I Walk Through Life Oddly: Dispositions, Character, and Identity in Clinical Pastoral Supervision

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  • Logan C. Jones

Abstract

Learning occurs in community. Identity is formed within community. Character is experienced in and through communal activities. Dispositions are experienced in and through the give and take of the interdependent relationships found in community. There is no escaping the importance of community
in adult learning. Even as one who lives and moves and has his being in solitude, I still know the value of community and relationships. It is a caring community, much like the circle of trust, which calls forth what is within the supervisor even as their dispositions, character, and identity embody a walk through life oddly with all the courage, dignity, morality, and ruin that such a walk entails.

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Volume 32 Virtues In Formation and Supervision - 2012

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