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The International Pastoral Care and Counseling Movement: What is It?

I must acknowledge from the outset that I cannot really answer the question posed by the title of this editorial. For some time I have been searching for the international movement's organizing principle, internal dynamic, or even the boundaries between what it is and is not. There are a number of important features of the movement, some of which I touch on here, but as yet it is difficult to go beyond the image used by the Dutch pastoral theologian, Heije Faber, who once described the international movement as "an invisible community."