SPURGEON'S COLLEGE is running a Professional Certificate in Pastoral Supervision course in association with the Institute of Pastoral Counselling and Supervision. This is a course for Pastors, Pastoral Care Team Leaders, Lay Leaders/ Ministers, Counsellors, Psychotherapists, Chaplains and Spiritual Directors to develop understanding and skills in reflective practice in pastoral and ministerial settings. The course begins in November 2023 and can be studied entirely online. Please visit our website for more information where you will also find details of our taster sessions. The application deadline is 11th October 2023.

The Institute of Pastoral Supervision and Reflective Practice is running a Diploma in Cross Professional Supervision Course online beginning in January 2024.  The course takes a soulful and inclusive approach to life and work and invites participants to engage with their own wisdom, practices and traditions. The course is suited to experienced practitioners who wish to better support the wellbeing of others and offers frameworks and practical ways of working across the professions. Download details here  Closing date for applications, 31st October 2023. Updated August 5th, 2023

THE latest addition to the Institute of Pastoral Supervision and Reflective Practice’s training provision, this course is made up of a three-day intensive workshop followed by six online practitioner workshops and a closing overnight gathering in person. Applications are open for the next intake in Sydney (November 2023). More details from training@ipsrp.org.uk

THE Institute for Pastoral Counselling & Supervision in association with Sherwood Psychotherapy Training Institute are running a course leading to a Professional Certificate in Pastoral Supervision from October 2023 - June 2024. There will be six two-day workshops delivered over one year, with time to embed learning within professional and ministerial practice. Further details available from kathryn.addis@pastoralcs.org.uk Download full details about the course here.

A NUMBER of APSE members indicated in a survey that they would be willing to run some CPD seminars for APSE members – either in-person or online. If this is you — or you would like to do this, please  DOWNLOAD THIS FORM to your desktop, fill it in and email it to Peter Gubi on peter4apse@gmail.com. Peter will then negotiate a date with you to do this.

IPSRP runs ongoing professional training in Pastoral and in Cross-Professional Supervision. The Certificate and Diploma courses are run twice per year with additional bespoke courses for specific audiences. Since its inception in 2009 the course has attracted students from the UK, France, Greece, Malta, Australia and New Zealand. Alumni include adult educators, art therapists, chaplains, children’s support workers, clergy, coaches, community activists, counsellors, critical incident stress management facilitators, dance movement psychotherapists, dramatherapists, faith leaders, music therapists, nurses, play therapists, psychodramatists, religious sisters, social workers, therapeutic support workers and university lecturers. Graduates come from a range of spiritual traditions including Buddhism, Christianity, Humanists, Judaism, One Spirit InterFaith Ministry and Sufism. The Course Director is Dr Michael Paterson author of Pastoral Supervision: Creativity in Action (2021) Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Pastoral Supervision Revisited and Revisioned (2020) Pastoral Supervision: A Handbook (2010 and 2015) and Empowering Ministry: Pastoral Supervision in Context (2014). Michael is a founding member of APSE and Associate Professor of Supervision Alpha Crucis College, Australia. Further details from training@ipsrp.org.uk