SIPCC - survey of former activities and list of available texts

completed:
SIPCC-Consultation in Krzyzowa (Poland) 9. - 13. März 2011
"Meeting for Exchange and Encounter"
Life-Stories from Times under Communist Rule
-Biographical Work in Pastoral Care and Counselling-

Program (German version) PDF / German site here

SIPCC projects completed in 2010

22. SIPCC-Seminar in Straßburg
(languages: Englisch and French ! )

"The Dynamics of Migration"
12.-18. Sept. 2010 / completed

more infos here

SIPCC projects completed in 2009

21. SIPCC-Seminar in Haifa

    Differences as Opportunity
        Care and counselling in multi-cultural and multi-religious societies
        The example of Haifa, Israel

4.-10. Sept. 2009
[ impressions]

5. SIPCC - Study Trip

"Places of intercultural/interreligious significance"

11. - 17. September
[ impresions]

new book launched:
"Interfaith Spiritual Care - Understandings and Practices",
eds.: Daniel Schipani / Leah Dawn Bueckert ISBN 978-1-926599-07-6
-cooperation of editors and sipcc-
worldwide survey of interfaith spiritual caregiving (April 2009)
pdf of cover

new book - June 2009

Helmut Weiss, Klaus Temme (Eds.)
Treasure in Earthen Vessels,
Intercultural Perspectives on Pastoral Care facing Fragility and Destruction
Serie : ContactZone. Explorations in Intercultural Theology, vol. 6
ISBN 978-3-8258-1138-9

book of the 2007-ICPCC-World-Congress (English version)
some details here

expert conference in Warsaw/Poland:
Pastoral Care Givers in times of 'resistance' to dictatorship -
Examples for a profetic dimension in care giving
April 5th - 8th, 2009
[German and Polish Languages used only / report here (English) ]

SIPCC presented its work at Kirchentag in Bremen/ Germany
May 20th - 24th, 2009

SIPCC projects completed in 2008

the 20th International Seminar for Intercultural Pastoral Care and Counselling of the SIPCC took sucessfully place, August 31st - September 6th, 2008, Faculty of Protestant Theology at the Comenius-University of Bratislava, Slovakia first report here Identity in Times of Changes - challenges for Pastoral Care, Churches and Religions

SIPCC projects completed in 2007

August       SIPCC participated bery actively in
                    the ICPCC's 8th World Congress in Poland
                     (see www.icpcc.net)

                    SIPCC-07-General Assembley held in Poland

June      31. Deutscher Evang. Kirchentag (DEKT Cologne)

              - SIPCC presented its work in a stall at Kirchentag's
                 Center 'Market of opportunities (in Church)'

              - Sipcc (cooperating) in a consultation on
                 Muslim spiritual care and counselling in Germany
March     Consultation "Intercultural Past. Care & Counselling(I)"
                 (cooperating with the Protestant Church of the Rhineland's
                 "Evang. Akademie im Rheinland", Bonn, Germany)

             "Past.Care in the diversity of faiths
               present in Germany"
                - 'German' assessment as of 2007,
                   impulses and perspectives- (Program-german)

reviewing 2006

the 19. Internat. Seminar on Intercultural Pastoral Care and Counselling:
September 17th - 22nd, 2006 in Hamburg, Germany / Missions Academy

"TRUTH WILL MAKE YOU FREE"
Spaces of exchange in missionary work
and pastoral care

successfully completed with more than 70 participants

SIPCC-Studytrip to Brazil
in cooperation with the Pastoral-Institute of EKiR
New Pfentecostal Movements and Theology of Prosperity
- a challenge to 'traditional' Churches -
successfully completed, -
German review [sorry...] here

new issue of the SIPCC-Magazine:
   "Intercultural and Interfaith Communication"
  summing up the lectures at
  the 18th International Seminar, Kaiserswerth/Germany 2005

the 18. Internat. Seminar on Intercultural Pastoral Care and Counselling: October 2 - 7, 2005 in Duesseldorf-Kaiserswerth, Germany INTERCULTURAL AND INTER-FAITH COMMUNICATION Seminar celebrating the 10th anniversary of the SIPCC successfully completed English review

