Reflective Practice - Formation and Supervision in Ministry (E-Journal)
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Thinking Metaphorically within One's Supervision/Coaching Practice
Full text linkThis article examines the crucial role of metaphor in language, especially within supervision and coaching contexts. The author highlights the pervasive nature of metaphor in language, referencing Charles Taylor’s assertion that metaphor reveals overlooked aspects of experience. Drawing on the works of Marshall McLuhan and Iain McGilchrist, Flett presents a framework that views metaphor as a fundamental agent of meaning. This framework is applied to supervision and coaching, demonstrating how attention to metaphorical language can enhance practice. The article emphasizes the practical importance of recognizing and utilizing metaphor to gain deeper insights into clients’ experiences, thereby fostering more effective personal and professional development
Jesus and the Paradigms of Loneliness
No full textThe author explores the various ways that he has addressed and dealt with feelings of isolation, grief, and loneliness. His approach to his owning these feelings offers excellent suggestions for encouraging people to engage their own feelings
Learning to Sing in a Strange Land: Practicing a Pedagogy of Conscious Relinquishment
Full text linkWillie James Jennings’s After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (2020) and Cindy S. Lee’s Our Unforming: De-Westernizing Spiritual Formation (2022) have been landmark literary encounters for me of late. Each in their own way have challenged two working assumptions around teaching within a theological institution. The first is an epistemological assumption about a so-called ‘body’ of specialised knowledge students need to learn. The second is the assumption of the inherent superiority of Western ways of processing and acting in relation to all things biblical, theological, or spiritual.
Adopting a professional stance of conscious relinquishment may sound like a contradiction in terms. However, to frame the Christian gospel with a lively sense of congruity, admissions of unknowing or limitation, are essential to the way our teaching is conveyed — embodied. The Gospel of Mark with its latent theme of transformative movements forward is an ideal conversation partner for this overarching theme
Going Deeper: A Reflection on Educational Cornerstones and Adaptations in Changing Landscapes of Practice
Full text linkField education thrives on theological reflection and integration, with its outcome expressed in vocational practices. Current realities, such as post-COVID technological changes and virtual and in-person communities, invite adaptations in a rapidly changing landscape of practice. This reflective essay represents an instructor's perspective seeking to go deeper in uncertain times. Tripodi also reflects the perspective of one of her supervisor-mentors, whose invitation reflects the unlearning/learning pedagogy inviting transformation in liminal spaces. Spiritual practices such as Lectio Divina, Ignatian spirituality, or mindfulness exercises are one means for such transformation. They allow the instructor, intern, and supervisor-mentor a renewed spiritual grounding from which new forms can emerge. Using Gorman's poetry, grief concerning current contextual realities is acknowledged. Following the Talmudic sense, the instructor, intern, supervisor-mentors, and internship communities are called to acknowledge reality and actively participate in providing care and service. This service becomes the source of hope through the work for the common good. Deepened self- and communal awareness provide a source of wisdom that allows new adaptive processes to emerge. By modeling these practices, the instructor strives to create a safe, brave, mutual learning space where all are learners and instructors
Finding Ourselves at the margins: The Integration of Self-Care Reflective work into contextual Education
Full text linkFormation for ministry has long been a focus of study within theological education. Essential to ministry formation is the development of self-preserving practices that promote renewal and flourishing. Seminary students experience increased self -knowledge and cultural sensitivity when contextual education requires self-care reflective work. 
Loneliness of the Pastor
No full textIn this convergent mixed methods study, I sought to mitigate pastoral loneliness using centering prayer. I examined the isolation experienced by clergy, citing data before and during the recent pandemic. From the data gathered in my four-week intervention, I found a correlation between decreased pastoral loneliness and centering prayer
Kicking Around Sacred Connection: Coaching a "Soccer Team" of ACPE Learners
Full text linkACPE Theory Presentation of the Year Award 2024. Benjamin Paul Allward-Theime
Exploring Weaving Stories: A Narrative Way of theological Reflection in Field Education
Full text linkThis article delves into the meaning and method of narrative in theological education, articulates the significance of connecting various stories – biblical, personal, congregational, and cultural – in theological reflection, and proposes an interdisciplinary narrative way of theological reflection based on the story-weaving work by two Asian American female theologians.