Pastoral Transformation Course

Choose from three Streams

Personal Development

Advanced Pastoral Care

Supervised Pastoral Counselling

Personal Development

Advanced Pastoral Care

Supervised Pastoral Counselling

Hear Directly from one of
our PTC attendees

Empower your people to make a difference

We offer as-needed services to full wraparound support.

Topic Areas

Personal development
Self-awareness
Pastoral conversation skills
Five types of listening
How to ask great questions
Understanding and using three different approaches
Common presenting issues and the core drivers behind each
The brain, the mind, the soul and the spirit
Integrate faith in pastoral conversations
Healthy relationship dynamics
Pastoral topics including grief, forgiveness, reconciliation, anxiety
Understanding the changing dynamic
Maintaining healthy boundaries and self-care
Ethical considerations

Steps To Thriving

1. Book a Free Consultation

2. Customise your support plan

3. Empower your people and make a greater impact

Your Course Creator

Richard Black

Richard is the founder and Director of Mind Health, an organisation dedicated to enhancing leaders’ well-being and equipping churches to thrive. He is an ordained minister and trained counsellor, working alongside churches to provide specialised support for leaders and pastoral carers. He holds a Master of Counselling, doing his research on “Emotional health in the role of a church leader”.

Through his years of clinical work supervising and counselling church leaders as well as his own involvement in pastoral ministry, he understands the struggles and demands leaders are facing every day. Richard has a knack of communicating complex issues in a way that is practical and easy to understand and is able to draw the best out of you, leaving you stronger and clear-minded.

Email: richard@mindhealth.org

Upcoming Courses

PTC: Christchurch

The year-long course runs over three blocks
First Block Begins: 17 March 2025

PTC: Auckland

The year-long course runs over three blocks
First Block Begins: 7 April 2025

PTC: Online

Course Begins: anytime

About

How Does It Work?

The course is broken into three, one-week blocks, across the year.

2025

Christchurch

17 – 21 March
9 – 13 June
8 – 12 September

Auckland
7 – 11 April
23 – 27 June
6 – 10 October

The block course is run Monday – Friday, 9 am – 3 pm.

Additional time needs to be allowed after each block course. Depending on the pathway you choose it will involve approximately:

Personal Development: 30 minutes/week
Advanced Pastoral Care: 2 hours/week
Supervised Pastoral Counselling: 3 hours/week

NB: You will be required to find a counsellor and supervisor, and have a session with each after each block course. The Mind Health team is available for this.

ONLINE
The course consists of:
1-2 hours viewing each week

Course Fees

$1,900 + GST – In-person Course

$1,600 + GST – Online Course

Installment option: The course can be paid monthly across 10 months with 10% administration.
NB: This excludes any counseling or supervision sessions required.

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Who We've Worked With

Testimonials

“Since engaging the services of Mind Health, we have seen a drop from at least 80% of staff using their full 5 days annual sick leave to less than 50%. Staff have also become more proactive in their mental wellbeing. There is an increase in staff accepting our offer of Mind Health coaching and counselling sessions, for pre-emptive rather than reactive reasons.”

Israel Cooper

“Our business, home. has hosted Richard Black for 3 sessions after work hours to present on building resilience, communication and dealing with pressure and stress. These sessions have been incredibly well received by our staff and build partners. Richard has a highly dynamic and engaging way of presenting tough topics with humour and clarity and provides valuable tools to take away and apply to work and home life.”

Israel & Jessica Cooper

“I had a meeting with Richard via Zoom. Just to let you know he is still totally amazing and I’m so impressed how helpful he is, better than any other EAP I’ve had. I appreciate the support I’m been given. Thank you”

Employee

“Through my coaching sessions, I recognised that my past hurts were distorting my current perceptions of life, and my emotions did not need to define (or dictate) who I was. The Mind Health Principles helped me acknowledge that I had the power to choose healing, it provided me coping skills I had never learned and it ultimately empowered me to see that I could choose to either thrive in life or stay in bondage to my past. I highly recommend these principles, they are great tools to add to anyones emotional and mental toolbox.”

Coaching Client

“The Forte team found the Mind Health presentations by Richard Black both engaging and enlightening, providing a gold mine of material relevant to everyday situations.”

Nicola Fogden-SmithDIRECTOR OF FORTE

“The tools we have both learnt are really benefiting our family and personal growth. Thank you so much, Richard! There is such a need for the practical things you are teaching. We would fully recommend Richard and what he does.”

Coaching Client