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Karla Droste is a spiritual director in Yardley, Pa. who has certificates in individual and group direction from the Mercy Center in Burlingame, CA. She is especially interested in vocational discernment, transition and Ignatian spirituality and provides direction for individuals, couples and groups. The wife of an Episcopal priest, she has lived up close and personal with the unique challenges, ambiguities and demands of clergy life. Karla moved here from Oakland, CA, where she worked as an administrator in a hospital spiritual care department and provided spiritual direction for chaplains in the Clinical Pastoral Education program.
Karla believes that a loving God is tangibly present in every human experience and that spiritual direction can help us name and give voice to our experiences with God. She employs many different languages and tools to explore the inner landscape, including the Enneagram, Myers-Briggs, the Ignatian spiritual exercises, mindfulness, and spiritual gifts discernment. She believes that the focus of spiritual direction is to deepen our relationship with God and ourselves. “We learn to discern God’s voice from the myriad of other voices demanding our attention. We listen closely, discovering the thread of the Spirit in our everyday experiences.”
You can learn more about Karla here.