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Lasts two years on a part time basis. Sessions normally take place on Tuesday evenings in Trinity House from 7pm to 8.50pm. There is usually one Saturday session per term, and three residential weekends over the two-year training programme.

Includes visits and a placement in different caring agencies (e.g. a hospital, a prison, a centre for refugee and asylum seekers).

Includes skills based training on listening, assessing people needs, team working and planning new caring initiatives.

Brings together personal and spiritual development with skills and knowledge related to pastoral care work in a variety of settings.

Seeks to value the experience you bring and to build on it.

Aims to make you more confident and skilled in your own pastoral care work, and to enable you to provide leadership and guidance to others involved in caring ministry in your church.

There are some individual and group assignments; generally these are related to practical aspects of pastoral care work rather than written essays. The training team is mindful that some people beginning training have extensive work and family commitments, and take this into account in organizing the training programme.

Those who begin SPA training come from a wide variety of social and cultural backgrounds, have varied experience of pastoral care work, and come with different previous experience of formal education. The Training Programme uses a variety of methods and is aimed at being both accessible and challenging.

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