I provide Contemplative Care (or what is conventionally referred to as ‘spiritual direction’) for seekers and skeptics alike. I work with a range of people and concerns including folks dealing with loss and grief, aging, addiction, trauma recovery, success, trust, creative struggles, and discernment in times of big life changes. I work with clergy, people of devout faith, and people reckoning with religious alienation. Please note too, I work with straight folks, and with LGBTQ gender non-conforming individuals and the parents, friends, partners and clergy of people in this community.
Sessions are generally an hour long on a sliding scale of $75 to $130 per hour.
I work with folks via live video (zoom) and in person.
Reach me through the CONTACT page on this website for an initial consultation.
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Contemplative Care is an immersive and exploratory process that is somewhat conversational. Drawing on a variety of contemplative tools, I approach this work through a finely tuned practice of evocative listening designed to cultivate an ever-deepening experience of rest, consciousness, and direct connection and access to what some might call the Divine, others might call Creator, Presence, God or Goddess, the Mystery. It is what I like to call the numinous. We can tailor this work to your needs and desires. In this process we may integrate any one or a mix of the following contemplative practices and tools:
- Contemplative Rest (M’s guided process of discerning and savoring moments of awe, and resting in the numinous)
- Lectio Divina (sacred, or divinely inspired, reading)
- Scribere Divina (sacred, or divinely inspired, writing)
- Cinema Divina (mining personal insights through M’s shared meditative practice of screening films they’ve made through and for contemplative practices)
- Single Tasking (mindfulness in the everyday)
- Vita Experientia Divina (engaging lectio divina to discern a deeper, productive understanding of lived experience)
- Reverent Silence (an guided quiet of listening with your heart)
M Freeman is a member of Spiritual Directors International (SDI) and a Benedictine Oblate of St. Placid Priory in Washington.