Pastoral Care Week

21 Oct 2015

21 October 2015

Spiritual wellbeing is about our inner life and our relationship with the wider world. Our spirituality can encompass our relationship to ourselves, family, our community and the nature that surrounds us.

It can be enhanced by care that focuses on creating spaces that encourage reflection and life review. True spiritual care supports and preserves the settings that nurture a person’s spirit and encourages an exploration of our identity, ‘who am I?’ Our community, ‘who are we?’ Our meaning and purpose, ‘what are we doing here?’

We express our spirituality through beliefs, values, traditions and practices. Pastoral Care engages others as fellow human beings, developing a relationship that is mutual in order to be present with a person as they explore their spiritual self.

Supported by a person’s beliefs, religion or culture, quality Pastoral Care can offer a pathway to the sacred, whatever that may mean for the individual.

Pastoral Services form an integral part of the holistic care we provide to our patients, families and caregivers.

We seek to provide a service that promotes quality of life by enhancing the physical, intellectual, emotional, social and spiritual wellbeing of those we encounter. It is important that we understand and connect with both the health and the illness experience, being with people, affirming their uniqueness as they explore and cultivate their spiritual wellbeing.

St John of God Frankston Rehabilitation Hospital is celebrating the 31st anniversary of Pastoral Care Week

Wishing you wellness

From the Pastoral Services Team