$299.99 CAD
This item includes:
5 Live sessions
Certificate in Ministry of Supervision
January 11 - February 8, 2024
$299.99 CAD
This item includes:
5 Live sessions
Certificate in Ministry of Supervision
Who?
The Certificate is designed for clergy and lay individuals who are interested in supporting students and communities for supervised ministry education (SME), internships and field education. Attention will be given to those wanting to supervise in the United Church of Canada but the course will be adapted and include training for other denominations.
You should have a minimum of five years of post-ordination or commissioning, experience in congregational ministry leadership OR equivalent lay leadership.
Your instructors are :
- Rev. Brenda Fawkes (Vocation Minister for BC, Yukon, and Southern Alberta)
- Rev. Dr. Andrew Richardson (Vocation Minister for the Atlantic Region)
What?
The Certificate in Ministry of Supervision provides participants with the information and skills to mentor individuals preparing for ministry by equipping them for supervision including pastoral practices, leadership, reflection, feedback and spiritual guidance.
Where?
This course is totally online. You will be provided with Zoom links to the weekly sessions as the course start date gets closer.
When?
The course will take place as a once a week intensive with three-hour synchronous class time on zoom each week. Here is the schedule -- click the links to see the start times in each of Canada's time zones:
- Jan 11, 12:00 – 3:00 pm ET
- Jan 18, 12:00 – 3:00 pm ET
- Jan 25, 12:00 – 3:00pm ET
- Feb 1, 12:00 – 3:00 pm ET
- Feb 8, 12:00 – 3:00 pm ET
Attendance and participation are required each day unless previously arranged with instructors for urgent matters. Engagement in discussion shall be considered as part of class participation, this includes evidence of having read materials. Class modules will include content (lecture), questions and answers, case studies, reflections and break out groups. There will also be small groups for the practice of supervision which will require time outside of scheduled class time.
How?
The Certificate is designed to help participants develop personally and as clergy, by helping them reach a number of competence objectives:
Teaching
- describe, understand and use the action-reflection model for learning
- understand and use the lenses of intercultural church and racial justice
- design, develop, and evaluate the implementation and tending of learning goals
- identify the components of a learning covenant and be able to assist in its completion
- access and complete necessary forms
- understand and apply the Sexual Misconduct Prevention and Response, Workplace Violence and Harassment, and Racial Justice policies or applicable polices for your denomination
- understand and articulate appropriate boundaries in supervision
- give timely and effective feedback so there are no surprises in written evaluations
- understand the appropriate roles of the supervisor, supervisee, and lay supervision team
- understand the power dynamics of supervision
- understand the basic theory of supervision
- understand and interpret the Candidacy Pathway of The United Church of Canada or process in your own denomination
- understand and be able to utilize various supervisory tools (verbatim, case studies, etc.)
Mentoring
- demonstrate familiarity with conflict strategies and effective approaches to conflict
- engage in theological reflection on day-to-day issues
- understand the importance of self-care
- describe and use skills for coping with and responding to inappropriate behavior
- guide supervisees in identifying when to ask for help and developing strategies for seeking help
- demonstrate good self-awareness as a supervisor
- guide supervisees in integrating learnings into their practice of ministry and identity in ministry
Supervisor’s Vocation
- engage meaningfully with others who have different theologies, learning styles, personalities, or ethnic, racial, or social backgrounds
- demonstrate sensitivity to diversity in sexual orientation and gender identity, and openness to deeper learning
- show confidence and compassion when engaging in difficult conversations with supervisees
- understand the different streams of ministry in the United Church of Canada and how the needs of supervisees may differ
- recognize that different theological schools have different expectations of supervisors, identify those expectations, and adapt practice to suit
- adapt to both onsite and offsite supervision
- adapt to both face-to-face and online supervision
- articulate a theology of ministry grounded in the experience of supervised learning
Administration
- access and complete necessary forms
- describe the process for applying to be recognized as an educational supervisor in applicable denominations
Evaluation
- Evaluation will be provided via instructor feedback during in-class discussion as well as peer evaluation during small group assignments. No number grades or weights of assignments are calculated, nor are final grades given numerical equivalents.
- Instructors will review and recommend or not recommend a participant for credentialing as a supervisor within their denomination.
- United Church of Canada participants will require a further interview with the Credentialing Committee if they wish to be certified as an Education Supervisor