Please don’t hesitate to contact me if this would be of interest to you. I am also available to come and speak to groups about Interfaith Ministry and what we, as a community can offer. I am based on the Isle of Skye but am originally from the north of England and am happy to travel north, south, east and west! In my own faith path I am particularly drawn to Universal Sufism and the earth-based traditions. I have come from a varied background to enter and serve within the Interfaith space: I am a qualified medical herbalist and a tour guide and I identify as a member of the LGBT+ community. You will find a short description of what spiritual counselling is here. If you are looking for spiritual counselling/accompaniment I am more than happy to discuss this with you if you are unsure whether this is right for you. I am also very happy to offer Spiritual Counselling as part of my ministry. I also offer workshops on a more ‘urban basis’ too on a wide variety of topics with a strong emphasis on our vital connection to spirituality through the natural world. To that end, I also offer journey days into the wilder places of Scotland to offer workshops creating ceremony in Scotland’s ‘spiritual landscapes’. I am, and always have been, very drawn to nature. On this website, you will find some photos of me and my family of 9 cats, 6 dogs, hens and a turkey called Lucy! I am blessed to share this life-space with my beautiful wife, Jean, who is a medical herbalist. This is really an important part of my life and I honour that in offering services for animals and their humans! If you have lost an animal companion, or wish to celebrate the lives of animals in any other way, then please don’t hesitate to contact me. I am an animal lover, a member of the Animal Interfaith Alliance, and have a large family of rescue animal companions. Sometimes we need ceremonies or rituals that are still and quiet, at other times we need music and dancing, sometimes we need to go out on a limb and do something we never expected! Whatever you need then I will work towards helping you create the ceremony you need in your home or at the top of a mountain! I think ritual helps us all move through, celebrate and acknowledge important events in our emotional and physical lives and we all need to express that in our own ways. Interfaith ministers do what all ministers may do, for instance, creating and facilitating ceremonies to mark life’s events everything from baby blessings, weddings, rites of passage and funerals to completely bespoke, one-off ceremonies for any reason you feel a ceremony or ritual necessary.Īs an Interfaith Minister I strive to make sure that all the ceremonies I write honour everything that every individual, couple or group bring to the creative mix. As such our remit is to serve, to the best of our abilities, all communities with total openness and joy, mining the deep richness of all paths with the understanding that at the core of each and every one of them, love is the guiding principle. Non-conformist interfaith ministers serve all faith communities, as well those who do not wish to adhere to any particular belief at all. What do Interfaith Ministers do and what exactly does ‘interfaith’ mean?
I trained in seminary with the One Spirit Interfaith Foundation and am now hoping to make what difference that I can to the world, in my role as a minister. My name is Kim Atherton-Dow and I am an ordained Interfaith Minister.
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