Praxis of Accompaniment

The Praxis of Accompaniment equips students with the historical, theological, intercultural, and counseling tools to provide pastoral care and chaplaincy accompaniment in Latin American contexts.

“I valued how this course suspended my understanding of spiritual accompaniment by offering multiple frameworks such as history, pastoral counseling, theology, and mission and identity.

I highly suggest taking this course if you want to challenge your understanding of “mission work” and “chaplaincy” within an accountable and transformative space where solidarity-building and ethical spiritual caregiving skills are role-played and practiced.” 

Yarilynne Esther Regalado, MDiv ‘24 Union Theological Seminary, NYC Maryhouse Catholic Worker


Develop Your Ministry Skills with Hispanic Pastoral Care Training

General Program Information

This course is a partnership between the Hispanic Scholars Program and Solidarity Bridge, an organization founded in 1999 that partners surgeons in the United States with medical professionals in Paraguay and Bolivia in order to increase access to safe, affordable surgery and other essential health care. As part of this partnership, students who complete The Praxis of Accompaniment for credit will be eligible to apply with Solidarity Bridge to accompany a team of surgeons to Paraguay or Bolivia as the team’s pastoral care professional.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

By the end of this course, students will be able to: 

  • Articulate the relationship between “theory” and “practice,” all while constructing a method of “praxis” that can be applied to their academic and ministerial contexts;
  • Integrate insights from theology, history, counseling, and social theory as interlocking fields in pastoral care;
  • Explain the history of colonial imposition and anti-colonial resistance in Latin America to academic and non-academic audiences alike;
  • Accompany medical professionals and patients through the emotional and spiritual challenges and opportunities that emerge in cross-cultural medical contexts. 

CREDITS

Students who complete this course will receive three graduate-level credits, conferred by an ATS accredited school.

2025 Program Information

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