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Lisa Taylor
Boisen Scholar |
With your support, the Foundation for ACPE provided professional development funds for three students to attend the 2019 Annual Conference through the Boisen Scholars Program. Lisa Taylor, Educator Candidate at Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services, was one of the selected Boisen Scholars. Below are parts of her reflection on how YOUR generosity helped to strengthen her journey as a spiritual care educator.
The 2019 ACPE Annual Conference was an amazing experience for me. I was able to meet other Educator Candidates and talk with them about their journey, their theories, their process, their hopes, and their dreams. This was very helpful for me because it made me feel less lonely.
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Joann Heaney-Hunter
Psychotherapy Chair |
One important ACPE member benefit is access to Communities of Practice. Former AAPC members are familiar with a regional structure, where geographic groups gathered periodically for information sharing, community building, and learning. Some regions sponsored events several times throughout the year; some regions had one conference. What bound groups together was common geography.
At the ACPE Conference in May, I discovered that until recently, ACPE members had a similar regional structure. Like AAPC members, ACPE members gathered locally to share community and learning. Now, all members are working to develop and participate in diverse Communities of Practice.
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Pam Lazor
Accreditation Chair |
As summer winds down, many of us are gearing up for new residents and our fall units. It has been great to see so many colleagues participating our Q & A sessions about the new accreditation process. If you have not yet participated or wish to sign up for another session, please click here.
One of the most frequently asked questions that we have received is, "How do I organize my portfolio?" The answer is that there are many ways to do this and there is not one 'right way' that the Accreditation Commission wants to see. The organizational structure that you choose should be one that allows you, as the educator, to best tell your center's story. To help you get started...
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Peter Yuichi Clark
ACPE Certified Educator |
Earlier this year, Board Chair Amy Greene interviewed ACPE Certified Educator
Peter Yuichi Clark, Director of Spiritual Care Services at UCSF Health, San Francisco, CA, about his engagement in a clinical trial to treat his cholangiocarcinoma - a formidable cancer that affects the biliary system. If you missed the article, you can read it
here.
As Peter has been navigating his own healthcare journey, he decided to find a venue to communicate some of what he learned to his care providers and to oncologists in general. His manuscript was published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, one of the largest circulations of any cancer-related medical journal. It is now available online on the journal's website. The journal is open access so you can download it for free: https://ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1200/JCO.19.00472.
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| Who? What? When? Images from ACPE's Past |
Do you recognize these folks or the event in the photo above? Send us a note at [email protected].
Last week's photo featured Unyung Statwick, Jan McCormick, Dustin Frye, and Denise Hill at a South Central Regional meeting.
Correction:
Two weeks ago, we incorrectly identified William Adix as Len Cedarleaf. The folks featured in the
photo
are left to right: John Moody, William (Bill) Adix, Thanda Ngcobo, and Naomi Adix.
Bill was CPE Supervisor for over 40 years and was a past College of Chaplains (APC) President. Most importantly for all of us, he wrote the first standards for hospital ministry programs that were used by the American Hospital Association to bring clergy into healthcare settings. Those standards operated for decades and are the foundation of today's standards.
Have any photos from your personal ACPE archive that you would like to share? Send them to
[email protected]
to be featured in an upcoming newsletter.
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Stephen Robinson
LDC Chair
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As you know, the work of our association is accomplished by a combination of our great ACPE staff and a large number of volunteers who give their time, energy, passion, and talent to our good work. The Leadership Development Committee
continues to focus our energy on nurturing and preparing leaders, and helping to provide our board, commissions, and committees with competent leaders who reflect the complex diversity of our entire ACPE membership. You can find job descriptions and other leadership resources
here.
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| Future Trends: Great Opportunities
The President's Address for The Association of Professional Chaplains
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Amy Greene
Board Chair
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In lieu of reading a column from me this month, please take 30 minutes to view this speech from Rev. Ron Oliver, President of the Association of Professional Chaplains (APC), from their annual meeting in June in Orlando, FL. The Strategic Partners for Spiritual Care (ACPE, APC, NACC, NAJC, and CASC) are going deep with this question: "What do we need to be and do to ensure the vitality of our great profession?"
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David Carl
MAP Advisory Committee Chair
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For those who might not be familiar with it, the Mission Advance Program (MAP) fund was established in 1985 as an endowment fund for the American Association of Pastoral Counselors (AAPC). The MAP endowment was moved to the Foundation during the 2019 consolidation so that it might continue supporting the work of spiritually-integrated psychotherapists and pastoral counselors. It is now managed by the MAP Fund Advisory Committee of the Foundation for ACPE. This Advisory Committee made a bold decision at their recent meeting on July 17th. Rather than extending a call for applications for funding as originally planned, they have instead invited Russell Siler Jones and Jill Snodgrass to apply on behalf of the Spiritually-Integrated Psychotherapy (SIP) program for the full amount of available Mission Advance Program funds, up to $15,000.
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Linda Wilkerson
Treasurer
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Many of you are deep into teaching a summer unit of CPE and are thinking about how to assist your students to bring this rich learning experience to a close. Budgeting and payments to ACPE for the opportunity to conduct those units may be the farthest thing from your mind. However, I have good news that was first shared at this past May's annual ACPE Conference in Scottsdale, AZ. Coming under the heading of "we heard you," in calendar year 2020 we will begin billing centers quarterly for the number of units actually conducted.
