Wherever you are in the residency year, ACPE’s anti-bias working group would like to offer a few invitations. Consider using what you know will work but also consider using what you wonder about, what you’re less confident will work but might enrich your practice toward integrating anti-bias pedagogies.
- Welcome everyone. One part perspectival and one part actual, develop a way to welcome every new person in your residency. Make space to inquire about the aspects and characteristics of their lives that are often unheard of, unattended to, and uninvited in the context of your program. You might use student feedback to develop this awareness. What have your former students expressed as experiences of bias? How can those expressions help you welcome incoming residents? The idea is to call for those aspects of the new residents’ existence in a welcoming and affirming way, to host what would be treated in a biased manner from the beginning.
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The Advocacy Committee is working hard to advocate and support any expressed needs or concerns from our members. Please take some time to complete our survey and help us identify specific needs and areas we can focus on in the coming year.
We look forward to representing you this upcoming year!
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ACPE Announces Address Change to New Office Location
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ACPE: The Standard for Spiritual Care and Education is pleased to announce that we have relocated our national office to a coworking space in Atlanta, Georgia. The move comes as part of the organization's post-pandemic transitions, strategic planning process, rethinking organization priorities, and commitment to better serving our members and staff.
ACPE will now be operating from the following address:
ACPE, Inc.
1 Concourse Pkwy, Suite 800
Atlanta, GA 30328
We request that members, vendors, and partners update their records by August 31, 2023, with the new address to ensure seamless communication and deliveries. All other contact information, including phone numbers and email addresses, will remain unchanged
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I signed up for ACPE’s Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy training as a long-time pastoral psychotherapist who thought: “I will likely know whatever they share, but I could use the CE hours and it won’t tax my brain too much.”
Then I took the training with Russell Siler Jones and my response changed to this: “I was dang arrogant, and I was wrong about the SIP training.” In fact, I was really helped by exposure to Russell’s open-hearted personality and ability to share a ton of research-based material and still invite the group’s input.
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For people who find themselves in crisis, parish-based clergy and lay pastoral caregivers are often the first point of entry into our systems of community care. Clergy and their pastoral care teams frequently find themselves on the front lines of complex problems such as mental health care, addiction, domestic violence, complicated grief, and trauma recovery. The Pastoral Care Specialist Training program is a 48 hour course supporting caregivers of all skill levels to integrate their pastoral theologies and ministries of care with knowledge and skills from the behavioral sciences. What does it mean to provide trauma-informed care? How do we ensure we are providing care ethically? How do we set compassionate boundaries so that we are simultaneously caring for ourselves? What do we do when our care-receiver's theological perspective is very different from our own? |
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Dates set for the Fall 2023 Gathering for Spiritually Integrated Practitioners! Registration Coming Soon! |
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There was some wisdom I appreciated from the psychiatrist and writer Jorge Bucay that comes to mind in times such as these where there is so much tumult and hurt domestically and globally. I must discipline myself to step away from my iPhone, take a break from the news, take a walk, and find perspective. Read more
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Once a month the ACPE Professional Ethics Commission (PEC) posts a section of our Code of Professional Ethics for ACPE Members. Each posting is accompanied by a brief personal reflection from a PEC member sharing some ways this person has experienced the referenced code section*. August’s statements are:
5. In conducting business matters, ACPE members:
Carry out administrative responsibilities in a timely and professional manner. Read more
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This summer, 14 programs piloted the revised Outcomes and Indicators in their summer units and as part of the pilot, the programs met on a weekly basis for consultation and found it to be very helpful. Building on this, as additional educators begin to utilize the revised Outcomes and Indicators in their programs... Read more
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- If you have thoughts/ideas about webinars or if you have interest in being a part of a CoP, we ask that you complete this survey.
- Additionally, we are holding an informational meeting about the potential creation of a CoP on September 20th at 315 EST. We hope you will join us! Click Here
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Introducing our new IT Help Desk Form – an easy way to get the technical support you need! Unable to access SharePoint? Need a password reset in the database? Skip the hassle of phone calls and emails, and submit a request through our IT Help Desk Form. Read more
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We invite all ACPE Certified Educators 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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Retired ACPE Educator Mary Ann Weigel died on Sunday, August 6 at 1:40 pm in Rochester Methodist Hospital, where she supervised Clinical Pastoral Education from 1995-2010.
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Providence Southern California Center for CPE hosts CPE residency... View more
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2023-2024 CPE Residency at Methodist Health System of Dallas.... 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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