Spiritual exploration exercise
Exercise: a spiritual person
This exercise is reproduced from Values in Healthcare: a spiritual approach, with kind permission from The Janki Foundation for Global Health Care.
- Working individually or as a group, think about someone you know that you consider spiritual in some way. If you cannot think of anyone, use a character from history
- Next, working in pairs, describe the qualities or the things this person does that makes them spiritual
- Now share with your partner what your special qualities are, and how you express them
You may have listed qualities like compassionate, caring, altruistic, kind, listens, is always there for you. The qualities in both lists may be similar indicating that all people, including you, are spiritual.
This exercise helps to dispel the misconception that spirituality = only religion.
Reference: The Janki Foundation (2004) Values in Healthcare: a spiritual approach. A personal and team development programme for the well-being of healthcare practitioners, The Janki Foundation: London.