11th SIPCC-Consultation "Tsunami and Pastoral Care and Couselling" Analysis of experiences and networking in longterm perspectives Consultation launched in Düsseldorf/Germany, Oct 10th, 2005

for the SIPCC's tribute to Howard Clinebell - please klick here

new publications launched!
- new book of the SIPCC-Editors:
   "Ethics and Practice of caring in various faiths"
    launched May 20th, 2005 [Neukirchener Verlag] - German
   [list of content - German]
- new issue of the SIPCC-Magazine (German version):
   "Violence - a challenge to Pastoral Care and Counselling"
  summing up various lectures at
  SIPCC-consultations etc. (in 2001 -  2004)
    responding to DOV

present, local and German activities:
- cooperation with various partners in expanding the Christian/Muslim -
   Muslim/Christian    dialogue on 'Spiritual PCC'
- cooperation with various partners in starting a "Counselling Counsellors"-program,
   at moment intended to support German Church-expatriots while staying abroad

- presentation of the SIPCC at German Kirchentag (Hannover, May 25-29, 2005)

Looking back:

commemorating Howard Clinebell

15th International Seminar September 2 - 7, 2001
in Wuppertal, Germany

16th International Seminar on Intercultural Pastoral Care and Counselling
Basel, Switzerland, 2002, - a review of the seminar is provided here!

17. Internat. Seminar on Intercultural Pastoral Care and Counselling:
September 5 - 10, 2004 in Kecskemet; Hungary,
review some pictures

•The Ecumenical Kirchentag, Berlin, Germany, May 28 - to June 1, 2003:
(Stand at the 'Agora', a kind of Church-Fair for new ideas in Church)

"Decade to overcome Violence":
the SIPCC cooperates in the campaign of World Council of Churches

Which role did/does Pastoral Care and Counselling play in dealing with "structural, cultural, religious and interpersonal Violence" (program of the Decade)?
The SIPCC-board decided to inquire about this issue more thoroughly by way of special consultations. At venues in various countries and over a 3-year period we want to concentrate on this focus.

•The 8th SIPCC-Consultation was held in Düsseldorf, Oct. 12, 2002 dealing with this topic; for more informations - click here [German only]

•An Intercultural Meeting in Gladbeck/Ruhrgebiet, Germany, on:
Overcoming violence by means oaf PCC/Pastoral Action
in the work with Psychiatric Patients in the US, Women in India, Street Children in Brasil-
May 24th, 2003

•The 9th SIPCC-Consultation in Düsseldorf, Germany,
May 26th, 2003, - on Violence in Schools and the impact that PCC/ Pastoral Action might have there, too. The German programm is here.

•The Cluj-SIPCC-Conference [English report] , Cluj, Romania:
a regional, international Conference, centering on PCC-Situation in Middle-and Eastern Europe
(June 16-20, 2003; languages German and Hungarian)

Archive of Texts

Dr. Klaus Lefringhausen, Düsseldorf

Prof. Dr. F. Rickerts, Duisburg

Prof. Dr. E. Hauschildt, Bonn

Dr. Karl Federschmidt, Wuppertal

Prof. Dr. J. Ziemer, Leipzig

Globalisation and PCC - (English Version) SIPCC-Wuppertal 2001 Seminar

Remarks

German Handbook "Handbuch Interkulturelle Seelsorge"

Our publishing company "Neukirchener Verlag" published the book May 2002 in an official presentation in Düsseldorf, Germany; additionally at that day, we had invited well renowned speakers to lecture and discuss the subject of "Multiculturality in Society, Church and Theology". More information here - in German!

Magazine "Intercultural Pastoral Care and Counselling"

After some preparations we now are able to offer subscription for our Magazine "Intercultural Pastoral Care and Counselling". We restructered the 'publications'-pages at this website to provide more information about the single issues, published up till now, - as well as some of the first volumes to download!

Please, consider subscribing - either for your own use - or to present a subscription to others!