Quick Notes Update for June 28, 2020
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Women's Transformation and Leadership
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"Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, as indeed you are doing." 1 Thessalonians 5:11
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Self Care and Skills for Engaging the Now and the Next!
As pastors and leaders, it's safe to say we are all way outside our comfort zone. Not only are we trying to pastor people through this challenging time, but we are ourselves are experiencing a level of trauma, anxiety, ________ fill in your current stress. It is more important now than ever that we take time out to do our own self-care and learn some new skills to help ourselves and others to cope, process and heal from this time. To do this, the Classis of Delaware-Raritan and the Regional Synod of the Mid-Atlantics have engaged Dr. Francesca Nuzzolese to host 3 webinars at NO COST to you! We encourage you to watch the videos and read the notes provded here, and take time out for yourself over the next week.
 Dr. Francesca Nuzzolese is afrancesca native of Italy but has been a citizen of the world for most of her life. Her love for the world and for diversity in all its forms was nurtured in her family and in her home church, where she learned that faith, justice, and compassion must be always interrelated in the pursuit of loving and kin-dom like communities.
From 2005-2016 she was on the faculty at Palmer Theological Seminary and Eastern University, teaching in the areas of spiritual formation, pastoral care and counseling, and pastoral theology. She was also a pastoral psychotherapist and spiritual director at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. In 2017 Dr. Nuzzolese became associate professor of pastoral care and counseling at Methodist Theological School in Ohio.
As a scholar, activist and clergywoman, she is committed to the organic and intentional integration of theory and pastoral praxis, issues of faith and social justice, the gifts of faith communities and the needs of the world. Leading spiritual retreats and offering educational workshops on a variety of psycho-spiritual and social issues is an expression of such commitments: to see growth and transformation in individuals, families, and communities, both domestically and internationally.
Grounding: Minding our Psychospiritual Health
· Identifying the vulnerabilities pastors bring to the task of caring in the midst of collective trauma and their legacy to personal and professional history
· Providing some spiritual and emotionally grounding practices that can sustain pastors in these times of intense stress and demand
· Creating covenants of accountability and sustainability to hold the person of the pastor and the task of ministry in the midst of highly stressful circumstances
Intervening: Constructing new ways to engage grief and loss within the restrictions of social distancing and collective trauma
· Acknowledging personal history of trauma vis a vis the collective trauma we are living into
· Identifying the pastoral needs of individuals, families and communities in the particular context of the pandemic
· Naming particularly challenging cases/situations/themes in the experience of participants
· Collecting theological and spiritual resources to engage current pastoral needs
Anticipating: Preparing for the future
· Identifying the coping mechanisms of individuals and communities in this moment of collective trauma and linking them to the symptoms of PTSD, which are likely to emerge in the future
· Sharing common wisdom and generating resources to care in the present in order to prevent destructive reactions in the future
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"Echoing God's desire for all people to be still and draw near, the Warwick Conference Center is a broadly inclusive place of welcome, hospitality, reflection, and retreat where all are invited to seek renewal, pursue personal and corporate growth, and have the opportunity to listen for God's voice."
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