Kaleidoscope

Ineda Pearl Adesanya

Description

A comprehensive resource for understanding the various components of spiritual direction.

Early mystics of the Near East and northern Africa created the monastic traditions and were the first psychologists, exploring various practices to test the human capacity. In medieval times, spiritual direction was common in the Roman Catholic monastic traditions. It extended significantly into Protestant Christianity in the late twentieth century by predominantly white and affluent organizations. Spiritual direction has progressively become a global, multi-religious and interfaith practice.

This book is a comprehensive and concise text from a spiritual director of color, offering inclusive resources and tools to spiritual directors of many faiths and for people of diverse cultures and traditions. Core skills such a deep listening, hospitality, and discernment are presented with cutting-edge lessons on internal liberation, systemic trauma, and imaginative discovery. Spiritual direction is taught by more than 100 educational institutions and spirituality centers in the US alone, but typical curriculum generally does not reflect current cultural reality and growing diversity. This is a textbook for anyone who studies spiritual direction as both preparation for and deepening of their calling.

Foreword

Therese Taylor-Stinson

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Ineda Pearl Adesanya

Part I: Foundations
1 Soul Care: A Brief Historical Overview and Nature of Spiritual Direction

Maurice J. Nutt

2 Who Do You Say I Am? Reflections on the Presence of Spirit

Ruth Takiko West

Part II: Art of Spiritual Direction
3 Creating Authentic Sacred Space

Gibbon Bogatsu

4 Contemplative Listening

Ineda Pearl Adesanya

5 Knowing the Guest: Crossing Over and Coming Back

Daeseop Daniel Yi

6 The Gift of Discernment
Betty Wright-Riggins with Ineda Pearl Adesanya

Part III: Contemporary Matters
7 Discovering the Creative-Imaginative in the Spiritual Direction of Color Experience:
Storytelling, Creativity, Imagination, and Dreams

Naisa Wong

8 Internal Liberation

Therese Taylor-Stinson with Paula O. Parker

9 Social Trauma and Public Spirituality: A Womanist Relational Ethic of Spiritual Practice

Phillis Isabella Sheppard

Part IV: Professional Matters
10 A Feast of Losses:
Being Present While Experiencing Pain

Maisie Sparks

11 Getting My Side Hustle On: Developing a Spiritual-Direction Practice

Consuella L. Brown

12 Final Principle and Lasting Fundamental: Supervision as Pathway to Wholeness

Daeseop Daniel Yi

Afterword

Diana L. Hayes

Resources
Bibliography
About the Authors

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Philosophie et théologie
• Spiritual direction
• Spirituality

Informations

• Publié par: Church Publishing Incorporated
• Date de parution: 17 décembre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781640651654
• Langue: English

