YM24 Pastoral Carers

YM24 Pastoral Carers

The role of YM Pastoral Carers
Pastoral carers offer patient listening, gentle questioning and encouragement. They do not offer advice. The pastoral carer meets with a person for informal discussion or deep listening about some uncertainty or difficulty. Practical assistance may be offered or suggested. The matters dealt with by pastoral carers are usually personal and confidential in nature, e.g. an unexpected injury or loss, a sense of loneliness or isolation.

When are YM24 Pastoral Carers needed?
At YM24, there are several settings when pastoral care may be needed:

• throughout Yearly Meeting, including keeping a caring eye out for First Timers
• around the time of the Meeting for Remembrance
• online, particularly during sessions where people socialise.

Online pastoral care
Pastoral carers are not expected to handle questions about technical issues or zoom connections and, in these cases, refer the person to the Help Desk which is equipped to deal with them.

Some pastoral carers may be willing to make their phone number available for people to contact them. Others may prefer to be given a person’s phone number and make the call.  Some pastoral carers might be approached directly online.
 

Meetings of YM24 Pastoral Carers
There are a variety of challenges in being a pastoral carer on-ground or online. A meeting for all YM24 Pastoral Carers will be held to share experiences and challenges. Those new to pastoral care as well as those with experience are all encouraged to join this session.

YM24 Pastoral Carers will meet again on the first day of Yearly Meeting to discuss the role, ask questions, decide how to be easily identified, and when and where to be available. 

The YM pastoral care group may meet each day during Yearly Meeting to support each other.
 

YM24 Pastoral Carers
When known, the list of YM24 Pastoral Carers will be able to be accessed by clicking on "YM24 Pastoral Carers names" in blue text below or in the left side bar.