Offering Strength for the Journey
Are you spiritually curious?
Are you noticing a longing or invitation in your life with God?
A spiritual director can provide the hospitality you need to question and discover and grow.
Spiritual Direction
The spiritual direction relationship is a Spirit-led ministry focused on your life as a journey of discovery and growth. In direction, I offer you a safe, welcoming space in which you can slow down, breathe, reflect on your story, and receive needed sustenance for your soul, so that you can continue on in your unfolding life with God.
With a deep commitment to integrity, intentionality, and accountability, I offer you companionship along the way. It would be an honor to walk beside you.
 Hospitality and SafetyElijah in the Wilderness |
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 Finding Your Way |
 Paying Attention |
 Heceta Head Lighthouse |
 Sacred SpaceStop Look Listen at Riverview Retreat |
 A Shared Journey |
 Threshold |
 Journey Beyond the Familiar |
 Pilgrim's Credo |
Spiritual Life Retreats
A Spiritual Life Retreat is an opportunity for reflection, rest, and renewal. Your retreat will be uniquely shaped according to your individual longing and your unfolding life with God. This is a shared venture, and I would love to companion you in discerning the focus and direction of your experience.
Janet and I offer sacred space for retreatants in our beloved "Begin Again" cottage (where we lived for 20 months as our home was being rebuilt following the Holiday Farm wildfire of 2020). The cottage is available for day retreats, overnight personal retreats, and short stay guided retreats. Please contact me for details and scheduling.
I am also available to facilitate group retreats online and off-site. Please contact me for more information; I would love to assist you in discerning your retreat needs.
 Begin Again Cottage |
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 Cottage Interior |
 Picture yourself here |
 Through the FireHow are you being invited to begin again? |
 Con/Fusion?Gratitude and Grief together: A healing practice. |
 EmergenceWhat is emerging in you? |
 A New Day DawningMorning at Riverview Retreat |
 Beauty from AshesAre you aware of beauty? |
 Meditation in MotionMeditative walk above our retreat space |
 Woods and Stone will Teach YouSpace for Reflection |
 Invitation to CrossGoodpasture Bridge |
 McKenzie River MorningMcKenzie River Morning |
 Looking Up |
Supervision
In offering supervision to spiritual directors, I seek first and foremost to foster a reverent, mutual learning alliance for the sake of the director and the folks they companion. Thus, the supervision I offer is unhurried and collaborative. I also cultivate a lightness of being that, hopefully, reduces anxiety and invites reflective listening and greater freedom.
If you would like to explore the possibilities of such companionship, I would welcome the conversation!
 Companions in Curiosity |
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 Sailing Together |
I Offer You a Safe, Welcoming Space to Reflect On
Your Unfolding Life with God
Spiritual Companioning is a relationship of sacred trust.
As your spiritual director, I believe that both this relationship and the space in which it is nurtured are sacred. Each is created and held as I listen to the Spirit and you with attentive stillness, while encouraging you to do the same. My role in this practice involves inviting you to awaken to Spirit’s sustaining presence in your story, carrying you faithfully to God in prayer, and assisting you in discerning and embracing abundant life in God’s love.
Flexible Hours. Sessions in-person
or via Zoom
Spiritual Direction: Sliding fee structure of $70-100 per session.
Supervision: $75 per session.
Tuesday - Friday: 9am-5pm
Saturday: Scheduled by request
It may be that when we no longer know what to do
we have come to our real work,
and that when we no longer know which way to go
we have come to our real journey.
The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings.
- Wendell Berry
About Jeff
I am a spiritual director, retreat guide, and supervisor shaped by over 30 years of pastoral ministry and contemplative practice.
The values that center me in this sacred calling include:
•Hopeful trust: That God is present and active above, in, and through all things.
•Hospitality: Nurturing a welcoming, safe, and sacred space for holy listening.
•Humility: The true spiritual director is God the Spirit.
•Attentiveness: Listening to the Spirit and you with prayerful stillness.
•Integrity: Cultivating serenity and balance by attending to my own soul work.
Certification in Spiritual Direction through the Franciscan Spiritual Center https://francisspctr.com/
Certification in Supervision through the Companioning Center https://companioningcenter.org
Member, Spiritual Directors International https://sdicompanions.com
