Sally Longley is a Spiritual Director and retreat leader currently on leave from the staff of the Canisius Centre for Ignatian Spirituality in Pymble, Sydney, Australia.
Sally has been involved in spiritual direction for many years, having studied spiritual direction in both the USA and in Australia. Sally was a member of the Australian Ecumenical Council for Spiritual Direction as well as serving for 6 years as the president for the Australian Network for Spiritual Direction.
Sally spent 12 years as part of a 4-year training program, Listen into Life, for those discerning becoming spiritual directors.
She is a Veriditas Advanced Labyrinth facilitator, and along with her husband Jim, and some community members, designed and built the Chartres labyrinth at Sydney’s Peter Canisius House: a retreat centre for Ignatian Spirituality.
Sally is a qualified Giver of the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises and facilitates retreats of 1 day, 3 days, 5,8, and 30 day silent retreats.
Her doctorate focused on the personal and spiritual transformative impact of silence for those who ‘draw aside and rest awhile’.
BOOKS INCLUDE: ‘Walking the Labyrinth as the Beloved in John’s Gospel’ -available to order from this website
‘Conversations with Silence: Rosetta Stone of the Soul’ – available through Amazon or Wipf & Stock publishers.
‘5 Ways to Pray’- 3 x MP3’s available through this website.
Dr Sally Longley facilitates themed retreats, and is a conference speaker.
Her hobbies include iconography, creating stained glass windows/doors; and messing around with paint.
Sally welcomes all people as they are, regardless of faith or no faith, gender or background.
There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:28
