Grafted Life Ministries

Eun Lech

Roseville, CA, United States

Eun Joo Lech has experienced spiritual direction to be pure GRACE. She relishes her role of accompanying everyday people (from all...

Approximately 420 miles away

About Me

Eun Joo Lech has experienced spiritual direction to be pure GRACE. She relishes her role of accompanying everyday people (from all stages and walks of life) into the loving and generative welcome of the Holy Spirit through compassionate listening. She believes that regularly carving out time in your life for self-care can encourage, restore, and illuminate your unique journey with the Spirit.

At the crossroads of every transition, questions about our identity surface. Eun is a Korean immigrant and mother of 5 bi-racial children ( from adult to single digits). Her lived experience and studies make her knowledgeable and adept at helping others navigate the unique challenges and gifts that arise from having a third-culture identity. She finds deep joy in sitting with those in transition seasons, whether as a young adult, new parent, empty nester, mid-lifer, or a seasoned soul entering into their golden years. Her admonishment is to approach critical times of change as sacred invitations for opening your schedule, mind, and heart to perceive the new and ongoing activity of the Spirit in your life.

Along with her spiritual direction training completed through Sustainable Faith, she has a B.A. in Ethnic Studies from UCSD. In addition to individual direction sessions, she has led various cross-cultural, faith-oriented, and spiritually-seeking small groups with diverse people and opinions. She has been an educator for 15 years and is currently co-administrating an afterschool tutoring program for students of immigrant parents. As an avid gardener, she is obsessed with all things dirt and growing. She is a slow runner who chases beauty, a curious world-traveler, and is most enamored with her Polish-American husband of 24 years and her continually growing family members who morph into giant human beings as they grow in age.

Contact

Phone: 9165808560

Email:

Prefer Contact By: email address

Available For

In-person Direction: YES

Tele-Direction: YES

Group Direction: YES

Retreat Leading: YES

Languages Spoken

English

Korean

Specialties

Works with...

young adult

new parent

empty nester

mid-lifer

or a seasoned soul entering into their golden years

Asian American

Mutli-racial

third-culture

women

Expertise in...

Enneagram

Life Coach. third-culture

cross-culture

children

LorriAnn Lovett-Gill

Davis/Sacramento, CA, United States

I delight in being loved by God! Spiritual Direction provides a rich place for exploring what that means in everyday life...

Approximately 429 miles away

About Me

I delight in being loved by God!
Spiritual Direction provides a rich place for exploring what that means in everyday life - it gives breathing room to listen for how God’s heart beats and voice speaks. These reflective moments with a trusted companion can be a Sabbath-hour - a place to pause, to interact with God in stillness, to be refreshed in God’s generous presence. These are prayerful spaces to witness and nurture transformations of the heart.

I love to create environments
for others to deepen their awareness of God and to grow in spiritual intimacy, as well as to feel freer to be loved and to love. The practice of Spiritual Direction allows me to accompany other souls on their unique spiritual journeys, on whatever part of their paths they might be.

I have sensed God’s invitation into Spiritual Direction through:
~varied expressions of worship and encountering God in community. These have informed my desire to listen to God’s beloved ones in any tradition.
~life experiences - I have been familiar with disappointment beside hope; disability and disease as well as healing, mental health disorders amid uninhibited joy.
~informal and formal education - especially creative and prayerful ministries, including inner healing, compassionate listening, and artistic writing facilitation. In Spring 2023, I completed training in Spiritual Direction through Sustainable Faith’s School of Spiritual Direction.

I also carry a lifelong interest
in human cultures and languages. Passion burns in me for every individual and people group of the earth to discover the unwavering love of God, revealed in the God-Man Jesus Christ. I am grateful for opportunities to offer Spiritual Direction to those who have given their lives to cross-cultural ministry. In addition, I work in recovery ministry with women who are overcoming addiction and other outcomes from abuse and trauma.

My home life includes
personally caring for my disabled adult son as well as managing his full-time caregiving needs. I also enjoy long walks, simply solo with God or with my husband (since 1995) or another soul friend along the greenbelt in my neighborhood. Hiking in the mountains or along a coastal path are especially happy places. My heart sings when I worship dance with colorful flags or scarves.

