Hi Kevin, On Nov 1, 2011, at 5:34 AM, Kevin Kervick wrote:
> Hello Ernie: > > This might be a strange question. I love strange questions! > I enjoyed the Wiki description of Transformational Christianity and it has > me thinking. Thanks. > I have a 20 year career as a family therapist, community builder, program > director and teacher but I am increasingly seeing myself in a pastoral role > ie. my community. I haven't been able to operationalize that very well but I > know intuitively that I am heading in that direction - wherever that > direction is. > > My hope would be to help others find meaning and stability, especially those > that are unchurched or ungoverned so to speak. I'd like to do it in an > informal way, perhaps as a community mentor and not as part of a formal > church. Have you ever thought about something like this? I often see my role as an informal pastor. Have you considered becoming a Life Coach? It is the closest career to "pastor without portfolio" that I know of: http://www.becomealifecoachnow.com/ http://www.adaringadventure.com/life-coaching/how-not-to-become-a-life-coach/ > I see the world as in an Axial period and I'd like to do my part to help > people navigate the changes. I have found my psychotherapy role to be too > medical/mechanistic/deficit-based to do that. Yeah, I agree that we need a secular/neutral equivalent of "pastoring" to help shepherd the world through The Big Shift ahead... -- Ernie P. -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
