International Seminars on Intercultural Pastoral Care and Counselling have taken
place since 1986 in various countries and cities.
Each year from 80 to 120 participants from all over the world attend these meetings.
Practitioners and teachers in the fields of pastoral care, counselling, therapy
or other disciplines from all Christian denominations or other religions and
all other persons who want to improve their skills in helping people are invited
to learn in an intercultural setting.
Interculturality
- is a description of the encounter and dialogue of cultures - and maintaining
ones own cultural identity at the same time
- recognises and values cultural diversity among diverse peoples, groups and
individuals - a significant approach in times of globalisation and cultural
indifference
- is aware of common features of all human beings - and therefore empowers people
to overcome racist, sexist, and other dehumanising attitudes and behaviours
- understands that human behaviours, attitudes, believes and religious faiths
are formed in the contexts of specific historical and local environments
- seeks to advance awareness of fellow humans and encourages dialogue
- explores the powers and influences of foreign cultures on peoples, groups
and individuals - and questions imperialistic life styles which are forced on
others
- encourages exchange between and meeting humans of other cultures as neighbours
and the creation of community with them in an open and fearless atmosphere and
by doing so helps to reduce violence
- sees each individual as a person in his and her own singular identity, right
and dignity.
Intercultural Pastoral Care and Counselling
- is a combination of interculturality and religious believes, Christian
faiths and psychological and sociological knowledge
- stimulates workers in pastoral care, counselling, therapy and other helping
professions to relate their professional knowledge with their cultural identity
- develops attitudes and methods to serve humans from different cultures in
a competent and professional way.
the
International Seminars for Intercultural Pastoral Care and Counselling
want to enhance a mutual holistic learning process among all participants:
- the participants encounter people from other cultures and exchange
various cultural experiences,
- they give and receive new implusesfor new life-styles,
- they give and receive new impulses for their spiritual and communal living.
- they reflect on cultural, social, political, economcal and religious contexts
of people,
- they challenge their own cultural and religious assumptions and presuppositions,
- they present their practice in care and counselling and reflect upon
them from various perspectives,
- they extend their professional knowledge in dealing with the theme
of the seminar,
- they enter into a process of theory-building of Intercultural Pastoral
Care and Counselling,
(when klicking on the marked spots a group-picture of the particular seminar
will open up)
1986 (1) Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth, West-Germany "Hope and Wholeness
in a threatened World"
1988 (2) Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth, West-Germany "Pastoral Care and
Liberation"
1989 (3) Mülheim, West-Germany "Healing and Healing Community"
1990 (4) Mülheim, (West-)Germany "Justice, Peace and Integrity of
Creation"
1991 (5) Groß-Dölln (north of Berlin), (East-)Germany "Individual
and Community - Adjustment & Change"
1992 (6) Mülheim, (West-)Germany "..a time to love, a time to hate..
On Marriage, Gender and Sexuality"
1993 (7) Mülheim, (West-)Germany "Economy and Violence"
1994 (8) Prague, Czech. Republic "Everything is breaking down - can you
help me?"
1995 (9) Mülheim, Germany "PCC in Post-Modern Time"
1996 (10) Ustron (south of Krakow), Poland "Traditons - Shadows of the
Past/Sources of the Future"
1997 (11) Mülheim, Germany "Emergence and Pacification of Violence
/ the Meaning of Sacrifice"
1998 (12) Lakitelek (north of Kecskemet), Hungary "Stories of Hope"
1999 (13) Berlin, Germany "Cities
- Fragmentations of Human Life?"
2000 (14) London-Colney, England "Human
Dignity, Culture and Health"
2001 (15) Wuppertal, Germany "Global
Economy and Every-Day Life"
2002 (16) Basel, Switzerland, "Ethics
of Caring in multifaith perspectives"
2004 (17) Kecskemet, Hungary, "Young
people and the experience of violence"
2005 (18) Duesseldorf
/ Germany: "Intercultural and interfaith communication"
2006 (19) Hamburg / Germany: "Mission
and Pastoral Care"
2007 SIPCC fosters the ICPCC-World-Congress
in Krzyzowa/Poland
2008 (20) Bratislava, Slowakei: "Identity
in times of change"!
2009 (21) Haifa, Israel:
"Differences as opportunities"
2010 (22) Strasbourg/France:
"Dynamics of Migration today"
For a more detailled survey on venues, themes, cooperators etc. you may look
up this Adobe-Acrobat-Reader-File: Pdf-File
(800KB)!
Here we provide a map of the participants'
countries, as well as statistics of participants
and countries!
•2009
the 21st International Seminar for Intercultural Pastoral Care and Counselling
of the SIPCC
took place in Haifa/Israel;
04 - 10 September, 2009
Differences as Opportunity
Care and counselling in multi-cultural and multi-religious societies
The example of Haifa, Israel
more details
•2008
the 20th International Seminar for Intercultural Pastoral Care and Counselling
of the SIPCC
took place in Bratislava / Slovac Republic
August 31st - September 6th, 2008
on "Identity in times of change"
•2006
the 19. Internat. Seminar on Intercultural
Pastoral Care and Counselling:
17th - 22th Sept. 2006 Hamburg, Germany
Mission
and Pastoral Care & Counselling
Spaces
of encounter
in this two fields of Church Work
• The 18th
International Seminar on Pastoral Care and Counselling
took place October 2nd - 7th, 2005 in Duesseldorf,
Germany
INTERCULTURAL AND INTERFAITH COMMUNICATION
Seminar celebrating the 10th anniversary of the SIPCC
• The 17th International
Seminar for Intercultural Pastoral Care and Counselling took place
in Kecskemet/ Hungary on September 5 - 10, 2004
"YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE EXPERIENCE OF VIOLENCE Implications
for Pastoral Care and Counselling"
•Conference on PCC in
Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 16th - 20th June, 2003:
WHERE IS THY NEIGHBOUR? Overcoming violence in families, Curch and society by
means of PCC and supervision
The 16th International Seminar for
Intercultural Pastoral Care and Counselling in Basel /Schweiz
was held September 8 - 13, 2002. Representatives of the five 'Great'
Religions described their way how to care for, how to serve other people.
The 15th International Seminar was held from September 2 - 7, 2001 in the Ecumenical Workshop of "United in Mission"(VEM), Wuppertal, Germany. A summary you may find here.
the 8th World-Congress on Pastoral Care and Counseling of
the INTERNATIONA COUNCIL ON PASTORAL CARE AND COUNSELLING (ICPCC) in Poland
2007
see www.icpcc.net
The 7th "International Council of Pastoral Care and Counselling"
(ICPCC) 2004
in Bangalore, India took place in August 2004
August 2004 in Bangalore/India.
