MAM2: Equipping Self and Others

Support teams and member care are more important that ever for teams working in high-pressure or cross-cultural situations in this complex world.

In this one week module, you will get the opportunity to sharpen your tools, not only to provide the best member care possible, but also to care for yourself and ensure you remain healthy and at full-capacity to provide the support required, when it is needed.

Whether you are in a member care department of an organisation, or are responsible for the pastoral and personal support of those who are in mission and ministry - this module will be essential preparation to ensure that when hard times come, everybody involved is able to weather the storm.

This module is delivered as part of our MA Summer School, and is available as part of an MA, PGDip or PGCert in Member Care; or you can take this module for non-validated audit.

This module is taught at a postgraduate level as part of our MA in Member Care.

In this module, students will be equipped to provide excellent care for their staff, workers and volunteers in the case of personal and situational crisis.

This one-week module will explore:

• Pre-field issues: selection and tools including psychometrics and interviewing techniques; orientation and briefing for stress, transition and crisis situations 
• Conflict resolution and post-traumatic growth 
• Building resilience and coping with re-entry 
• Therapy skills; including listening skills, critical incident and trauma debriefing and child debriefing 
• Setting up member care guidelines and protocols for organisations 
• Spiritual issues; including self-care for the member care provider, accountability procedures and mentoring

Course dates

This module is taught as part of the MA in Member Care at the UK Summer School every other July, at the Oceania Summer School every other February, and is available for validated study and non-validated audit.

This module is due to be run next in July 2019.

Application deadlines vary depending on whether you are applying to study as part of a PGCert, PGDip or MA in Member Care; or you are applying to audit the module.

Deadline for validated study: May 2019
Deadline for non-validated audit: June 2019

Course fees

For course fees associated with the MA in Member Care, click here for information on how you can begin your flexible, part-time programme.

This one-week module is available for non-validated audit at a cost of £650, plus a Mode of Delivery cost of £250, which includes accommodation. For more information on tuition and delivery costs, visit our fees page.