Since 2001, The George Washington University Institute for Spirituality & Health (GWish) has been dedicated to creating a new model of global healthcare that recognizes spiritual health as an essential domain of patient-centered care. “Too often, healthcare systems fail to recognize the value of chaplains as critical to optimally addressing the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the patient,” says GWish Founder and Executive Director Christina Puchalski, MD, MS, FACP, FAAHPM. “From day one, GWish has worked closely with chaplains, fostering collaboration and partnership between chaplains and the clinical team. Unequivocally, without a chaplain involved, the healthcare team is incomplete.” |
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The Leadership Development Committee (LDC) would like to share the open positions for ACPE’s annual elections. Important Election Dates:
- Close Nominations Date- October 1
- Slate Published Date- October 15
- Polls Open Date- October 20
- Polls Close Date- November 3
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Buy your #ACPEproud gear now through September 30, 2021!
A portion of the proceeds will support the Foundation for ACPE, innovative spiritual care programs, and professional development opportunities for ACPE students.
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Trauma. It is a word we hear a lot. It captures the experience of racial injustice, a pandemic with no end in sight, childhood memories and sudden inexplicable suffering. Trauma is defined by the individual and how they name it.
This session will focus on trauma as a theory which can be taught as part of a CPE curriculum as well as a filter for understanding narrative and use of self in chaplaincy and education.
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Once a month the ACPE Professional Ethics Commission (PEC) posts a couple of statements from our Code of Professional Ethics for ACPE Members.
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We invite all ACPE Certified Educators who are working with Educator Candidates to join us for informal consultations. The drop-in meeting will take place on the first and third Mondays of the month, from 12:00pm to 1:00pm Eastern time.
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Some people seem born to serve as inspiration, as educators, as wisdom incarnate. Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer seems to embody all three. She produces a poem each day (available here: https://ahundredfallingveils.com/). She sings, hikes, camps, skis, bakes, knits and gardens. She has Ted Talks, she has poetry books, she has websites. In so many ways, she is a renaissance woman who seems incredibly productive, and yet her poetry is often grounded in attention, in pausing to observe. Here’s a sample:
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How to Meet This Difficult Day
Today the prayer is words
I can’t yet find,
words that flit away
like spring juncos, like chickadees.
Today the prayer I wish for
is not the prayer that finds me—
less like the perfume of a fully bloomed flower
more like the dank and fusty scent of spring.
Some days when I forget how to pray,
if I listen with my whole body,
the world reminds me how what is used up, spent
is also a vessel for the holy,
as dry leaves become a nest,
as bare branches hold the sunrise.
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In recent weeks, I’ve talked with several COVID-19 “long-halters” who are still struggling to regain their sense of smell. It is one of those things we take for granted all too often, something we don’t especially notice until it's gone. And it’s relationship with taste makes it even more key to some of the simplest pleasures in life. Here’s an article exploring the relationship between taste and smell, offering what might even be some helpful insights as we care for friends, colleagues and strangers who abruptly lost their sense of smell in this pandemic:
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This Week on the Calendar |
September 27
Sh’mini Atzeret: Eight Day of Assembly begins at sundown(Judaism)
Sh’mini Atzeret, also known as the Eighth Day of Assembly, marks the end of Sukkot. The synagogue service on this day includes a special prayer for rain focused on the coming year’s harvest.
September 28
Birth of Confucius (Confucianism)
Confucius was born in 551 BCE in the ancient Chinese province of Lu, known today as Shantung
Simchat Torah: Rejoicing with the Torah begins at sundown (Judaism)
Joyous festival in which the reading cycle of the Torah is completed, and its first book begun again. Symbolized by singing, dancing, and marching around the Synagogue with Torah scrolls
October 2
Jashne Mehergan (Zoroastrianism)
This thanksgiving festival is to give thanks for the fall harvest. Meher is a yazata of celestial light, love, justice and friendship. Mehergan celebrates the victory of the young blacksmith names Caveh over the cruel and powerful King Zohak of the legendary Peshadian dynasty. It also honors the farmers who work hard to provide a bountiful harvest
October 2-3
Worldwide General Conference of the Church (Latter Day Saints)
This is the largest worship service for the LDS Church membership. Twice a year in five meeting sessions, senior-most Church leaders, male and female, speak to life’s challenges and opportunities, applying Gospel doctrine to personal living. Conference proceedings are broadcast live with language translation via the internet and other electronic media worldwide
October 3
World Communion (Protestant Christianity)
Widely observed around the world as an expression of the oneness of the global community of faith
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This Week in our Thoughts
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Valley Pastoral Counseling Center in Waynesboro, VA is looking for a full-time pastoral counselor/ LPC, LMFT, or LCSW
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12-month intensive program 7/11/2022-7/7/2023
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ACPE: The Standard for Spiritual Care & Education |
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ACPE is the standard for spiritual care and education. Our diverse membership includes Certified CPE Educators, Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapists, Spiritual Care Professionals and Practitioners, Pastoral Counselors, Chaplains, Faith Communities, and Seminaries. Our multi-disciplinary, multi-faith, multi-racial community of professionals provides education, connection, and formation through continuing education, networking, and leadership development.
ACPE is the premier, Department of Education recognized, organization that provides the highest quality CPE programs for spiritual care professionals of any faith and in any setting. We do this through a rigorous accreditation and certification process for centers and educators that provide CPE.
The depth of our training enables students to realize their full potential to strengthen the spiritual health of people in their care as well as themselves.
ACPE members are actively engaged in a wide variety of professional development activities including communities of practice, conferences, spiritual care research, and informal networking. We are more than just an association: we are a movement committed to the transformation of the human suffering.Our opportunities for formation and community enrich our member's work of healing and transforming people and communities in the US and across the globe.
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