Life’s Calling of Good Help to Myself

Resources for Personal and Professional Growth in Ministry Leadership

GOOD HELP RESOURCES

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Professional Disciplines

Good Help Resources

Individual•Psychotherapy•Spiritual Direction•Theological Reflection•Coaching

Group•Group Therapy•Spiritual Support Group•Table Narrative•Team Coaching (FFG)

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PsychotherapyPastoral Counseling

Psychotherapy, also referred to as counseling and pastoral counseling, is characterized by a series of regular conversations between a licensed and/or nationally certified mental health provider and a client seeking assistance with an issue or issues causing the client emotional and/or relational pain. The client may be an individual, couple, family, or group. The focus may be short term, solution focused around an acute issue, or long term around chronic and pervasive personality patterns and issues. The focus may also be on growth issues, in terms of increased self-awareness, integration, and maturation.

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PsychotherapyPractices

1. Vocational stress2. Chronic anxiety3. Grief and Loss4. Depression5. Marital/partner alienation6. Impaired relatedness

1. Work/life balance2. Stress management3. Meaning/reinvestment4. Hopefulness /engage

with world5. Connection, depth and

love6. Interpersonal capacity

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Spiritual Direction

Spiritual CompanioningSpiritual Guide

Spiritual Direction is a relationship wherein one is directed by a skilled helper to further engage her or his personal experience of God/the divine as it unfolds in the present moment, rooted in the sharing of past experiences, and with a desire for a deepening of that relationship moving forward on life’s journey.

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Spiritual DirectionPractice

1. Experience of transcendent

2. Feeling Awe/Wonder3. Sin/Guilt4. Sorrow/contrition5. Gratitude/humility6. Petition/Intercession

1. Communication with God/the divine

2. Appreciation of joy3. Worthiness in failure4. Forgiveness and

reconciliation5. Thanksgiving6. Dependence/need

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Theological Reflection

Reflective Integration

Theological reflection is a process of bringing the work of the ministry inward – from the head to the heart to the feet – through naming experiences that engage not only my thinking (head), but my feelings, my values, my passion and my vulnerability (heart) so that I go out with a renewed or changed way of leading the ministry (feet).

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Theological ReflectionPractice

1. Abusive and violent patient2. Loss of a young friend3. Hypocrisy and empty values in leaders4. Marginalized persons at my doorstep5. Compensation inequities

1. Affirm the deepest truth of human dignity2. Struggle for meaning in meaningless suffering3. Recovering personal integrity and commitment4. Facing into suffering and injustice5. Challenging the status quo

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Coaching

Coaching is a process to support individuals as they set and reach personal and professional goals focusing on development that results in internal growth and/or behavioral competencies.

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CoachingPractice

1. Lone contributor2. Prone to control3. Fear of voice4. Tendency to arrogance5. Career dissatisfaction6. Technical expert7. Authoritarian leader

1. Collaborator2. Techniques to delegate3. Finding voice4. Asserting & engaging5. Clear path to

satisfaction6. Expertise at service7. Servant Leader

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GOOD HELP RESOURCESSpiritual Practices

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Spiritual Practice

An intentional pause to re-member and re-engage the core energy of my deepest self through stillness, movement or ritual in an integrative exercise drawn from ancient practices.

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Mind/Spirit/BodyHead/Heart/Feet

I. Relaxation ResponseII. Guided ImageryIII. MindfulnessIV. WalkingV. Song/Dance

I. Centering PrayerII. Composition of PlaceIII. Meditation and

ContemplationIV. LabyrinthV. Chant/Yoga

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