The ACPE office will be closed in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday, November 24, and Friday, November 25. |
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Recently, I've been reading Who Can You Trust? How Technology Brought Us Together and Might Drive Us Apart by Rachel Botsman. Botsman, a professor at Oxford University’s business school, is a leading expert on trust. In this book, her research leads her to several important insights. First, as the recent midterm elections reinforced, humanity trusts experts, teachers, and leaders less and less. At the same time, people will turn to digital platforms as authorities in ways we once could have never imagined. For example, if you’ve used an Uber, stayed at an Airbnb, or read online reviews about a book, play, movie, or song, then you were participating in a vastly different kind of trust than our ancestors would have engaged. This is why we see such differences in the generational adoption of technological innovations. |
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The ACPE Board of Directors convened November 13-15, 2022, and had a very productive meeting. The following business was conducted:
- The Board of Directors received the resignation of the Executive Director, Trace Haythorn, effective December 31, 2022. The Board also recruited ACPE Certified Educator Robin Brown-Haithco to serve as Interim Executive Director. Robin served in a similar capacity before Trace joined ACPE in 2013.
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Join us on Dec. 2 at 10 am EST to learn about evidence-based best practices in telesupervision from Dr. Arpana Inman, Dean and Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. This 90-minute webinar is for anyone who practices online clinical supervision of CPE students, psychotherapists, or spiritual care professionals. Dr. Inman will discuss her research on telesupervision followed by a Q&A focused on participant questions with Dr. Inman; the Rev. Sarah Knoll-Sweeney, ACPE Certified Educator; and Dr. Marcus McKinney, ACPE Psychotherapist Member. |
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ACPE Leadership celebrated John Roch and Trace Haythorn last week at the fall leadership meetings in Atlanta, Georgia. John departed ACPE earlier this month for a position with the CDC, and Trace will depart his role as Executive Director on December 31st. |
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Thank you to all the members who participated in the 2022 ACPE Election! We are especially grateful to all the candidates for their tireless commitment to ACPE. We had 695 (40.4%) of 1722 electors vote in this election. Read more
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The 2022 ACPE Foundation Grants Cycle is now open!
The ACPE Foundation is excited to announce our expanded grants program to support initiatives that advance justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion within ACPE. Read more
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The Accreditation Commission is in search of Certified Educators willing to serve as NSTCs for Six-year Reviews starting in 2023. The NSTC model has served ACPE well and is a key element in the relational model of accreditation that fosters mutual accountability. Read more
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As we all know, the rapidly changing conditions created by COVID-19 and its variants, as well as the differences in infection rates and responses from state to state, necessitate that event sponsors like ACPE constantly evaluate and update health and safety protocols for upcoming in-person events. Read more
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We invite all ACPE Certified Educators who are working with Certified Educator Candidates to join us for informal consultations and conversations via Zoom. The drop-in meeting (no RSVP required) will take place on the first and third Mondays of the month, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm ET. Read more
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Upcoming Community of Practice Events |
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The following is a central list of the upcoming community of practice events! Click the links below to learn more about each event.
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Music is more than something we listen to and/or appreciate for many of us. It is a spiritual practice or discipline. For some, it is through listening; for others, it is through making music through voice, instrument, or by other means. Many of us have a canon of songs within us that can awaken our hearts, our memories, our dreams, and our longings, the same way scents/smells, or sights can do the same. Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer offers a lovely meditation – perhaps a riff – on the soundtracks of our lives:
Soundtrack by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Sometimes another person knows our heart
so well they offer us a song that becomes,
at least for a moment, our anthem.
In that moment, listening to lyric and melody,
the entire body re-attunes to life,
each cell turning not only toward the music
but also toward the giver,
and we are led deeper into that strange
and beautiful grotto of our heart
with its mosses and echoes,
a place at once strange and familiar,
and the song becomes a shining remover
of darkness, its light bouncing on our inner walls
until we relearn who we are—
the light of a million suns.
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A few weeks ago, many Christian traditions celebrated All Saints Day. Many other traditions have rituals of remembrance for those who have died in the previous year. In a time such as this, it seems so important to look to those things that give us hope. With a nod to the poem above, here’s a piece by Martin Lauridsen, sung by the LA Master Chorale, called “Lux Eterna” or Eternal Light. May the cracks in your life be the place where that eternal light finds its way into your deepest places:
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ACPE Retired Educator Walter Benson Thomas’ son Jerome died earlier this month. Funeral services are scheduled for December 3, 2022, at 11:00 am at Southern Memorial Funeral Home in Montgomery, AL. Jerome's obituary can be read here.
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The ACPE Certified Educator exemplifies the Rush mission, vision and values and acts in accordance with Rush policies and procedures. View more
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Four residency positions are available! Apply now! Residency Dates: August 25, 2023- August 31, 2024. View more
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Other Educational Opportunities |
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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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