“CONTOURS OF SPIRITUAL CARE IN A WOUNDED WORLD”
ECPCC-ICPPC 5-9 OCTOBER 2025
Conference Program
DAY 1. SUNDAY 5 OCTOBER
12.00 REGISTRATION Participants arriving; Registration Desk open; practical assistance.
15.00-16.00 ECPCC MEETING / ICPCC MEETING
16.00- 17.30 BUFFET
17.30 -18.30 WELCOME. MEDITATION
Welcome. Dr. Henk van den Bosch, conference convenor ECPCC. – 100 years of CPE. Meditation on St Francis. – 800 years of Canticle of the Sun.
18.45- 20.15 FIRST ENCOUNTER. SMALL GROUP FORMATION Martin Jans, student chaplain Zwolle
20.15 PRACTICAL INFORMATION
20.30 SOCIALIZING
Registration Desk open.
DAY 2. MONDAY 6 OCTOBER
07.45 MEDITATION Dr. William Yang. East meets West.
08.15 BREAKFAST Registration Desk open.
09.00 CONFERENCE INFORMATION
KEY-NOTE LECTURE 1 prof. Dr. Hans Schilderman
Introduction. Barbara Zwaan.
10.20 BREAK
10.40 SMALL GROUP MEETING Reactions to the lecture
11.30 PLENARY DISCUSSION.
12.15 LUNCH
Registration Desk open.
13.15 WORKSHOPS- PAPERS – POSTERS Session 1
14.45 Break
15.05 WORKSHOPS- PAPERS – POSTERS Session 2
16.35 Break
16.45 PUBLICATIONS PRESENTATIONS
Publication of the previous ECPCC conferences, publication of ‘Psyche & Belief’,
publication of a book on Spirituality and Embodiment,
publications of participants.
18.00 DINNER
19.15 EVENING PROGRAM
Option 1: ‘Wounded World café’ with Heike Komma[1]
Option 2: Singing workshop with Hanna Rijken
Option 3: Theater workshop with Rosanne Geerdes
21.15 END OF DAY 2
Registration Desk open.
DAY 3. TUESDAY 7 OCTOBER
07.45 MEDITATION: Rev. Silvia M. Crowe, BCC, ACPE Certified Educator and Convenor of ACPE’s International Community of Practice
08.15 BREAKFAST
Registration Desk open.
09.00 CONFERENCE INFORMATION
KEY-NOTE LECTURE 2 Prof. Dr. Teresa Snorton
10.20 BREAK
10.40 SMALL GROUP MEETING Reactions to the lecture
11.30 PLENARY DISCUSSION.
12.15 LUNCH
Registration Desk open.
13.15 WORKSHOPS- PAPERS – POSTERS Session 3
14.45 Break
15.05 WORKSHOPS- PAPERS – POSTERS Session 4
16.35 Break
16.45 BUSINESS MEETINGS – ECPCC and ICPCC
18.00 DINNER
19.15 EVENING PROGRAM
-The heritage of A. Boisen and CPE. Mark Grace, Dialogue Facilitator.
-The future of CPE. Plenary discussion.
21.15 END OF DAY 2
Registration Desk open.
DAY 4. WEDNESDAY 8 OCTOBER
07.45 MEDITATION?
08.15 BREAKFAST
Registration Desk open.
09.00 CONFERENCE INFORMATION
KEY-NOTE LECTURE 3 Dr. Asnath Natar
Introduction. Prof.dr. Carl Sterkens.
10.20 BREAK
10.40 SMALL GROUP MEETING
Reactions to the lecture
11.30 PLENARY DISCUSSION.
12.15 CULTURAL PROGRAM: TRAVEL TO NATIONAL PARK ‘HOGE VELUWE’ AND MUSEUM|
‘KRÖLLER-MÜLLER’. Travel by bus. Packed lunch.
19.15 PARTY NIGHT
Dinner / Theatre / ECPCC/ICPCC board and conference presentation
22.00 END OF DAY 4
Registration Desk open.
DAY 5. THURSDAY 7 OCTOBER
07.45 MEDITATION?
08.15 BREAKFAST
Registration Desk open.
09.00 CONFERENCE INFORMATION
SYNTHESIS LECTURE 2 prof. Dr. Vhumani Magezi.
10.20 BREAK
10.40 SMALL GROUP FINAL AND EVALUATION MEETING Reactions to the lecture
12.00 LUNCH Registration Desk open.
13.15 FINAL PLENARY DISCUSSION
14.45 Break
15.00 CLOSING CEREMONY
16.00 END OF THE CONFERENCE Registration Desk open.
[1] Climate, Crises, Covid and Christianity: Pastoral Care and Counseling in a Wounded World
We as pastors and supervisors live in this wounded world just as much as our clients do. We share the same fears and hopelessness as them and at the same time we try to maintain our clients’ hopes and expectations for healing and wholeness through pastoral care and counseling. How can this happen – in a pragmatic way?In recent years I have hosted, what we call, a political café. In this workshop I would like to pass on these experiences and invite you to try it out for yourself: you sit in our wounded-world café with something to drink and talk to each other in small groups about pastoral care and counseling in the world as it is, reflect on different views and find possible options for action and solutions together.
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