CPE Integration Praxis

Course Description

This course helps students integrate their completed CPE experience into their professional formation and ongoing coursework at Iliff.

Learning Objectives

• Critical reflection on their CPE experience to discern its influence on their vocational discernment at Iliff.
• Exploring how practices and habits of a student's embodied faith and core values influence spiritual care, including expressing respect for diverse spiritual/religious identities and traditions.
• Increasing agency and capacities for effectively working toward social justice and peace through the spiritual care conversation.

Teaching Methods

• Group discussion - with particular attention to the final evaluation and its role in ongoing professional formation.
• Readings - individually chosen based on areas of growth identified by the student.
• Case studies - to analyze and explore a student's engagement with attention to individual and systemic interactions.

Books and Resources

• Kujawa-Holbrook, S. A. (2009). Love and power: Antiracist pastoral care. In S. A. Kujawa-Holbrook & K. B. Montagno (Eds.), Injustice and the care of souls: Taking oppression seriously in pastoral care (pp. 13-27). Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press. [ scanned chapter forthcoming ]
• Dykstra, R. C. (2005). Images of pastoral care: Classic readings. St.Louis, MO: Chalice Press.
• Lartey, E. Y. (2003). Liberation as pastoral praxis. In In living color: An intercultural approach to pastoral care and counseling (2nd ed., Revised ed.) (pp. 113-139). London: Jessica Kingsley. [scanned chapter forthcoming]

Assignments

• Respond to the prompts on this discussion board related to your hopes and expectations for the course.
• Read the assigned chapters above before Gathering Days.
• Bring a copy of one of the verbatims you presented during your CPE unit with you to Gathering Days. [please make sure there is no identifying information in the verbatim].