Reflecting Forward Conference

Conference & Spiritual Care Expo!

Date: May 13^th to 14^th 2024

Venue: RACT HOTEL – 154-156 Collins St Hobart Registrations via Humanitix – click below to register. There are a range of Ticket options available with cheaper options for volunteers and those who are travelling from outside Hobart. TASPE have generously subsidised this conference and have priced tickets to make this conference as affordable as possible. If you are still struggling to attend due to financial concerns please email info@taspe.com.au.  

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Spiritual Care and Supervision

Spiritual Care is a growing and vital part of any organisation that cares for and about people. There are Chaplains engaged in a variety of industries and sectors. Many of whom are unrecognised, lack support and acknowledgement. And yet there are great opportunities to be involved in Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care.

We hope this conference will be a great opportunity to explore opportunities in the field of Spiritual Care as well as an opportunity to network and talk to others in the field and or see how you might engage in the work of Spiritual Care in the future. We hope that this will be an opportunity to raise awareness of the vital work of Chaplains and Spiritual Carers and the work that you and others do and will provide a refreshing and energising space for you to continue this vital work! It will be a rich and rewarding opportunity to meet with Chaplains and other Spiritual Care workers across sectors and across state boundaries. For those who are often working alone in this come along and meet some others!

Every Spiritual Carer and Chaplain should be engaged in Supervision. We hope this conference will also help you consider how you will engage in Supervision and you will get the opportunity to hear from and talk to Michael and Susan both who provide a wealth of experience and wisdom in providing and educating in the practice of supervision.

Spiritual Care is a growing and vital part of any organisation that cares for and about people. There are Chaplains engaged in a variety of industries and sectors. And there are great opportunities to be involved in Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care.

Spiritual Care & Chaplaincy Expo

We hope there will be an expo style arrangement with providers of Spiritual Care around Tasmania so that you can meet and greet people working across the sector. If you’re currently involved in Spiritual Care or would like to be, then register now! This will be an encouraging and helpful couple of days for your practice or to hear more about the spiritual care opportunities in Tasmania.

We hope that we will get lots of people from Spiritual Care circles in the one room and have a chance to promote Chaplaincy in its various forms and contexts around Tasmania and be an opportunity to cross network and engage with people interested in Spiritual Care.

Conference Program

Keynote Speakers

Keynote Sessions

Spiritual Care: Personal, Professional & Political Perspective Widening the Lens: Postcards from Spiritual Care and Supervision Overseas Spiritual Care: Where do we go from here?

Michael Paterson

Dr. Michael Paterson is a priest, psychotherapist, supervisor, and supervisor-trainer based in Fife, Scotland. He is the Director of Scotland at The Institute of Pastoral Supervision & Reflective Practice. He runs professional training in individual and group supervision across the English-speaking world ¹. His doctoral thesis examined the multiple identities of practitioners operating on the edges of professional praxis using performance ethnography and other creative forms of reflection on practice . Michael holds honorary lectureships at the University of Glasgow and Alphacrucis College, Sydney. He has presented at various conferences and workshops across the world .

Rev Dr Michael Paterson

Susan Marcuccio

Keynote 3: Harmony in Thought: Resolving Dissonance and Reordering Cognitive Schema

Ps Susan Marcuccio, a Sydney-based pastor, supervisor trainer, supervisor, mentor and chaplain, is President of the Australian Association of Supervision (AAOS) and National Supervision Director at Chaplaincy Australia. She is passionate to see those in the helping professions receive quality non-judgemental confidential support and engage in transformational learning. Susan has developed insightful and practical methods, tools and resources that strengthen and equip others to care and support.