Describe your discipline practice as an ADF Clergy Student. Explain what you have learned from this practice, describe how your connections with the Earth Mother and the Gate Keeper have grown and changed over the time you have worked with them, and reflect on your journals and omens over the period. (min. 600 words) Since […]
Category: Clergy Program
Various articles and thoughts throughout the Clergy Program
Law and the Church Passes
Dear Rev. Crystal Groves (Crystal Groves), Congratulations! Your Law and the Church submission passes. That fortune telling law is crazy. I think I have “Hex and Spellwork: The Magical Practices of the Pennsylvania Dutch,” btw. Let me check and see. I know I have something similar to that, but I don’t know if it’s the […]
ADF Structure, Customs, and Policy Citations
Bonewits, Philip Emmons Isaac. “Chapter 7, Ár NDraíocht Féin: A Druid Fellowship.”Bonewit’s Essential Guide to Druidism. New York, NY: Kensington Pub., 2006. 108-09. Print. Dangler, Michael J. “Where’s the Belief? Piety in the DP.” Ár NDraíocht Féin. Ár NDraíocht Féin, n.d. Web. 29 Aug. 2012. <http://www.adf.org/members/training/dp/articles/wheres-the-belief.html>. Dangler, Michael J. “Nine Central Tenets of Druidic Ritual.” Ár NDraíocht […]
ADF Customs Passes
Dear Rev. Crystal Groves (Crystal Groves), Congratulations! Your ADF Structure, Customs and Policy submission passes. Figured this one wouldn’t be too hard for ya Blessings, Rev. Michael Dangler
Crisis Response Citations
“Symptoms and Danger Signs of Suicide.” SAVE. Suicide Awareness Voices of Education. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Oct. 2012. <http://www.save.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.viewPage>. “Suicidology.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 10 Aug. 2012. Web. 16 Oct. 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicidology>. “Crisis Management.” Crisis Management. Tutorials Point, n.d. Web. 22 Oct. 2012. <http://www.tutorialspoint.com/management_concepts/crisis_management.htm>. “Personal Crisis.” Counseling Services. University of South Australia, 12 May 2011. Web. 22 Oct. 2012. <http://w3.unisa.edu.au/counsellingservices/wellbeing/crisis.asp>.
Crisis Response, #10 (Maryland)
Compile and submit a list of mainstream resources providing crisis services available in your locality. Additionally, explore your locality for a hotline number to access emergency services and discuss the results of your search. (Please provide the following information for each resource listed a) name of resource b) contact information c) how to make a […]
Crisis Response, #9
Discuss how the skills required of ADF clergy in ritual, especially those which involve mitigating chaos and generating order, might relate to those necessary for appropriately responding to an emergency situation (minimum 100 words). Clergy, in my opinion, act as the keepers of ritual. They are the messengers between the folk and the Kindred, the […]
Crisis Response, #8
Discuss an example of a crisis situation to which you have responded (this may be a crisis you have personally experienced or an experience in which you tried to help someone else in crisis). Reflect upon your response to the crisis in your example, and explain what you found effective, as well as how you […]
Crisis Response, #7
Discuss why an individual in crisis might seek an ADF clergy person for help and explain whether or not you feel this is an appropriate function for ADF clergy, why or why not? (minimum 200 words) When people experience a crisis situation that leaves them looking for answers that they simply are finding, it’s common […]
Crisis Response, #6
Choose four of the seven common misconceptions about suicide from the list below and discuss why each is a misconception. (minimum 50 words each) Anyone who tries to kill himself/herself must be crazy. According to SAVE, the misconception that anyone who attempts to kill themselves is crazy is not a sign that the individual is […]
