Overview
Our definition of spiritual wellbeing:
Calm, connected and confident – whatever your circumstances.
We are an educational charity dedicated to exploring the vital connection between health, wellbeing, and spirituality. We create resources and deliver programmes that equip people to integrate spirituality into everyday life. We welcome and celebrate diversity, working inclusively with people of all spiritual traditions — and those with none.
Our current projects include:
National Schools Spiritual Wellbeing Project – bringing evidence-based spiritual wellbeing into school communities.
Diploma in Spiritual Coaching & Caregiving (CFI Level 3) – the only Ofqual-regulated qualification of its kind in the UK.
UK Register of Spiritual Caregivers – a trusted network of professionals and volunteers offering compassionate, person-centred support.
At the heart of our work is a commitment to a holistic, person-centred approach that values every individual’s unique spiritual journey.
HISTORY
Spiritual Companions evolved from a series of experimental courses run by William Bloom in the 1990s. These courses were titled the Open Mystery School and were based in St. James’s Church, Piccadilly. Their purpose was to understand the core practices at the heart of all spiritual approaches, but free of their particular beliefs, myths and symbolism.
A group of two hundred interested people then responded to drafts around how the essence of spiritual practice might be described, which resulted in the Spiritual Companions Guidelines.
In 2006 Spiritual Companions Educator, Kate Bird, and William Bloom wrote a 10 Session course ‘Introduction to Contemporary Spirituality.’ This course was trialled in twelve adult education centres.
The first Spiritual Companions course was run in 2006. In 2009 the Mangreen Centre near Norwich also began to deliver Spiritual Companions courses.
This course was then developed into the Diploma of Spiritual Coaching & Caregiving.
Originally Spiritual Companions was a project under the umbrella of the Foundation for Holistic Spirituality cic. In February 2014 the Spiritual Companions Trust acquired its own legal status as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO).
Connections to Wonder & Energy
We produced this short video to illustrates some of the different ways that people connect with life’s energy and wonder.