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We’re diverse in terms of faith tradition, age, social location. To a certain extent, in terms of ethnicity, and that’s, they’re probably about 60 different people, and I would say I’m as much formed by them as, I just co-facilitate. So I, and then I have several directees who are also directors, and so in a very one-to-one focused kind of way, from time to time, we will explore issues that they're experiencing in their own practice. Spiritual direction is at its most essential listening. Listening with not just your ears, but I have a border collie, and when she is attempting to be obedient, she listens with her whole self, so it’s as if her entire being is listening. And early on, I used to think spiritual direction was primarily an audio kind of thing. The older I get, and the longer I practice it, the more I realize I’m picking things up all the time that are not necessarily verbal, and I’m realizing how deep that aspect of spiritual direction is.1