CMCS Workshops

CMCS counsellors are reminded that in the three-yearly re-registration process, attending at least one Workshop in the previous three years will be expected.

Workshops in 2026:

 

'Collared & Constrained - Life in clergy/ministry households' - with Facilitator Rachel Hudson

We will look at some of the risks and unconscious dynamics that can emerge in relation to expectations of congregations on the church leader, their spouse and family. 
For example, specific tasks: 'The pastor's wife always does the flowers!' or ‘Vicarage children shouldn't behave like that!’; living in a 'goldfish bowl', pleasing others, not being able to say no, the need to be needed, guilt & shame, risks of attraction to or from others, the whole family being seen as public property/dehumanised. The Workshop will explore healthy and unhealthy ways of maintaining couple / family / single life away from church.

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