In The Lived Experience of Group Spiritual Direction, Rose Mary Dougherty brings together first-hand reports by twenty-two people who tell their experiences as facilitators or participants in small groups of pray-ers. Here are people—clergy and laity, Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish—who have sought group guidance in their own spiritual journeys. For some, the experience had a set duration, but for others it stretched across years. Groups have formed in workplace settings, in houses of worship, in seminaries, among teens, and among government workers. In all of these, the group process has helped and supported people in their journeys to God.

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