Understanding the roles spirituality and spiritual self-care play in people’s lives is an important facet of leadership and community. This micro-credential is designed to nurture spiritual and social wellness and enable you to foster it in others. It will help you understand spiritual principles, build stronger relationships and get a deeper understanding of the human experience.
This course will explore how the primary responsibilities of the minister are inextricably linked to the minister’s spiritual life, namely her/his struggle to live in the light of the Gospel. It will develop a fundamental understanding of Christian spirituality as a path to God and trace the history of spirituality that underlies contemporary ministry in the church. Finally, it will give each participant the opportunity to communicate her/his faith experience and to reflect on the ministerial experience in writing and conversation.
3 Credits
$2,121
Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m. EST
Aug. 27; Sept. 3, 10, 17, 24
A significant dimension of pastoral ministry is the minister’s pastoral and competent response to the individual, couple, and family. This requires the development of a pastoral care theology, as well as skills in crises intervention in areas such as addiction, grief and loss, divorce recovery and ethics. These and other issues are addressed in this course. In addition to theoretical content, the learning and practice of interviewing skills will provide the pastoral minister with methods and skills to respond to pastoral concerns. Theological Reflection theory and process will also be taught in this class in order to assist the participant to integrate pastoral identity, pastoral care and counseling skills, ethics and issues found in ministry.
3 Credits
$2,121
Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m. EST
Oct. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
Social justice is rooted in the Christian conviction that all human beings possess an intrinsic dignity and infinite value. This graduate level survey course in social justice will introduce participants to the theology and practice of justice, primarily through the lens of Catholic social teachings. Learning in the course will focus on foundational theological issues such as scriptural and natural law sources of authority, the principles of Catholic social teaching (including consideration of select papal encyclicals and scholarly commentaries thereon), the contribution of the social sciences to social justice solutions, and the capacity of social teachings to engage with the rapid globalization of the modern world.
3 Credits
$2,121
Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m. EST
Nov. 5, 12, 19; Dec. 3, 10
Potential certification available through International Coaches Federation (ICF).
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*Micro-credentials can be applied to proposed 2021 New Masters Programs in Integrated Health & Wellness, pending approval by the Higher Education Learning Commission, and the Ohio Department of Higher Education.