Self-care and Resilience in Ministry

1. Contemporary Practices of Self- Care in the Helping Ministries
2. Principles of resilience
3. Self-care and self-awareness
4. Stress management for ministry
5. Assessing vulnerability
6. Self-Knowledge: Family of Origin, Spiritual Type, Strengths Inventory, Stress Indicators
7. Conflict and Self-Care
8. Coping with Personal Crises in Ministry
9. Developing Self-care plan

This unit expects 150 hours of work from you in total, or around 10-12 hours each week over the semester. This volume of learning includes working through the learning materials and required learning tasks, additional reading and self-directed study, and working on assessment items, and for online units this includes participation in any online forums.