I am learning to find God’s Spirit
in uncharted places, to experience that there is more, always more in the Reality of God. I affirm your longing for more and I welcome your reaching out to consider Spiritual Direction!

Contact

Phone: 530-219-3647

Email:

Prefer Contact By: email or text

Available For

In-person Direction: YES

Tele-Direction: YES

Group Direction: YES

Retreat Leading: YES

Languages Spoken

English

Specialties

Works with...

missionaries

marginalized and disabled persons

ministry leaders

adults of all ages

creatives

spiritual directors

Expertise in...

women's spirituality

contemplative practices

trauma or grief

creativity

recovery

Pamela Kudlick

Gold River, CA, United States

Spiritual Director companion, Professional Coach, Author: Pamela is a trained Spiritual Director who graduated from the SELAH Program from Leadership Transformations...

Approximately 429 miles away

About Me

Spiritual Director companion, Professional Coach, Author: Pamela is a trained Spiritual Director who graduated from the SELAH Program from Leadership Transformations Inc. and is founder of Cornerstone Coach where she invites her clients to Lead Stronger. Live Fuller. ®

Pamela offers “HOPEN” as spiritual direction which is the HOPE in God who OPENS us to deeper love and communion through prayer, silence and listening with the Trinity. We notice His presence, words and ways in a holy sacred space where there is grace upon grace. She describes herself as a handmaiden on a donkey who loves Jesus, who enjoys prayer walks in nature and is learning to walk in God’s freedom and graces. Mostly she loves being present in His presence. Pamela completed the St. Ignatius exercises twice and is active in Coach Approach Ministries. She lives in Sacramento and Sedona and is available for spiritual direction via phone or through ZOOM. Blessings.

Contact

Phone: 916-671-9469

Website: www.onehopen.com

Email:

Prefer Contact By: email

Available For

In-person Direction: NO

Tele-Direction: YES

Group Direction: NO

Retreat Leading: NO

Languages Spoken

English

Specialties

Works with...

Church leaders

business professionals

adults

Expertise in...

Ignatian

professional coach

Strengths and Myers-Briggs

rule of life

contemplative practices

Dianne Trotter

Galt, CA, United States

My first introduction to spiritual direction was through personal reading and interaction with the VantagePoint3 processes, (www.vantagepoint3.org), as well as meeting...

Approximately 453 miles away

About Me

My first introduction to spiritual direction was through personal reading and interaction with the VantagePoint3 processes, (www.vantagepoint3.org), as well as meeting a spiritual director at a pastor's conference who was instrumental in my introduction to prayer practices and demonstrating a genuine, hospitable, listening heart.

With over 20 years of ministry experience, I am a Christian Spiritual Director with a passion for listening and walking with others as they follow in the footsteps of Jesus. Having most recently served on staff of Horizon Church in Galt, California, I have experience in helping women and men navigate the challenges of life transitions – whether it be changes in relationships, a life-altering diagnosis, the loss of a loved one or other shifts in life circumstances – listening to more than words, but listening to the heart, helping sense God’s closeness and discovering where He is already at work.

The ministry of spiritual direction has been life affirming and changing for me. There have been several people through life that have served as listener's and companions along the way. I desire to be ‘that’ person that listens, that pays attention to someone's heart and desire to follow Jesus and be close to Him. It is always an honor to hear someone's story and walk with them on their faith journey as we recognize that the Lord is always present, He is good, He is already at work and He is the real director.

I continued to pursue my training and have received my Certificate in Spiritual Direction from Sioux Falls Seminary in the Listening People to Life Program. (www.sfseminary.edu). I also have a Bachelor in Music Education from the University of Montevallo (Alabama).

My husband, John, and I have been married nearly 48 years and have served in different church ministry situations together. We have one married son, a lovely daughter in law and two grandchildren.

Contact

Phone: 2097121836

Email:

Prefer Contact By: email for first contact would be preferred

Available For

In-person Direction: YES

Tele-Direction: NO

Group Direction: NO

Retreat Leading: NO

Languages Spoken

English

Dale Gish

San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA, CA, United States

Catherine of Sienna said God is always looking at us with a gaze of love and we are invited to stop...

