Pastoral Care: Care for Care-Givers

How to Build Resilience to Shame

by Joaquín Andrés Selva

Download Here | Loving-Kindness Meditation

Find a variety of free practices and more information on self-compassion here.

Joseph Yoo of MinistryMatters wonders about Pastor's Office Hours: Time to Cut Back?

Thom Rainer outlines Nine Issues Regarding Pastors Office Hours.

Dr. Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder shares Choose Yourself... Sometimes, a treatise on "Covid's coercion to come, sit, and rest awhile".

Episode 84: “Cultivating and Nurturing the Pastoral Imagination” featuring Eileen Campbell-Reed

What is pastoral imagination? And how can it be nurtured by clergy and laity? We speak with Eileen Campbell-Reed about how clergy can cultivate and nurture pastoral imagination in order to address conflict, experience joy, and develop a deep, wise knowing.

Convergence Director of Research & Development, Anna Hall, asks, Where Are All the Clergy Going? and encourages clergy to participate in Convergences consulting, coaching, and conflict transformation training.

~ing Podcast Episode 40: Pastoring during the Pandemic

Five pastors who have ministered during the pandemic sit down to discuss leading, growing, and being as people of God navigating a global pandemic together.

• Rev. Greg Milinovich is Senior Pastor at St. Paul's United Methodist Church in State College, PA
• Justin Fung is Pastor of Leadership and Spiritual Formation at Christ City Church in Washington, DC
• Jen Gruendler is Youth and Young Adult Minister at Zumbro Lutheran in Rochester, MN
• Rev. John Harwood is Priest in Charge at St. Mark's Episcopal in Lewistown, PA
• Rev. Matthew Yoder is Pastor of Grace Mennonite Church in Pandora, OH

Acknowledging the Toll of the Pandemic on Ministry Leaders by Mike Bonem

The Being Here podcast explores real world issues and topics important to faith community professionals. In "Overcoming Compassion Fatigue”, host Rev. Melissa Pohlman and Mayo Clinic hospital chaplain, Rev. Corrine Thul, discuss strategies for caring for yourself while caring for others in difficult times.

Doctoral Expert Dr. Shanell T. Smith on Success, Self-Care, and Vocation: an interview by Dr. Eric D. Barreto

Rest Supports Grieving: Grief Rituals blog post from April 8, 2020 by Tricia Hersey - read it!!!

contributor Rev. Julia, from Faith, Grace, and Hope: Thoughts on What It Means to Be a Traveler on the Way of Jesus, illuminates clergy sorrow in I Am Not Afraid. I Am Heartbroken. Sharing it with your congregation may facilitate helpful conversations.

shares two posts on care-giving: Parker Palmer’s The Gift of Presence, the Perils of Advice and How to Reach Out to Someone Who Is Struggling by Omid Safi. Both are excellent reads both for pastoral care providers and for volunteer visitors.

(fb) hosts Leading Ideas, a semi-regular blog on current topics (including Pastoral Care in the Coronavirus Crisis), helps in finding resources, and offers online resources at a discount.

John Dobbs offers words of concern and support; and a list of grief resources.

shared That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief and Coping with Fatigue, Fear, and Panic During a Crisis

Telling the Story of Your Body for Healing and Wholeness

Our bodies have a story to tell. When we turn toward our bodies with curiosity and reverence, we honor those stories, embrace our inner dignity, and make space for more agency. Sharing our bodies’ stories helps us feel seen so that, little by little, society’s limiting master narratives can shift so that more bodies feel safe and beautiful and have a sense of belonging.

Resources include:

• The Embodied Path book
• Writing Journal
• Embodied Faith Study Guide
• Free Curricular Resource
• Breath Practices
• Music to:
  • Accompany the Essays
  • Hum
  • Dance to
  • Sing
• Yoga & Meditation
• Pithy Prose
• Embodied Faith podcast
  • and more

Take care of yourself and/or a colleague or loved one with ConseCrate's curated gift boxes, shipped monthly!

Improv Therapy Group has developed a curriculum specifically for members of the clergy. The class uses improv to explore emotional intelligence, resilience, and increased creativity. The concepts will assist with your work with congregants as well as co-workers.

All classes meet on ZOOM.

is all about caring for pastoral care providers. They have numerous opportunities for self-care, personal growth, new learning and more, including:

• Renewing Leadership: A cohort-based group facilitated by certified coaches Deborah Rundlett and Okokon Udo, Renewing Leadership includes a 360 assessment and a 1-on-1 coaching session.

• UnMasking Discovery: A Journey of Identity, Voice, and Impact: a journey of social action and personal transformation in which you are invited to examine the masks you’ve had, to re-discover your authentic self, and to create a new way of being in the world.

• A second series of Conversations on Race focusing on the topics of Changing Self, Changing Community, and Changing Systems.

• Clergy Consultation Groups: confidential space to share wisdom, learn from each other, exchange ideas, and process experiences of ministry during the pandemic; facilitated by experienced LeaderWise staff. Groups will meet for eight sessions either weekly, every other week, or monthly.

• Beyond: The Art & Soul of Re-Creation: a four-month learning community intended for pastors and leaders, circles of five to eight, committed to valuing and fostering personal and social transformation within self, congregation, and community; a fourfold focus seeks to honor the shared wisdom, intelligence, and creativity toward embracing our changing culture with care.

Clergy Total Well-Being Resources

Bearing Witness offers resources for supporting whistleblowers in the workplace, governmental agencies, and congregational settings.

Ambiguous Loss in the Time of COVID

shared Building Resilience webinars for faith leaders

is a free seven-part on-demand video teaching series from Carey Nieuwhof.

for personal growth and continuing education pertinent to COVID-19 days and beyond.

The Wellness Recovery Action Plan® or WRAP® is a prevention and wellness process anyone can use to get well, and stay well. Create your own wellness plan in this online seminar. Registration is required.

BENEDICTINE CARE WELLNESS PROGRAM

Benedictine CARE integrates Contemplative Practices, the Benedictine Monastic Heritage, and Therapeutic Lifestyle Programming.

Old habits, choices we no longer want to make, over indulgences, and living within a loud culture all amplify internal static that makes it almost impossible to hear, to listen, to our embodied true selves.

Monthly gatherings are enrolling at all times for both in-person and online participation.

$89/month

Learn more and register here.

Mindful Leaders Lounge is a supportive conversation space for leaders who are working on themselves so that they can be creative, mindful, adaptive and resilient through change. Part of her Defy the Trend Community, it is moderated by Nicole Havelka of Nicole Havelka Consulting. Learn more at defythetrend.com.

Nicole also offers self-care coaching sessions. Learn more here.

Convergence offers both On-Demand Learning (including FaithLead’s, National Faith Leaders Reflect on a Global Pandemic and Being Grateful in Difficult Times: An Online Journey with Barbara Butler Bass) and Executive Coaching for congregational leaders.