Setting up and running a pastoral team
This training session is aimed at potential and current pastoral team leaders and church leaders seeking practical information to assist them in setting up and running a pastoral team within a church context.
Upcoming Training Events
For continuing professional development
We organise professional events related to different aspects of counselling/psychotherapy, coaching/mentoring and pastoral care. Most of our events are online which are easy to access, and are open to members and non-members.
They include:
- professional CPD events that focus on specific themes
- pastoral care courses and workshops
- free members forums (members only)
- conferences
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Pastoral accompaniment at the end of life
Aim of training: The purpose of this training session is to equip and enable pastoral carers and ministers to accompany those within our churches and communities who are at the end of their life.
Supervising in Complexity (Day 2): Supervision in multiple contexts
A CPD training day where we will be discussing supervision in different contexts, to understand the differences between clinical vs. managerial supervision; private practice vs. agency or statutory contexts; including keeping supervisee’s safe.
SCoPEd column B top up training
This intensive four-day online training is for ACC registered counsellor members who wish to take one of the top up routes for accreditation. It is also a CPD training for qualified counsellors who have already met column A competencies and who wish to deepen their knowledge and skills. It covers all of the SCoPEd column B competencies, including areas such as:
Guidelines for good practice in pastoral care
Workshop aim: To enable individuals, churches and Christian organisations involved in the ministry of pastoral care, to develop their understanding and application of good practice, so that it can be offered safely, effectively and with integrity.
Attuning to the Body – An exploration of somatic process within the therapeutic relationship
Advances in interpersonal neurobiology, attachment and trauma research have highlighted that many of the issues clients bring into therapy are rooted somatically.
The Wellbeing Zone
CPD event for: counsellors, pastoral carers, and anyone with a heart for wellbeing
Integrating Christian faith and counselling/psychotherapy
Research shows that for some clients, the integration of their faith in therapy is important to them. Over the years, there has been resistance by some within the counselling profession to any notion of the concept of integrating Christian faith/religion/spirituality with the practice of counselling/psychotherapy. Whilst in recent times, it appears the profession has become more open to this, nevertheless, many practitioners in the counselling world remain uncomfortable and/or unsure as to how to address issues of Christian faith/religion/spirituality in clinical practice. The avoidance and/or discomfort can be due to a lack of knowledge and understanding and this programme therefore aims to provide attendees with a firm foundation and framework as to how to ethically, professionally, and competently integrate Christian faith/religion/spirituality into their personal philosophy and practice of counselling/psychotherapy.
ACC National Conference 2026
Homecoming, as told in the story of the lost son, is less about geography than identity – a return to a place where we essentially belong. When he turns homeward, the son does not plan to arrive with conditions, or prepared defences, rather he comes as is and has been, with honesty, regrets and a simple longing to be back – irrespective of where he will now fit into his father’s household. That he is met by the father with compassion, joy and a desire to celebrate, rather than with the expected condemnation and marginalisation, is the startling aspect of this story, told as an exemplar of the nature of God’s relationship with us.