Cultivating Wholeness: A Guide to Care and Counseling in Faith Communities

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Designed for religious or lay people involved in counselling, this text provides a practical, comprehensive and contemporary guide to community care and counselling in religious contexts. It emphasizes the dynamics of change, on wholeness, and on community as not only the context for healing but the means by which healing happens.

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"A tour de force.... Kornfeld's treatment of listening, women's needs, clergy confidentiality, unemployment, fee-taking, and the health and spirituality of the 'counselor in community' is brilliant."--Christian Century
"A state-of-the-art guide for all who minister today!"--Catholic Library World
"A wise, humane, and practical book about healing in religious communities."--Values and Visions
"Kornfeld has put a well-honed tool into the hands of seminarians, deacons, and any minister hoping to develop the gifts of lay leaders. This book is no garden plot but acres of information."--Pastoral Life
"A book you will pull off the shelf many times for additional reference.... With many self-help books full of 'new age' methodologies on the market, this book provides a sound antidote."--The Princeton Seminary Bulletin
"Margaret Kornfeld's excellent, encyclopedic book, Cultivating Wholeness, addresses the very real need for expert, accessible, and wise guidance. Kornfeld...provides both a broad and thorough discussion of key issues that leaders of faith communities and lay caregivers regularly face. Not only does she analyze pragmatic matterssuch as clergy confidentiality, unemployment, and fee-takingbut she also sensitively attends to the spiritual well-being of the "counselor in community." A wide range of readers, lay and ordained, will welcome Kornfeld's clear and thoughtful presentation. In a pastor's study filled with care and counseling books, this is the best guide of its kind I know. Keep it handy on your shelf. Congregations, Fall 2005 -- Congregations

Author Bio

Margaret Zipse Kornfeld is a pastoral psychotherapist, an American Baptist pastor, a longtime faculty member of the Blanton-Peale Graduate Institute and of Union Theological Seminary; and president-elect of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors.