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R7 Ministerial Placement Debrief

Contents:
Ministerial Placement Debrief Weekend

What is this Weekend all about?
Useful resources for Ministerial Placement Weekend
The Student Spot
R7 Programme
Ministerial Placement

Resources Addition Form
Contributions to this page

Welcome to the R7 Ministerial Placement Debrief Weekend web page. This page is designed to provide useful resources relating to topics covered in R7 with WEMTC. If you have found useful resources or have questions you would like ask, please do contribute. This weekend is linked to the Ministerial Placement module

What is this Weekend all about?

This weekend enables students to both give and receive accounts of their ministerial placement and explore ways of reflecting on their experience and discern strengths and weaknesses in their own ministerial practice.

The Ministerial Placement Debrief weekend usually occurs in November with the placement having been undertaken in September and October. It is not necessary for the Placement to be completed and in rare cases it may not even have been started.

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Useful resources for R7

Books

The following are indicative books for this weekend:

Cocksworth,C & Brown, R. Being a Priest Today Canterbury Press, 2002
Francis, J. & Francis, L. Tentmaking - Perspectives on Self-Supporting Ministry Gracewing 1998
L. William Countryman Living on the Border of the Holy Morehouse 1999
Mason, K. Priesthood and Society Canterbury Press 2002

For more detailed bibliographies see our Ministerial Placement Booklists.
Why not tell us of some books you have found useful? If the webmaster agrees we'll list them here.

R7 Ministerial Placement Web Resources

You may find the following web sites helpful for the Ministerial Placement. Material on the net has no quality control making tutors very wary - and rightly so! Nevertheless there is a growing amount of first class work on line particularly coming from Religious Studies Departments of good Universities. Treat with care and you'll find it very useful.

The Internet is not 100% reliable and documents move, disappear and change their names. If you find a link does not work, try again in an hour, a day, or a week. But do feel free to email us to report a link doesn't work. Don't forget to tell us the name of the link!

Resources Generally
I haven't found many web sites generally useful to everyone for this weekend. Every reflection is unique but will need to draw on relevant modules that you have studied with WEMTC so see the Modules relating to your Reflection topic.
Some of the following may also be useful:

See the general religion links as a starting point for your own searching

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The Student Spot

This spot is for contributions from those who are doing or have done R7. It needs your contributions - books that have been helpful, questions you would like answered, adverts for things related to the module etc. Content is monitored by the webmaster with reference to the tutors and class reps if necessary. Click here to submit something for the page.

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A sample R7 Weekend Programme

Please note that programmes are constantly being revised and the actual content of your weekend may look rather different.

Preparation

Please bring your journal and all other materials collected to help reflect on your experience. No formal presentation is required but there will be opportunities to debrief and reflect and instructions on writing the final report.
Please also reread all your first year notes on Paul and the Epistles as they will form the basis on which we will be building during the Sunday sessions this year. Please ask if you do not have any notes.

Programme

Friday
6:30 Arrive
7:00 Dinner
8:00 Session 1 - Telling the Stories (Part 1) A sharing of experiences
9:30 Night Prayer

Saturday
8:00 Worship
8:30 Breakfast
9:15 Session 2 Telling the Stories (Part 2) Completion of sharing sessions
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Session 3 Session 3 - Reflecting Theologically What does theological reflection mean in relation to a ministerial placement?
1:00 Lunch
2:30 Free
4:00 Tea
4:30 Session 4 Reflecting Applied Sifting and sorting the experiences to begin focus on one issue for reflection
6:00 Worship
6:30 Dinner
7:30 Session 5 Reflection on Ministry Considering one's future ministry in the light of the placement experience.

Sunday
8:30 Breakfast
9:15 Session 6 - Introduction to the Epistles
10:30 WEMTC Forum
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Worship
1:00 Lunch

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Contribution to this Page

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The Full Module Description for R7 Ministerial Placement Debrief

Code and title

R7 Ministerial Placement Debrief

Tutor

Revd Dr Mike Parsons, Elizabeth Harper

Brief description

Level and Credits

Contributes to P201 Ministerial Placement assessment

Status

Core for Ordinands

Type

Standard

Prerequisites

Nil

Restrictions

Open to Ordinands only

Content summary

This weekend will cover:

Students reports and descriptions of their placement experiences shared within groups
Use of the Pastoral Cycle in relation to ministerial experience
Providing a framework and guidelines for the placement reflection
Working with specific issues and experiences that emerge from placement descriptions
Identifying strengths and weaknesses in ministerial practice
Identifying areas of interest for future development or exploration.

Learning outcomes

By the end of these weekends students should:

a) Knowledge and Understanding

Have broadened their understanding of ministerial practice and traditions.
Have an insight into the connections between theology and the realities of ministry
Be able to assess strengths and weaknesses in ministerial practice and provide a necessary theological framework for such a critique.
Be able to interpret the way ministry is exercised within different denominations and traditions

b) Skills

Be able to engage in self-reflection in relation to ministerial practice.
Be able to assess their own strengths and weaknesses in ministerial practice.
Be able to engage with the critical perceptions of others.
Have the resources to be able to complete the placement report.
Be able to engage with others in reflective practice

Teaching and learning

10 hours
7 hours class contact
3 hours personal study (preparation, self reflection, discussion in Formation Groups and with Tutor)

Assessment

A self-reflection exercise in prescribed format

Indicative resources

As for P201 Ministerial Placement i.e

Cocksworth,C & Brown, R. Being a Priest Today Canterbury Press, 2002
Francis, J. & Francis, L. Tentmaking - Perspectives on Self-Supporting Ministry Gracewing 1998
L. William Countryman Living on the Border of the Holy Morehouse 1999
Mason, K. Priesthood and Society Canterbury Press 2002

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