Addressing the Wound of Practitioner Fallout in the Field of Urban Mission: Pastoral Supervision as a Theological Research Method

C.C.L.H. van den Berg-Seiffert

Addressing the Wound of Practitioner Fallout in the Field of Urban Mission: Pastoral Supervision as a Theological Research Method

C.C.L.H. van den Berg-Seiffert

Spirituality

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Abstract

The considerable fallout of practitioners in the field of Urban Mission is the ‘wound’ this research tries to address in the form of trainings which are modelled after pastoral supervision. Using cases we will ask the methodological question what we can learn from pastoral supervision about conducting research. Is it possible to understand pastoral supervision not only as a valuable way of learning by reflecting on work experiences, but can this method lend itself also as a theological research method?

Original language	English
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 7 Oct 2025
Event	Out of the Depth ICPCC/ECPCC Conference - De Poort, Nijmegen, Netherlands Duration: 5 Oct 2025 → 9 Oct 2025

Conference

Conference	Out of the Depth ICPCC/ECPCC Conference
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Nijmegen
Period	5/10/25 → 9/10/25

Keywords

Urban Mission, Pastoral Supervision, Theological Research Method, Burnout

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