Sample Master Level Reflection Paper - Unitarian Universalist ...

ideal. As a parent with “home-made kids who I get to keep” this lesson isstill true: sometimes love means surrendering our children into less thanideal situations and trusting that what they’ve learned with you will servethem well.Through my seminary training at Seattle University I’ve had bothPastoral Care Skills and a comparable 3-semester unit of Clinical PastoralEducation as an intern with a Lutheran Mission in the Salishan HousingAuthority. This experience was rich with constant theological reflection andloving challenge among my cohort of peers. I learned that I am mostsuccessfully present and differentiated when I am faithful to my own selfcare.Learning in action:• Gave volunteer physical and spiritual care to people living and dyingwith AIDS every Tuesday evening for 3 ½ years.• Taught the class 10 Practices of Spiritual Parenting through my localecumenical agency.• Co-raise two sons among four parents and two house-holds in a modelwe called a Graphed Family Tree. Coach other families to do thesame with tools we have developed.Human and Faith Development. Full disclosure… although I havetaken graduate courses in this area and have read a stack of books onvarious theories, I am less interested in the academic and theory aspects ofthis competency than I am in real life examples. Study of human and faith12