The Dance of Spiritual Formation in Two Communities: In the Church Participating in Missio Dei and in Facilitated Contemplative Evocative Group Supervision for Spiritual Directors
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Issue Date
2025-02
Authors
Yeung, Han Wai
Advisor
Moore, Alison (Advisor)
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Keywords
Spiritual formation
Christian leadership
Christian life
Christian leadership
Christian life
Citation
Yeung, Wai Han. “The Dance of Spiritual Formation in Two Communities: In the Church Participating in Missio Dei and in Facilitated Contemplative Evocative Group Supervision for Spiritual Directors.” D. Min., Tyndale University, 2025.
Abstract
In this research project Portfolio, the author articulates the importance of community in spiritual formation in three ways. First, the author shares autobiographical details that reveal her transformation from unbelief to surrender to God’s love, in and through the community of faith. God’s love sustains her in remaining in her local church to participate in missio Dei (God’s mission) in community despite relational challenges. Second, the author proposes a spiritual formation model, in the context of the full gospel story, to explain that Christians are invited to participate in missio Dei and are formed into Christlikeness in the process. Christian faith should have a communal perspective and be futureoriented. Christians are pilgrims journeying together to the new creation. She developed a process named “BLESS” to help Christians handle relational challenges in their church community so that they can continue be part of the local church to participate in missio Dei. Third, the author describes a research project that she conducted in which she examined the impact of group companionship on spiritual directors’ spiritual and professional lives. To do so she arranged contemplative evocative group supervision, facilitated by a certified spiritual director supervisor. This research project confirmed that group companionship in facilitated contemplative evocative group supervision brings spiritual and professional growth. This manifests in enhanced awareness of God’s presence as well as self-awareness for the spiritual directors and more welcoming spaces to better serve their directees.
Table of Contents
Introduction: a Personalized Necklace for Dancing with the Trinity – Spiritual Autobiography: the Story of a prayer dancing with the Trinity – A Model of Spiritual Formation: Dancing with the Trinity in Missio Dei -- Research Project: a Community of Spiritual Directors Dancing in Facilitated Contemplative Evocative Group Supervision.
Publisher
Tyndale University
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Copyright, Wai Han Yeung, managed by Tyndale University. All rights reserved.
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