Aims
- to understand the experience of Self-Supporting Ministers in the Church of England who have experienced Spiritual Abuse or Spiritual Wounding
- to determine how the abuse/wounding has affected their mental health and ministry
- to ascertain how the Church of England could offer better support for Self-Supporting Ministers in such circumstances.
Methodology
Research was approved through the University of Chesters ethics committee and used a qualitative methodology, Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis听
This is a method used widely in the fields of psychology and social sciences as it focuses on exploring how individuals make sense of their own specific experiences听
This was achieved through in-depth interviews of 10 participants. Heterogeneous sampling was achieved by not differentiating participants by age, gender, or sexuality etcetera. Reasonable adjustments were made for neurodivergent participants in the way data was collected or prompts and memory jogger notes were used.听
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