Brand & Website Design for a Spiritual Direction Practice

Encountering the Divine

Encountering the Divine is a spiritual direction, retreat, and workshop practice led by Beverly Collin, who draws on 30 years of experience to guide spiritual seekers of every denomination and background, including people who feel marginalized or excluded by religion.

Beverly came to DesignGood ready to launch a virtual retreat business and to offer spiritual direction and workshops to people at a crossroads. We built her brand positioning, visual identity, and website, and added sales and outreach tools, branded email marketing, and business card design, all shaped around a gentle voice that holds humor, candor, and compassion.

It is brand and website design for spiritual directors, retreat leaders, and faith-based practitioners, written to feel like a safe, open space.

Encountering the Divine’s mission? To extend love to all people, regardless of religious denomination or walks of life. An active deep listener, she is ready to hear the story of each of her clients, supporting them on their spiritual journeys and helping them grow in their relationships to God. Her clients are diverse and from all backgrounds — women, the LGBTQ+ community, immigrants, and all who are marginalized. They may be experiencing hardship at work or in marriage, at a crossroads in life and ready for the next step. For them, prayer feels like it isn’t working anymore. They are experiencing fear, loss of connection and a need for peace. They seek an open door to spirituality for the path they are on. In a world rife with division, it was important that Encountering the Divine was presented as a safe space with honesty, mutual respect and non judgment. She wanted Encountering the Divine to feel gentle while also incorporating humor, candor and compassion.

Our Contributions

Brand Positioning, Visual Identity, Website Design, Sales & Outreach Tools, Branded Email Marketing, Business Card Design

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Who This Brand Was Built For

We build brands for spiritual directors and faith-based guides whose work depends on trust and whose audience arrives tender and often unsure whether they belong. Encountering the Divine had to speak to women, the LGBTQ+ community, immigrants, and others who feel marginalized, and to people at a crossroads at work, in marriage, or in faith, and it had to say plainly that all are welcome regardless of denomination.

What Changed for Encountering the Divine

Beverly Collin brought 30 years of experience helping people build a deeper connection to God and a clear picture of the practice she wanted to create. It would offer spiritual direction, retreats, and workshops, begin online, and grow toward in-person gatherings, and it would welcome anyone, whatever their denomination or background.

That welcome had to be believable. Many of the people she hopes to reach have felt left out of religious spaces, and some arrive at a crossroads, hardship at work or in marriage, or a sense that prayer has stopped working. A site that sounded formal or vague would have asked them to take a leap before giving them a reason to.

We started with brand language written in Beverly's voice, gentle and open, with humor, candor, and compassion. It gave the practice its name, Encountering the Divine, and a clear line, The spiritual guidance you're seeking, along with a plain description of what she offers and who it is for. Beverly approved the final copy, and then we designed the visual identity and a website that carried that welcome, with sales and outreach tools, branded email marketing, and business card design to match.

Today a visitor can see spiritual direction, retreats, and workshops laid out clearly, and can read in Beverly's own words that this is an inclusive space where they will be heard. She has a brand that opens the door the way she does in person, and a practice that people of any background can read and feel welcome to enter.

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