Parents can act as spiritual directors for their children in a church setting where trained spiritual directors provide regular guidance to the parents. The parents then use what they learn to spiritually direct their children by listening without judgment and asking questions to help their children discern God's voice. The parents further support their children's spiritual growth by offering help with spiritual disciplines and bringing their experiences back to the church's spiritual directors for supervision and reflection.

1. PARENTS AS SPIRITUALPARENTS AS SPIRITUAL
DIRECTORSDIRECTORS

2. How it can work in a church
setting

3. The church has a
trained Spiritual
Director
or two

4. Parents receive regular
Spiritual Direction from
the Spiritual Director
Here they attend to
their own spiritual
life and learn how
to be a good
spiritual director

5. Parents provide
Spiritual Direction for
their children
The parents
listen and
ask
questions to
help
children
identify how
God is
speaking to

6. Parents can
offer help with
the Disciplines
Which can
become the
subject of
more Spiritual
Direction
conversations

7. Parents then take their experiences
as a Spiritual Director to the church
Spiritual Director for supervision
They discuss what the
parent's conversation
with their children
reveals about the
parent's own
relationship with God

8. RESOURCESRESOURCES