Extrait

Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope
Broadening the Palette in the Art of Spiritual Direction
edited by
INEDA PEARL ADESANYA
Copyright 2019 by the Contributors
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ISBN-13: 978-1-64065-164-7 (paperback) ISBN-13: 978-1-64065-165-4 (ebook)
Contents
Foreword Therese Taylor-Stinson
Acknowledgments
Introduction Ineda Pearl Adesanya
Part I: Foundations
1 Soul Care: A Brief Historical Overview and Nature of Spiritual Direction
Maurice J. Nutt
2 Who Do You Say I Am? Reflections on the Presence of Spirit
Ruth Takiko West
Part II: Art of Spiritual Direction
3 Creating Authentic Sacred Space
Gibbon Bogatsu
4 Contemplative Listening
Ineda Pearl Adesanya
5 Knowing the Guest: Crossing Over and Coming Back
Daeseop Daniel Yi
6 The Gift of Discernment
Betty Wright-Riggins with Ineda Pearl Adesanya
Part III: Contemporary Matters
7 Discovering the Creative-Imaginative in the Spiritual Direction of Color Experience: Storytelling, Creativity, Imagination, and Dreams
Naisa Wong
8 Internal Liberation
Therese Taylor-Stinson with Paula O. Parker
9 Social Trauma and Public Spirituality: A Womanist Relational Ethic of Spiritual Practice
Phillis Isabella Sheppard
Part IV: Professional Matters
10 A Feast of Losses: Being Present While Experiencing Pain
Maisie Sparks
11 Getting My Side Hustle On: Developing a Spiritual-Direction Practice
Consuella L. Brown
12 Final Principle and Lasting Fundamental: Supervision as Pathway to Wholeness
Daeseop Daniel Yi
Afterword Diana L. Hayes
Resources
Bibliography
About the Authors
Foreword
The Spiritual Directors of Color Network began forming in March 2008. A classmate, the only other person of color in the Shalem s Winter 2008 Spiritual Guidance Program, and I began to question where other contemplatives of color were. At our first networking opportunity, approximately ten of us, from the United States, Cameroon, South Africa, and Korea, lamented the small number, collectively, of people of color from our various cultures that attended the Spiritual Directors International ( SDI ) educational event and the spiritual-direction formation programs in which we were enrolled. We instinctively knew that people of color across our cultures were also contemplative. We knew we could not be the only contemplatives of color. Yet we were underrepresented, both in presence and in voice.
At that networking table, we considered writing a book as spiritual directors of color, but after the conference we tabled that idea and went in our separate ways-except for me. I was coming to the end of my eighteen-month spiritual-guidance formation program with the Shalem Institute and I was already considering research on the contemplative spirituality of black people as my final paper. I left that conference in 2008 feeling determined to uncover the contemplative nature of black people and how it intersected with the readings from the almost exclusively European sources used in my formation program. I uncovered twenty additional books exploring the spirituality of black people to help inform my writing-authors like Barbara Holmes, Thea Bowman, Gayraud Wilmore, Peter J. Paris, John Mbiti, Albert Raboteau, and others, and I began imagining a network of spiritual directors of color. I began to reimagine the idea that was expressed at that first networking opportunity to write a book together, an idea that had been forming unarticulated within me. My final paper, Black Spirituality and the Art of Spiritual Direction, was written, accepted by Shalem in 2008, and published in sdi s Presence journal in December 2009. Our network began to slowly form, with friends and colleagues sending potential new members and supporting the effort themselves, and we continued to gather a networking table at sdi events. We grew slowly from ten conference attendees to more than one hundred spiritual directors of color across the globe. In March 2014, our first book was published, edited by Sherry Bryant-Johnson, Rosalie Norman-McNaney, and me. Embodied Spirits: Stories of Spiritual Directors of Color , was a compilation of the stories of thirteen members on our journeys into contemplation and formation as spiritual directors of color. Barbara Holmes encouraged me to go further with a second volume, which I edited solo, entitled Ain t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Stories of Contemplation and Justice , which shared stories of the marriage between contemplation and action through a social-justice lens, ranging from prayer and compassion to the ongoing demonstration for peace and healing on Jeju Island in South Korea, to the civil rights of women, written by an Islamic womanist. Its timeliness and efficacy were affirmed as I garnered an Indie Author Legacy Award as author of the year in the area of social awareness in 2018.
The Spiritual Directors of Color Network, Ltd., incorporated in 2014, is served by a board of five members. For this, our third volume, board member Ineda Adesanya was selected as editor. Finally, an effort that was foundational from the beginning to create a curriculum that centered the spirituality of people of color has been realized. In this volume, members of our network present methods of traditional spiritual direction alongside aspects of spirituality particularly evident in the cultures of people of color, but often devalued in the traditional contemplative spirituality of people of European descent.
This volume, like our previous two, breaks new ground-first as a published curriculum of any kind on forming spiritual directors, and even more so as the first publication of its kind to center the contemplative spirituality of people of color. May the Life-giving Spirit and our souls meet in agreement as we drink more deeply from Wisdom s cup.
T HERESE T AYLOR -S TINSON Founding Managing Member Spiritual Directors of Color Network, Ltd.
Acknowledgments
My formation in spiritual direction began as a student of the Program in Christian Spirituality at San Francisco Theological Seminary. For two and a half years, I studied history, theology, theory, and spiritual formation and spent hours upon hours in a supervised spiritual-direction practicum both in class and in community-this, in addition to my Master of Divinity studies. I am forever grateful for that depth of study and practical immersion.
At this writing, I am in the latter half of my studies toward a PhD in Spirituality and Religious History. In this, the latter half of my earthly years, my intent is to author and edit books toward the expansion and diversification of contemplative studies within the religious academy. I am grateful for this opportunity to provide the first of such literary resources in Kaleidoscope: Broadening the Palette in the Art of Spiritual Direction . The challenges of editing Kaleidoscope have culminated in one of my most rewarding projects. I thank the Board of Directors of the Spiritual Directors of Color Network, Ltd., for their support, confidence, and encouragement from the conception of this volume into the pangs of the gestation process through the labor and birth of Kaleidoscope . I especially thank our Managing Member, Therese Taylor-Stinson, for her vision and commitment to develop a people of color-centered spiritual-direction curriculum.
I extend gratitude to the contributing authors for valiantly offering up both their professional expertise and personal experience toward a text that is both instructional and relatable. Addie L. Walker assisted in providing the glue, in the form of introductions, that would tie together each of the chapters. Diana L. Hayes provided not only the afterword for this volume, lending her name and influence, but also invaluable guidance and mentor-ship for me along the way.
I am indebted to my dean and faculty advisor at the Graduate Theological Union for graciously allowing me to extend the defense of my doctoral comprehensive exams in order to meet the publishing deadlines for Kaleidoscope , thereby honoring its role in my formation as a scholar. The staff at Church Publishing have been more than helpful, and I offer special thanks to my publishing editor, Milton Brasher-Cunningham.
Finally, to my family, thank you for enduring my long hours, locked doors, and do not disturb signs. I would be remiss not to mention by name my daughter, Folasade A. Adesanya. When my hands refused to type anymore due to flares of rheumatoid arthritis, Folasade graciously stepped in to receive dictation or to read my handwritten squiggles and edits to transform them into a beautifully typewritten manuscript.
Thank you all.
Introduction
Kaleidoscope: Broadening the Palette in the Art of Spiritual Direction is the third volume in a series of liberative and cutting-edge texts from the Spiritual Directors of Color Network, Ltd. Kaleidoscope situates spiritual direction in the contemporary world. The art of spiritual direction is blossoming, becoming more accessible-a practice that all can embrace. It is rapidly becoming a mainstream form of spiritual care. There are more than two hundred spiritual-direction training and -formation programs in the United States alone. In its most hegemonic, nondirective, one-to-one form, spiritual direction has been histor