Reflective Practice - Formation and Supervision in Ministry (E-Journal)
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EDITORIAL - SECTION II - WHEN FEAR COMPLICATES MINISTRY/SUPERVISION
No full textIn this section, we look at ways in which fear enhances or impedes formation and supervision, depending in part on how it is used
Field Education and Critical Pedagogy: A Conversation
Get PDFThe author concludes, "Maybe the best thing we could do for our students is help them not to become "fit" for ministry today but to figure out what ministry will be tomorrow.
Christian Spirtual Direction in the Confucian Culture: A Korean Perspective
Get PDFChristian spiritual direction is a process in which one Christian helps another to deepen his/her relationship with God and live out the results of the relationship. Nonetheless, there are many stumbling blocks in adapting spiritual direction into a Korean context. Korean expressions of experiences and attitudes about relationship are very different from Western Christians
Identity and Difference: Race, Racialization, and Otherness in the Intersubjective Field in Clinical Practice
Get PDFThe issue of identity and difference is loaded with many tensions and potentially irresolvable sets of politics of interpretation. It is important to understand that on matters of race, identity and difference, the conception of the Other as fixed and absolute leads to the dangerous penchant to demonize the Other
Supporting Your Muslim Students: AGuide for Clinical Pastoral Supervisors
Get PDFThis guidebook for the supervision of Muslim students was written at the request of the Task Force on Islam of the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education in an effort to enhance effective supervision of Muslim students. The author brings thiry years of experience in Muslim community affairn to the work of preparing this guidebook
I Walk Through Life Oddly: Dispositions, Character, and Identity in Clinical Pastoral Supervision
Get PDFLearning occurs in community. Identity is formed within community. Character is experienced in and through communal activities. Dispositions are experienced in and through the give and take of the interdependent relationships found in community. There is no escaping the importance of communityin adult learning. Even as one who lives and moves and has his being in solitude, I still know the value of community and relationships. It is a caring community, much like the circle of trust, which calls forth what is within the supervisor even as their dispositions, character, and identity embody a walk through life oddly with all the courage, dignity, morality, and ruin that such a walk entails
Beyond Virtue: The Growth of Spiritual Skills During Initial Pastoral Education
No full textVirtue is as important in chaplaincy practice as it is in the areas of medical ethics, politics, education, and health care. A virtue perspective, mostly ignored for decades in a society determined to create a value-free educational system, is recently re-emerging as central to developing leaders who are persistently focused on what is best for the general public. How growth in virtue can be recognized, however, remains a complex issue
The Social Trifecta of Human Misery and Problematical Constructions of the Self: Implication for Formation and Supervision
Get PDFI wish to propose that three broad and pervasive social realities—consumerism, income inequality, and certain aspects of postmodernity—constitute a perfect storm of suffering for the individuals, families, communities and congregations in our care. These social realities are, for most societies touched by the globalization of capitalism, the trifecta of human misery. Though I continue to draw upon the insights of psychology, I can no longer imagine focusing solely upon the intrapsychic and interpersonal lives of the suffering individuals, couples, and families in my counseling office. I face a similar challengeteaching and advising students preparing for ministry or supervising candidates seeking to become pastoral counselors. How can I limit their training and formation to the utilization of psychologies and theologies that are occupied almost exclusively with individuals and their private relationships
Learning from "Digital Natives:" Forming a New Generation of Religious Leaders
Get PDFWe are in a period of transition and there will emerge both things we would not want to reverse and consequences we will have to mitigate or oppose. The capacities we have will morph as we journey into the emerging ecosystem, but there will be lines of continuity