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Summary
The Wholeness Pastoral Care Course is designed to help you understand your value in the context of God’s story and provide you with the tools and skills to help others do the same. The course is broken into two sections, with the first four weeks focusing on a practical three-step approach to identifying the deep thirst of the heart and establishing identity in a right relationship with God. The last six weeks focus on practical pastoral care and counselling skills to aid in effective conversations. Upon completion, you will be able to define a biblical understanding of wholeness, discern the difference between story and processing, and effectively use listening and question skills. This course also offers CPSC points for successful completion.
Outline
Week 1:
Introduction, Mindsets, Wholeness Framework, Personal Reflection.
Homework: Collins “Christian Counselling” (pgs 3-45)
Week 2:
Story & Presenting Problems, 10 Basic Life Areas, Practical Triplet Groups. Homework: Tan “Lay Counselling” (pgs 15-35)
Week 3:
Process, Emotions, Beliefs, Behaviours, Spectrum of Emotions, Practical Triplet Groups.
Homework: Anderson “Christ Centred Therapy” (pgs 223-227)
Week 4:
Thirsts, Repentance, New Process & Story, Triplet Groups, God story script, Identity Scriptures.
Homework: Anderson “Christ Centred Therapy” (pgs 37-61 & 85-111)
Assignment:
2000-word case-study demonstrating the application of a presenting problem to all three stages of the Wholeness Model.
Week 5:
Counselling session preparation, Self-awareness, Communication, Listening, Triplet Groups.
Week 6:
Empathy, Attending skills, Silence, Summaries, Probing questions, Triplet Groups.
Homework: Brems “Basic Skills in Psychotherapy & Counselling” (pgs 101-125)
Week 7:
Confrontation, Resistance, Transference, Projection, Self-disclosure, Immediacy, Triplet Groups.
Homework: Brems “Basic Skills in Psychotherapy & Counselling” (pgs 256-264)
Week 8:
Defence mechanisms, Learning to hear God’s voice, Evaluation and endings.
Homework: Tan “Counselling & Psychotherapy” (pgs 40-42), Clinton & Hawkins “Encyclopedia of Christian Counselling” (pgs 87-94)
Week 9:
Practical movie assessment of “Good Will Hunting”
Week 10:
Live demos, Triplet Groups Assessments.
Final Assignment:
15-20 min video of counselling session with volunteer client.
