Alanna van Dantzig

Spiritual Director
Written By Angela Hoskins

Mary Allan, Spiritual Director

Region: NSW

About Alanna

I am a dedicated interior pilgrim and have been devoted to relationship with my divine Beloved and to the contemplative exploration of my inner life since my earliest days. In later years, I have studied the inner life more formally through a Master of Theology (Spirituality) and a Spiritual Direction formation program. I continue to study and draw on classic and contemporary spiritual authors and to engage in writing about the inner life.

 In 2024, I offered a presentation to the ANSD Symposium on medieval mystic Hadewijch and her desolation poems. In 2025, an article on desolation was published in Coolamon Journal.

 I believe in the intrinsic worth of dreams - an especially important and personal form of divine communication and engage regularly in a contemplative dream group.

I am also interested in the way that trauma informs us and provides access to interior healing and consolation.

 I am offering companionship on your journey inward; a companion as you develop your relationship with God. The inner life can sometimes be lonely and occasionally distressing. Walking the path, savoring the exquisite sweetness, and recognising the sometimes-desolate challenges of Love with a reliable companion, can be reassuring, liberating and invigorating.
 

Angela Hoskins

Built my first site in 2000 and steadily learned what it takes to make websites work. Dabbled in WordPress back then, still do. Since building my first Squarespace site in 2016, I’ve been impressed with the relatively streamlined approach to website design and development that Squarespace offers compared to WordPress. SEO was a major challenge from the start — I’ve spent a lot of time keeping up with what’s required to get sites working, ranking well on a SERP. I have confidence with what Squarespace offers for SEO.

Having worked for more than 10 years in the web team of an inland, regional university in Australia and dealing with frustrations that come with working for a large corporate enterprise, the idea of setting up my own web design business became my goal.

Set up my business in late 2017. Opted for a sea change, too: I now live on Coochiemudlo Island 45 minutes from Brisbane. Love working from home. Love working for small business clients. Still get casual work with the university.

Challenges? The main one is pricing my work for small businesses. Doing quality work, doing the research to be up to date in the industry, takes time; it’s hard to factor in this time to my pricing while being competitive in the market and affordable for many small businesses.

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