Post-Ordination Programme
The IMA promotes an expanding post-graduate programme of further training and spiritual growth for all ministers and counsellors. The programme includes workshops, retreats, short courses and seminars all of which may be CPD-accredited by the Interfaith Foundation.
Ministers are warmly invited to step forward, create and offer their own programmes and events for promotion in our Calendar.
Currently available
Focus on Funerals
13 February 2010, Tring, Hertfordshire
A one-day workshop exploring all aspects of setting up as an interfaith minister offering funeral services.
Deepening our Truth
From 6 March 2010, Guildford
A 7-session program that takes spiritual counselling to a deeper level. Speakers give an experience of a Cognitive/Analytical, Neuro Linguistic Programming, Transactional Analysis, Gestalt and Dance and Movement approaches to therapy. The course also explores the issues of Suicide, Self Harm, Anger, Grieving, Addictions and Emotional Health.
Burnout: a spiritual crisis - the role of the spiritual director
Friday 30 April 2010, Milton Keynes
Ministers burn out. Ministers counsel people who burn out. Yet often little is known about this painful experience and how to handle it. This masterclass will explore what burnout is, how to stop it happening, how to help ourselves and others when it does. Burnout is always a spiritual crisis and requires spiritual solutions. This event is followed by ...
Convocation 2010
1/2 May 2010 at the Chrysalis Centre, Milton Keynes
The annual gathering of our interfaith ministers and students.
Mystic Heart of the Scriptures
On-going series of seminars with Rev. Peter Dewey in both Manchester and London.
How to set up in business as a minister:
We are currently inviting ministers with relevant experience to step forward with their proposals for designing and running this course.
Future plans
We consulted with ministers in early 2009 about what post-ordination programme events you would like to see. This consultation shows most support for the following:
Spiritual counselling masterclasses
Half- or one-day events on topics: grief, depression, crisis and burnout, relationships, sexuality (and feel free to suggest additional themes).
Two or more different topics could be run on successive days.Ceremony masterclasses
Half- or one-day events on each of: birth, weddings, funerals, rights-of-passage.
Two different topics could be run on successive days.Spiritual practices masterclasses
One-day events on topics such as: prayer, meditation, singing, journaling, yoga, etc. Or on specific faith understanding such as: Buddhism, Islam, Native American Traditions, etc.
Two or more related topics could be run on successive days.
All ministers are warmly invited and encouraged to develop and promote their own post-ordination programme using these suggestions as a guide. You can use the events pages to promote the courses and have them CPD accredited by the IMA.
