About
No matter the context or role, I always find myself accompanying others towards threshold moments. My 30+ years as a bi-vocational pastor provides a unique reservoir of experience from which to offer spiritual accompaniment in everyday life and work. I have served in a variety of frontline leadership roles as pastor-teacher, chaplain, spiritual director, Ignatian retreat companion, and in business as a packaging sales representative, peer mentor and work-life coach.
In midlife, I updated my seminary education, earning a Doctor of Ministry degree in transformational leadership and developed a biblical teaching resource for Christian spiritual formation. See "Luke-Acts Improv: Biblical Narratives That Get You Into The Act", Harmon Press, Woodinville, WA, 2010.
During this time, my prayer was significantly transformed by the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola and studies in improvisation.
I trained as a Spiritual Director and retreat companion in the tradition of the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola with SEEL of Puget Sound, after having been informally mentored by a Jesuit priest in the practice of spiritual direction for several years. Ignatian spiritual direction is cultivating the art of discernment, that is to hear and recognize the voice of Jesus through Scripture and prayer. This leads to freedom, clarity, and focus for life and ministry, along with confidence to act in accordance with God’s leading. . . so you may be able to discern what is best. . . (Philippians 1:9-10; Luke 24:13-32, John 10:27)
I wear Luke-Acts Improv lenses like an actor on an improv stage finding his/her place in the story. "Luke-Acts Improv" is a metaphor I coined for reframing our lives in the drama of the biblical story. This gospel frame helps set the stage to see God in all things; to notice, to listen, and discern where God may be at work.
In recent years, my experience has been significantly impacted by becoming a Benedictine Oblate. The Benedictine Rule, with its spirituality of work, has a great deal to offer the individual grappling with issues of work-life balance.
It’s a joy to be able to offer these streams of living water in Christ to support and encourage others, “that their hearts may be encouraged as they are knit together in love, to have all the riches of assured understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, of Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. (Colossians 2:2-3)
Training
19th Annotation of The Spiritual Exercises - Bill Zuelke with Soul Formation 2018 & SEEL of Puget Sound 2022-23
Details
Cost per session
Available Upon Request
Offers spiritual direction
Online, In-Person
Session length
60 minutes
Works with
Men
Other languages spoken
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