ABSTRACT
To help with these issues, this chapter outlines and illustrates a number of processes useful in creating and maintaining critical spirituality. In doing this, it is important to bear in mind that ‘Spiritual care is not primarily learning a new technology of skills and techniques. Rather, it is a way of being. It is an intentional attitude that respects and cherishes a person as a spirited organism with spiritual needs’ (Topper 2003: 91). I am assuming here that professionals have at least basic skills of being able to engage with a range of people, willingness to listen, the capacity to work with groups and to negotiate in times of conflict. The processes outlined here can be used by practitioners to nurture and extend such skills and attitudes as well as to explore and develop understanding of the spiritual and spiritual practice.
