Availability: Mornings, afternoons
Location: Winnipeg, MB, Canada | in-person & online
Focuses: Ignatian, inner healing, spiritual rhythms, enneagram, Ignatian Exercises (19th Annotation)

A contemplative by nature, Barb has found it natural to be drawn to sit with others in a listening posture. Inner healing prayer ministry drew her to help others explore their inner landscape and was a natural bridge into spiritual direction as a vocation. Trained by Sustainable Faith, her heart rests solidly in the desire to see people notice the movements of their heart and to find expressions of love toward God. She lives in Winnipeg, Canada with her husband Dave, with whom she has four adult children and eight grandkids that give tons of joy!

barbepeg@gmail.com

Availability: Mornings, afternoons, evenings, weekends
Location: Holland, MI | in-person & online
Focuses: Life transitions, ministry leaders, spirituality in families, worship leaders, Ignatian Exercises (19th Annotation)

Benjamin has been pastoring and leading worship in Vineyard churches since 2001. He enjoys serving as a host for God’s presence—shaping environments that help us notice the work and movement of God, whether songs, sermons, liturgies or spiritual direction. As a director he’s eager to wait and watch with others for an awakening to true desire and for invitations from God or towards love. A father of seven, he’s passionate about the integration of family and spirituality. He and his wife are both novices in the Order.

benjamin.tennant@gmail.com

Availability: Currently full
Location: Columbus, OH | online-only
Focuses: Ignatian spirituality and the Spiritual Exercises (19th Annotation), creatives, dark nights of faith, 12-step recovery, internal family systems (IFS)

Brian is an ex-copywriter, a vowed member of the Order and an instructor of spiritual direction. His greatest joy is accompanying people toward the God who loves them and the mission they’re being created for. Also coffee and the city of Cleveland. After studying at Fuller Theological Seminary, Brian trained with Sustainable Faith and went on to apprentice in directing the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius through Evangelical Seminary.

brian@orderofthecommonlife.org | spiritualdirection.center

Availability: Currently full
Location: Des Moines, IA | in-person & online
Focuses: Grief, trauma, doubt, feeling “stuck”

Before his current vocation as a level-1 trauma center chaplain, Eric was the lead pastor of an urban Vineyard church and has been accompanying others as a spiritual director since 2015. He appreciates the many and diverse ways God is present to us, surprises us and delights us, and considers it a gift to walk alongside others as they listen to their life, notice God’s presence and activity, and lean further into the abundant life Jesus shares with them. Eric is married with three children.

eric.nicolaysen@gmail.com

Availability: Mornings, afternoons, evenings
Location: Columbus, OH | online-only
Focuses: Vocational discernment, trauma-informed, body-awareness, creatives, 12-step recovery, discernment of celibacy, Ignatian Exercises (19th Annotation)

Sr. Heather a vowed member of OCL and a trauma-informed spiritual director who loves to help directees encounter God with their whole selves in creative ways. She leans heavily on imaginative prayer and various types of lectio in her sessions.

heather@orderofthecommonlife.org

Availability: Mornings, afternoons, evenings
Location: New York, NY | in-person & online
Focuses: Life transitions, trauma-informed, spiritual practices, social justice work, Ignatian Exercises (19th Annotation)

Janine finds joy in creating contemplative, safe spaces for connection with God and witnessing the transformation that occurs in that loving presence. She has served in ministry in a variety of settings, including both internationally and within the U.S. She has a MSW from Columbia and has worked with survivors of homelessness, addiction and sex trafficking. She is exploring ways to create spaces of stillness and retreat within NYC. In her free time, she enjoys caring for a vegetable plot in a community garden, walking in Central Park and off-the-beaten path travel. She completed her training with Sustainable Faith in 2017 and is also certified as a supervisor with Sustainable Faith.

spiritualdirectionnyc@gmail.com | stillnesscollective.org

Availability: Mornings, afternoons, evenings, weekends
Location: Brunswick, OH | in-person & online
Focuses: Spiritual formation, leaders and clergy, healing prayer and deliverance, life as narrative, Ignatian Exercises (19th Annotation)

Jeff is a spiritual director, ordained C&MA minister and novice in the Order. He loves to think of spiritual direction as a place to get to be curious about about your life, your thoughts, your joys, your sins, your ambitions, your traumas, your fears, and to discover the message God is sharing with you through them. When open space to be curious is provided, grace abounds, and the dis-integrated parts of our humanity are restored. Jeff’s training includes an MA in Theology from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Graduate Certificate in Spiritual Direction from Loyola University-Chicago and advanced training to lead the 19th Annotation through the Apprenticeship in the Spiritual Exercises.

openspaceforgod@gmail.com | openspaceforgod.com

Availability: Currently full
Location: Macomb, IL | online-only
Focuses: Spiritual companionship, journeys of transformation, Ignatian Exercises (19th Annotation)

In addition to being a spiritual director and vowed member of the Order, Leanne has been a homeschooler, a yoga instructor, and a pastor’s wife, involved in small groups, children’s ministry and community outreach projects. Her interests are health and wellness, reading, the outdoors, and spending time with her family, including her six adult children and nine grandchildren. Her journey with spiritual direction began many years ago when seeking practices to assist her spiritual growth and transformation, which led her to training with Sustainable Faith.

ls5aug@gmail.com