Guidelines for Good Practice in Pastoral Care
Guidelines for Good Practice in Pastoral Care
Guidelines for Good Practice in Pastoral Care is a 2-hour workshop that aims to enable participants involved in the ministry of pastoral care, to become familiar with ACC’s Guidelines for Good Practice and to see how they might be applied to their own context.
Who is the workshop suitable for?
The workshop is suitable for pastoral carers who regularly offer pastoral care and who may be part of a pastoral care team or initiative. It is also suitable for pastoral team leads and church leaders who wish to understand how pastoral care guidelines can support their organisation’s ministry of pastoral care.
We encourage and welcome individuals as well as church teams/organisational groups to come along together but we would like to note that the workshop can also be delivered on request if your church or pastoral team/group would prefer.
Workshop objectives
Pastoral carers are having to respond to increasingly complex human issues as multiple stressors affect the health and wellbeing of many in our communities. Offering what is essentially a ministry of love and navigating these complexities, can be challenging. Using ACC’s Guidelines for Good Practice, this workshop will look at some navigational markers and how they might be applied to steer our way through them. It will use a case scenario to consider:
- Terms Used
- Definition and Scope of Pastoral Care
- Definition of a Pastoral Carer
- Christian Worldview for Pastoral Care
- Ethical Values for Pastoral Carers
- Confidentiality
- Dual Relationships
- Care for the Pastoral Carer
Note: The workshop will acknowledge the importance of safeguarding but will assume and advise that safeguarding training is a requirement for pastoral carers and will be the responsibility of churches and organisations to provide.
There will be teaching and some opportunity for discussion as we share our collective wisdom and consider how we might apply our learning.
ACC’s Guidelines for Good Practice in Pastoral Care and a Participants Workbook will be available.
We will be using specific features of Zoom to support the online learning experience, so we ask that you are familiar with the application before you join us for the first session. Please be able to: mute/unmute, use chat, turn video on/off and put your hand up. If Zoom is new for you then do ask someone to show you how these features work, or find help from an online video.
Currently open for booking training
Thursday, 8 May 2025, 7:00pm-9:00pm
If you have any questions about the course, are interested in the future dates or would like to explore the option of arranging an exclusive delivery of the course, please get in touch.