| PASTORAL CARE TRAINING Pastoral
Care Team Pastoral
Care Training
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Orientation (offered in early September)
Listening
Skills
(Offered in the fall)
Do you want to
engage people with more compassion? Do you want to communicate with more comfort?
Do you want to relate to others with more competence? Participants in this four-week
class will learn specific, helpful skills through a combination of readings and
exercises. It is strongly recommended for all lay ministers and leaders who
visit or have regular contact with church members – and for anyone who simply
wants to be a more effective listener. Led by Tom Momberg.
At
the sessions we will consider:
- Why does Church of the Holy
Communion need a trained pastoral care team?
- What is pastoral care? What
is it not (counseling, spiritual direction, psychotherapy)?
- How can I
be a better listener? A more confident and sensitive visitor?
- What are
the special care needs/issues of various groups (widows, homebound, elderly, chronically
or terminally ill)?
- What kinds of things do I say or do when I visit?
What do I not say or do when I visit?
- What do I do with the information
I receive from the people I visit?
- What is the appropriate use of touch
in offering care to others?
- How can I best manage the thoughts and feelings
a visit might stir up in me?
- What are the spiritual and other resources
available to pastoral caregivers?
Lover of Souls, we bless
your Holy Name for all who are called to mediate your grace to those who are sick
or infirm. Sustain them by your Holy Spirit, that they may bring your loving-kindness
to those in pain, fear or confusion; that in bearing one another’s burdens
they may follow the example of our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. —
from Enriching Our Worship |
