ICPCC represents a truly international, ecumenical and proactive movement of women and men desiring to respond to current needs and situations faced by real life people in the world
through the skills and mediations of pastoral care and counselling.

The Council serves as a 'web-like' network of people to
- help promote the reflective practice of Pastoral Care and Counselling throughout the world
- inform, educate and inspire practitioners of Pastoral Care and Counselling in every place
- enable practitioners to be in touch with each other and to learn from good practice wherever it occurs.
- to oversee the running of "International Congresses" every four years.

The International Council came into existence in 1979 at the first International Congress of reflective practitioners of Pastoral Care and Counselling held in Edinburgh, Scotland.
There had been gatherings from as early as 1972 of various European and American practitioners but Edinburgh 1979, where over four hundred people from all the continents gathered, was a watershed for Pastoral Care and counselling akin to the ecumenical mission and church meetings of 1910 and 1937.

new executive board and coordinating committee elected
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Prof. Dr. Ursula Riedel Pfäfflin retired in Dresden

PCC-movements in Africa, America, Asia and Europe see here
South American and African Congresses in 2006

- 11th European Conference 2009 on its way
- 6th African Congress to be held July, 2009, at University of Stellenbosch, RSA

last update April 15th, 2008