About Clinical Pastoral Education

 Clinical Pastoral Education

• Allows you to learn from your own supervised encounters with people in a variety of pastoral situations, which raise questions of ultimate concern.
  
  
• Provides the opportunity for personal growth through reflecting on the way you are performing your ministry.
  
  
• Encourages professional competence by improving the effectiveness of your functioning as a team member.
  
  
• Builds pastoral identity, as you reflect on your own spiritual journey and accompany others on theirs.
  
  
• Develops your ability to assess specific concerns arising from differences of cultural, spiritual, ethnic, socioeconomic, psychological and emotional backgrounds.

Clinical Pastoral Education includes:

Action Reflection
Increasing options and improving strategies by learning from your own supervised experiences.

Theological Reflection
Relating the realities of life and your theological journey to the living Word of God.

Supervised pastoral placement
In an appropriate setting for ministry over a set time.

Individual contract for learning

Giving and receiving
Peer support, understanding and guidance in a small group.


Intense interactions
As you accompany people going through times of crisis and growth.

Reporting, reflecting on and evaluating
The effectiveness of your pastoral interactions.