Basic Pastoral Care

Basic Pastoral Care Certificate Program

Program Description: The basic certificate introduces IFTCC Learning’s 3 main goals for preparing pastoral care workers for assisting individuals, couples, and families seeking pastoral support while pursuing spiritual health. The Pastoral Care Basic Certificate includes a broad range of topics providing essential knowledge for preparing pastoral care workers for ethical and informed practice from a distinctly biblical worldview.

IFTCC Learning Competencies:

• Development and Devotion Learning Goal: Participants will be able to defend a biblical anthropological worldview in comparison to divergent perspectives on human development.
  • A7 Human Development and Devotion: Workshops,seminars, and presentations at the basic level will elucidate theoretical understandings of human development from infancy to adulthood and how these impact on the psychological and spiritual awareness of individuals. Both pre-natal and post-natal influences are considered.
  • Accountability Self-Awareness and Self-Management Learning Goals: Participants will be able to articulate the benefit of self-awareness and self management tools and strategies for the purpose of balanced living in a ‘post-Christian’ or anti-Christian societies.
  • A8 Self-Awareness: Workshops, seminars, and presentations at the basic level will encourage participants to develop accountability to themselves through self- awareness. Self-awareness invites active engagement with others to establish balance in self-perception and contributions in this area will stimulate participants to recognise their unique potential contributions to others, as they master themselves.
• Critical Reflection Learning Goals: Participants will apply a range of reflective learning lenses that facilitate critical evaluation of self.
  • A9 Using Reflective Lenses: Workshops, seminars, and presentations at the basic level will facilitate the use of basic tools such as (1) autobiography, (2) theoretical literature, how others experience us (3) near-peer-colleagues, and (4) those to whom we minister/teach/lead.