Pastoral Supervision: A Handbook New Edition

by Jane Leach, Michael Paterson

Pastoral Supervision is increasingly sought out by people working in ministry. It offers a safe space to reflect theologically and constructively on pastoral experience. Pastoral A Handbook is the standard text for what is a growing discipline and endorsed by APSE, the Association of Pastoral Supervisors and Educators, which is now established as an accrediting professional body for all involved in supervision in a Christian context. Much has happened in the discipline since the first edition was published. The second edition contains

• a new foreword
• a new introduction written by the authors
• a new chapter on the nuts and bolts of structuring a supervision session
• a new chapter on embodied active supervision
• literature updates and textual improvements to the extant chapters.

Genres: Leadership, Christian

224 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2009

Reviews

[Neil Saltmarsh · Rating 3 out of 5]

It is hard to judge seeing that I am not in a supervisory position and read it as one of the topics was photocopied for Clinical Pastoral Education earlier this year. It would be better to be able to put these into practice and so my understanding is incomplete.

[Holly · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good description of the nuts and bolts of what I am facing as a potential reflective supervisor.

[Mike · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a book I've taken up and put down several times. Along with a small group of pastoral supervisors, we've discussed it, a chapter at a time. So in a sense some of it's been read more than once.

There are bigger books on supervision around, more complicated ones, and ones that seem more erudite. Leach and Paterson's book is the only one I've come across that approaches the subject from a Christian perspective, and since the group I'm involved with are all Christian supervisors, this has made it all the more valuable to us.

Not everything about the book works: some of the anecdotal examples don't always seem to work as good examples of what's being discussed. But overall this is a very helpful textbook and our group could productively work its way through it again.