title: 'Out of the Whirlwind': Clinical Pastoral Education and Climate Change.
abstract: This article traces the development of an innovative program of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE), conducted in 2013 in Victoria, Australia. Interns were placed in environmental contexts; the program's aim was to enhance the eco-ministry identity of interns as they attended to the anxieties and concerns of people affected by ecological change, as well as listening to the cries and groans of Earth. In this sense, pastoral care acknowledges the environment and our human presence within it as of religious and spiritual concern. The theological and supervisory rationales of the program are outlined and include a careful alignment of parallel competencies with the existing objectives and standards required for accreditation. Guidelines for sacred practice in nature, place/case study and the more-than-human verbatims are described, and an illustrative example of such a verbatim is also included.
authors.affiliation: Uniting CPE - The John Paver Centre Synod of Victoria and Tasmania Uniting Church in Australia andy.calder123@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Andy S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Calder
authors.affiliation: Uniting CPE - The John Paver Centre Synod of Victoria and Tasmania Uniting Church in Australia.
authors.forename: Jan E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Morgan
mesh_terms: D002604:Chaplaincy Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003422:Critical Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D010327:Pastoral Care / Q000193:education*; D011364:Professional Practice / Q000458:organization & administration*; D024382:Professional Role; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D028725:Theology / Q000193:education; D014739:Victoria
keywords: CPE; Earth; eco-ministry; education pastoral care