FORMIDABLE Wayfinding

What is moving in you right now?

Fear? Hope? Restlessness? Desire? Confusion?
Maybe a sense that God is inviting you into something, but you're not quite sure what.

That is where Wayfinding begins.
 

Wayfinding is about learning to recognize where you are, paying attention to the terrain of your inner life, and discerning where God may be present in it.
 

I’m not here to tell you what to do or direct your decisions.

I walk alongside you as a travel companion — helping you notice, listen, test, discern, and respond.

This is rooted in the ancient Christian practice of spiritual direction, particularly the Ignatian tradition of discernment: learning to recognize the movements within us, what draws us toward greater faith, freedom, love, and life in God, and what pulls us away.
 

Along the way, we also learn practical tools drawn from the ancient Christian tradition: prayer, Scripture, silence and solitude, the Examen, reflection, and other practices of discernment.

These are not simply exercises for a session. They become skills for learning to pay attention to God in everyday life.
 

Like finding your way through wilderness, the goal isn’t simply to be handed directions.

It is to learn the terrain, recognize the landmarks, and become increasingly attentive to the voice and movement of God for yourself.
 

That is Formidable Wayfinding.

What is moving in you, and where might God be in it?

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What Wayfinding Looks Like

Wayfinding is a regular rhythm of spiritual companionship designed to help you become more attentive to what is moving within you, recognize where God may be present and at work, and respond to Him with greater freedom and maturity.

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Meeting Rhythm

We meet at a consistent, mutually agreed-upon time—usually weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly.

Most people begin weekly, at least for a season. This helps establish a foundation, develop a healthy rhythm of prayer and reflection, and gives us enough continuity to begin noticing the movements, patterns, desires, resistances, and invitations emerging in your life.

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As that foundation develops, the frequency of meetings can be adjusted together.

Sessions are generally one hour and take place by Zoom. Meeting online removes the need for travel, makes Wayfinding accessible wherever you are, and helps us protect a focused and intentional space for the work.

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Your Commitment

Wayfinding works best when it becomes part of the rhythm of your life rather than something that happens only during our hour together.

Those entering Wayfinding are invited to commit to:

• Daily prayer — creating regular space to be present with the Lord, listen, receive, and respond.

• Keeping a journal — paying attention to what is stirring in prayer and daily life: desires, emotions, questions, resistance, consolation, desolation, invitations, and recurring themes.

• Submitting a brief prayer summary before each session — preferably the day before, or at least two hours before we meet. This allows Sean to prayerfully prepare and helps us begin the session already attentive to what may be emerging.

• Entering the conversation honestly and openly — much of our time together grows out of your prayer summaries and what you are presently noticing in your relationship with God.

• Practicing exercises as invited — at different times, Sean may suggest particular practices or exercises drawn from the Ignatian tradition and other ancient Christian disciplines. These may include the Examen, imaginative prayer, Scripture meditation, silence, solitude, discernment practices, or other exercises appropriate to what is unfolding.

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These are not assignments to perform for approval. They are practices intended to help train our attention and deepen our capacity to recognize and respond to God.

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Sean's Commitment to You

Wayfinding also carries commitments on Sean's side of the relationship.

Sean commits to:

• Pray for you daily.

• Prayerfully seek the counsel and leading of the Lord concerning your journey.

• Prepare for each session by thoughtfully engaging the prayer summary you provide.

• Listen without rushing to fix, control, or make decisions for you.

• Help you notice, test, discern, and respond to what may be happening beneath the surface.

• Keep what you share in complete confidentiality, creating a safe and trusted space for honest prayer, reflection, struggle, and discernment.

• Continue receiving spiritual direction himself, remaining accountable and submitted rather than attempting to accompany others in isolation.

• Continue growing in prayer, discernment, Scripture, spiritual formation, and the practice of spiritual direction.

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The goal of Wayfinding is not to make you dependent upon a spiritual director.

It is to help you become increasingly attentive and responsive to God yourself—to have your powers of discernment trained through practice, to recognize His movements more clearly, and to walk with Him in greater freedom.

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We walk together so that you may learn more deeply how to walk with Him.

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Fees & Financial Approach

A Wayfinding session is $95 + GST.

We believe there is value in honouring the time, preparation, training, and care involved in this ministry, and the fees we receive help make it possible for us to continue offering Wayfinding faithfully and sustainably.

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At the same time, we never want finances to become the reason someone cannot receive spiritual companionship.

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Wayfinding is rooted in ministry, not transaction. We believe what God gives is not something we sell, and we do not want the ability to pay to determine who has access to this kind of care. Scripture also teaches us to honour those who give themselves to teaching, shepherding, and ministry. We want to hold both of these convictions together with maturity and generosity.

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For that reason, while our regular fee is $95 + GST per session, there is room for conversation when finances are genuinely difficult. We can mutually agree upon a fee that is sustainable for both of us.

Our desire is simple: give what you are able, receive without shame, and honour the ministry as you are able.

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We trust the Lord as our source, and we want each Wayfinding relationship to be marked by freedom, generosity, honesty, and mutual honour.