Pastoral Supervision: A Handbook New Edition

Jane Leach, Michael Paterson

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Pastoral Supervision is increasingly sought out by people working in ministry. It offers a safe space to reflect theologically and constructively on pastoral experience. Pastoral Supervision: A Handbook is the standard text for what is a growing discipline and endorsed by APSE, the Association of Pastoral Supervisors and Educators, which is now established as an accrediting professional body for all involved in supervision in a Christian context.

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• Publié par: Hymns Ancient & Modern
• Date de parution: 03 septembre 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780334053460
• Langue: English

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Pastoral Supervision
A Handbook
Second Edition
Jane Leach and Michael Paterson






© Jane Leach and Michael Paterson 2015
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface to the Second Editio n

Introduction
1. Attending to Vision
2 . Attending to the Process
3. Attending in the Present
4. Attending to the There and Then
5. Attending to the Here and Now
6. Attending to the Body
7. Attending to the Story
8. Attending to Context
9. Attending to Group Matters
10. Attending to Endings

Glossary
Appendix 1 APSE Definition of Pastoral Supervision
Appendix 2 Supervision Covenant Proforma
Appendix 3 APSE Code of Conduct
Appendix 4 Values-based Reflective Practice
Appendix 5 Learning Needs Analysis
Appendix 6 Pastoral Supervision Bodies
List of Referenced Works
Suggestions for Reading





For Iain who oversees from heaven.
For my parents who watch over me with love,
and for Mario who knows more than anyone
just how much I need supervision.
Michael Paterson

For those with whom and from whom I have learnt the value and the practice of supervision: my theological students; my supervisees; my colleagues; and my teachers.
Jane Leach




Acknowledgements
This book could not have been written without the many supervision relationships we have been engaged in during the course of our ministries. We are indebted to those who have supervised us, those we have supervised and those we have taught, alongside all of whom we have learnt what it is to be disciples, ministers and pastoral supervisors. We are particularly grateful to those who have given us permission to use their stories as the basis for examples in this book. Without their generosity many of the processes of supervision outlined here would have lacked the vitality and realism their stories offer.
Our thanks are still due to those who helped us in the process of drafting and editing the first edition: Linda Dunbar, the late Robin McGlashan and Jessica Rose for their comments on the text, and David Lyall for his encouragement and the Foreword to that edition.
We are grateful, as ever, to Natalie Watson and the editorial team at SCM for their guidance and careful attention to detail in the production of this second edition. Of course, any remaining errors are our own.
Jane and Michael
The Feast of the Epiphany 2015




Preface to the Second Edition
In the five years since 2010, when this book was first published, significant changes have happened in the world of pastoral supervision.
The work of APSE (Association of Pastoral Supervisors and Educators) continues as a professional body promoting supervision among people of faith and offering accreditation routes for supervisors. Its annual conferences continue to gather people from across a spectrum of ministerial and supervisory approaches. In 2014 APSE entered into a reciprocal partnership with the Australian-based association Transforming Practices. 1 That ongoing work has been supplemented by the establishment of the Institute for Pastoral Supervision and Reflective Practice, whose primary focus is to promote training, publication and research into pastoral supervision. 2 It is a delight to report that, at the time of writing, several people within the UK are now engaged in doctoral research in the field of pastoral supervision.
Recent publications bear witness to the transformative and soulful dimensions of supervision. Shohet’s 2011 collection of essays, Supervision as Transformation , brings to the fore supervision’s inherent invitation to reconnect the practitioner with their own core values and motivation. 3 Thus Weld writes of supervision as ‘a base camp where batteries are recharged’ and challenges supervisees ‘to reach deeply into themselves and connect with the wider human consciousness that supports them in the work they do’. 4 Similarly, Creaner describes supervisory practice as ‘an inside-out rediscovery of what I always knew to be true for myself’, 5 while Coombe underlines ‘supervision’s capacity to uncover that which has been inwardly sequestered, abandoned or oppressed and then return its knowledge, energy and value to the individual or the group’. 6 Supervision as an invitation to vocational regeneration underpins Paterson and Rose, Enriching Ministry: Pastoral Supervision in Context , which forms a sequel to this book. 7
In the field of training for pastoral supervision, in 2010 the only course available was a two-day intensive skills workshop that Jane and Michael had established at Wesley House, Cambridge. While this continues to flourish, there are also regular short courses at Sarum College, Salisbury, a one-year certificate course in Nottingham, a similar extended course in Belfast and a professional diploma in pastoral supervision and reflective practice held in Glasgow. 8 In addition, a diploma in cross-professional creative supervision with an emphasis on the soulful dimensions of practice has been established in Edinburgh. 9
At the level of praxis , the three levels of seeing based on John’s account of the resurrection recorded in the fourth Gospel (see page 70) has been widely adopted within a model of Values-based Reflective Practice promoted by the Scottish Government for use in the Scottish NHS. Two consecutive independent research projects have shown its value in making difficult conversations possible. Uses include debriefing after critical incidents and responding to complaints. In practice it is complemented by the adaptation of a hermeneutic tool drawn from feminist and liberation theology, which asks five questions of any given situation: Whose needs were met? What does the situation have to say about our abilities and capabilities? Whose voice was heard and who was silenced? What was valued, overvalued or undervalued? And what does the situation reveal about you (the practitioner or the team)? Those five questions translate the APSE definition of pastoral supervision as theologically/spiritually rich, psychologically informed, contextually sensitive and praxis based into a practical method used to aid reflection in every health board in Scotland. 10
Meanwhile within the churches more serious attention has started to be paid to the need for training for those exercising supervisory roles. The Methodist Church and the Church of Scotland now require those supervising its probationer ministers to have received some training, and various dioceses of the Church of England have established regular supervision groups for training incumbents. There is also increasing recognition of some of the complexity of the work in which clergy are involved – often without adequate contexts for reflection and the disentanglement of difficult issues. The Methodist Church’s forthcoming report on its handling of past cases of abuse and neglect, for example, will recommend the systematic development of pastoral supervision for its ministers.
Finally, this book, while substantially an update of the 2010 edition, contains several new elements: A new chapter outlining a generic approach to pastoral supervision written for those who do not share the dominant therapeutic paradigms underpinning most of the extant supervisory literature (Chapter 2). A new chapter on attending to the body (Chapter 6), which introduces some of the literature of creative supervision and relates this to a theology of incarnation. An expansion of the three levels of seeing with prompts to root this in practice (Chapter 3). An outline of Values-based Reflective Practice, which marries the three levels of seeing with five core questions drawn from theological reflection (Appendix 4). A list of professional bodies and associations that promote pastoral supervision (Appendix 6). A new list of suggested reading. Eleven new diagrams outlining the structure of a supervision session (Figures 2.1; 2.2; 2.3); an expansion of the three levels of seeing (Figures 3.1; 3.2; 3.3); the empowerment triangle (Figure 4.5); Hawkins and Shohet’s seven modes (Figure 5.1); an aide for choosing how best to work in any given supervision context (Figure 5.2); four kinds of power (Figure 8.3) and a structure for group supervision (Figure 9.2).
Pastoral supervision draws upon a wide