Janet Groen

Janet is a spiritual director who trained in the Pacific Jubilee SoulGuiding program and who is now undertaking the Soul Mentoring program. She also has certification and a practice as a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) instructor.

In 2002, Janet completed her doctorate in education with a focus on spirituality, adult learning, and the workplace. As a professor of adult learning for the past 20 years, she continues to be passionate about teaching and research about adult learning and spirituality, with a more recent focus on contemplative ecology.

Underlying her own spiritual journey and work as a spiritual director and adult educator, is her belief that we are being called home to be fully in relationship with ourselves, with others, and with the natural world. To move beyond the rational to embrace the whole; through mind, heart, and body.

In her practice of spiritual accompaniment, anchored in deep listening, Janet draws on a range of resources and practices, such as mindfulness, the Enneagram, and contemplative ecology.