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| Community of Practice Event Highlights |
Registration is now open for the following Community of Practice events:
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| East Central CoP 2019 Fall Gathering |
Dayton, OH |
September 19-20, 2019 |
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Richmond, VA |
September 22-23, 2019 |
Central States Consortia Fall Meeting
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Kansas City, MO
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October 17-18, 2019
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| Kanuga Fall Conference |
Hendersonville, NC |
October 25-27, 2019 |
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Wisconsin Dells, WI |
October 27-29,2019 |
| Pacific CoP Educational Colloquium |
San Diego, CA |
October 28-30, 2019 |
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I hope that everyone's summer is off to a great start! As we are continuing our preparation for the new process, we are excited to publish the sign-up information for small group Q & A sessions that will being on June 11 and will continue throughout the rest of the year as long as needed. These sessions are the opportunity to ask everything you always wanted to know about the new process and building your center's accreditation portfolio.
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By this time each year, summer CPE students as well as residents nearing the end of a year
often find themselves with a persistent sense of the presence of death. This poem offers some
lovely reminders of life as well as the persistence of grief: |
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Things That Cannot Die
by Paige Riehl
A spoon in a cup of tea.
Letters in yellow envelopes,
the way a hand pushed lines
into the soft paper.
Morning laughter.
A white shirt draped
over her chair.
An open window. The air.
Call of one blackbird.
Silence of another.
November. Summer.
My love for you, I say.
My love for you infinity
times a million, my son says.
Sounds of piano notes
as they rest in treetops.
The road from here to there.
Grief, that floating, lost swan.
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While Rorschach ink blots may no longer enjoy the psychological status they once held, these sketches are both evocative as well as reminiscent of those inky psycho-images:
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Natalia Shulgina
Educator Candidate |
Natalia A. Shulgina is an Educator Candidate at UNC Rex Healthcare in Raleigh, NC. She is an ordained elder in the Russia United Methodist Church and a Lay Cistercian oblate at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Trappist, KY. Natalia holds a Ph.D. from Emory University in Atlanta, GA, with special concentration in pastoral care, practical theology, and monastic spirituality. She can be reached at [email protected].
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Tuesday, August 20
*Asmā' - Bahá'í
The beginning of the ninth month of the Bahá'í year, meaning "names."
Thursday, August 22
*Khordad Sal - Zoroastrianism
The birth anniversary of the prophet Zarathustra (Zoroaster), according to the Shenshai calendar.
Saturday, August 24
*Sri Krishna Jayanti or Krishna Janmashtami - Hinduism
A festival celebrating the birth of Krishna, the eighth incarnation of the god Vishnu, whose purpose was to destroy the demon Kansa who was responsible for evil's increase in the world.
*Festival of Ksitigarbha (Jizō) Bodhisattva - Buddhism
Celebrating Ksitigarbha (Jizō) Bodhisattva, the savior of beings who suffer in the hellish realms, as well as the guardian of expectant mothers, travelers, and deceased children in Japanese culture.
Monday, August 26
*Ullambana - Buddhism
A day when Buddhists make offerings to the Triple Gem-the Buddha, the Dharma [teachings], and the Sangha [monastic community]-on behalf of their ancestors.
*Paryusana or Paryushan Parva begins - Jainism
The beginning of an eight-day festival that is considered a holy convocation by Jains. Believers impose restraints on their daily activities by fasting, meditation, and prayer. The last day of Paryusana is called Samvatsari (Tuesday, September 3rd) and is a solemn occasion for examining one's thoughts and feelings, and for asking forgiveness for offenses committed against others through deeds, words, or thoughts.
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This Week's Career Opportunities & Residency/CEC Openings
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- Career Opportunities
- ACPE Certified Educator, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
- Spiritual/Pastoral Care Minister (Chaplain), St. Joseph Villa, Buffalo, NY
- ACPE Certified Educator, Ascension St. John Hospital, White Lake, MI
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Other Happenings This Week
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Berkeley, CA |
September 21-23, 2019 |
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Berkeley, CA |
September 24-25, 2019 |
| Updates in Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Intensive Physician Board Review |
Houston, Texas |
September 24-26,2019 |
| Global Spiritual Traditions and ChI Culture & Foundations- Part 2 |
Berkeley, CA |
November 12-16, 2019 |
Transforming Chaplaincy: Certificate in Spiritual Care Management and Leadership
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Online |
Fall 2019 |
Chaplaincy Innovation Lab
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Online |
N/A |
Doctor of Ministry in Spiritual Care Education and Leadership
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Union Theological Seminary/Online |
Rolling Enrollment |
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San
Francisco Theological Seminary/Online
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Rolling Enrollment |
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Conyers, GA |
February 20-23, 2020 |
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ACPE members and centers may post "happenings" in the weekly newsletter. ACPE does not accredit, review, or endorse the events listed above. Send your "happening" to [email protected].
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ACPE: The Standard for Spiritual Care & Education
ACPE is the premier, DOE-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.
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