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Supervision special
 There has been a lot of talk about supervision recently. The two post-graduate events led by Robin Shohet have prompted clearer thinking about our supervision processes and requirements. This has led us to clarify at least five areas in which we recommend supervision be available for both students and ministers: - To provide regular and contracted supervision to seminary mentors as they support our seminary students through their training;
- To provide supervision to second-year seminary students during their period of providing spiritual counselling to first-year students and/ or others during their case studies;
- To provide supervision to OSIF ministers, via one to one, peer or group supervision options, either in person or via technology
- To provide additional and specific spiritual direction and support to a student, at the request of the seminary leader;
- To provide additional and specific spiritual direction to a minister experiencing difficulty, at the request of the community facilitator
The Community Handbook is being updated to include a new section which expands on these different facets of supervision. Whatever your current form of public ministry and/or private practice, there is lots of encouragement and support for you to engage in on-going spiritual counselling, direction or supervision. One interesting development is the encouragement for local groups of ministers to form peer-supervision groups. You don't need to be co-located: there are several Skype-based supervision groups being formed. And if you have the enthusiasm, we would welcome more ministers offering regular monthly open supervision groups similar to the current ones running in London, Warwick and Manchester. |
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Also in the news this week
Spiritual counselling and direction
We encourage all students and all active ministers to engage in regular spiritual counselling and/or direction. Details of all the various processes (peer-based, one-to-one and group supervision) are available in the Community Handbook. The list ofY2 students currently available for Y1 student counselling is now available. And the complete list of all our accredited Supervisors has also been recently updated.
Expenses and bursaries
The expenses policy and claim form has been updated to reflect Danielle's new address. Similarly the student bursary procedure has also been updated for 2012.
Miranda's next UK visit
Details of Miranda's programme in early June are now available.
Prayer request for Lucy Ann
Don't forget you can Login and post prayer requests at any time; a summary - not the confidential details - are published in iConnect.
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