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Experienced supervisors
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Each supervisor brings years of ministry experience and professional supervision training.
Pastoral Supervision · Australia-wide
A safe, trusted space for ministry workers to process, reflect, and grow — with a supervisor who genuinely understands the weight you carry.
What supervision gives you
Pastoral supervision is not assessment. It's a trusted, confidential relationship designed to equip you for the long haul of ministry.
Gain a fresh perspective on your ministry situation and see new possibilities you couldn't see from inside it.
A confidential space entirely outside your ministry context — where you can be completely transparent and honest.
Prayerfully process your ministry practice, your relationships, and the challenges you're carrying right now.
Deepen your ministry wisdom, develop your skills, and build the resilience to keep going with faithfulness and joy.
Our Team
Each supervisor brings years of ministry experience and professional supervision training.
Watch & Learn
Ministry can be an isolating experience. The power dynamics of relationships with co-workers and the people you minister to can leave you without a safe space to debrief. Watch this short video to understand what pastoral supervision is — and why it might be exactly what you need.
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Pastoral Supervisors are registered professionals with training in supervision. In addition the Pastoral Supervisor brings years of ministry experience and training in disciplines such as theology, counselling, mentoring and ministry coaching.
Pastoral Supervision is about collaborating with a trained pastoral worker to prayerfully pursue God's agenda for transformation through active reflection on your ministry practice. Pastoral Supervision is a relationship outside your ministry context that offers encouragement and support to persevere in the rigours of ministry life. The supervision relationship is characterised by trust, confidentiality, voluntary accountability, support and freedom to explore issues arising in your ministry.
Pastoral Supervision is not just for Pastors. It is for anyone in either unpaid or paid Christian ministry who is involved in ministry to people. Thus ministers, supervisors, counsellors, chaplains, teachers, cross-cultural workers and anyone else who would benefit from a safe relationship outside their ministry context.
Pastoral Supervision is focused on helping you reflect on your current ministry practice. Challenging pastoral situations, difficult ministry team relationships, personal struggles and sins, ethical practice, life and work balance, self-care strategies, development of ministry skills and offloading of distressing incidents are examples of some of the issues that can be brought to supervision.
1. Increased Resilience. Ministry workers are experiencing a growing amount of stress. Studies suggest that in Australia 23% of ministers are presenting with burnout, and 56% classify themselves as candidates for burnout. Pastoral Supervision provides a place to reflect on the demands of ministry life, make wise decisions, and take action to enable someone to thrive — not just survive.
2. A Safe Space. Ministry can be an isolating experience. Supervision is a confidential relationship with someone outside your ministry space — someone you can be completely honest with so as to talk through situations and relationships as they really are.
3. "Super"vision. Pastoral supervision helps make God-centred sense of who we are and how we can live wisely in the place God has placed us. A supervisor offers an outsider's perspective, helping to clarify the best next step in your unique situation.
Red Sheep is a registered Australian company established by Kurt Peters in 2021. While Kurt is the Director of the company he has partnered with a number of other Pastoral Supervisors, advisors and consultants who share the same passion for the care of Christian ministry workers.
