Alice Poltorick

Alice is a trained spiritual director and retreat facilitator and loves the ministry of spiritual direction. She is a guest retreat director at Eastern Point Retreat House and on the Sisters of St. Joseph’s retreat team at Glastonbury Abbey. Alice accompanies retreatants, making the 19th annotation through the St. Ignatius parish and BC program. She serves on the advisory board for the Sisters of St. Joseph Spiritual Ministries. Alice’s commitment to social justice is demonstrated by her service to organizations that support youth development, address homelessness, and encourage community dialogue and involvement. Alice lives in Massachusetts and enjoys meditation, yoga, walking in nature, traveling, and finding God in all things.

Session Type:

Online via Zoom

Availability:

Flexible on weekdays, works with directees to find mutually convenient times.

Faith Tradition:

Catholic and practitioner of Zen meditation

Experienced with:

Spirituality of young adult life
Spirituality of middle age life
Spirituality of retired life

Spirituality of contemplative prayer
Spirituality of art and music

Spirituality of sacred scripture
Ignatian spirituality

Payment:

Directees will pay Alice directly for each session. Rates and payment will be coordinated between the director and directee.

Please consider an additional offering of $10-$25 per session to cover the operational and administrative costs of the Center for Spiritual Direction.

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If you are a new directee seeking direction from Alice, please fill out the intake form below.

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Please give a brief description of your background (professional, personal, family life, faith community, current struggles or concerns... anything you would like your spiritual director to know about you)

Have you engaged in spiritual direction in the past? What was helpful to you? Was there anything that was not helpful to you?

What are you seeking through spiritual direction at this time?

Spiritual Direction Offering

This spiritual director is paid directly by each directee for the service of spiritual direction. The director will determine the session rate in conversation with you based on your needs and their practices and instruct you on how to make payments. The Center requests that you consider an additional offering of $10-$25 per session to support our operational and administrative expenses. Those offering scan be made on the “payment” page of our website.

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Session Appointments, Changes, and Cancellations

All spiritual direction sessions are scheduled and coordinated between the director and the directee. Directees are expected to keep their scheduled appointments. If you need to reschedule or cancel an appointment, please contact your spiritual director at the email address on this bio page (some directors may also choose to share phone contact information with directees once they begin meeting). Whenever possible, please provide 24 hours notice for all appointment changes. Spiritual direction is usually conducted once a month. You and your director will decide on the frequency and timing of your sessions.

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Next Steps

After you complete this intake form, the spiritual director should contact you to let you know if they can take you on as a directee and then begin the spiritual direction relationship by scheduling your first session. If this spiritual director does not contact you within one week, please send an email to the Center for Spiritual Direction at csd@holyfamilyretreat.org and we will assist you in moving forward.

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