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Development: NATO Senior Chaplains Course

Postgraduate

This course provides NATO chaplains with expert tuition in strategy, leadership and spiritual resilience, culminating in a simulated battlefield operation. 

Course Information

Level: Postgraduate
Location: Shrivenham
School/Centre: Armed Forces Chaplaincy Centre
Course Code: AFCC Dev: NSCC
Duration: 5 days

About this course

This unique course is for NATO chaplains in senior leadership positions, with a focus on the seven areas of the UK Armed Forces Chaplaincy Competency Framework: 
relate to military organisation and ethos
•    deliver spiritual leadership
•    deliver pastoral care
•    deliver moral leadership and guidance
•    conduct personal military administration
•    foster vocation
•    deliver chaplaincy on operations

This is a unique course focused on developing interoperability among NATO chaplains and will include a field trip to London.

What you will learn

Hosted in an interactive, collegiate manner, this course will focus on developing your knowledge and skills alongside NATO peers. Spiritual resilience, advanced leadership, strategic insight will all be considered. A tabletop exercise will help to identify gaps in policy/doctrine, ensuring that the discussions and seminars focus on delivering tangible change, and increased understanding. 

How this course will help your career

This course is a unique opportunity for you to interact with and learn alongside OF-5 NATO chaplains in a structured academic environment. You will return to your unit with a deeper understanding of strategy and leadership, and a practical understanding of interoperability. 

Entry requirements

Who can attend this course

  • Internationals
  • Military

This course is suitable for OF5's and above.

Open to NATO/NZ/AUS nationals only.

Before you attend

It would be beneficial to read as widely as you can on spiritual resilience and chaplaincy interoperability 

Additional information

How the course will be taught

  • Face-to-face