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I offer guided conversation and study resources in English, to help you to find your spiritual life and grow in it. I work in-person and online – locally or internationally – with people from many countries. I work with men and with women. My Chinese friends call me a 属灵导师 or a 心灵导师 – a spiritual guide.

^{“Why a compass?” Spiritual life is about paying attention, following signs – the compass shows us where to look, where to go. Very many things in life point us to God. Let’s learn how to see the signs, and to follow them.}

What would you do with an hour
of professionally-focused conversation each month,
dedicated to helping you find meaningful answers
and heartfelt connection with God?

Welcome to Canada!  I hope that living here brings you great joy and satisfaction. It’s a beautiful country – you and your family can be planted and grow in new ways. Here you will also find new challenges to your whole experience of life, relationships, work. It’s not all easy!

If you’ve never been interested in spiritual life before, you have new opportunities here! You can explore new ideas and ways to live that will make a big difference to your life. 

Maybe you had a sense of spiritual life and connection in your home country. Do you feel lost here? like you’re in an uncharted desert? It might seem strange, but lostness and uncertainty is an excellent time and place to start building new spiritual connections.

“Why do I need spiritual consulting and education?”

Everyone needs it, no matter what culture or background you come from. Everyone experiences personal imbalance within themselves, within relationships, within daily life – we lose connection with God. This imbalance and disconnection shows up in our lives in many ways … in things that hurt us and other people. We try many ways to fix the imbalance! but we often fail because we don’t understand the disconnection, the deepest cause of the imbalance. Fortunately, God is always working to help us find our way. He wants to help us experience the kind of life that we have been created for. 

I’ll bet that you’re a hardworking person – perhaps 996?! But have you ever slowed down enough to notice what kind of person you’re becoming? Have you ever taken time to notice the deep places in your heart? and what’s happening in your relationships? Have you ever asked yourself, “What is really good and truthful here?” and “What is simply ‘content,’ advertising designed to make me spend money or to do what someone else wants?”

Perhaps you come from a culture where the success and status of your family in your community are very important. You are one person among many others, you work hard for everyone else. OK, that’s fair. But you also are important! Has anyone ever listened to you before? what are your thoughts, your feelings, your hopes?

My work is to provide you with a still, quiet place where you can be speak and be heard, so that you can ask big questions – and begin to discover connection and answers. It’s a place where we can listen and begin to notice how God shows up to us. Sometimes people talk about trying to find God – but it’s more true that God is working to find us – and to help us find Him.

Spiritual life begins 
with what we notice, 
with what we pay attention to.
It grows as we pay more attention.

Hello! I’m Kirk Ruch. I speak and work in English, and I am an experienced guide for people of many nationalities. Click here to find out more about me.

“What do you do?”

I help you learn to pay spiritual attention through focused 60-minute conversations and gentle homework assignments. Group interactions with other people who are also exploring their connection to God might become available, too. 

I am a safe person who will listen to you and provide careful, empathetic spiritual consulting and education. My work with you is strictly confidential and private.  I subscribe to the SDI code of ethics.

“What language do you work in?”

I work in English. Consulting with me will improve your English! and give you words to help you feel and talk about spiritual, personal matters. You will learn how to talk in a whole new way about important matters of life – for yourself and with other people. This alone may significantly improve your life!

“What are spiritual consulting and spiritual education?”

They’re different kinds of focused conversations – sometimes with homework. Spiritual life begins with what you’re paying attention to, and grows as you pay more attention.  

In spiritual consulting and education I listen carefully to you. I share relevant information and instructive tasks that can help you grow in your understanding, to open your life up to connection with God.

What is spiritual direction?

See the chart just below, and click here for a clear, more detailed explanation.

“How is your work different from psychologists, therapists, counsellors, coaches?“

This chart might help makes the differences clearer.

Psychologists, coaches, therapists, and clinical counsellors can help you deal with specific details about your life. My work complements their work. My work with you is about the big picture of your life, the context of your life. If you experience growth in the big picture, you’ll see worthwhile changes in the specific details of your life!

“I don’t think I believe in God.”

You can still benefit from my work with you. Our conversations are a safe place to talk about your questions and doubts. Our conversations can help you discover connection with God in fresh ways. You will find help with your questions. Along the way, you may discover new questions and new answers that satisfy your heart very deeply.

“If I’m interested in believing in God, where would I start?”

Let’s talk about it! God is interested in more than getting you to believe that God exists. God wants to know you! and wants to help you flow together with God, other people, within yourself, and with all of life.

“Why should I believe in God? What difference does having any kind of spiritual life make? What good is it?”

Great questions! I’ve asked these questions, too! And I’ve been in conversations with international friends for very many years about all these things, and more.  Let’s get together and find out!

“OK, one more question: what is River Wind Fire?”

River Wind Fire is the name of my work. Click here to find out what the rubric and logo means, and why it is important.

Yeah, so … enough about me!

I offer a free, no-obligation initial consultation meeting – live or online. Let’s get acquainted, and talk about how what I offer can meet your questions and needs.