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Spiritual direction
Spiritual direction
Bring your lived experience, questions, and longings into a relationship of attentive listening. Explore God's presence and movement in the ordinary realities of your life.
Pasadena, California
A space to listen. Room to become.
Spiritual companioning, mentoring, and emotional integration.
A welcoming space to attend to your life and listen for the presence of God.
02 Ways to connect
Companionship for the journey.
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Mentoring
Growing together
Reflect on the practice of accompanying others through mentoring and spiritual direction supervision. Nina brings the experience of leading CenterQuest's Mentoring Community.
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DEI facilitation
Welcoming emotions
Learn emotional awareness and healthy empathy through Dynamic Emotional Integration (DEI), a non-clinical educational approach. Practices and reflection invite connection with your whole self, God, and others.
Inquiries about companioning, mentoring, availability, format, and fees are welcome.
Begin a conversationShe has pursued a particular passion for communion with God, especially listening for the voice of God.
- Spiritual director
- Supervisor
- Coach
- Educator
- DEI trainer & consultant
03 Meet Nina
A life shaped by listening.
Nina Lau-Branson is a spiritual director, supervisor, coach, educator, and licensed Dynamic Emotional Integration trainer and consultant based in Pasadena, California. She serves as Director of Mentoring Community with CenterQuest's School of Spiritual Direction.
She creates welcoming learning spaces for connection with oneself, God, and others, with particular care for leaders and people whose voices have been silenced or overlooked. The first U.S.-born child of Chinese immigrant parents, she brings attention to the sacred stories and cultural experiences people carry.
The sacred stories and cultural experiences people carry.
Nina trained in spiritual direction through CenterQuest and in supervision through Spiritual Directors International. Her background also includes an MBA in finance, CPA experience, and mediation and conflict transformation training with the Lombard Mennonite Peace Center.
Her leadership and consulting experience includes work with Cyclical, Fuller Seminary's De Pree Center for Leadership, the Center for Council, and nonprofit and business organizations. In 1979, she became the first coordinator of InterVarsity's Asian American Ministry Fellowship.
Today
- Director of Mentoring Community with CenterQuest's School of Spiritual Direction, a program distinct in its hybrid (residential/online) cohort model, that is ecumenically broad and global in reach.
- Spiritual director, supervisor, coach, and consultant with both individuals and groups.
- Pasadena, California. She lives with her husband in Pasadena, CA and has two adult children.
Rooted in
- 1979 First coordinator of InterVarsity's Asian American Ministry Fellowship.
- Organizational leadership in for-profit and non-profit organizations, including work on boards and in senior management.
- MBA in finance and a CPA earned while working with Price Waterhouse Coopers in their entrepreneurial services group.
These varied sets of experiences and skills are brought to bear in her work with individuals and communities.
- CenterQuest School of Spiritual Direction
- Spiritual Directors International
- Fuller Seminary's De Pree Center for Leadership
- Cyclical LA
- Center for Council
- Lombard Mennonite Peace Center
- Ten Thousand Villages
- InterVarsity
04 Writing, learning & connection
Listening on the page.
Personal reflection
The gifts of emotions
Nina shares how spiritual direction, welcoming community, and learning the language of emotions deepened her experience of faith, belonging, and belovedness.
Read Nina's personal reflectionLearning with Nina
Embracing Emotions
Her CenterQuest course, Embracing Emotions: God's Gifts for Thriving, draws on Karla McLaren's The Language of Emotions Workbook, connecting emotional learning with spiritual reflection and practice.
Explore CenterQuest learningPublished in Inheritance magazine
05 Begin a conversation
A space to listen. Room to become.
Inquiries about companioning, mentoring, availability, format, and fees are welcome.
nina@cqcenterquest.org