Mrs Breige O'Hare
Breige is based in well.com, a Christian Centre for Psychological and Spiritual wellbeing. Trained by the Jesuits in Manresa House, Dublin, she has an MA in Pastoral Theology and a Certificate in Counselling from QUB. She works under the name of Threshold Listening, offering one-to-one spiritual direction, as well as reflective prayer and learning experiences and retreats for groups and congregations. As part of this ministry, Breige draws on the services of independent facilitators and spiritual directors who share her desire to help people recognise God with them in their daily lives
She works under the name of Threshold Listening, offering one-to-one spiritual direction, as well as reflective prayer and learning experiences and retreats for groups and congregations. As part of this ministry, Breige draws on the services of independent facilitators and spiritual directors who share her desire to help people recognise God with them in their daily lives.
She successfully developed interdenominational, Belfast based training in Ignatian Spiritual direction. Recent years have seen a shift to training/formation which makes the deep hearted listening of the Ignatian tradition more widely available to people in their daily lives.
Breige's ministry is focussed on adult Christians who are no longer satisfied with easy answers, who are struggling with doubts and questions about God, church, faith, life. She specialises in providing company for people in wilderness times of life, in-between confusing places where it is not clear where God is and what he's up to.
She offers group experiences, quiet days and retreats for adult Christians in various locations in UK/Ireland. She is committed to her ongoing professional development and is supervised according to BACP standards.
Breige is author of two books, The Nearness of God: Rediscovering God’s Love and Longing (Shanway Press 2011) and Whole Parish Catechesis: Faith development for the Faint Hearted (Columba Press, 2005). Her research into the patterns of growth in relationship with God is used internationally in the training of spiritual directors. Breige is currently co-facilitating, Threshold formation in Spiritual Direction, an interdenominational (Ignatian) spiritual direction training programme, delivered in partnership with Edgehill Theological College, Belfast.
Breige is married and has two daughters.
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