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- They both noticed that the funeral of his friend's sister reminded Joe about the death of her own sister. and they both tried to help Joe.

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- Director A addressed the issue as someone who gives advice. He/she focused more on the feeling of loss and the suffering that Joe is experiencing due to the death of his sister.

- Director B focused more on the prayer experience. With his/her questions, it helped Joe identify his feelings toward God, and accompanied him to see how God relates with him as he struggles with his grieving. It helped Joe to find the meaning of the different movements/conversation happened in his prayer.

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Similarity

Both Directors A and B listened to Joe's sharing and mirrored to him how the funeral reminded Joe of his own sister's death.

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Differences

Director A looks like interpreting/getting ahead of Joe's experience, when he said, "I suppose the feeling of loss haven't left you." By also mentioning his experience, Director A turned the focus to him rather than to Joe's feelings. With Director A, the conversation ended  with Joe not given a chance to resolve his feeling of loss

Director B, after mirroring to Joe what he is experiencing, led him to look at God, and let him stay by letting him pay attention on how God seems like. The conversation ended with Joe feeling relieved and experienced a God who took him seriously.

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Both Directors were able to have a similar understanding of Joe's story and Joe's feelings.

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Both Directors were able to have a similar understanding of Joe's story and Joe's feelings.

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Director A offered an explanation of Joe's situation based on his/her experience and wisdom.
Director B, instead, inquired how Joe brought his situation, feelings, in his prayer and relationship with God, and helped him discover God's presence in his life despite his negative feelings. The focus of Director B therefore was not his knowledge of wisdom like Director A but on the relationship of Joe and God.

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- Both Directors was able to guide Joe to make surface his deeper issue: grief over his sister's death.

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- The conversation between Director A and Joe somehow revolves within the real experience of Joe with the event and how it triggered emotions and feelings within that are still lingering.
- On the other hand, the dialogue between Director B and Joe has its spotlight not focused entirely on Joe. His real experience of the event is somehow explored with a deeper sense of reality of another agent which is actively listening and teaching, who is God.

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both started with Joe's reality - grief over death of his friends's sister and his own experience of loss upon the death of his own sister, Agnes.

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Director B invited Joe to shift his attention to the Lord and the thing he noticed or observe. Was he close or far? Listening to him or not…Is He looking at him in the eyes or somewhere? Did he say something to him? Then, Director B asked Joe again as to his reaction to the silence of the Lord…There was engagement and in the end Joe declared…."He took me/listen to me seriously".

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Directors A and B listened to Joe's experience and both were able to see the reason behind Joe's "gloomy" situation.

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Director A - seemed to focus on the grief as part of life and have to be accepted.

Director B - focused on the prayer experience of Joe and trying to see where God is in this moment of grief

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Both Directors saw that the funeral of the friend's sister reminder Joe of his loss to his own sister whom he really loved.

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Director A was focused on assumptions that what Joe could be feeling is exactly the same as his own experience.

Director B was passionate to lead his directee to scrutinized better what happened in the prayer experience of Joe. Director B was keen to look at the patterns of his feelings as he relates the prayer experience.

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Directors A and B were able to recognize that Joe's feelings about his sister's death returned when he attended the funeral of his friend's sister.

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Director A applies Pastoral counseling however his probing is quite short and limited . There was no further exploration or interventions to maybe alleviate the pain of loss to enable Joe to move ahead in his life.  He has given little encouragement to Joe. At the end of their conversation, Joe ,though did not like to be gloomy, still feels gloomy, heavy heart.
Director B applies Spiritual Direction process. He has enough process of probing Joe. He gives little time for Joe to stay first with his feelings. Right away, Director B points Joe to talk to God, to tell his feelings to the Lord. Little by little taking Joe to the awareness of the presence of God in his pain, awareness of his conversation with God, leading Joe to open up what he feels and comes up with a realization that God, though seems not answering him, has been listening to Him all throughout attentively thus giving him importance & assurance of being taken seriously.

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Both Director A and B are aware of the inner pain, inner struggle of Joe. Both show compassion to Joe. they both wanted to comfort and help him alleviate his pain by doing some interventions.

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Director A gave attention to Joe's feelings of loss and gave advice on how to deal with it, citing also his own experience of loss but did not explore more the prayer experience.
Director B went deeper and explored more Joe's prayer experience and helped him articulate it, see where and who God is in this prayer, God's reaction and what God said. He gave attention to the actions/movements of God towards Joe in his prayer.

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Director A focused on Joe's feelings and advised him to return to himself He said: "Give yourself time to recuperate." Director A didn't mention about prayer or relationship with God.

Director B focused on Joe's relationship with God during his time of struggling. Director B was trying to lead Joe to express his feelings with God during his prayer. Joe was able to express his feelings and noticed God's attentiveness to his prayer.

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Both directors recognised in Joe that the death of a friend's sister brought back the sad feelings of loss of his own sister.

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Director A showed some level of empathy to Joe by sharing director A's own experience of losing a beloved one in the family. As director A has not overcome the grief, director A advised Joe just to accept it as part of life and take time to recuperate.

Director B applied a very good process of SD that helped Joe to see his current relationship with God after the loss of his sister. Through conversation, director B helped Joe to see that God has been always present and he attentively listened to Joe whenever he expressed feelings of loss and feelings of other aspects of his life. At the end, Joe felt good about prayer and received some level of comfort.

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Both directors recognized and understood the situation of Joe. They were focused and engaged with Joe in his sadness and irritation. They were listening attentively. They presented lead questions to deepen into Joe's feelings of madness, anger, and irritation.

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1.      Director A focuses his conversation with the directee (Joe) about feelings of loss whereas Director B led the conversation on the experience of prayer/relationship with God.

2.      Director A, displays short conversation whereas the conversation of Director B with the directee exhibits dynamic engagement in their exchange

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1.      Both directors started the conversation with connecting the woman’s death reminded of the directee’ sister death.

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Director A seems to be doing pastoral counseling. He merely processed Joe's feelings of sadness and madness about his experience. He presented lead questions but did not lead Joe to his experience of God in that sad situation, such that Joe is not able to let go.
Director B seems to be very interested in Joe in a way that Joe would get the feeling of God's presence in his sad experience. He led Joe to notice God and to relish even his madness with God, who seem not to listen to him at all. The director has led his directee to feel God listening even if He does not talk. Such that at the end, Joe is comforted with the fact that God is present in his grief.

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Director A & B heard Joe. In addition, the directors knew that the woman’s funeral affected Joe.

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Directors A & B differ in their methodology of directing Joe. Director A gave an immediate answer to Joe even Director he explained to him, shared the same sentiments, and consoled him. While Director B asked many questions to help Joe articulate what was happening to him. Director B was directing Joe about the role of the Lord of the events of his life. Director B reiterated to name Joe’s feelings Joe in those circumstances. Director B was attentive to Joe’s responses.

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1.	Director A focuses his conversation with the directee (Joe) about feelings of loss whereas Director B led the conversation on the experience of prayer/relationship with God.2.	Director A, displays short conversation whereas the conversation of Director B with the directee exhibits dynamic engagement in their exchange

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1.	Director A focuses his conversation with the directee (Joe) about feelings of loss whereas Director B led the conversation on the experience of prayer/relationship with God.2.	Director A, displays short conversation whereas the conversation of Director B with the directee exhibits dynamic engagement in their exchange

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Similarity/ies1.	Both directors started the conversation with connecting the woman’s death reminded of the directee’ sister death.

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Similarity/ies1.	Both directors started the conversation with connecting the woman’s death reminded of the directee’ sister death.