Dates

May 6-27, 2026

Day & Time

Wednesdays
1-2:30pm PT / 3-4:30pm CT

Format

4 Weekly
Virtual Sessions

Have you take our Forming a Spiritual Direction Practice? You can add it along with this one witha $25 discount. Choose the 2 Product Offer.

Are you a Spiritual Director?

How are you feeling as you are either at the beginning stages of your practice or further along on your journey in this ministry? 

Regardless of how long you have been practicing Spiritual Direction, a seasonal Examen is always fruitful. This course is designed to build on the practical steps of starting a practice by inviting directors into discerning their faithful work in this season. We will explore the rhythms that support our work as well as the practical tools and resources that aid us in providing welcoming platforms and spaces for our directees. As a group, our shared experiences and ideas will inspire new areas of creativity and intentionality. 


Topics & Questions Guiding Our Journey

  • Steps we can follow to grow our practices.
  • Deepening discernment of our particular voice as a Director and/or Supervisor.
  • Creating a seasonal revisit of what we are communicating via website, calendar, ...
  • Paying attention to what we are noticing in our practices.
  • Listening to how our rhythms are supporting the work.

Weekly Reflections

  • Week One: How is it with your practice?
  • Week Two: What would you like to change?
  • Week Three: How are you being invited to play?
  • Week Four: What are your next practical steps?

Kathi Gatlin and Alyssa Bell both bring their knowledge and listening presence to this space. They have both been spiritual directors, supervisors, and educators in this work. Come join the space of listening together in a community of wisdom as we share our intentions, noticings, and longings as we all walk alongside others, together. 

Have you taken our Forming a Spiritual Direction Practice? 

If you are at the beginning of your journey in building, forming, and walking out the formation of your practice, this self-paced option shares helpful resources along the way. Kathi Gatlin has gathered resources and shares insights from other spiritual directors. Participants have appreciated the gentle way this offering supports the formation of their practices. 

Kathi starts the conversation around your intention as a director and offers support as you build the framework to support you in the ministry. 

If you are interested in these resources as well as Sustaining a Spiritual Practice, you will receive a #25 discount off the total. Just select the 2 Product offer in the drop down menu. 

Your Guides

Kathi Gatlin

Kathi Gatlin founded Boldly Loved and co-founded the Companioning Center to bring together her two greatest passions: spiritual formation and teaching. In this, she utilizes her DMin. in Leadership and Spiritual Formation from Portland Seminary and her M.Ed. earned through George Fox University.

Her greatest joy is walking alongside others, individually and in groups, in their own spiritual journey, sharing ways of understanding God anew through contemplative prayer and teaching, and to see them grow in the depth of their own understanding of who God is and who they are in relationship with God. Kathi is a spiritual director, supervisor, writer, spiritual formation group facilitator, retreat speaker, and leadership mentor. For more information about Kathi, check out boldlyloved.org.

Alyssa Bell

Alyssa Bell is a Pastor, Teacher and Spiritual Director who loves walking alongside people as they encounter the radical grace of God’s love. Alyssa and her husband Matthew have two delightful daughters, Theresa and Susie, and an energetic golden retriever named Abby.

She completed her Doctor of Ministry degree in Leadership and Spiritual Formation in 2021 and has a heart for mothers who minister, either in a church setting or elsewhere. For fun Alyssa enjoys walking, making music, reading mystery novels, and completing puzzles. 

For more information about Alyssa, check out Calm My Soul.