"Teach me your ways" -
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Supervision is a professional relationship of safe space that fosters the skills and insights that enable people to flourish in their work. When both supervisor and supervisee have a Christian faith there is the wonderful opportunity to deepen supervision with theological reflection. This article discusses the process of explicitly bringing God into the conversation. I suggest that this might involve a movement during the supervision session as the supervisee describes an experience and reflects on it, connects it with insights about God, and gains clarify about professional practice.
Exerpt:
Doing theology means grappling with hard questions. As we identify points of pain and struggle I might ask, “Can I invite you to sit with that for a moment?” Sit and wait. Hold the difficult stuff. “Consider my affliction and trouble.” (Psalm 25:18) Good theology is brave theology. Why? Because it has the crucifixion at the centre. Nothing is more courageous than the cross. And so nothing is beyond God’s loving concern. Nowhere is outside of God’s covenant with us. Theological reflection gently pushes past any and every emotion towards discerning the teaching voice of Christ.
Doing theology means grappling with hard questions. As we identify points of pain and struggle I might ask, “Can I invite you to sit with that for a moment?” Sit and wait. Hold the difficult stuff. “Consider my affliction and trouble.” (Psalm 25:18) Good theology is brave theology. Why? Because it has the crucifixion at the centre. Nothing is more courageous than the cross. And so nothing is beyond God’s loving concern. Nowhere is outside of God’s covenant with us. Theological reflection gently pushes past any and every emotion towards discerning the teaching voice of Christ.