Accompanying people well
Resources for Care
Practice cases, care frameworks, and guides for the recurring human struggles underneath AI-related situations: grief, loneliness, fear, and meaning.
Framework
Pastoral Care Models: An Overview
Caring for people in a digital world
Four trusted care models — ALGEE, Hearing/Helping/Healing, Worden’s Tasks, and more — and when to reach for each one in an AI-related situation.
Framework
Care Frameworks: Deep Dive
Worden’s Four Tasks of Grief, worked out in practice
A five-part series on grief care in the age of AI: the Worden model, guardrails for lay visitors, a guide for worried families, a care timeline, and a fully annotated model conversation.
Guide
22 Reviewed Case Studies
The extended case library
Twenty-two additional reviewed case studies spanning companionship, grief, fraud, vocation, and congregational conflict — downloadable as a single collection.
Includes download ↓Practice cases
All case studies →Practice case 01
When Work Disappears
Marcus has driven long-haul routes for thirty years. His company moved to autonomous freight, and his route is gone. “I did everything I was supposed to do. What exactly am I still for?”
Practice case 02
My Best Friend Is an App
Fifteen-year-old Eli calls his AI companion his best friend — and lately, his girlfriend. His youth leader is the only adult he has told about the “really blue nights.”
Practice case 03
Hearing Her Voice Again
A grieving spouse has built a chatbot from a lost loved one’s texts and voicemails, trying to hear her voice again. Where does comfort end and captivity begin?
Practice case 04
The Photos Aren’t Real
A parishioner arrives in the office in acute distress: someone is threatening to send fabricated, explicit images to everyone they know. Evidence, safety, and shame — in that order.
Practice case 05
It’s All Over the Group Chat
An AI-generated story about the congregation is spreading through members’ group chats, and people are taking sides. Repairing trust when the damage is communal.