Day Conference
for people wishing to develop pastoral skills
‘Becoming Reconciling Presences’
Saturday 9th October 2010
Cross House, Linlithgow, EH49 7AL
Speaker: Dr Cecelia Clegg
CECELIA CLEGG is senior lecturer in Practical Theology at the University of Edinburgh, and convener of the Divinity Ethics Committee. She has a particular concern to help people to develop their skills in pastoral care and transforming conflict at all levels.
Theme:
Far from being the ministers of reconciliation envisaged by Paul (2 Cor.5:18), Christians and their communities are often driven by strife.
Yet so much of that conflict is a result of avoidable negativity, which comes in turn from a lack of personal development (maturity) on the part of the protagonists. This conference will consider a Christian understanding of personal/inter-personal reconciliation, and look at the role of psychologically informed personal growth work, discernment and spiritual exercises. It asks the question: how can we create an ‘ethos’ within Christian communities which will nurture people to become such ‘reconciling presences’.
SAPCC Margaret Allan Lecture
for people wishing to develop pastoral skills
'The Gifted Self – a Significant Resource in Pastoral Care'
Tuesday 23rd March 2010
Doors open 4.45pm Lecture at 5.15pm
Speaker: Dr Ewan Kelly
EWAN KELLY is a Church of Scotland minister who has worked in parish, acute hospital and hospice settings as well as teaching pastoral theology at the University of Edinburgh. He now combines working for NHS Education for Scotland in the field of Healthcare Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care with ongoing university teaching. He has written about his interest in bereavement care in two publications – Marking Short Lives and Meaningful Funerals. His latest book, Personhood and Presence: Self as a Resource for Pastoral Spiritual Care will be published next year.
For anyone involved in pastoral care – come and bring friends and colleagues
The Martin Hall, New College, The Mound, Edinburgh
Collection towards expenses
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