Pastoral care basics Foundation Course LEARNING ENVIRONMENT Relax Theres no Right or Wrong Were All Learners Art of Pastoral Care CREATING AN OPTIMUM ATMOSHERE Criteria for Assessing Pastoral Care ID: 769989
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Pastoral care basics Foundation Course
LEARNING ENVIRONMENT Relax !! There’s no “Right” or “Wrong”We’re All Learners:“Art of Pastoral Care” CREATING AN OPTIMUM ATMOSHERE
Criteria for Assessing Pastoral Care PV Response Right PV Response Wrong No Right or Wrong !!
Effectiveness Continuum Less Effective More Effective
Introduction Introducing Self as PV Two Fundamental Points: Who you are.Identify self as Pastoral VisitorWhy you’re there.Explain the purpose of the visit. ESSENTIAL FIRST STEP
Pastoral identity “Spirituality and Pastoral Identity” p. 44-51 HENRI NOUWEN CREATIVE MINISTRY
Being / doing IDENTITY Doing (tasks)? Listens wellingPraying wellBeing?Our beingOur personhood WHO AM I?
Pastoral presence MORE THAN A CLICHÉ
Fr. Melloh Notre Dame
Fr. Melloh’s Essay “Incarnational Theology and Pastoral Care (Roman Catholicism)” “ Human existence is embodied. We do not have a body, but we are a body.” Dictionary of PC & C, p. 573-74
John Patton “Pastoral Presence” Three Levels of Awareness:Self-awarenessPointing beyond oneselfAwareness of the other PASTORAL CARE: AN ESSENTIAL GUIDE
Pastoral / Social conversation A CRUCIAL DISTINCTION
10 Points of comparison Role Energy AttentionQuestionsTalking Listening Empathy Acceptance Personal History Helping
pastoral Pastoral History Limited to facilitating the other’s story Personal HistoryOften based on “the moment” and mutual sharing social Sample comparison
Listening and empathy UNIVERSAL HUMAN NEEDS
empathic listening GENERATES EMPATHIC CONNECTIONS
David Massey “Empathy” “…identify with and experience another person’s experience” “…by, as much as possible, suspending one’s own frame of reference …to enter the perceptual and emotional world of the other.” Dictionary of PC & C, p354 North Georgia Counseling Assoc.
Empathy has limits Never complete and total Momentary, fragile and incomplete Mystery and uniqueness to each personEmpathy is necessary nonetheless!!
Personal history Even if similar personal experience, listen for the distinctive contours of their experience.
Sociological factors Language – History – Culture Sensitive and knowledgeable Lack of respect compromises empathy
Carrie Doehring The Practice of Pastoral Care: A Postmodern Approach
“Intercultural Spiritual care” “…to describe pastoral and spiritual care as a co-creative process of intermingling stories…. the interacting multilayered stories of peopleembedded in overlapping familial, communal, and social systems.” Doehring , The Practice of Pastoral Care, Glossary
Erin Meyer THE CULTURE MAP Decoding How People Think, Lead, and Get Things Done Across Cultures
Communication styles Low-Context – Precise, clear. Ex: U.S. High-Context – Nuanced, layered. Ex: Japan Analyzes 27 countries(Meyer, The Cultural Map, p. 39.)
Fr. Henri Nouwen
Reaching out: Healing = Listening “Providing healing (listening) means the creation of an empty but friendly space where those who suffer call tell their story…” p. 67 The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life
Reaching out: “The most important question as healers (listeners) is not, ‘What to say or to do?’ but how to develop enough inner space where the story can be received.” p. 68 The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life
“Empty but friendly space” Pastoral Visitor
“Empty but Friendly Space” Pastoral Visitor
Rev. Herbert Anderson CATHOLIC THEOLOGICAL UNION Professor Emeritus
“THE EMPATHY PROCESS” First Movement: “Pre-understanding” Attitudes we bring which help us “toward understanding” the other Herbert Anderson
“ The Empathy Process ” The First Movement – Pre-understanding (Attitudes We Bring) (Adaptation by Theodore Smith) Herbert Anderson, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Pastoral Theology Catholic Theological Union Wonder - Primary Attitude Rapt Attention Amazed Admiration Willingness to be surprised Openness to journey Additional Attitudes Curiosity Humility Openness to Change Hospitality
Attitudes we bring WONDER Rapt attention Amazed admirationWillingness to be surprisedOpenness to journey into mystery
Additional attitudes Curiosity Humility Openness to ChangeHospitality
“The Empathy Process” (cont.) Second Movement: “Listening” Entering the World of the Other Herbert Anderson
NARRATIVE Pastoral Visitor Care Receiver Herbert Anderson, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Pastoral Theology Catholic Theological Union “The Empathy Process” The Second Movement – Listening (Combined with Henri Nouwen’s “Empty, Friendly Space”) Entering the World of the Other Cleaning the Clutter Receiving Observing Imaging Suspending Judgment
Entering the other’s world Cleaning the Clutter Receiving Observing ImagingSuspending Judgment
Empathy – two step process The other knows they’ve been heard Their pain is in our heart Martin Buber“Empathy demands the most intensive stirring of one’s being.”
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