Spiritual directors are trained to listen for meaning in everyday life.
Valerie Black 
Pat Boehm 
Cat Charissage 
Teresa Hanlon 
Vincent Hanlon 
Sharon Holtman 
Peggy Loescher 
Vickie MacArthur 
Dr. Mark Nixon 
Rev. Ruth Preston Schilk 
Ellen Wagner
VALERIE BLACK | 403-308-2227 (text or call) | Nextbreathwellness[at]gmail.com
Valerie trained in spiritual direction at the Hesychia School of Spiritual Direction at the Redemptorist Renewal Centre near Tucson, AZ. She is a Master Reiki practitioner and a retired teacher with interests in yoga, meditation, and mindfulness. Valerie welcomes all people regardless of religious beliefs or non-beliefs, ethnicity and LGBTQ.
PAT BOEHM | 403-381-8756
Pat Boehm trained at the Haden Institute in Ontario. A contemplative, she hosts retreats and centering prayer groups at the Martha Retreat Centre.
CAT CHARISSAGE | 403-330-9560 | catcharissage[at]gmail.com
Cat is a contemplative educator, listener, and artist. A lifelong student of the world’s wisdom traditions, she has trained in spiritual companioning and guidance with Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes and is a member of Spiritual Directors International. She comes with an M.Ed., 4 years of graduate study and B.A. in theology, and close to 40 years’ experience. “To get to know me a little better or to work with me, visit my blog at www.catcharissage.com.”
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, 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.”
PAT LENON | 403-320-7508
A founding member (along with his wife, JO) of L’Arche in Calgary and affiliate homes in Lethbridge. Pat trained in Calgary under the Jesuit priests, Bob Chase SJ and Joe McArdle SJ.
PEGGY LOESCHER | 587-435-8357 | peggy_loescher[at]yahoo.com
Peggy has been a member of L’Arche for many years and currently is with L’Arche Lethbridge. She trained at Loyola House in Guelph Ontario. Peggy embraces Ignatian spirituality, contemplative prayer and sings in the spirit of Taizé.
VICKIE MacARTHUR | 403-320-6763 | spirityoga[at]shaw.ca | 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.
During Covid-19 Restrictions, Vickie offers Spiritual Companioning by phone, and through Zoom online, depending on your own comfort and preference.
DR. MARK NIXON | 403-795-0821
Mark has years of experience as a high-school chaplain in Lethbridge, AB. He completed spiritual direction training in 1998 in the Catholic diocese of Calgary.
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.
ELLEN WAGNER | 403-345-2610
A spiritual guide for the Arise youth group, Christian Life Communities. She trained to give Ignatian Spiritual Exercises, and spent over 3 years in deaconate formation with her husband Ray in the Catholic diocese of Calgary.