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The Council of Churches of the City
of New York
in cooperation with the Queens Federation of Churches
Presents an Outstanding Pastoral Counseling Seminar
Intervention Skill Building for the Caregiver
Saturday, October 25, 2003 • 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
St. George's Episcopal Church
14-22 27th Avenue (at 14th Street), Astoria
No Cost to the Participants
[and including a free lunch!]
The Council of Churches
of the City of New York is proud to present the Care
for the Caregiver Interfaith Project, funded by the September 11th
Fund. Through this project the Council is able to offer outstanding pastoral
care counseling seminars and small group training sessions from September
2003 to March 2004, at no cost to the participants. The goal is to help
religious leaders – clergy and lay – become more effective in
their role as trusted caregivers and to understand the religious leader's
role in assessment and intervention in disasters and other crises.
Through the program, the participants will learn to understand the difference between care and counseling, to understand one's own limitations, and to build a partnership of care. In addition, religious leaders will learn to recognize the signs and symptoms of anxiety and grief responses in disaster, the differences between spiritual emergence and spiritual emergency; how to practice skilled care, and how to recognize severe symptoms of anxiety and grief that need referral for professional treatment as an extension of care.
Space is limited. Please reserve your seat by Monday,
October 20.