Meaning-Making Forum 1 (Week 4) Meaning-Making Forums 1-4 are this course's unique final project. Be fully engaged in Phase One! After reviewing the readings, presentations, lecture notes, articles, and web-engagements, and previous assignments, artificially move your predetermined careseeker (i.e., Crossroads’ Careseekers: Bruce, Joshua, Brody, Justin, or Melissa) through Phase One. NOTE: These research-based forums require that you draw upon ALL of the course readings and learning activities to date, in order to substantively develop each phase in our Solution -based, Short-term, Pastoral Counseling (SbStPC) process.  Noticeably support each core assertion. Ministry or Agency-based Context. Introduce classmates to your actual or anticipated role in a ministry or agency-based context and your predetermined careseeker.  Guiding Purpose Statement. Concisely point out how a Guiding Purpose Statement will help you be and become more like Christ in every relational context, especially this pastoral counseling scenario. Rapport and Relational Alignment. Briefly discuss how to build rapport and shift your relational style in order to best align with the careseeker’s style (i.e., use DISC language) and current behavioral position (i.e., attending, blaming, or willing). Phase One Distinctive Features. Narrate movement of careseeker through Phase One’s distinctive features (i.e., purpose, goal, chief aim, role/responsibility, use of guiding assumptions) and apply pertinent insights and techniques from ALL the readings, previous assignments, and the Bible. Phase One Marker. Describe a marker that indicates you have been invited into the careseeker’s story.  Food for Thought: After reviewing the readings and SbStPC Handout’s “The Art of Triage and Referral” websites, point out the essential elements in pastoral care triage and referral? TIPS: Carefully Follow Meaning-Making Forum Guidelines & Tips! Make sure to use headings (6) so that the most inattentive reader may easily follow your thoughts. Use the annotated outline approach. Bullets should have concise, complete, well-developed sentences or paragraphs. Foster a “noble-minded” climate for investigating claims via well-supported core assertions (i.e., consider the validation pattern of the Bereans; Acts 17:11).  Noticeably support assertions to facilitate reader’s further investigation and to avoid the appearance of plagiarism. Since you have the required materials (e.g., .

1. Meaning-Making Forum 1 (Week 4)
Meaning-Making Forums 1-4 are this course's unique final
project.
Be fully engaged in Phase One!
After reviewing the readings, presentations, lecture notes,
articles, and web-engagements, and previous assignments,
artificially move your predetermined careseeker (i.e.,
Crossroads’ Careseekers: Bruce, Joshua, Brody, Justin, or
Melissa) through Phase One.
NOTE: These research-based forums require that you draw upon
ALL
of the course readings and learning activities to date, in order
to substantively develop each phase in our
Solution
-based, Short-term, Pastoral Counseling (SbStPC) process.
Noticeably support each core assertion.
Ministry or Agency-based Context.
Introduce classmates to your actual or anticipated role in a
ministry or agency-based context and your predetermined
careseeker.
Guiding Purpose Statement.

2. Concisely point out how a Guiding Purpose Statement will help
you be and become more like Christ in every relational context,
especially this pastoral counseling scenario.
Rapport and Relational Alignment.
Briefly discuss how to build rapport and shift your relational
style in order to best align with the careseeker’s style (i.e., use
DISC language) and current behavioral position (i.e., attending,
blaming, or willing).
Phase One Distinctive Features.
Narrate movement of careseeker through Phase One’s
distinctive features (i.e., purpose, goal, chief aim,
role/responsibility, use of guiding assumptions) and apply
pertinent insights and techniques from ALL the readings,
previous assignments, and the Bible.
Phase One Marker.
Describe a marker that indicates you have been invited into the
careseeker’s story.
Food for Thought:
After reviewing the readings and SbStPC Handout’s “The Art
of Triage and Referral” websites, point out the essential
elements in pastoral care triage and referral?

3. TIPS:
Carefully Follow Meaning-Making Forum Guidelines & Tips!
Make sure to use headings (6) so that the most inattentive
reader may easily follow your thoughts.
Use the annotated outline approach. Bullets should have
concise, complete, well-developed sentences or paragraphs.
Foster a “noble-minded” climate for investigating claims via
well-supported core assertions (i.e., consider the validation
pattern of the Bereans; Acts 17:11).
Noticeably support assertions to facilitate reader’s further
investigation and to avoid the appearance of plagiarism.
Since you have the required materials (e.g.,