Staff Care & Wellbeing: Issues and Application
22 - 25 April 2025
INTENSIVE optional online
This course equips participants with the knowledge and skills to implement effective staff care and wellbeing strategies in a diverse range of cultural contexts, including consideration of non-western perspectives.
What You'll Gain
· A comprehensive understanding of key issues faced by care providers including: selection and pre-field training, transitions (including re-entry), cross-cultural teams and conflict transformation, pastoral and interpersonal issues, generational issues, and third culture kids (TCKs)
· An in-depth examination of the outworking of staff care in different cultural contexts for individuals, families, and teams.
· Opportunity to reflect on your own experience and develop your competencies in addressing a range of complex issues of care
Why Do This Course?
· Equip yourself with the latest knowledge and tools for effective staff care
· Develop strategic and practical insights to sharpen your organisation's effectiveness in promoting staff care in culturally appropriate ways
· Access the latest writing and research in global member care
· Connect with a community of passionate, forward-thinking leaders in the field of mission and staff care
Course Tutor
Rosie Button
BA in Theology and Religious Studies, Cambridge University (MA Cantab); Post Graduate Certificate in Education (Religious Education); MA in Aspects of Christian Missiology, All Nations Christian College; PGDip.
Library Resources
All Nations has one of the finest mission libraries in the country with over 50,000 volumes, over 12,000 eBooks and a wide range of journals and audio visual material.
For remote access students, readings are supplied by college online and any additional reading you would like from our library catalogue may be accessed by emailing our librarian.
What Students Say
“I have found this module very helpful and am already looking for ways that I can implement it.”
“I have benefited from the module as it has helped me to think through certain specific situations in my mission, and has given me some new perspectives on issues including burnout and addictions.”
