Tim Dyer – The Johnmark Extension
Teaching and training events
It was good to be with the Parish Recovery Team for their final training day of 2022.
We started with a Biblical reflect on Psalm 23 and then revisited key documents and articles. We reflected on a recovery consultancy and considered use of the Professional Quality of Life (ProQOL) tool to monitor Compassion Satisfaction and Fatigue (Burnout and Secondary Traumatic Stress).
Notes and articles are in the team Dropbox.
Great to spend the afternoon with students from Mary Andrews College in Sydney as part of their Theological and Pastoral Perspectives on Trauma seminar unit. Tim brought a Biblical reflection from Luke 4 and Isaiah 61 before reflecting on the nature of trauma, aspects of a traumatic event, longer-term responses to trauma, cognitive processes and trauma, and principles of trauma informed pastoral care.
The Phoenix Australia resources he referred to are available below.
Continue reading “Mary Andrews College – Theological and Pastoral Perspectives on Trauma (Seminar 1)”
The seventh and final of a series of workshops with members of the Transform Southern Sydney mentoring group occurred on zoom this morning. Tim commenced with a word study on ‘imitate’ (mimeomai) in the New Testament and we considered its implications for mentoring. We reflected on the interpersonal skill of self-disclosure in mentoring and the dynamic of transference. We spent time considering common sources of pressure from subconscious processes and supporting mentors through Sabbaticals. It has been a delight to spend time with the mentoring group in the workshops.
Notes from the workshops are in the team Dropbox.
Our next stage of training a new Church Health Facilitation Team for the Presbyterian Church of Queensland went live via Zoom this morning. Following a Biblical reflection on Ephesians 4, Tim built on the Church Life Cycle model by explaining church size dynamics (family, pastoral, program, and corporate sizes). We continued developing facilitation skills and finished considering principles for working with rural churches.
The notes and resources can be found in the SharePoint folder.