Description
Book SynopsisDesigned for religious or lay people involved in counselling, this text provides a practical, comprehensive and contemporary guide to community care and counselling in religious contexts.
Trade Review"A tour de force.... Kornfeld's treatment of listening, women's needs, clergy confidentiality, unemployment, fee-taking, and the health and spirituality of the 'counselor in community' is brilliant."--Christian Century
"A state-of-the-art guide for all who minister today!"--Catholic Library World
"A wise, humane, and practical book about healing in religious communities."--Values and Visions
"Kornfeld has put a well-honed tool into the hands of seminarians, deacons, and any minister hoping to develop the gifts of lay leaders. This book is no garden plot but acres of information."--Pastoral Life
"A book you will pull off the shelf many times for additional reference.... With many self-help books full of 'new age' methodologies on the market, this book provides a sound antidote."--The Princeton Seminary Bulletin
"Margaret Kornfeld's excellent, encyclopedic book, Cultivating Wholeness, addresses the very real need for expert, accessible, and wise guidance. Kornfeld...provides both a broad and thorough discussion of key issues that leaders of faith communities and lay caregivers regularly face. Not only does she analyze pragmatic matters—such as clergy confidentiality, unemployment, and fee-taking—but she also sensitively attends to the spiritual well-being of the "counselor in community." A wide range of readers, lay and ordained, will welcome Kornfeld's clear and thoughtful presentation. In a pastor's study filled with care and counseling books, this is the best guide of its kind I know. Keep it handy on your shelf. —Congregations, Fall 2005 -- Congregations