Approximately 474 miles away

About Me

Catherine of Sienna said God is always looking at us with a gaze of love and we are invited to stop and receive that loving gaze. As a spiritual director, I walk with people as they seek to open themselves to God’s love, to experience their belovedness, and let that love overflow to those around them. There are many barriers and distractions, we fall short, we struggle, but God is patient, does not give up on us, and invites us to open our hearts to know his presence and care in every season of our lives.

As a spiritual director and pastor, I offer individual spiritual direction and lead people through the Ignatian Exercises, a life-transforming journey of prayer.

For more than 25 years as a pastor and leader in Christian ministries, I have experienced the joys and sorrows of the life of faith. I worked hard, gave myself sacrificially to God and to God’s people. Along the way, I became depleted, worn down, and came to the end of myself. In that place of brokenness and need, the Lord met me and began a journey of soul restoration. This led me to seek spiritual direction, to discover a renewed calling, and ultimately to become a spiritual director.

I have a passion to walk with others on their journey of soul restoration, to strengthen and encourage pastors and ministry leaders, and disciples of any kind, to help them grow in relationship with the living God. Through the years I have walked closely with spouses struggling in their marriages, those suffering from serious mental health problems, those in times of doubt and deconstruction. I seek to embody God’s patience, care, and compassion, wherever someone is on their journey. I seek to see my directees in and through the love of the Father, encourage them to encounter the compassion of Jesus, and to open themselves to the Spirit’s work in their lives.

I have Masters of Divinity from Bethany Theological Seminary, graduated from both the SoulFormation Academy of Spiritual Direction and Formation, and the SoulFormation School of Spiritual Direction. I was trained in Ignatian spirituality through SoulFormation, have led more than 70 people through the Ignatian Exercises, and now train directors offer the Ignatian Exercises as well.

My wife Debbie and I have been married for more than 25 years and have two teenage daughters. Together we lead a marriage ministry in the San Francisco Bay Area and seek to encourage couples towards God and into deeper connection with one another.

I currently am currently accepting new directees and you can book a free initial session at this link. https://calendly.com/dalemgish

Contact

Phone: (415) 608-4604

Website: https://www.deeplybeloved.com/

Email:

Prefer Contact By: Email

Available For

In-person Direction: YES

Tele-Direction: YES

Group Direction: YES

Retreat Leading: YES

Languages Spoken

English

Specialties

Works with...

Men

Women

Pastors

Leaders

Missionaries

Asian American

Anyone seeking God

Expertise in...

Prayer

Ignatian Exercises

Spiritual Exercises

Mental Health

Trauma

Discernment

Contemplative

Third-Culture

Desire for God

Grief

Midlife Crisis

Burn-out

Discipleship

Enneagram

Bi-vocational

Disorientation

Melinda Athey

San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA, CA, United States

I am a spiritual director who approaches direction sessions with curiosity and acceptance, listening deeply for the resonance of the Divine...

Approximately 474 miles away

About Me

I am a spiritual director who approaches direction sessions with curiosity and acceptance, listening deeply for the resonance of the Divine in the grit of everyday life. An InterVarsity alumni, I am trained through the comprehensive 4 year program of Mercy Center Burlingame. As an alumni of RIchard Rohr's Living School through the CAC (Center for Action and Contemplation) we can explore faith and action. I am a Board Member/Staff of The Contemplative Center of Silicon Valley.

Contact

Website: www.ccofsv.org

Email:

Prefer Contact By: Email

Available For

In-person Direction: YES

Tele-Direction: YES

Group Direction: YES

Retreat Leading: YES

Languages Spoken

English

Specialties

Works with...

women

men

moms

young adults

parents of children with disabilities

third culture kids (TCK)

post incarcerated women

students

church leaders

education professionals

business professionals

people in transitions

artists

Expertise in...

women's spirituality

lectio divina

group spiritual direction

supervision

art

creativity

faith deconstruction

retreats

TCK

contemplative practices

Matt Barrios

San Francisco, CA, United States

Appreciator of the fullness of God made manifest in Jesus, husband & father, former pastor at Reality San Francisco and Rolling...

Approximately 476 miles away

About Me

Appreciator of the fullness of God made manifest in Jesus, husband & father, former pastor at Reality San Francisco and Rolling Hills Covenant Church, now working in tech product design.

I stubbornly believe that God is making all things good, and this is also true for you and your future. This is what I stand for with the people I work with: "hope and a future."

