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Happy New Year! It’s a strange start to a new year, isn’t it? This time of year typically brings hopefulness and anticipation, visioning, and goal-setting. And yet, in 2022, we find ourselves in the midst of a raging pandemic and economic uncertainty. Reflection on the road ahead feels challenging as a deep weariness has set in for many of us and our colleagues. |
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Happy New Year! We hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday and had an opportunity to enjoy some quieter time with family and friends.
As we begin the new year with the current surge in COVID-19 cases, we know that many are facing challenges in their workplaces with higher rates of infections, causing significant staffing issues, as well those who have, despite being fully vaccinated and following all precautions, caught the Omicron variant.
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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. Each posting is accompanied by a brief personal reflection from a member of the PEC discussing some ways this person lives these commitments. |
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ACPE and APC invite you to support our efforts to provide this critical and dynamic educational program for our professionals in spiritual care. Your support will help us to bring the dream of healing this hurting world into reality, so that together we may create a better future for all. |
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Accreditation Fee 4 th Quarter Invoices will be sent via email the week of 1/10/2022. If you registered units in the last quarter (October - December 2021) you should receive an invoice by January 17th. You can contact the Finance Department at Accounting@acpe.edu if you have not received an invoice by that date or if you would like to make changes to the billing email address. Now you can print your own invoices in PDF format – there is a Printable PDF Link located under the Due Date of the Invoice.
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The ACPE CPE application is now available in a new format. Students can fill out the application in a PDF fillable form. The fillable form can be found on the ACPE website along with the CPE application in Word and in PDF formats. |
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Greetings and blessed 2022 to all of you! My name is Shawn Mai, and I am the new board chair for the ACPE Board of Directors. For the last two years, I’ve had the privilege of serving alongside Melissa Walker-Luckett as she chaired the board.
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On December 23, the Association of Professional Chaplains (APC) sent the following email to their members.
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Centers in Year 6 of the Accreditation Cycle: Site Visit – ACPE Certified Educators will work with the Accreditation Commissioner of their cohort and the appointed National Site Team Chair (NSTC) to establish dates for the visit.
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We invite all ACPE Certified Educators who are working with Educator Candidates to join us for informal consultations. For 2022 the first meting will be on February 7, 2022 from 12:00pm to 1:00pm ET.
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While there are many things about 2020 we don’t want to revisit, a gift from that year is a new collection of poetry from Jane Hirschfield. There is a paradox which she seems to know well in the work of spiritual care, a growing commitment to constancy and integrity, a kind of deepening authenticity, while at the same time an ever-present awareness that the only real constant is change. There is an invitation to emptying oneself so to “know this.” This poem invites us to be present in a moment with appreciation and awareness, for it will not be here tomorrow: |
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“You go to sleep in one room and wake up in another”
by Jane Hirschfield
You go to sleep in one room and wake up in another.
You go to sleep in one time and wake up in another.
Men landed on the moon!—
Viewed in blurred black and white, in static,
on a big screen in Central Park, standing in darkness with others.
Your grandfather did not see this.
Your grandchildren will not see this.
Soon now, fifty years back.
Unemphatic, the wheelbarrowed stars hung above.
Many days, like a nephew,
resemble the one beforehand,
but they are not the one beforehand.
Each was singular, spendable, even with pepper and salt.
You go to sleep in one person’s bed and wake in another’s,
your face after toweling changed from the face that was washed.
You go to sleep in one world and wake in another.
You who were not your life nor stranger to it,
you who were not
your name, your ribs, your skin,
will go as a suitcase that takes inside it the room—
Only after you know this can you know this.
As a knocked glass that loses what has been spilled, you will know this.
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Though it has already dropped off of the news pages, the clean up in Kentucky and other near-by states from the devastating tornadoes last month continues. One story stood out, perhaps suggestive for all who wonder, “What difference can one person make?” Jim Finch knew what he had to offer, so reloaded his truck and headed out:
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This Week on the Calendar |
January 13
Maghi (Sikhism)
Maghi is the day in which Sikhs commemorate the martyrdom of the Forty Immortals, followers of Guru Gobind Singh, who were all killed while fighting a Mughal army. On this day, many Sikhs gather in Muktsar, India, the original site where Gobind Singh blessed the martyrs and cremated their bodies. Sikhs visit their places of worship (gurdwaras) and listen to hymns (kirtan).
January 14
Makar Sankranti (Hinduism)
Seasonal celebration marking turning of the sun toward the north.
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Former AAPC President Jim Wyrtzen died on December 12, 2021 in Carlsbad, California. James Wyrtzen, beloved husband, father, grandfather, and friend to many passed away following complications relating to a fall. Jim loved academia and being a part of the community at University of California-San Diego.
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ACPE Retired Educator Larry VandeCreek died on January 6, 2022. He lived at a retirement community in Grand Rapids, Michigan with his wife Celia. He fell and broke his leg. Due to his Parkinson’s they couldn’t do surgery to repair the leg. As his wife said, he went downhill very rapidly. Visitation will be on January 16 from 2-4pm at Woodlawn Ministry Center.
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The Certified Educator collaborates with the CPE Manager.
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Apply now August 2022 – 2023 Residency Program Spring, Summer, Fall Intern Units
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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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