Bruce Stanley

Bruce has been asking God-related questions since his teens.

Drawn early to mysticism and to experiential spirituality, he wanted life to feel alive, magical, relational and consequential. That adventure led him to train as a Spiritual Director (with the Bath & Wells Diocese) in his late twenties, younger than most, because he’d found that deep one-to-one conversations could have an exponentially beneficial effect on the rest of life.

Workwise, Bruce has always been at the crossroads of creativity, social entrepreneurship, personal development and spiritual exploration. He started Forest Church after discovering there was no room locally for the kind of connected, nature-rooted expression of faith he was seeking.

Day Crafting came later, as Bruce evolved his coaching practice. He is persuaded that a good life emerges by craft, practice, creative constraint and the steady shaping of days. Freedom often needs structure.