Spiritual mentoring offers support for individuals who are wanting to look more deeply at their lives from a spiritual perspective…

A spiritual mentor and counsellor listens deeply to the whole of your being, provides a safe sanctuary in which to unpack and lay down your burdens and helps you to see meaning in all your experience, both happiness and suffering. Your unique life, including its blessings and challenges, is a sacred journey that can awaken you to a fuller, wiser and more loving way of being. Spiritual mentoring and counselling can provide the space and the tools to help you heal yourself, discover the deeper dimensions of life and connect with your sense of meaning and purpose.

Professional mentoring and supervision is also available for those running their own practice or wanting to set up and develop spiritual groups such as a wild church or new monastic gathering. 

As well as skilled listening and reflection, it can include guided meditation, simple ceremony and non denominational guidance on spiritual practice

Spiritual mentoring is available in the Wild Monastery with Rev. Sam Wernham. Sam has completed professional training in non violent communication, trauma and stress management and spiritual counselling with One Spirit Interfaith Foundation. She has an MA in Mindfulness-based Psychotherapeutic Practice from the Karuna Institute and Middlesex University, London and is trained in mindfulness based supervision. 

Alongside training she has completed over ten years of personal psychotherapy including individual, group and art therapy and she has over thirty five years experience of spiritual practice in Buddhist, Christian, Druid and Kabbalistic spirituality. She has been facilitating groups, guiding retreats and offering individual support for over twenty five years and has trained for ministry with the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Church of England and the Interfaith Foundation. She is the founder of an original Wild Church, creator of the first Wild Monastery and has decades of experience as a highly innovative and effective pioneer minister.

Sam is a member of the Interfaith Ministers Association (ROSIM) and is professionally insured and supervised.

Mentoring & supervision sessions usually last an hour and are offered on a sliding scale of £40 – £60 (according to means).

Longer sessions of up to two hours are also available. Sam prefers to meet with people personally in her Sanctuary in her garden in Dartington (or outdoors in beautiful, natural spaces) but online Zoom or  telephone sessions are also available.