PASTORAL CARE & COUNSELING PROGRAM
This program provides basic education in Pastoral Counseling skills for spiritual teachers, chaplains, priests and ministers, social workers, nurses, yoga and martial art teachers and other care-giving professionals. The Pastoral Counseling program is an important part of the Chaplaincy program.
Any of these courses can be taken independently. Certification requires 10 sessions of supervision with a faculty member and 10 sessions of group supervision in addition to completing the 14 courses, two personal evaluations, a final essay examination and two weekend Zen retreats. Those who have taken equivalent courses can apply for credit.
An initial, in-person interview is required as well as the application and non-refundable filing fee. Except for Inner Relationship Focusing these courses will be delivered as weekend seminars.
Zen Garland teachers, priests, ministers and chaplains are required to become certified in Pastoral Counseling unless equivalent training has been completed.
“Pastoral care and counseling involve the utilization by persons in ministry of one-to-one or small group relationships to enable healing empowerment and growth to take place within individuals and their relationships. Pastoral care is the broad, inclusive ministry of mutual healing and growth within a congregation and its community, through the life cycle. Pastoral counseling, one dimension of Pastoral care, is the utilization of a variety of healing (therapeutic) methods to help people handle their problems and crises more growthfully, and thus experience healing of their brokenness. Pastoral counseling is a reparative function needed when the growth of persons is seriously jeopardized or blocked by crises. People need pastoral care throughout their lives. They may need pastoral counseling at times of severe crises, usually on a short-term basis.” Howard John Clinebell
Fees: A non-refundable $25 processing fee is required with an application to join the Pastoral Care & Counseling Program. The program costs $1’460, if paid upfront $855. Courses can be taken independently at the following rates.
WINTER TRIMESTER 2011
Human Development I: Infancy
Marion Kharem, LSW.
Pastoral Counseling I-A: Theory
Rev. Tim Seion Dunn.
Pastoral Counseling II Techniques & Practice
Clarence W. Duncan Sings-Alone, Ph.D.
Inner Relationship Focusing III
Jocelyn Kahn
Inner Relationship Focusing IV
Jocelyn Kahn
SPRING TRIMESTER 2011
Human Development II: Childhood
Marion Kharem, LSW.
Human Development III: Adolescence
Marion Kharem, LSW
Pastoral Counseling I-B: Theory
Rev. Tim Seion Dunn.
Psychopathology I – Major Conditions
William Greenberg, MD
Introduction to Psychodynamics
Ellie Muska
Inner Relationship Focusing I
Jocelyn Kahn
Inner Relationship Focusing II
Jocelyn Kahn
Group & Individual Supervision
FALL TRIMESTER 2011
Human Development IV: Adulthood
Marion Kharem, LSW
Psychopathology II – Personality Disorders
William Jikai Greenberg, MD
Pastoral Counseling III Techniques & Practice
Clarence W. Duncan Sings-Alone, Ph.D.
Mindfulness-based Counseling Techniques
Rev. Tim Seion Dunn
Inner Relationship Focusing III
Jocelyn Kahn.
Inner Relationship Focusing IV
Jocelyn Kahn.
Group & Individual Supervision
WINTER TRIMESTER 2012
Spiritual Development
Roshi Paul Genki Kahn, LCSW, DCSW
Introduction to World Religions
Roshi Paul Genki Kahn, LCSW, DCSW
Working with Couples and Families
Ellie Muska, LCSW
Working with Addictions
Roshi Paul Genki Kahn, LCSW, DCSW
Group & Individual Supervision
This program begins again in the Fall trimester, September 2012 at Zen Garland’s Community Study Center & Seminary.
PASTORAL COUNSELING FACULTY
C.W. Duncan Sings-Alone, Ph.D
Duncan Sings-Alone (C. W. Duncan, Ph.D.) has been a Counselor since 1956, first as a pastoral counselor, then since 1970, as a Counseling Psychologist. He has been an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida, Western Arizona University, and Antioch University. In these settings he has trained numerous paraprofessional and professional students in counseling and communication techniques. He has also been employed in the departments of Corrections and Mental Health for the State of Florida, and has been a consulting psychologist for the department of social services in Arizona where he was also the developer of a Mental Health Program for the Colorado River Indian Tribes. Before his retirement from psychological services he was the Executive Director of the Tri County Youth Services Bureau (Mental health agency for children and adolescents) in southern Maryland, and from 1986 to 1997 he was exclusively in private practice. From 1976 to 1983 he trained intensively in Native American medicine with George Whitewolf, and from 1983 to the present he has been a spiritual teacher, healer, storyteller and ceremonialist for Native people. In 2009 he became part of the Zen Garland and was fully ordained as Zen Priest in 2010.
Laura Getsuki Bloom, LCSW
Laura Bloom, LCSW has been a Clinical Social Worker for 36 years. For many years she served in agencies, including Jewish Family Services and Senior Services. For the past 11 years she has been exclusively in Private Practice in Teaneck, NJ. She treats children 5 years and older, adolescents, adults and does couples and family counseling as well as individual therapy. She is certified as a Yoga Teacher by Kripalu Institute, and in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.
Rev. Timothy Seion Dunn, LCSW, LCADC
Rev. Tim Sei-on Dunn, LCSW, LCADC is an ordained Protestant minister with a variety of experience in parish ministry and college and hospital chaplaincy. He graduated from New York Theo. Sem. (MPS), Drew Univ. Theo. School (M.Div.) and Rutgers Univ. Graduate School of Social Work (MSW) and has various experiences as clinical social worker and addictions counselor and clinical supervisor in hospital, community agency and private settings.
Rev. Tim Dunn is studying and practicing both Western and Eastern contemplative traditions since many years.
Rev. William Jikai Greenberg, Sensei, MD
Roshi Paul Genki Kahn, LCSW
Roshi Paul Genki Kahn is a licensed social worker, mental health leader and administrator, SIFI-certified supervisor, instructor and psychotherapist in private practice with over 30 years of experience. He has designed and administered public and private mental health programs for disadvantaged people in New York and New Jersey. He helped pioneer quality treatment for persons with co-occurring conditions of mental illness and drug and alcohol addictions. He has studied psychoanalytic, cognitive behavioral, and Focusing schools of psychotherapy, and uses a multidimensional, spiritually informed approach in his treatment and teaching.
Marion Kharem, LCSW-R
Marion Kharem, LCSW-R is has been a Social Worker for the past 26 years. She is certified as a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and in Dialectic Behavioral Therapy, one of the first mindfulness-based treatment modalities. She has worked at Rockland Psychiaric Center and in several of their community mental health centers. She has provded direct therapy treatment to individuals, couples and families, been Coordinator of the Yonkers Service Center MICA Treatment Program, and a Supervisor. She is in Private Practice in Tarrytown, NY.
Ellie Muska, LCSW
Ellie Muska, MSW, LCSW, has been working in the mental health field for over 30 years. She is in private practice in New Providence, NJ. She is on the faculty of the Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in New Jersey (CPPNJ) and the New Jersey Couples Therapy Training Program (NJCTTP). She teaches and supervises therapists who are receiving training on the post-graduate level in Couples Psychotherapy, Individual Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She has received advanced training in death and dying, grief counseling, couples counseling, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis with a specialty in trauma and dissociation. She has an on-going Zen practice at Zen Garland and is a student of Roshi Paul Genki Kahn.