Supervision is a space of radical hospitality for the director (or healer) to self-reflect, process, learn, and discern in their practice of spiritual direction. The director brings specific content and questions to the meeting to explore their lens, truths, strengths, blessings, and growing edges. The supervisor provides affirmation, education, consultation and gentle challenge for a spiritual director around the topic or case they bring to discuss.

Select the juiciest aspect: If the dream is very long or complicated, select the most poignant section to share with the group. Choose the section that attracts, stuns, or confuses you the most; or something out of place, like a cardinal dives underwater. If you're contemplating a dream by yourself, you might sit with this image and contemplate it as a symbol, or make artwork with it, or write a poem about it.

Our collective awareness has gone from thinking, “What's wrong with you?” to asking, “What happened to you?” and now focusing on, “Who was there for you?” Research has shown that a simple retelling of a traumatic experience does not always deeply heal the one who suffers. The majority of my clients find it helpful- when they are ready- to build a new relationship with a traumatic experience by re-approaching the memory and inviting a shift.