creates space to reflect, connect, hear, let go and learn to live every day with purpose. I am well versed in feelings of loss and grief and the uncertainty that accompanies life’s many transitions. I am genuinely interested in hearing your story. I will walk alongside you on your journey, not as an expert, but as a fellow traveller.
VICKIE MacARTHUR | 403-320-6763 | vickie[at]spiritinmotionyoga.com | www.spiritinmotionyoga.com
Vickie completed her two year spiritual direction training in 2020, with www.pacificjubilee.ca. As a yoga and meditation teacher, Vickie integrates embodied practices of breath, movement, meditation, and prayerful awareness into spiritual companion sessions. She invites moments of silent reflection, creating space for Spirit to speak, and your own insight to emerge. Rooted, and ordained in her Christian community, while also immersed in Buddhist and yoga philosophy, Vickie feels a deep sense of the sacred in all religions and traditions. Her inter-spiritual heart will honour whatever spiritual tradition(s) and practices you bring to our time together, as if they were her own. Vickie offers spiritual companioning both in-person and online. Book a free introductory session.
REV. RUTH PRESTON SCHILK | revruthps[at]gmail.com
An ordained Mennonite pastor with a heart for ecumenism, Ruth received her Spiritual Direction Training and MDiv at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary (now Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary) in Elkhart, Indiana. She is convinced that God is continually inviting us to participate in what God is up to in the world. As a Spiritual Director, Ruth accompanies people through conversation and bearing witness to God’s activity or apparent absence in one’s life. Ruth completed 29 hours of Spiritual Direction Supervisor Training with Lucy Abbott Tucker in 2019. As a Supervisor she is committed, with loving honesty, to attending to the Spiritual Director’s growth in the ministry of Spiritual Direction by encouraging self-reflection and offering consultation and education with the Director.