Pastoral Care courses
for September 2010

Information for Church, Circuit & Pastoral Leaders
in the Chester & Stoke on Trent District

Please contact the Training Officer David Syson to discuss Pastoral Care training in your church or circuit.
Tel. 01260 223343 Email: dsyson@googlemail.com

 

This summary of four Pastoral Care courses has been complied to assist church and circuit leaders to consider support for pastoral care provision. The courses can be part of a support and development package.

If you would like to discuss how these courses could assist in being part of a package of Pastoral Care please contact the Training Officer, David Syson Tel. 01260 223343,  dsyson@googlemail.com

Pastoral Care in the Local Church (CWR)

5 - 8 October 2010 Offered by CWR

This course is a blend teaching, discussion, workshops, case studies, group exercises and personal reflection time.
 
Topics covered include:

• The biblical foundation for pastoral care
• Pastoral care and discipleship
• Why people have problems
• The key qualities of an effective pastoral carer
• The health and personal growth of the pastoral carer
• Improving your communication skills
• How to set up and maintain pastoral care in your local church
• Pastoral care in the UK church today
• Pastoral care systems that work
• Common personal issues faced in pastoral care
• Developing care in the community.

More details: www.cwr.org.uk
Provided by: CWR
Location: Waverley Abbey Surrey
Duration: 4 days
Cost: £345 12.5% discount for 6

Pastoral Care Foundation Course  (ACC)

Dates: arranged with church or circuit leadership

The Association of Christian Counsellors Pastoral Care Foundation Course aims to develop those with a heart for pastoral care, helping them be enabled to release the hands, feet and voice of Jesus into their local communities.

The programme includes:

• pastoral care from a Christian perspective
• the dimensions of human need
• the nature of a caring relationship from a Christian perspective and define the personal qualities necessary to build this
• acquire and develop appropriate listening and responding skills
• identify and know how to access and utilise relevant personal, spiritual and community resources
• identify and understand principles of spiritual, emotional, physical and sexual safety within the context of pastoral care, and know how to apply these principles in caring relationships
• reflect on learning and applying it in a pastoral care context
• recognise where further growth and development would be beneficial

Course Content:

Session 1 Introduction
Session 2 Biblical Perspective
Session 3 Human Need
Session 4 The Caring Relationship
Session 5 Listening to Self and God
Session 6 Listening to Others (1)
Session 7 Listening to Others (2)
Session 8 Safe Practice
Session 9 Resources
Session 10 Going Out and Close

Location: Own church
Duration: 40 hours (20 hours group work 20 hours individual)
Cost: Costs of printing materials

Counselling Skills for Pastoral Care (St John’s)

3 - 5 Sept. 2010 and 11 - 13 April 2011

This course will help you develop a Christian understanding of people and equip you to express God's love and care to them in a practical way. It is part of the distance learning Certificate in Christian Studies but is frequently studied for its own sake or as entry to the postgraduate diploma. Listening and counselling skills cannot be taught at a distance, so an integral part of this course is the two short residential periods.

The residential parts of the course include plenary sessions, skills practice and small group work. The distance learning module, which is completed between the times you come to St John's, takes approximately 100/150 hours, and includes written assignments.

Location St John’s College Nottingham
Duration:8 days plus 100-150 hours individual study
Cost: £770

Encircled in Care (Methodist Church)

Dates arranged with church or circuit leadership

The pack contains three foundation sessions, focussing on why we care, skills needed in our caring and the development of good practice.  There are nine issue-based sessions, covering some of the situations that pastoral visitors might need to respond to or be involved with.

 

The programme covers:

Prayer in pastoral care
Connecting care and discipleship
Children young people and pastoral care
Across generations
Extended communion
Health healing and well being
Mental health
Loss and bereavement
Domestic abuse

Location: Own church
Duration: 20 - 30 hours group work
Cost: Costs of printing materials