compassionate space for belonging & becoming
Come home to Love, Come home to yourself
WORK WITH Kate
Spiritual Direction
Take a long, loving look at your life and find God loving you in the midst of it.
workshops & Retreats
Explore who you are becoming through community groups, personalized retreats, and formational reading groups.
support for spiritual directors
Receive 1:1 supervision and/or find communal support with other directors.
spiritual direction
discover god playing in the midst of your everyday life
Spiritual direction offers companionship on the pilgrimage of life. Life often runs at a blurring pace and it’s too easy to live life on autopilot and miss the hidden beauty and invitations of the Divine Dance playing out right in front of us. Spiritual direction helps us pause in the midst of our busy lives so that we can discover and savor the beauty and the preciousness of being alive.
Spiritual direction also offers a contemplative and compassionate space to discern actions with intention, empowering you to live by your most cherished values rather than succumb to the currents of culture and Empire.
Spiritual direction is not about teaching you about God, or giving you advice about what you should do, but directing your attention to how God is present within and around you, and invites your authentic response.
Learn more or book a free consultation.
community
grow with like-hearted people
workshops & retreats to nurture your becoming
Journey with others through workshops and retreats, including reading groups, examen prayer groups, and more.
join a cohort of spiritual directors growing together
If you’re a trained spiritual director and are looking for ongoing community support and training, consider our Emerging Directors’ Cohort.
meet kate
Hello!Trained in a contemplative model of spiritual direction, I offer compassionate space to take a long, loving look at your life and explore your experience with God. As Paula D'Arcy said, "God comes to you disguised as your life." My hope for you is that God's love would meet you in the mess and the mundane, and in the rough and tender places. I have learned that as we experience God's love in our vulnerability, we naturally come to live with more love, without striving or forcing. We become people who have acceptance and compassion for ourselves and others.
I first discovered spiritual direction as a new mom, navigating my faith and identity through postpartum depression. I emerged from depression with an experiential sense of the no-strings attached love of God and an increasing conviction to live from that love, fully and simply myself. As I continue my journey, I am living more deeply into a sense of belovedness, freedom, and delight.
My hope is that you also will experience the love of God more deeply and experience freedom and delight in the gift of being yourself.
reflections from working with kate
“Kate did a wonderful job of cultivating a place where we could share and wrestle with ideas and questions and be accepted. It was also not a space where we needed to find an answer or come to a conclusion, which was refreshing. The exercises and prompts Kate provided were powerful and helped me look at myself and the world around me in different and refreshing ways. ”
— Tim V.“Kate has a gift for creating safe, sacred spaces that welcome honesty and vulnerability. I learned more about contemplative practices and I felt well heard when I shared. My presence was not only welcomed but honored. She helped me focus on being present to God and aware of God’s presence in me.”
— Tricia H.“Kate is such a supportive listener. She made it easy to delve into things I didn’t even know were bothering me. She helped me take a very surface, unclear relationship with God and deepen it so that it flowed into my daily activities, even in something as ordinary as meal planning.”
— Tania L.writing
Land acknowledgement
We acknowledge the Nisenan People are still here among us today, though they are nearly invisible and their story continues to be excluded from history. We understand that we are on Nisenan Land that was never ceded and the Original Tribal families have yet to recover from the genocide of their People. As a resident in Nisenan Land, we support the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe in efforts to stabilize their People, as well as the campaign to restore Tribal sovereignty through federal recognition.
For more information and to support the NCR Nisenan Tribe, visit huswej.org