Resilience and Self Care for Chaplains–Anglicare

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It is great to be enjoying the Autumn colours in the Southern Highlands at Bowral.  We are working through Resilience and Self Care practices for Chaplains who often need to deal with Secondary Traumatic Stress.  Notes and resources follow:

Brainstorm on the costs of care

Brainstorm costs of care xmind version (Download a copy and save it to your computer with another name)

Presentation on Trauma and Secondary Traumatic Stress

Brainstorm on Resilience

Brainstorm on Resilience xmind version

Presentation on Resilience

ProQOL (PDF)

ProQOL (Excel)

Trauma Recovery Scale

Mirroring and Un-mirroring

Whole Person Self Care

Draining or Filling Exercise

Self Care Brainstorm

Self Care Brainstorm xmind version

ADF Chaplains Seminar Sydney–Richmond Air Force Base–7-9 May, 2012

The Chaplains of the ADF serve in a complex and challenging environment. Along with pastoral responsibilities for service personnel and their families, they provide counsel and support to the unit command on matters to with the ethics of engagement, relating to local civilian populations and on unit morale. It was a privilege to work with the Sydney Region Chaplains this week at the Richmond Air Force Base on pastoral transactions around moral injury and repair, leadership practices and processes for systemic health.

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