About AECSD

We desire to serve the Australian spiritual direction community by:

• encouraging spiritual direction formation programs;

• promoting local and national events;

• linking spiritual directors with regional and national associations;

• advising people who are looking for a spiritual director how to find a director near them.

What is Spiritual Direction?

Spiritual direction is a ministry in which one person, the spiritual director, helps another, the directee, become more aware of God’s self-communication in his or her life, respond to that self-communication, and live out the gifts of that relationship.

Spiritual direction is a ministry in the Church concerned with facilitating a person’s growth in intimacy with God which leads, as a consequence, to right relationship with all creation. The ministry has a long and revered history in the Christian tradition and has been practiced by lay people, vowed religious and ordained ministers.