A spiritual companion is someone trained in listening for the ways in which God may be at work in people’s lives.

The companion is neither a teacher nor a problem-solver. They do not give advice or offer ready-made answers. At the heart of spiritual accompaniment is attentive listening: to what someone shares, to what is moving within them, and to what in that movement may come from God.

In a Magis Circle, the companion helps create space for each person’s experience. They safeguard a safe and respectful atmosphere, invite people to speak from their own lived experience, and ensure that listening happens without judgment. In this way, what is alive within people is given room to become clearer, without the conversation slipping into discussion or well-intended advice.

The Ignatian tradition, or spirituality, is a way of living and praying that goes back to Ignatius of Loyola. It invites people to pay attention to their own experience: to what happens within them in everyday life, in their desires, choices, faith, and doubt.

In this tradition, God is not seen as separate from ordinary life, but as someone who can be encountered precisely there. In what touches you, gives joy, or causes restlessness, something may emerge that offers direction. By pausing with this — personally and together with others — it can gradually become clearer what truly gives life.

In the Magis Circle, this means starting from lived experience, listening without judgment, and making space for each person’s own path. Not to convince one another, but to become more attentive to what is being revealed.