SPIRITUAL DIRECTION SERVICES IN CANADA
ALEPH Canada provides in-person & viritual spiritual direction services. Learn more or contact a member of our team today!
Meet Our Spiritual Direction Team
Ralph is a certified Spiritual Director having taken the three year Hashpa’ah (Spiritual Direction) program through ALEPH AOP. Born in Morocco, and raised in Toronto Ralph currently lives in Hamilton Ontario.
With a varied career as an award-winning broadcaster, Spiritual Director and author, Ralph has also served as an advisor to Party Leaders, Cabinet Ministers and a College President. Passionate about Jewish Renewal and excited to raise awareness for, and the dissemination of Renewal and the spiritual innovation that so many are yearning for.
Ralph is ready to dive deep into conversations and mine the wisdom of Renewal followers and leaders in Canada.
Gavriel Strauss is a Spiritual Counsellor and Relationship Coach who supports his clients in an IFS (Internal Family Systems therapeutic model) somatic-oriented process of healing, integration and awakening, on a path toward actualizing a more empowered Life Vision and Sacred Purpose.
Gavriel works with his clients on meeting personal and ancestral traumas, woundings and daily challenges of life and relationship as sacred opportunities for healing and growth.
You can find out more about Gavriel and his offerings at www.gavrielstrauss.com, email: gavrielstrauss@gmail.com, or his YouTube channel To Heal and Awaken: https://www.youtube.com/@ToHealAwaken
Jennifer (Jinks) Hoffmann was born in South Africa in 1943, but has lived in Canada, with her husband Alan, since 1966. Jinks is a spiritual director and a retired psychotherapist. She is the poetry editor for Spiritual Directors International. Poetry writing and work with her dreams are two of Jinks’ best-loved ways of listening for life’s Mystery.
Also paying attention to what is numinous in life—the glory and the shmutz. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous books, newspapers, journals, online publications, and on bookmarks. Her first book is called It’s All God, Anyway: Poetry for the Everyday.