Sister Barbara Sheehan

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“These weather pattern changes challenge agriculture, our food sources and peoples’ life …”
Read moreFair trade is an approach to business/development that seeks to create greater equity in the international trading system
Read moreLabor Trafficking in the United States is a form of both labor and sex trafficking where victims are made to perform a task through force, fraud or coercion
Read more‘Using people for profit’ slowly degrades their sense of self-worth.’
Read moreWill you join in with your investment choices? Will you sign on to the Providence Climate Agreement if you haven’t done so?
Read moreLet us take time, then, to reflect on laborers and some of their realities that need our attention and faithful actions
Read moreHuman trafficking continues and one might say it is rampant in the United States and other countries
Read more“The authors are in this book. They share their inner and affective responses with the reader and demonstrate clearly how the one in a position of “authority” (therapist, supervisor) authors the potential for healing. They offer it through their being with and not emotionally disconnected from.” A book review by Sister Barbara Sheehan of “The Other Couch: Discovering Women’s Wisdom in Therapy” by Patricia Peters Martin, Ph.D. and Helene DeMontreux Houston, M.S., APRN.
Read moreSister Barbara Sheehan, SP, a Sister of Providence since 1960, lives in Chicago and ministers as Executive Director/ACPE Supervisor of the Urban Clinical Pastoral Education Consortium, Inc. and as a spiritual director. She has extensive training not only in clinical pastoral supervision but also in care with those sexually abused, those challenged with mental illness and those suffering trauma. She has offered many workshops at regional, national and international conferences, is the author of Partner in Covenant: The Art of Spiritual Companionship and of numerous articles including one of her latest, Formation For Professional Practice: Addressing Social Hurts" in Reflective Practice: Formation and Supervision in Ministry, Vol. 34 2014.