Jane Thomas

Spiritual Director
Written By Angela Hoskins
 

Region: NSW

About Jane

From 2008 until 2011 I participated in the Listen Into Life program training Spiritual Directors. This was a profound experience of spiritual formation.
In 2016 I commenced theological studies at St Mark's National Theological Centre in Canberra, and graduated with an MA in theological studies in 2022.
From 2016 to 2019 I taught the subject "Introduction to Spiritual Direction in the Christian tradition" in the Masters of Pastoral Counselling course, at St Mark's National Theological Centre.
I have worshipped in the Anglican tradition for my adult life, loving leading and creating liturgy and also preaching. Additionally, due to work opportunities, I count myself privileged to have been immersed in Catholic spiritual formation for nearly 20 years.
I am deeply influenced by the writing of Rowan Williams, Esther De Vaal, Samuel Wells, Nick Cave, and Tim Winton. The way I see the world and faith has been transformed listening to the insights of Christian indigenous leaders such as Ray Minnecon and Miriam Rose Ungunmerr. I practice contemplative spirituality in silence, stillness and movement, nature, metaphor, poetry, and scripture.

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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