Kaleidoscope: Broadening the Palette in the Art of Spiritual Direction

by Ineda Pearl Adesanya

Overview

A comprehensive resource for understanding the various components of spiritual direction.

Early mystics of the Near East and northern Africa created the monastic traditions and were the first psychologists, exploring various practices to test the human capacity. In medieval times, spiritual direction was common in the Roman Catholic monastic traditions. It extended significantly into Protestant Christianity in the late twentieth century by predominantly white and affluent organizations. Spiritual direction has progressively become a global, multi-religious and interfaith practice.

This book is a comprehensive and concise text from a spiritual director of color, offering inclusive resources and tools to spiritual directors of many faiths and for people of diverse cultures and traditions. Core skills such a deep listening, hospitality, and discernment are presented with cutting-edge lessons on internal liberation, systemic trauma, and imaginative discovery. Spiritual direction is taught by more than 100 educational institutions and spirituality centers in the US alone, but typical curriculum generally does not reflect current cultural reality and growing diversity. This is a textbook for anyone who studies spiritual direction as both preparation for and deepening of their calling.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781640651647
Publisher:	Church Publishing, Incorporated
Publication date:	12/17/2019
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

INEDA P. ADESANYA is an American Baptist minister and spiritual director. Ineda holds masters degrees from San Francisco Theological Seminary and Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. She provides spiritual direction, retreats, an annual Spirituality and Hermeneutics Forum, and a weekly blog. She teaches at the Interfaith Chaplaincy Institute, and is a pastoral counselor and spiritual director for the Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, SFTS, and in private practice. She lives in Oakland, California.

Table of Contents

Foreword Therese Taylor-Stinson vii

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction Ineda Pearl Adesanya xiii

Part 1 Foundations 1

1 Soul Care: A Brief Historical Overview and Nature of Spiritual Direction Maurice J. Nutt 3

2 Who Do You Say I Am? Reflections on the Presence of Spirit Ruth Takiko West 20

Part II Art of Spiritual Direction 39

3 Creating Authentic Sacred Space Gibbon Bogatsu 41

4 Contemplative Listening Ineda Pearl Adesanya 54

5 Knowing the Guest: Crossing Over and Coming Back Daeseop Daniel Yi 64

6 The Gift of Discernment Betty Wright-Riggins Ineda Pearl Adesanya 79

Part III Contemporary Matters 95

7 Discovering the Creative-Imaginative in the Spiritual Direction of Color Experience: Storytelling, Creativity, Imagination, and Dreams Naisa Wong 97

8 Internal Liberation Therese Taylor-Stinson Paula O. Parker 116

9 Social Trauma and Public Spirituality: A Womanist Relational Ethic of Spiritual Practice Phillis Isabella Sheppard 136

Part IV Professional Matters 163

10 A Feast of Losses: Being Present While Experiencing Pain Maisie Sparks 165

11 Getting My Side Hustle On: Developing a Spiritual-Direction Practice Consuella L. Brown 182

12 Final Principle and Lasting Fundamental: Supervision as Pathway to Wholeness Daeseop Daniel Yi 200

Afterword Diana L. Hayes 217

Resources 219

Bibliography 229

About the Authors 235

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This is what has been missing from my canon of spirituality books since I began working as a spiritual director over twenty years ago! . . . Kaleidoscope is a breath of fresh air, courtesy of one of the most well-known and respected spiritual guides writing today,
Ineda Pearl Adesanya.”

—Teresa Blythe, director of the
Hesychia School of Spiritual Direction at the Redemptorist Renewal
Center in Tucson, Arizona

“What
Ineda Pearl Adesanya and her collaborators have accomplished is remarkable: a volume that is at once a basic introductory textbook for spiritual directors in formation and, at the same time, one that reveals the art and practice of spiritual direction as seen and experienced by people of color.”

—John R. Mabry, PhD, director of the Interfaith Spiritual Direction Certificate Program at the Chaplancy Institute,
Berkeley, California

“Comprehensive in scope and accessible in style, Kaleidoscope offers a hopeful look at the rainbow-colored future of spiritual direction.”

—Arthur Holder, professor of
Christian spirituality, Graduate Theological Union

“As a professor of spirituality and spiritual direction, I am eager to share this book with those who are being formed as directors.”

—Susan S. Phillips, Ph.D.,
executive director and professor of spirituality at New College Berkeley (an affiliate of the Graduate Theological Union)

Editorial Reviews

This is what has been missing from my canon of spirituality books since I began working as a spiritual director over twenty years ago! . . . Kaleidoscope is a breath of fresh air, courtesy of one of the most well-known and respected spiritual guides writing today, Ineda Pearl Adesanya.”
— Teresa Blythe, director of the Hesychia School of Spiritual Direction at the Redemptorist Renewal Center in Tucson, Arizona

“What Ineda Pearl Adesanya and her collaborators have accomplished is remarkable: a volume that is at once a basic introductory textbook for spiritual directors in formation and, at the same time, one that reveals the art and practice of spiritual direction as seen and experienced by people of color.”
— John R. Mabry, PhD, director of the Interfaith Spiritual Direction Certificate Program at the Chaplaincy Institute, Berkeley, California

“Comprehensive in scope and accessible in style, Kaleidoscope offers a hopeful look at the rainbow-colored future of spiritual direction.”
— Arthur Holder, professor of Christian spirituality, the Graduate Theological Union

“As a professor of spirituality and spiritual direction, I am eager to share this book with those who are being formed as directors.”
— Susan S. Phillips, PhD, executive director and professor of spirituality at New College Berkeley

“This is what has been missing from my canon of spirituality books since I began working as a spiritual director over twenty years ago! . . . Kaleidoscope is a breath of fresh air, courtesy of one of the most well-known and respected spiritual guides writing today, Ineda Pearl Adesanya.”

—Teresa Blythe, director of the Hesychia School of Spiritual Direction at the Redemptorist Renewal Center in Tucson, Arizona

“What Ineda Pearl Adesanya and her collaborators have accomplished is remarkable: a volume that is at once a basic introductory textbook for spiritual directors in formation and, at the same time, one that reveals the art and practice of spiritual direction as seen and experienced by people of color.”

—John R. Mabry, PhD, director of the Interfaith Spiritual Direction Certificate Program at the Chaplancy Institute, Berkeley, California

“Comprehensive in scope and accessible in style, Kaleidoscope offers a hopeful look at the rainbow-colored future of spiritual direction.”

—Arthur Holder, professor of Christian spirituality, Graduate Theological Union

From the Publisher