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This research essay investigates the question “How do spiritual directors determine their response to the material presented by a directee during the course of a spiritual direction session?” The question arose during a debriefing of a spiritual direction session by two facilitators for a Spiritual Growth Ministries workshop. The facilitator who acted as the spiritual director remarked that during the session she had considered addressing one part of an incident raised by the directee, but then decided to focus on another aspect altogether. The director was asked in the debriefing why she had chosen to focus on the second aspect rather than the first, and the reply was given that she didn’t really know, other than it seemed the right thing to do at the time. Why did the director to choose the second option and not the first? This essay is an attempt to look behind that question and identify the various psychological, cognitive, physical and spiritual elements that influence a director’s response to the material presented by a directee. The aim of this enquiry is to provide directors and trainers of directors with some points of reference to aid reflection on their own discernment processes, and to provide a large scale map of some of the significant elements in the inner life in order to encourage further exploration in this area.
