The core content components of the two hundred hours of curriculum recommended in the Formation Guidelines: Recommendations to Foster, Support, and Recognise the Formation of Spiritual Directors in Australia are the categories that index the following spiritual direction biography. The categories are as follows:
1. Scripture and theology, in accord with the program’s religious tradition;
2. the psycho-spiritual development of the human person;
3. the nature of religious experience, the discernment of spirits, and ways of prayer;
4. issues related to social justice;
5. the different theories and praxis of spiritual direction and psychological counselling;
6. the practice of professional referral;
7. the ethics of spiritual direction practice;
8. supervision.
(The bibliographical references in this section are being developed.)