Spiritual Care
Are you looking for a way to connect your spirituality with your activism and organizing?
Are you seeking to explore your spirituality beyond organized religion?
Are you seeking grounding in a time of climate crisis and intense change?
Hi! I am Cedar (he/him). I am a queer and trans spiritual care provider, chaplain, and creative writer. I currently live in Cork, Ireland, along the River Lee. I come to spiritual care work with a deep commitment to justice, a deep connection to land, and a desire to help heal land and people together. I have over a decade of organizing in a movement to end poverty led by the poor.
Spiritual care offers space, companionship, and deep listening as people explore their spirituality and find ways to embrace life authentically and courageously.
As we live through challenging times, I seek to offer people space to connect with their deepest selves, their ancestors, the land on which they live, and whatever their experience of the divine. I respect all spiritual paths, including those that are non-religious or undefined.
I am currently enrolled in the Spiritual Direction Certification program with Cherry Hill Seminary. I am in the second year of that program and, starting March 2026, will be working with three people pro bono (for free).
All work will be virtual, offering 50 minute one-on-one sessions via zoom.
If you think you might be interested in doing spiritual care work with me, please contact me at cedar.james.monroe@gmail.com.
Past Experience and Education
Training
Spiritual Direction Certificate, Cherry Hill Seminary, 2025-26
The Morrigan Intensive, Irish Pagan School, 2023-24
MDiv, Episcopal Divinity School, 2013
Clinical Pastoral Education, Providence St Peter’s Hospital, Lacey, WA, 2011
Past Experience
Cofounder, Director, and Chaplain, Chaplains on the Harbor, 2013-2022
Pastoral Intern, St Paul’s Episcopal Church, 2012-13
Pastoral Intern, Ecclesia Ministries, Boston, MA, 2011-12
Classes Offered
“’Decolonizing’ Paganisms,” Cherry Hill Seminary, Insights Class, June 2025
“Slowing Down in the Anthropocene,” Cherry Hill Seminary, Insights Class, January 2025
SU 150: Chaplaincy and Building a Movement in Poor Communities, EDS at Union, November 4-5, 2022