After a time of personal tragedy, meeting with a spiritual director saved my life by connecting me to the source of life, God himself. There I learned the great power and peace of finding God in grief, which births a new and deeper joy. This intimacy is gritty and real. This dynamic relationships remains the steady backbeat of my life, and I was delighted to learn that God has a great sense of humor.

These days, my interest in spirituality has largely to do with partnering with God according to my calling/vocation. I love helping others discern their unique gifts, abilities, and passions—seeing themselves as agents of God's Kingdom conspiring in Jesus' plans for the renewal of all things. Real and eternal impact is what I'm after, and I want this for everyone I know—including you.

I like working with people interested in a fully honesty, no BS dialog. Pained grief, angry expletives, passionate creativity, and energizing hope. All are welcome.

Direction style: creative, playful, curious, empathetic, direct, empowering, and hopeful
Training: M.A. Spiritual Formation & Soul Care, Talbot School of Theology

Interested? Email me and we'll set up a free 30-min discovery.

Contact

Email:

Available For

In-person Direction: NO

Tele-Direction: YES

Group Direction: YES

Retreat Leading: YES

Languages Spoken

English

Specialties

Works with...

people in transition

pastors/ministers

church leaders

former ministry workers

young professionals

men

women

couples

Expertise in...

discerning vocation/calling

creativity

faith & doubt

body work

inner healing

men's EQ

prayer & meditation

life design

large group retreat facilitation

Justine Martinez

San Francisco, CA, United States

I am a San Francisco-based spiritual director with a focus on how creative expression, storytelling, and body movement allows us to...

Approximately 476 miles away

About Me

I am a San Francisco-based spiritual director with a focus on how creative expression, storytelling, and body movement allows us to be more present to God in our unfolding spiritual journey. I hold a Bachelors in Psychology, a Certificate in Spiritual Direction from Nuos Formation, and have nearly two decades of experience in spiritual discipleship ministry.

Throughout years of ministry, I have learned to pay attention to the narrative of each person’s story, how that narrative has shaped their capacity for relationship with God, themselves, and others. Through the ministry of spiritual direction, I offer you a compassionate witness to your story and experience of God, as we practice listening and noticing God in your day-to-day experience.

Contact

Phone: 415-269-5491

Website: https://www.justinemartinez.com/

Email:

Prefer Contact By: Email

Available For

In-person Direction: NO

Tele-Direction: YES

Group Direction: YES

Retreat Leading: NO

Languages Spoken

English

Specialties

Works with...

Young adults

church or ministry leaders

missionaries

artists

Expertise in...

Creativity

art

trauma

body-spirit connection

women's spirituality

psychology

Myers-Briggs

Enneagram

Julie Barrios

San Francisco, CA, United States

I am the Founder of Nuos Formation, an organization that serves individuals, organizations, and companies in leadership development, cultural health, and...

Approximately 478 miles away

About Me

I am the Founder of Nuos Formation, an organization that serves individuals, organizations, and companies in leadership development, cultural health, and organizational discernment--basically the convergence of spiritual formation and the San Francisco/Silicon Valley business world. I have served a number of churches and non-profits as a spiritual director and/or with my expertise in spiritual formation and the intersections of spirituality, technology, art and organizational health. I completed my MA in Spiritual Formation and Soul Care at Talbot School of Theology in 2005 as well as the Ignatian Spiritual Formation Program at the Loyola Institute for Spirituality in 2009. I have a wide variety of direction experience, have worked with teenagers, seminary students, professors, pastors, missionaries, business leaders, trauma survivors, and many other souls longing for intimacy with God. I am equally passionate about training and supervising spiritual directors and have 10+ years of supervision experience.

Contact

Phone: 714-600-4389

Website: nuosformation.com

Email:

Available For

In-person Direction: YES

Tele-Direction: YES

Group Direction: YES

Retreat Leading: YES

Languages Spoken

English

Specialties

Expertise in...

Ignatian

Art and Spiritual Direction

Attachment Psychology

Enneagram

Kinesthetic Integration

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LorriAnn Lovett-Gill

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Dianne Trotter

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Dale Gish

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Melinda Athey

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Matt Barrios

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Justine Martinez

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Julie Barrios

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