The 16th International Seminar for Intercultural Pastoral Care and Counselling
"Why do we serve others?"
The Ethics of Caring - Multifaith Perspectives
took place September 8 - 13, 2002,
with about 100 participants
at the venue of
Baseler Mission (jetzt Mission 21), BildungsZentrum 21,
Missionsstraße 21, CH - 4055 Basel / Schweiz
www.bildungszentrum-21.ch
Regarding the theme, we made this initial reflexions:
WHY DO WE SERVE OTHERS?
Helping and serving is a natural and human activity. Even animals protect each other and without caring humans would not survive.
But in human beings there exist other natural forces as well such as greed, aggressions and violence that overcome caring attitudes and become destructive. Therefore religions and faiths have developed ethical principals of care.
In this Seminar we want to learn more about the ethics of caring in some of the world religions and faiths. We want to listen to each other and to enter into an interfaith dia-logue.
The aim is to understand more about spiritual care in different cultures and faiths and to deliver care while being more grounded in our own religious believes.
Spiritual Practice
of various religions
Lectures:
Experts from the different faiths lectured on the Ethics of Care
Case Study Groups:
pastoral care and counselling with people from other faiths and cultures
Intercultural Forums:
reflections on the issue, how care and counselling is done in the different
faiths
Sharing Groups:
in small groups the members reflected on the experiences of the day
A Prayer for Peace
bringing all participants together at the last day concluded the seminar
The Seminar was focussing on the following religions for one day:
Christianity (Sunday)
Islam (Monday)
Judaism (Tuesday)
Buddhism (Wednesday)
Hinduism (Thursday)
A more specific outline of the single days, the names of cooperators etc.
you will find here (pdf) !
A Basel-Seminar-Review you can find here!
The Reformed Parish St. Elisabeth, Basel and SIPCC presented:
"Spirituality - the common root of both Religion
and Ethics"
Speaker: Dr. phil. Carola Meier-Seethaler, Bern/Suisse
This event was a part of the 16th Internat. Seminar, too, taking place
on Monday, Sept. 9, 2002.