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Toward A Transformative Spiritual Formation: Application of the Internal Family System Model and Its Implications to Korean Christian Education

This article explores a Transformative Praxis Pedagogy for Korean Christians with suffering and han as trauma. Until now Korean spirituality of Han has been studied from the theological and theoretical perspective because Korean church focused on the outward evangelization and numeric growth. Meanwhile, the interdisciplinary study for the practical healing and psychological transformation of Korean Christian spirituality and spiritual practice was lack in Korean church. So this study aims at developing a study of Transformative Praxis Pedagogy(TPP) based on the Internal Family System(IFS) model to help Korean Christian to be freed from the trauma of suffering from han. As a psychotherapical model, the IFS model and its Parts Work practice is an interdisciplinary theory and practice model integrated with Christian Spirituality which can provide empowerment to sufferers. With the assumption that on the IFS model provide such transformative praxis, this study explores the historical context of Korean spirituality and han, the theoretical foundation of IFS theory- its relation to Neuroscience and Christian theology, developing the ten-week curriculum of TPP for the practical theolgical and spiritual formational framework to study Korean Christian’s experience and response, and research their interview of the contemplative prayer and Parts Work in TPP by using the research methodology of case study. After the ten weeks of practice, the in-depth interview with six Korean Christian participants reveal the interpretative themes such as Marginality, Dynamic of Sufferings, Paradoxical understanding of Han, Recognition of Parts, Possibility of Healing and Compassion, Transformative Spirit in God. With these kinds of findings, this study conclude that there are the limitation of Korean spirituality and scarcity of praxis in Korean church, the importance of healing and transformation of IFS model, and the necessity of pragmatic spiritual formation for Korean church and its spirituality.