Sydney Region
The Sydney ANSD Group meets about every six weeks for some nourishing input, collegial support and congenial hospitality.
Members and anyone with an interest in Spiritual Direction or the particular topic are most welcome.
ANSD Sydney Regional AGM Report 2020/2021
Upcoming Sydney events 2022
We have 2 more events planned for this year – a Zoom session with Sally Longley in October and a time to connect and converse at St Joseph’s Baulkham Hills in November. Details of these events are below – we hope that you can join us!
Midrash – Unshackling Scripture
When: 7:30-9pm Thursday 6th October
Presenter: Dr Sally Longley via Zoom
Cost: $10
There are times in spiritual direction where a directee may be struggling with an issue, and we become aware that their image of God, or their understanding of certain scripture passages seems to be like a shackle around their ankles, preventing movement. At such times, the use of midrash can become a healing and liberating exercise. This session will explain midrash, and invite participants to write a quick midrash to share, demonstrating how such wisdom already resides within each one of us, ready to be brought to the surface.
Booking: https://www.trybooking.com/CBPWR
The art of living the guided life
When: 10:00-3:30 Saturday 19th November
Where: St Joseph’s Retreat Centre, Baulkham Hills
Cost: $50 ($45 for those not in paid employment) Fully catered
The Map You Make Yourself
You have looked
at so many doors
with longing,
wondering if your life
lay on the other side.
For today,
choose the door
that opens
to the inside.
Travel the most ancient way of all:
the path that leads you
to the centre
of your life.
Jan Richardson
Matthew Evans, Peter Ellem, Colleen O’Sullivan and Mary Hagan will launch us into a day exploring this territory of inner wisdom: Through art, conversation, solitude, movement, reflection, we will be making space for listening receptively to our own ‘wisdom ways of knowing’.
We will finish with an open circle time where we will seek to explore the unfolding possibilities for us as a community of people committed to deep listening in the particularity of this time and place.
“What does it mean to be made in the image of God? In part, it is to say that wisdom is deep within us.” Cynthia Bourgeault
Booking: https://www.trybooking.com/CCEGI
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Grief, loss and transition in the spiritual direction space with Mandy Cox
Wisdom Gleaned from “Courage and Renewal” with Rev Glenda Blakefield
Drawing on the Wisdom of St John of the Cross for Spiritual Direction with Barbara Stenning
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Living from the Silence with Michelle Vass
Music in Spiritual Direction with Sr Mary Baker
Spiritual Direction to Marginalised: Who are the marginalised? with Elizabeth Lee
Metaphor in the Spiritual Life with Alex Nelson
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Opening our awareness through journal writing, with Kate Scholl
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