Kate Keefe

Kate Keefe brings a wealth of experience in spiritual direction, supervision, and Church leadership to her role as Accreditation Coordinator. She currently serves as coordinator of the online Ministry of Supervision course at CACS and as the Sacred and Safe safeguarding project development officer for both CACS and CSN.
Kate is a board member of Spiritual Directors International, the largest global spiritual direction community in the world, where she serves on the governance global committee supporting the development of spiritual direction networks across Africa, New Zealand, Europe, and Canada.
Her professional background includes serving as Assistant Director for Lifelong Learning at the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales and as a lecturer in leadership and management at Warwick University. She has extensive experience serving the Catholic Church in diverse ministries at parish, diocesan, and international levels.
Kate’s ministerial formation has been shaped by both the Jesuit and Carmelite traditions, and she holds degrees from the Universities of London and Southampton.
As Accreditation Coordinator, Kate oversees CSN’s accreditation processes, ensuring that practitioners meet rigorous standards of competence, formation, and ethical practice, and that the integrity of our accreditation framework is maintained.

I experience life as one of movement, hence the photo of myself in a car. Central to that movement is my growing relationship in intimacy with God which Carmelite Spirituality and belonging to the Carmelite religious and lay community of CACS and my local parish continues to be nurturing and life giving. My CACS training as a spiritual director was inspiring and enriching. This was followed some years later by a contrasting, robust and wonderful training as a supervisor by the Jesuits.

I work in supervision and project management in Spiritual Communities, my work now focuses mainly on supervising those undertaking spiritual direction, leadership roles, or project management.

Previous to this I have worked extensively in different voluntary ministries in the church and have held paid professional senior educational roles in a university, the Catholic Education Service, and other sectors in education in the Uk.

I enjoy working as a supervisor with:

. those recently qualified as spiritual directors

. or with Spiritual directors or pastoral or parish leaders who are leading innovation and transition in a systemic sense in their parish or religious community

. those spiritually directing directees with mental health issues or identifying as having ongoing trauma.

I am married with an adult son who joined our family at five years, I have learnt much about what it is to be human and overcome adversity from my son, from being married for many years, and from the many teams I have been a member of. I am inspired by St. Teresa of Avila’s a leader and by her deep understanding of so much about the human journey on earth and the path to heaven. I am also inspired by the spirituality of John of the Cross and St. Therese of Lisieux. They both enabled me to see suffering and non attachment in new ways. Having always lived in global cities I am committed to inter-faith dialogue and to working for the common good in society.